wHh tl•t ttot1vu1ks .iu ·lhc pus- ~cugcr :;c1Vi<:c:; and the growth of private lorri·e!:>. Nevertheless, considerable savings resulted even from t-he partial implementation of the company's s~heme and the establishment of the bus services, even on a limited scale, proved a sound one. The defective roads we:·e eventually mocternised hY' the Couny Council with the aid of Government grants. Suspension of the t~aln scr·- vice on the Lettcrkenny-Burtontlort extension line oceurred on June 3, 1940. At the same time the few remaining passenger trains on the LetterkennyDerry line were withdrawn. The first of these moves caused considerable local opposition as it was felt that difficulty would be experienced in the transport away from North-West Donegal ports of such local products as fish. On one occasion during track r·emoval, a hostile crowd of some 200 .people stopped the work at Crolly B!'idge. This action foilowed a me·eting at which it was resolved to prevent the railway company from fu::ther lifting the L-ack. However, the company, with the aid of the autho rities. persist·~d, and the work was completed from Burtonp-0rt to Gweedore by the winter of l!H0-1941. During the war the shortage. of petrol made it necessary for .the eompany to re-open the Letterkenny - Gweedore section in 1941 for goods trnffk-chiefly turf for fuel-and in 1942, following an air raid. on DerJ'ythe Derry-Buncrana Section for passenger as well as goods traf410. fie; the retluadulll u~tscs lhus rl!'.eascd were used for strengthening se ~·vices far removed from the railway. There was a considerable increase in the vo:ume of t::affic offe!'ed to the company, and sufficient profits were earned to enable dividends to he paid in 1942 for the first time in over 20 years. The moto::-ferry service loetw.cen Fa·han a:r:id Rathm.ullan was discontinued in 195-2, and with its cessation went a unique distinction-that of the company operating on road, rail and sea. Now the company has an even more rare distinction-it is still a railway company in name, but it has no railway to work. Most of the bus services are daily, that to . Buncrana with ce1·tain journeys connecting to and from Inch Island normally operating on an .hourly Schedule, which at rush periods is huilt up ·t'.'> ·a fcur-m1nute headway. O'~her routes are as follows: DerryCa:ndonagh Malin Head; Derry ·- Moville - Shrcove; Moville - Carnd'onagh; Derry Newtownc.uirningham or Bridge End- Lette:·kenny; Buncrana - Carndonagh; Letterkenny - Churchhill ; Lett·erkenny - Rosapenna - Downings; Letterkenn~- - Pol'tsa!on; Letterkenny Gweedore - Burtonport; Falcarragh - Bun- ·beg - Dungloe; )1ilford - Portsalon - Shannagh; and Milford and Kilmacrenan. As it will lbe seen, most of the~e services centre in Letterkenny and tim- ·ed connections a1·e made between them there to facilitate through journeys to Derry: To maintain these services,
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