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The United Kingdom to Norway ferry service was a route connecting Newcastle in England with Stavanger, Bergen, and Haugesund in Norway. It existed for over 140 years until 2008, when it was last operated by DFDS Seaways. Between 2010 and 2015 there were attempts by various companies to relaunch service.
In May 2008, DFDS made public its plan to close down the loss-making United Kingdom–Norway service on 1 September 2008. [1] [2] MS Queen of Scandinavia, the ship that was used in the service, has since been chartered to St Peter Line. In July 2010, DFDS acquired Norfolkline from Maersk. The Norfolkline routes and vessels were integrated into ...
MS King Seaways is a cruiseferry operated and owned by the Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways on a route connecting North Shields, effectively the port of Newcastle upon Tyne, (being 6 miles to the east of the city), England to IJmuiden in the Netherlands.
Newcastle Buses & Ferries was a commuter bus and ferry service operating in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie from 1935 until 2017. Part of the State Transit Authority , it operated 26 bus routes and the Stockton ferry across the Hunter River .
MS Tor Corona departing Copenhagen, March 2008.. The Tor Line was a freight shipping company.Together with its subsidiaries, the Tor Line operated a fleet of approximately 65 ro-ro, ro-pax and lo-lo ships, primarily on the North and Baltic Seas. [1]
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The ferry was part of E4 until 1992, but was signposted so for several further years in Sweden. The Danish E-roads have no other national numbers (the national number is the same as the E-number, here 47, but only the E-sign is posted).
As demand for vehicle-carrying services grew, larger vessels were required for the route and the Winston Churchill was transferred to the River Tyne in 1978, for the twice-weekly service to Gothenburg, following the arrival of the new DFDS vessel MS Dana Anglia on the Harwich route. The ferry ran aground on August 27, 1979 off the Swedish coast.