DONALD G. BOOTH describes the UK’s longest daily registered bus service, run today as part of the Scottish Citylink network

Shiel Buses K700 SBL, a Plaxton Elitebodied Volvo B9R, in Glencoe in March this year.
DAVID McGEACHAN
It is the UK’s longest registered local bus route — what in pre-deregulated times was called stage carriage — stretching from Scotland’s largest city to the Isle of Skye.