LORRY HAD TO WAIT FIVE WEEKS TO CROSS FIRTH
24th January 1947, Page 28
24th January 1947
Page 28
Page 28, 24th January 1947
— LORRY HAD TO WAIT FIVE WEEKS TO CROSS FIRTH
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A COMMITTEE is to be set up by /-"Y Rothesay Town Council to discuss with the L.M.S. Railway Co. the provision of a special vehicular ferry service between Rothesay and Wemyss Bay for the movement of whicles, freight and passengers across the Firth.
At present vehicles can be taken to the island only at certain tides. On one occasion a contractor was said to have waited for five weeks before a 4-ton lorry could be landed at Rothesay from the mainland.
, The proposed ferry, it is stated, will not interfere with the one Is hich is proposed by the county council at the north end of Bute, to connect with Colintraive.