Webbs Creek Ferry

{{Short description|Cable ferry across the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia}}

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Webbs Creek Ferry is a cable ferry across the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales, Australia. The ferry operates from the community of Wisemans Ferry, to a point up-stream of the Hawkesbury River's confluence with the Macdonald River, thus connecting with St Albans Road that follows the west bank of the Macdonald River.{{cite book | first = Graeme | last = Andrews | title = Ferries of Sydney | date = 1994 | edition = third | isbn = 0-424-00202-7 | publisher = Oxford University Press with Sydney University Press | pages = 214–217}}

The ferry is operated by a private sector operator under contract to Transport for NSW and is free of tolls. The crossing is {{convert|414|m}} in length and takes approximately 5 minutes. The ferry operates on demand 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but is closed for maintenance on the first Tuesday of each month from 0930 to 1200.{{cite web | url = https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/using-roads/vehicular-ferries/index.html#Sydneyregion | title = Vehicle ferries | publisher = Roads & Maritime Services | access-date = 14 January 2019 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.billbottomley.com.au/ferries/appendices.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080730091357/http://www.billbottomley.com.au/ferries/appendices.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 30 July 2008 | title = When the Ferries Got Away: Appendix Two | first = Bill | last = Bottomley | access-date = 18 November 2008 }}

The Webbs Creek Ferry is one of two cable ferry crossings at Wisemans Ferry, the other being the eponymous Wisemans Ferry, which crosses the Hawkesbury River to a point downstream of the confluence with the Macdonald River. Two other such ferries cross the Hawkesbury River proper, these being the Sackville Ferry and the Lower Portland Ferry, whilst a fifth ferry, the Berowra Waters Ferry, crosses a side-arm of the river.{{cite web | url = http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4305034 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060825021513/http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4305034 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 25 August 2006 | title = Sackville Ferry | publisher = Roads & Traffic Authority | access-date = 18 November 2008 }}