Lough Swilly Railway overseas?

[spudfan]

Watching "Where Eagles Dare" recently, Richard Burton and the boys were going through a railway yard. On one of the walls "LSR" was painted in big letters. I wondered whether that had anything to do with the Lough Swilly Railway. Seems they were a bigger outfit than I thought.

Edited Thursday at 12:09 by spudfan

[Mayner]

I remember seeing a "Lough Swilly"  branded artic heading South on the M6 through the West Midlands during the late 80s. 

Not sure if the tractor & refrigerated trailer was branded "Lough Swilly Transport" or "Lough Swilly Freight" . 

But nice to imagine the Swilly was shipping fish direct from Donegal to the Billingsgate Market.

Regularly drove the M1/M6 between London, Wales and North during late 80s-early 90s, one and only time I saw a Lough Swilly truck

[airfixfan]

The Swilly operated their own passenger and road freight services for over 50 years after they closed rail servicrs in August 1953.

[Mayner]

22 hours ago, airfixfan said:

The Swilly operated their own passenger and road freight services for over 50 years after they closed rail servicrs in August 1953.

It looks like the companies bus and freight operations were split in 1982, the freight operation apparently continuinbg as "Lough Swilly Freight" after bus operations ceased in 2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/43313466562/

 

[airfixfan]

Should have been more precise bus services continued until 2014.

[Mol_PMB]

1 hour ago, Mayner said:

It looks like the companies bus and freight operations were split in 1982, the freight operation apparently continuinbg as "Lough Swilly Freight" after bus operations ceased in 2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/43313466562/

 

Note that the linked image isn't 'real' - it has been photoshopped into Swilly livery. 

Here's a real one on Flickr, this states that freight operations ceased in 2009: