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Registered local bus service
W5a
Stornoway to New Tolsta
Via Cearns, Aird Tong, Upper Coll, Coll, Vatisker, Back Lighthill, Gress, North Tolsta
Run by Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar on licence PM0002859.
Kind of service
Normal Stopping
Public subsidy
Subsidised
Running since
4 October 1999
Current version from
27 October 2020
Where it runs
Registered with one transport authority. A service has to be registered with every authority whose area it runs through.
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What this record is
Registration PM0002859/8 is the permission to run this route, not a timetable. It records the start, the finish, the places between and who may run it. For departure times, ask the operator or the transport authority. To see what the licence behind it authorises overall, open the operator profile.