OIC issues reminder on festive bus timetables
December 20, 2020 at 9:15 am
Orkney Islands Council has published information on bus timetables over the upcoming festive period.
Members of the public are asked to note that no services will be running on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and January 2.
Additionally, on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve services will only remain in operation until 9pm.
The only exception to this is the Service X10 which will run a normal service on December 26 and January 2.
Over the remainder of the festive period, services will run to the normal school holiday timetable as published on the Council website at
Antisocial behaviour results in festive closure for Kirkwall Travel Centre
December 18, 2020 at 1:46 pm
Orkney Islands Council has confirmed that the Travel Centre in Kirkwall will be closed over the festive period, as a result of antisocial behaviour.
The centre is set to close at 5.30pm on Wednesday, December 23 and re-open at 9am on Tuesday, January 5.
Regular users are asked to note this is different to recently advertised and is a result of antisocial behaviour at the facility in recent days. This has included swearing and people not wearing face masks.
OIC’s transport manager, Laura Cromarty, said: “We do not have the staff available between December 24 and January 5 to manage the antisocial behaviour we’ve been seeing again in recent days and we’ve therefore taken the difficult decision, for everyone’s safety and to protect the facility, to close a day earlier and reopen a day later than previously advertised over the festive period.”