Throwback Thursday (177)
It is 1992 and RH 134 is interested in some music and shopping. The bus is seen on O'Connell Street operating route 16A to Omni Park. This is a shopping centre that was built in Santry in 1991. Soon after some of the services on the 16 and 16A that terminated on nearby Shanard Road were diverted to serve the shopping centre. Over the following decade other routes also went to Omni, such as the 103, 104 and 300 but over time all routes were pulled out. Now buses stop outside the shopping centre on the Swords Road.
The 16A was removed from the Dublin Bus network in 2012 under Network Direct. In its latter years it ran from Dublin Airport to Nutgrove.
The bus is in a partial all-over-ad for 98Fm, a local music radio station in Dublin, that began broadcasting in 1989.
RH 134 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992 (it was about three months old when this photograph was taken). It was withdrawn in 2005, when it was sold to Dualway's and joined the City Sightseeing open-top tour fleet. It remained with them until around 2015. 30/05/1992
Throwback Thursday (177)
It is 1992 and RH 134 is interested in some music and shopping. The bus is seen on O'Connell Street operating route 16A to Omni Park. This is a shopping centre that was built in Santry in 1991. Soon after some of the services on the 16 and 16A that terminated on nearby Shanard Road were diverted to serve the shopping centre. Over the following decade other routes also went to Omni, such as the 103, 104 and 300 but over time all routes were pulled out. Now buses stop outside the shopping centre on the Swords Road.
The 16A was removed from the Dublin Bus network in 2012 under Network Direct. In its latter years it ran from Dublin Airport to Nutgrove.
The bus is in a partial all-over-ad for 98Fm, a local music radio station in Dublin, that began broadcasting in 1989.
RH 134 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992 (it was about three months old when this photograph was taken). It was withdrawn in 2005, when it was sold to Dualway's and joined the City Sightseeing open-top tour fleet. It remained with them until around 2015. 30/05/1992