Throwback Thursday (393)
This week we are going back twenty-two years to 1991 and KD 126 on O'Connell Street. The bus is operating a service on route 19A to McKee Road. This route started running between Rialto and Ballymun Avenue in 1940. In 1967 it was extended north to Cedarwood Road, and around 1989 was extended west to Bulfin Road in Inchicore. Around 1990 it's northern terminus was moved to McKee Road and by 1996 its southern terminus was pulled back to Kelly's Corner. 2001 saw the route changed to run from Jamestown Road to Limekiln Avenue, and remained as such until 2011 when the route was replaced by new route 9 under Network Direct.
KD 126 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the late-1990s.
The bus is in an all-over ad for the Sunday World newspaper. This paper was first published in March 1973.
This part of O'Connell Street no longer has bus stops, and a number of fast-food restaurants have taken over the premises in the background.
03/08/1991
Throwback Thursday (393)
This week we are going back twenty-two years to 1991 and KD 126 on O'Connell Street. The bus is operating a service on route 19A to McKee Road. This route started running between Rialto and Ballymun Avenue in 1940. In 1967 it was extended north to Cedarwood Road, and around 1989 was extended west to Bulfin Road in Inchicore. Around 1990 it's northern terminus was moved to McKee Road and by 1996 its southern terminus was pulled back to Kelly's Corner. 2001 saw the route changed to run from Jamestown Road to Limekiln Avenue, and remained as such until 2011 when the route was replaced by new route 9 under Network Direct.
KD 126 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the late-1990s.
The bus is in an all-over ad for the Sunday World newspaper. This paper was first published in March 1973.
This part of O'Connell Street no longer has bus stops, and a number of fast-food restaurants have taken over the premises in the background.
03/08/1991