Throwback Thursday (411)
This week we are going back nine years to 2014 and to DM 2 on Rosie Hackett Bridge. DM 2 was a Wrights demonstrator bus on a Volvo B5LH hybrid chassis. It entered service with Dublin Bus in July 2014 for initially a six month trial period. It was the second hybrid bus Dublin Bus had trialled, although WH 1 had arrived in 2008 and left in 2012. DM 2 lasted with Dublin Bus well into 2015, leaving in the second-quarter of 2015. It then went on to National Express West Midlands in the UK, arriving there around September 2015, but was returned to Volvo in November of that year. It was then sold on to Go-Ahead London and is still in service there today as WHV 111 - flic.kr/p/2pejr1S.
The bus is operating a service on route 151 to Foxborough. This route started in 2007, initially operating between Docklands Station and Grange Castle, although it was soon extended to Adamstown. In 2009 it moved its Docklands terminus to East Road, providing an interchange with route 53. Under Network Direct in 2010 the route was moved to terminate at Foxborough instead of Adamstown, and still does so today.
The bus is crossing Rosie Hackett Bridge which opened in May 2014.
05/12/2014
Throwback Thursday (411)
This week we are going back nine years to 2014 and to DM 2 on Rosie Hackett Bridge. DM 2 was a Wrights demonstrator bus on a Volvo B5LH hybrid chassis. It entered service with Dublin Bus in July 2014 for initially a six month trial period. It was the second hybrid bus Dublin Bus had trialled, although WH 1 had arrived in 2008 and left in 2012. DM 2 lasted with Dublin Bus well into 2015, leaving in the second-quarter of 2015. It then went on to National Express West Midlands in the UK, arriving there around September 2015, but was returned to Volvo in November of that year. It was then sold on to Go-Ahead London and is still in service there today as WHV 111 - flic.kr/p/2pejr1S.
The bus is operating a service on route 151 to Foxborough. This route started in 2007, initially operating between Docklands Station and Grange Castle, although it was soon extended to Adamstown. In 2009 it moved its Docklands terminus to East Road, providing an interchange with route 53. Under Network Direct in 2010 the route was moved to terminate at Foxborough instead of Adamstown, and still does so today.
The bus is crossing Rosie Hackett Bridge which opened in May 2014.
05/12/2014