Throwback Thursday (434)
This week we go back twelve years to 2012 and to RV 629 on O'Connell Bridge with a service on route 39.
Route 39 started running between the City Centre and Blanchardstown in 1926. Between 1972 and 2004 its western terminus moved around between Sheepmoor, Clonsilla, Coolmine and the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, In 2004 it settled on Ongar as a western terminus. In 2010, under Network Direct, the city terminus moved to Baggot Street and three years later to Burlington Road.
Route 39 also holds the distinction of being the first CitySwift route, being converted in 1993.
RV 629 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999, arriving in CitySwift livery. However, it entered service with Bus Eireann, along with RV 628, with both buses spending most of the year 2000 on services to Ashbourne, Ratoath and Drogheda. In 2001 it entered service with Dublin Bus and it was withdrawn in October 2012, before being sold on to another Irish operator.
17/05/2012
Throwback Thursday (434)
This week we go back twelve years to 2012 and to RV 629 on O'Connell Bridge with a service on route 39.
Route 39 started running between the City Centre and Blanchardstown in 1926. Between 1972 and 2004 its western terminus moved around between Sheepmoor, Clonsilla, Coolmine and the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, In 2004 it settled on Ongar as a western terminus. In 2010, under Network Direct, the city terminus moved to Baggot Street and three years later to Burlington Road.
Route 39 also holds the distinction of being the first CitySwift route, being converted in 1993.
RV 629 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999, arriving in CitySwift livery. However, it entered service with Bus Eireann, along with RV 628, with both buses spending most of the year 2000 on services to Ashbourne, Ratoath and Drogheda. In 2001 it entered service with Dublin Bus and it was withdrawn in October 2012, before being sold on to another Irish operator.
17/05/2012