Throwback Thursday (335)
This week we are only going back five years, and one year after this series started, to 2017 and GT 147 on route 9. There is nothing overly spectacular about that - route 9 having started in 2011 running between Limekiln Avenue and Charlestown. The interesting thing here is the via being displayed on the destination - the bus is showing "City Centre via Carrigstown". You would be hard-pressed to find Carrigstown on a map of Dublin, for it is the setting of the RTE soap-opera "Fair City". This television show started in 1989, set within the fictional Carrigstown located in north Dublin near Drumcondra. In the early days of the show Donnybrook Garage (located across the road from the RTE studios) used to provide a City Imp minibus for scenes shot on the exterior set, with the bus dressed for the fictional route 16B (I believe) to Carrigstown. In more recent times, it has been served by route 9 as seen on the bus display here, and on the bus stop used on the Carrigstown set. Here the destination is making an unusual appearance on the real streets of Dublin's fair city.
GT 147 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2013 and is still in service today.
College Green, 10/06/2017
Throwback Thursday (335)
This week we are only going back five years, and one year after this series started, to 2017 and GT 147 on route 9. There is nothing overly spectacular about that - route 9 having started in 2011 running between Limekiln Avenue and Charlestown. The interesting thing here is the via being displayed on the destination - the bus is showing "City Centre via Carrigstown". You would be hard-pressed to find Carrigstown on a map of Dublin, for it is the setting of the RTE soap-opera "Fair City". This television show started in 1989, set within the fictional Carrigstown located in north Dublin near Drumcondra. In the early days of the show Donnybrook Garage (located across the road from the RTE studios) used to provide a City Imp minibus for scenes shot on the exterior set, with the bus dressed for the fictional route 16B (I believe) to Carrigstown. In more recent times, it has been served by route 9 as seen on the bus display here, and on the bus stop used on the Carrigstown set. Here the destination is making an unusual appearance on the real streets of Dublin's fair city.
GT 147 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2013 and is still in service today.
College Green, 10/06/2017