Last updated: 26-09-2026 @ 18:58
EA – Environment Agency / CaRT – Canal and River Trust / PLA – Port of London Authority
Limehouse Lock is now not permanently manned so you may not be able to raise them but always worth trying on channel 14 and/or channel 80 when you pass Tower Bridge or Greenwich. If on channel 80, please ensure that your radio is switched to International Channel 80, not American (US) Channel 80A. Otherwise, the marina will be able to hear you but you will not be able to hear the marina. Also please note that marinas may not use channel 14 or channel 16.
Shepperton Lock (EA) Telephone: +44 (0)1932 221840, Postcode: TW17 9LJ
Thames Lock (River Wey – National Trust) Telephone: +44 (0)1932 843106, Postcode: KT13 8LG
Sunbury Lock (EA) Telephone: +44 (0)1932 782089, Postcode: KT12 2JD
Molesey Lock (EA) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8979 4482, Postcode: KT8 9AW
Teddington Lock (EA) Telephone: +44 (0)20 8940 8723, Postcode: TW11 9NG
Richmond ‘Half Tide’ Lock (PLA) Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8940 0634, Postcode: TW1 1QZ Richmond ‘half tide’ lock operation
Thames Lock Grand Union (Lock 101) (CaRT) Used to be: +44 (0) 20 8568 2779, don’t know if it still works and if it does it will only work if someone happens to be there. Try getting through using the CRT customer service numbers 0303 040 4040 or out of hours: 0800 47 999 47, ask for a message to be passed to whoever is on duty in the London Canals operational team. Note you can’t book a lock this way but you can pass on information eg you are running late. Postcode: TW8 0AB
Limehouse Lock: Note you can’t book a lock this way but you can pass on information eg you are running late. Try getting through using the CRT customer service numbers 0303 040 4040 or out of hours: 0800 47 999 47, ask for a message to be passed to whoever is on duty in the London Canals operational team Postcode: E14 8EQ. On the day you can try channels 14 and 80, call sign ‘Limehouse Marina’.
West India Lock (CRT) VHF Channel 13 – Callsign ‘West India’, Email: wid.harbourmaster@canalrivertrust.org.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7308 9930 , Postcode: E14 9ST
CRT lock bookings. For Brentford (and also City Mill, Carpenters Road, and Three Mills locks in the Olympic Park), you should book passage online. See here. Email: wid.harbourmaster@canalrivertrust.org.uk
For Bow Locks, contact CRT Docklands,See here. Email: wid.harbourmaster@canalrivertrust.org.uk
London VTS (PLA) VHF Channel 14 – Callsign ‘London VTS’, Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3260 7711, Postcode: SE18 5TF London VTS
St Katharine’s Dock (Private dock but useful in an emergency) VHF Channel 80 – Callsign ‘St Katharine’s’, Telephone +44 (0) 20 7264 5312, Post Code E1W 1UH website
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