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Further disruption to CalMacs plans to cover the Stornoway-Ullapool freight route may have come as an unplanned bonus for local hauliers, though that depends on the 38 year-old Hebridean Isles not breaking down!
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Hebridean Isles Stornoway Ullapool  Oban North Pier: Calmac's 'Hebridean Isles' and 'Glen Sannox', at the pier alongside Oban station in October 1987.
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Morning sailings on Friday were suspended, with a review planned later to decide if afternoon crossings will take place.
(Permalink) Storm Babet Stornoway Ullapool |
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CalMac said that engineers were onboard the vessel on Wednesday morning working on resolving the issue.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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CalMac has been forced to cancel several ferry services due to high winds reaching up to 50mph.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Stornoway Ullapool |
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The 5.30pm sailing from Ullapool is the latest of several sailings of the Stornoway-Ullapool ferry to be cancelled.
(Permalink) COVID-19 Caledonian MacBrayne Stornoway Ullapool |
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It is on a short-term charter to provide additional freight capacity and resilience to the Ullapool to Stornoway route.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Arrow Stornoway Ullapool |
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The MV Arrow broke down just a week after it was brought in to help on the Stornoway-Ullapool route.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Arrow Stornoway Ullapool |
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Sections of the steamship SS Alabama will be removed during work to build the new facility in Lewis.
(Permalink) SS Alabama Stornoway |
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Oonline bookings of cars onto a key island ferry service were unavailable for over three weeks yesterday - after an emergency vessel chartered by the Scottish Government to support Scotland's beleaguered ferry network broke down in less than a week.
(Permalink) MV Arrow MV Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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The MV Arrow was chartered a week ago to help free up space on CalMac's MV Loch Seaforth.
(Permalink) MV Arrow MV Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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The vital ferry link between Ullapool and the Isle of Lewis is to be boosted with an additional freight service.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Arrow Stornoway Ullapool |
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CalMac have insisted have insisted that they are able to take foot passengers in July on the Stornoway to Ullapool route, but that spaces are severely restricted.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Stornoway Ullapool |
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The MV Loch Seaforth will sail on the Ullapool to Stornoway route after major repairs in Greenock.
(Permalink) MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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The MV Loch Seaforth will return to the Stornoway-Ullapool route on Monday if it passes a 50-hour sea trial.
(Permalink) MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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All sailings in and out of Stornoway and Castlebay are closed to car bookings until at least early June, according to the CalMac web-site.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Castlebay Stornoway |
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A relief ferry drafted in to help out on the Ullapool-Stornoway route after the MV Loch Seaforth suffered engine failure has itself suffered a fault.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Isle of Arran MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullappol |
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The MV Isle of Arran will be temporarily taking over the overnight freight run on the Stornoway-Ullapool route from Wednesday 21 April.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Isle of Arran MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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Hauliers in the Western Isles have piled pressure on the Scottish Government by taking their own initiative to find a charter vessel which would relieve the current crisis in west coast ferry services.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Loch Seaforth Scottish Government Stornoway Ullapool |
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The ferry operator had hoped the MV Loch Seaforth might be back on its Ullapool-Stornoway route this month.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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Caledonian MacBrayne's MV Loch Seaforth will not return to the Ullapool-Stornoway route until May 4 at the earliest, after its repairs took longer than expected.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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A night freight ferry service will return to the Stornoway-Ullapool route this weekend after its suspension led to severe criticism of operators CalMac.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Loch Seaforth Stornoway Ullapool |
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Ferry sailings have been cancelled in and out of Ullapool once again amid continued rough seas in The Minch.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Cancellations Stornoway Ullapool Weather |
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Strong winds and high swells have sparked the cancellation of ferry services in and out of Ullapool for the rest of Monday and well into Tuesday.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Cancellations Stornoway Ullapool Weather |
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Caledonian MacBrayne has announced a string of weather-related cancellations on its Ullapool-Stornoway ferry later this week.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Stornoway Ullapool Weather |
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Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has urged Cal-Mac to charter a vessel, the Pentalina, to ease freight capacity on the Stornoway/Ullapool ferry route.
(Permalink) MV Pentalina Stornoway Ullapool |
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A proposed north-west railway that never got off the ground will be the focus of an online talk as part of the Ullapool Book Festival, organisers have said.
(Permalink) Aultbea Book Dingwall and Skye Railway Stornoway Ullapool Ullapool Book Festival |
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David Spaven has written a book review of Andrew Drummond's much anticipated new book, A Quite Impossible Proposal: How not to Build a Railway.
(Permalink) A Quite Impossible Proposal: How not to Build a Railway Andrew Drummond Aultbea David Spaven Dingwall and Skye Railway Stornoway Ullapool |
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