Throwback Thursday (380)
This week we are going back twenty-seven years to 1996, and D 749 on O'Connell Street. The bus is operating the Dublin Bus Heritage Tour. This VanHool McArdle AN68 was new to CIE in 1975. Around 1994/95 it was converted to an open-top tour bus. Unusually, it also gained a new front upstairs, one that resembled that used on the KD-Class buses. It was withdrawn in 2001, when Leyland Olympians started to transfer into the tour fleet.
Dublin Bus started operating tours around Dublin in 1988. It has always been a commercial operation, and today falls under the DoDublin brand.
04/05/1996
Throwback Thursday (380)
This week we are going back twenty-seven years to 1996, and D 749 on O'Connell Street. The bus is operating the Dublin Bus Heritage Tour. This VanHool McArdle AN68 was new to CIE in 1975. Around 1994/95 it was converted to an open-top tour bus. Unusually, it also gained a new front upstairs, one that resembled that used on the KD-Class buses. It was withdrawn in 2001, when Leyland Olympians started to transfer into the tour fleet.
Dublin Bus started operating tours around Dublin in 1988. It has always been a commercial operation, and today falls under the DoDublin brand.
04/05/1996