The Cross Harbour ferry service, officially known as F4 Cross Harbour, was a commuter ferry service in

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. Part of the

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network, it was operated by

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and serviced the

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, Rose Bay and

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areas. Introduced on 26 November 2017, the service replaced the entirety of the predecessor F4 Darling Harbour service and the Watsons Bay stopping pattern of the F7 Eastern Suburbs service. Emerald-class ferries and

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ferries operated the service. On 25 October 2020, the service ceased and was split into

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and F9 Watsons Bay services.

History

Prior to the introduction of the Cross Harbour route, service patterns on the Sydney Ferries network were often divided between wharves located west of

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, and wharves located east, with the exception of a short-lived service in the mid-1990s that linked

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and Rose Bay. The Cross Harbour service is a successor to the Darling Harbour ferry service, which existed in many iterations between the 1980s and 2017. The new service was unveiled by the New South Wales Government on 27 March 2017. Following community consultation jointly held by the ferry operator

and

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in 2019/20, the F4 route was divided into

and F9 Watsons Bay services on 25 October 2020.F4 Cross Harbour ferry route changes
Transport NSW 9 October 2020

Wharves

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References

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External links

F4 Cross Harbour timetable 1 January 2019

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