Throwback Thursday (47)
It is our first taste of Christmas this week, though a bus more suited to Halloween, so probably the best picture to show in November. Continuing the theme of last week, marking the 50th Anniversary of the D Class, we have a photograph this week of the last D in service with Dublin Bus. While most of the class was withdrawn in the late-1980s and early-1990s, some continued on as tour buses until just before 2000. One bus however had an even more extended career when it became the Ghost Bus around 1998. It survived another fifteen years in this form before being withdrawn at the end of 2013, at which point it was 41 years old. Prior to being the Ghost Bus, or "Molly" as it was called, it was also a coastal tour bus and the 7-Up bus. DF 450 is seen outside the GPO on O'Connell Street. 27/11/2013
Throwback Thursday (47)
It is our first taste of Christmas this week, though a bus more suited to Halloween, so probably the best picture to show in November. Continuing the theme of last week, marking the 50th Anniversary of the D Class, we have a photograph this week of the last D in service with Dublin Bus. While most of the class was withdrawn in the late-1980s and early-1990s, some continued on as tour buses until just before 2000. One bus however had an even more extended career when it became the Ghost Bus around 1998. It survived another fifteen years in this form before being withdrawn at the end of 2013, at which point it was 41 years old. Prior to being the Ghost Bus, or "Molly" as it was called, it was also a coastal tour bus and the 7-Up bus. DF 450 is seen outside the GPO on O'Connell Street. 27/11/2013