Throwback Thursday (342)
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1996. Dublin Bus KD 172 is seen at the terminus for route 8 on Burgh Quay. This route became a bus route in 1949, having been the last tram route to run in the city on the 9th July of that year. It ran between the city centre and Dalkey via Dun Laoghaire. Controversially, Dublin Bus withdrew the route in 2001, but it returned in 2005 going via Glenageary Road Upper instead of Dun Laoghaire. It was withdrawn for good again in November 2016.
KD 172 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. The last member of the Dublin Bus KD fleet was withdrawn in 2000.
Dublin Bus no longer use this stop on Burgh Quay. Instead it is home to Dublin Coach who offer services to Waterford, Cork, Limerick and elsewhere.
29/07/1996
Throwback Thursday (342)
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1996. Dublin Bus KD 172 is seen at the terminus for route 8 on Burgh Quay. This route became a bus route in 1949, having been the last tram route to run in the city on the 9th July of that year. It ran between the city centre and Dalkey via Dun Laoghaire. Controversially, Dublin Bus withdrew the route in 2001, but it returned in 2005 going via Glenageary Road Upper instead of Dun Laoghaire. It was withdrawn for good again in November 2016.
KD 172 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. The last member of the Dublin Bus KD fleet was withdrawn in 2000.
Dublin Bus no longer use this stop on Burgh Quay. Instead it is home to Dublin Coach who offer services to Waterford, Cork, Limerick and elsewhere.
29/07/1996