Throwback Thursday (472)
This week we are going back twelve years to 2013, and to AV 349 in Blackrock with a service on route 46E to Mountjoy Square.
Route 46E was introduced following the opening of Stillorgan Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) in 1999. Initially it operated in peak-hours between the city centre and Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock. Certain services operated to Heuston Station, and certain services went via Stillorgan Village. In 2002 it was extended to Blackrock Station. Then in 2010 it was cut back to operate only in the morning-peak from Blackrock to Mountjoy Square via the Stillorgan QBC, with no return workings in the evening. The route ceased to operate in January 2025 under the E-Spine changes of Bus Connects. Those changes took place on a Sunday, but as the 46E was a weekday only route, its last day was meant to be Friday 24th January. However, a red warning for Storm Eowyn saw bus services cancelled that morning. So the last day of the route was actually Thursday, 23rd January.
AV 349 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. It was withdrawn in 2018.
The end of the 46E saw the end of Dublin Bus's association with this terminus at Blackrock Station. It is still used by routes 114, L26 and S6, but these are operated by Go-Ahead Ireland.
27/02/2013
Throwback Thursday (472)
This week we are going back twelve years to 2013, and to AV 349 in Blackrock with a service on route 46E to Mountjoy Square.
Route 46E was introduced following the opening of Stillorgan Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) in 1999. Initially it operated in peak-hours between the city centre and Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock. Certain services operated to Heuston Station, and certain services went via Stillorgan Village. In 2002 it was extended to Blackrock Station. Then in 2010 it was cut back to operate only in the morning-peak from Blackrock to Mountjoy Square via the Stillorgan QBC, with no return workings in the evening. The route ceased to operate in January 2025 under the E-Spine changes of Bus Connects. Those changes took place on a Sunday, but as the 46E was a weekday only route, its last day was meant to be Friday 24th January. However, a red warning for Storm Eowyn saw bus services cancelled that morning. So the last day of the route was actually Thursday, 23rd January.
AV 349 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. It was withdrawn in 2018.
The end of the 46E saw the end of Dublin Bus's association with this terminus at Blackrock Station. It is still used by routes 114, L26 and S6, but these are operated by Go-Ahead Ireland.
27/02/2013