Oban, New Zealand, located on this bay, is sometimes referred to as Halfmoon Bay
There were levers attached to pipes and cranks which controlled semaphore signals and train derails.
He travelled several times to the continent and often visited the Bishop of Argyll, his friend Alexander Chinnery-Haldane, in Ballachulish, Oban, a place which he loved.
The 2009 final was held at Mossfield Park, Oban between Kyles Athletic and holders Fort William on 19 September.
When the Callander and Oban Railway came to Connel in 1880, a station was opened in the village and named "Connel Ferry".
Dalmally Bridge was built to make movements of cattle and troops easier: it was on the military road between Tyndrum and Oban.
Rail services to and from the coast, including links to Oban and Fort William, are frequent, with city terminals in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William.
Debris from the wreck was carried by the tide towards Oban Bay and four days later a Sunderland Flying Boat of 210 Squadron hit a horsebox floating in the water whilst attempting a routine landing in the dark.
She spent the 1974 season as the Oban - Craignure ferry, but was increasingly bothered with mechanical trouble, requiring a specially manufactured replacement piston.
At its creation Oban and District owned 20 buses, mainly Leyland Leopard single-deckers, and used a blue and cream livery similar to the colours introduced to Midland's operations by GRT.
The next day they left Beadnell at 8.05, stopping at Montrose, Aberdeen and Cromarty and reaching Oban on the west coast of Scotland at six in the evening, and took off on the third day at 5.42 am; after a stop at Kiells due to engine problems Larne was reached at 9.30.
Oban has a fully functional phone and broadband (ADSL), but cellphone coverage is limited to Telecom's XT/3G network and all these services rely upon a radio link to Bluff, so broadband speeds are limited.
This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach (by its description, reminiscent of Oban but on the north east shore of Loch Crinan), the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow where Prentice McHoan lives.
It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship Monarch.
Aside from the local stage carriage, West Coast Motors has since 1986 run express services on behalf of Citylink, predominantly on the Campbeltown to Glasgow service, but also on routes serving Oban, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fort William, Inverness and the Isle of Skye.
The Oban/Mallaig railway service runs from Glasgow Queen Street station to Arrochar & Tarbet station.