FLEETNEWS SCOTLAND
Stornoway-Point
From the mid-1920s every crofting township in Lewis had its own bus service to/from Stornoway, transporting people, animals, cloth, hay, goods and mail; generally offering one return trip each day except on the Sabbath; often on an express carriage basis. Even in the decade after regulation in 1930, townships in the Point area on the Eye Peninsula were linked to Stornoway by around 22 operators, some only running for a few years. Most enduring were Campbell, Portnaguran (service from Broker); Graham, Portnaguran (Portnaguran); MacDonald, Garrabost (Garrabost); MacDonald, Sheshader (Sheshader); A. & J. MacKenzie, Lower Bayble (Bayble); MacLeod, Flesherin (Portnaguran); MacLeod, Portvoller (Portvoller); MacMillan, Lower Garrabost (Garrabost); MacMillan, Upper Bayble (Bayble); and MacMillan, Shader (Shader).
Under traffic commissioner pressure for consolidation, eight of them combined in 1946 as Stornoway-based Hebridean Transport, running services from South Beach Street there to Lower Bayble, Upper Bayble, Portnaguran, Sheshader and Swordale. This continued largely unchanged until D. H. M. MacIver, Stornoway acquired the business in 1981. At deregulation in 1986, …
