The plug has been pulled on SWestrans service 350, the electric bus linking Stranraer railway station and town with Cairnryan ferry terminal in south-west Scotland. The service, operated by McLeans of Stranraer using an electric Optare Solo, was part of a raft of bus service cuts in Dumfries & Galloway triggered by the council's need to cut £315,000 from its £3.5million bus service social necessity bill for 2016/17, with warnings of a further £345,000 cuts in 2017/18. Launched in ablaze of publicity in September 2013 by then Scottish transport minister Keith Brown, the service failed to generate viable numbers of passengers. Optare recently publicised the bus's first 100,000miles in service.
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