Throwback Thursday (349)
This week we are going back 12 years to 2010, and Dublin Bus AW 4 arriving at journeys end on route 4 at Harristown. Harristown Garage opened in 2005 and is the newest, purpose built bus garage operated by Dublin Bus (since then they have taken upgraded part of the Broadstone site to become a new depot and Go-Ahead Ireland have opened a depot in Ballymount). It is located just south of Dublin Airport beside the Horizon Logistics Park. After it opened, the operation of a number of routes were transferred to the garage and some of them were extended to terminate there.
Two routes designated 4 have operated in Dublin. The first ran between Annamoe Road and Pembroke Road between 1965 and around 1984. The current route started in 2006, initially between Ballymun and St. Vincent's Hospital. In 2007 it was extended to terminate just outside the garage at Harristown, as well as at Blackrock. In 2010, shortly after this picture was taken, it was extended further south to Monkstown Avenue.
AW 4 was one of twenty dual-door AW Class buses to operate in Dublin. They were all delivered in 2000 from Wrights, but these articulated buses were not very successful and were all withdrawn by early-2011. AW 4 was sold on to Ensignbus in the UK.
15/09/2010
Throwback Thursday (349)
This week we are going back 12 years to 2010, and Dublin Bus AW 4 arriving at journeys end on route 4 at Harristown. Harristown Garage opened in 2005 and is the newest, purpose built bus garage operated by Dublin Bus (since then they have taken upgraded part of the Broadstone site to become a new depot and Go-Ahead Ireland have opened a depot in Ballymount). It is located just south of Dublin Airport beside the Horizon Logistics Park. After it opened, the operation of a number of routes were transferred to the garage and some of them were extended to terminate there.
Two routes designated 4 have operated in Dublin. The first ran between Annamoe Road and Pembroke Road between 1965 and around 1984. The current route started in 2006, initially between Ballymun and St. Vincent's Hospital. In 2007 it was extended to terminate just outside the garage at Harristown, as well as at Blackrock. In 2010, shortly after this picture was taken, it was extended further south to Monkstown Avenue.
AW 4 was one of twenty dual-door AW Class buses to operate in Dublin. They were all delivered in 2000 from Wrights, but these articulated buses were not very successful and were all withdrawn by early-2011. AW 4 was sold on to Ensignbus in the UK.
15/09/2010