Register data is published weekly by DVSA. Latest snapshot: 6 September 2026.
Registered local bus service
501
Mallaig to Arisaig, Morar or Lochailort
Run by Shiel Buses Ltd on licence PM0002951.
Kind of service
Limited Stop, Hail & Ride
Public subsidy
Subsidised
Running since
7 April 2000
Current version from
9 May 2022
Where it runs
Registered with one transport authority. A service has to be registered with every authority whose area it runs through.
Other routes run by Shiel Buses Ltd
- N41
Roy Bridge, Village Hall to Fort William Middle Street Car Park
Via Spean Bridge
Normal StoppingSubsidised
- N43 (512)
Torlundy Ladby to Fort William
Normal StoppingSubsidised
- N44
Fort William Bus Station to Kinlochleven Heather Lea or High School
Via Ballachulish
Normal StoppingSubsidised
- NOT AV.
Acharcale (Post Office) to Circular
- X47
Corpach to Coal and Corpach Annat Point
Via Upper Achintore & Inverlochy
Normal StoppingSubsidised
- 42
Fort William Bus Station to Glen Nevis Lower Falls
Limited Stop
Other operators in Highland Council
- E14
Inverness to Oban
Via Drumnadrochit, Fort Augustus, Fort william
EmberLimited Stop
- E18
Inverness, Union Street to Ullapool Ferry Terminal
Via Tore, Conon Bridge, Dingwall, Contin
EmberLimited Stop
- E4
An Aird Car Park, Fort William to George Street Edinburgh
Via Glencoe, Tyndrum, Callander, Dunblane, Stirling, Grangemouth, Edinburgh Airport
EmberLimited Stop
- E5
An Aird Car Park, Fort William to Buchanan Bus Station, Glasgow
Via Glencoe, Tyndrum, Tarbet, Dumbarton, Glasgow Airport
EmberLimited Stop
- E6
Royal Bank of Scotland, A9, Thurso to Union Street, Inverness
Via Scrabster, Wick, Helmsdale, Brora, Golspie, Dornoch, Tain, Alness, Evanton and Dingwall
EmberLimited Stop
- E7
Bridge of Don Park & Ride to Union Street, Inverness
Via Blackburn, Kintore, Inverurie, Huntly, Keith, Fochabers, Elgin Forres and Nairn
EmberLimited Stop
What this record is
Registration PM0002951/35 is the permission to run this route, not a timetable. It records the start, the finish, the places between and who may run it. For departure times, ask the operator or the transport authority. To see what the licence behind it authorises overall, open the operator profile.