Useful telephone numbers and VHF Channels

Last updated: 06-12-2020 @ 21:27

EA – Environment Agency / CaRT – Canal and River Trust / PLA – Port of London Authority

 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) Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8568 2779, Postcode: TW8 0AB

 Limehouse Lock  (BWML) Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7308 9930, Mobile 07766 774726  Postcode: E14 8EQ. They also listen to VHF Channel 80, callsign ‘Limehouse Marina’.

 West India Lock (CRT) VHF Channel 13 – Callsign ‘West India’, 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 and here.

For Bow Locks, and West India, contact CRT Docklands (as above).

 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