Used Bus For Sale - 2005 IC Bus CE300 ... 7:31. lough swilly railway- burtonport by steam train 1940's - Duration: 2:19. tiscali106 11,254 views. Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. The Swilly Bus service over to Dungloe could only go as far as Gortahork nearly 20 miles short of its final destination because of the poor condition of the road. 75-DL-508), a Duple-bodied Leyland Leopard coach which was new in 1975 and was acquired by Lough Swilly in 1992. A British naval base during both the world wars, Lough Swilly has a long and interesting history. The name sounds like an anachronism in that the company essentially was a bus operator for its last decades and a decent website came about only in the last few years and remains online at the time of writing too. The County Donegal lasted until 1960 as it had largely dieselised its passenger trains by 1951. ADR/Hazchem It was the must-go place in Ireland as a holiday location.Arriving in Style to the Rosapenna Hotel one of the first buses registered in Co. Donegal IH 2 of IH 3 owned by the Earl of Leitrim.The buses had a top cruising speed of 14 miles per hour, which they never would have seen because the poor roads never would have let them.Even air conditioning was an option on these buses back in those years, well it was when you removed all the plate glass windows from the bus on the warmest of Donegal summers.This journey would have taken nearly four hours from Strabane to Downings, including a stop in Letterkenny and the Lough Swilly train to collect passengers from Derry City.Roberts Brothers Bus pictured on a trip to GreencastleEven when all the railway lines were completed and up and running, it was soon clear particularly in the vast northwest area of Donegal was not served well by the railway with stations sometimes as far as eight miles from the town it was named after, this was of no use as far a passenger was concerned.Locals started their own buses out of villages like Keeykeel (Ward Bros) Moville, Joseph Doherty, Buncrana, Eddie Barr, Kilmacrennan Samuel Burn, and Malin town Daniel Karney to name just a few who were running bus services in and out of Derry City.Ward’s Bros even run a bus from Kerrykeel into Dungloe in the late 1920s.Then Lough Swilly Railway decided even as early as the late 1920s that the railway wasn’t the way to go to secure fare-paying passengers and started to look at putting buses on the road and left the train mainly for the carriage of freight.They started to buy out the first of nine private bus operators paying the princely sum of £1,700 in 1929 to buy out Edward Barr in Buncrana for his four busses and routes including three Graham Dodge and one Leyland bus.Over the next year, Lough Swilly bought out ten more buses and their business from four operators, including John Doherty Buncrana, who’s fleet included two Gilford and three Reo buses, Samuel Burns Kilmacrennan who had one Graham Dodge and two Guy buses.Then there was J Kane, Culdaff, who had a Morris 14 seater and Daniel Mc Laughlin Carndonagh, who had an Albion 26 seaterThe Dungloe Swilly Bus refuelling on the Main St. outside the Cope in DungloeLough Swilly’s biggest purchase of buses wasn’t from bus operators directly but from a businessman called James Winters, who may have been a competitor to Lough Swilly and who bought 17 buses from four private bus operators.
We offer pre-test training programmes in cars, car and trailer, minibuses, coaches, rigid and articulated trucks, all available 7 days a week. By 1953 the Lough Swilly had closed its entire railway system and become a bus and road haulage concern. Swilly Group offer a range of beginner, pre-test and advanced driving programme for truck and bus drivers. See full address and map.Address: Regional Manager & All departments Waterford Plunkett Station Co. Waterford, Waterford.

The picture above shows some Lough Swilly buses parked in Foyle Street bus station in Derry. The bus in the foreground is fleet number 333 (reg. See full address and map.Address: Old Coffee Factory Kilcar Co. Donegal, Donegal. Contact Now! Subjects: Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway. When I last visited about five years ago they still used Setright machines and simply stopped at … Following the intervention of the U.K.'s HMRC, the London & Lough Swilly Railway Company is no more after period of financial difficulties.
Some buses have quite large yellow letters, and some have tiny black ones. See full address and map.Address: Group Solicitor Bridgewater Bus Centre 8 Co. Dublin, Dublin. The yellow ones show up very well when placed on a red part of the livery, but don't look very good over a white part. The bus breaks the road. Booking Office Ballyraine Rd Letterkenny Co. DonegalAddress: Donnybrook 4 Co. Donegal, Donegal. It details every bus the Lough Swilly ever owned and illustrates them as well. Lough Swilly Bus Service, Londonderry.


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