Throwback Thursday (386)
This week we are going back twenty-four years to RV 403 on Marlborough Street on a short-lived route. Route 27C started in summer 1999, operating between Clare Hall and the City Centre, operating a more direct route than the normal route 27, going straight down the Malahide Road. It is possible returning services only operated to Darndale Roundabout and no known timetable was produced. It also didn't last very long and was cancelled around autumn 1999. Its short existence may explain why it had a paper route number in the windscreen.
A 27C reappeared around 2001, as a peak-hour service between Clare Hall and Leeson Street Bridge. It ceased in 2009. The 27C lives on today as short workings on the regular cross-city route 27 that terminate in the city centre.
RV 403 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998 and withdrawn in 2008, before being sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. 15/06/1999
Throwback Thursday (386)
This week we are going back twenty-four years to RV 403 on Marlborough Street on a short-lived route. Route 27C started in summer 1999, operating between Clare Hall and the City Centre, operating a more direct route than the normal route 27, going straight down the Malahide Road. It is possible returning services only operated to Darndale Roundabout and no known timetable was produced. It also didn't last very long and was cancelled around autumn 1999. Its short existence may explain why it had a paper route number in the windscreen.
A 27C reappeared around 2001, as a peak-hour service between Clare Hall and Leeson Street Bridge. It ceased in 2009. The 27C lives on today as short workings on the regular cross-city route 27 that terminate in the city centre.
RV 403 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998 and withdrawn in 2008, before being sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. 15/06/1999