Throwback Thursday (444)
This week we are going back nine years to 2015 and to SG 34 in Monkstown with a service on route 8 to Mountjoy Square.
Route 8 started running between the city centre and Dalkey in 1949, replacing the last tram route in the city. In 2001 the route was suspended, but following an appeal to the European courts, it returned in 2005. When it returned it was sent along a new routing between Monkstown and Dalkey. Instead of going via Dun Laoghaire, it went via Carrickbrennan Road (as seen here), Glenageary Road Upper and Castle Park Road. In 2016 the axe struck again when the route finished for the last time in November. A review of bus services in Dun Laoghaire saw changes to routes 59 and 111, and it was deemed the 8 was no longer needed.
SG 34 was new to Dublin Bus in 2014. In 2018 it transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland where it became 11506, and it is still in service with them today.
31/07/2015
Throwback Thursday (444)
This week we are going back nine years to 2015 and to SG 34 in Monkstown with a service on route 8 to Mountjoy Square.
Route 8 started running between the city centre and Dalkey in 1949, replacing the last tram route in the city. In 2001 the route was suspended, but following an appeal to the European courts, it returned in 2005. When it returned it was sent along a new routing between Monkstown and Dalkey. Instead of going via Dun Laoghaire, it went via Carrickbrennan Road (as seen here), Glenageary Road Upper and Castle Park Road. In 2016 the axe struck again when the route finished for the last time in November. A review of bus services in Dun Laoghaire saw changes to routes 59 and 111, and it was deemed the 8 was no longer needed.
SG 34 was new to Dublin Bus in 2014. In 2018 it transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland where it became 11506, and it is still in service with them today.
31/07/2015