Throwback Thursday (476)
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to 1992 and to D 378 parked on O'Connell Street.
This Leyland Atlantean was new to CIE in 1970. In 1988 Dublin Bus started operating tours around the city. The same year this bus, as part of the tour fleet, emerged in a special livery to mark Dublin's millennium. Initially it had no roof, but later that year it received this perspex roof. After 1988 it had a number of either special or advertising liveries, before receiving this design in 1992. The bus was withdrawn in 1997 and later sold for scrap.
When delivered in 1970, it had the registration plate "378 IK", but for its millennium livery it received registration plates displaying 88-D-988.
Dublin Bus still operate open-top tours around the city in 2025.
27/03/1992
Throwback Thursday (476)
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to 1992 and to D 378 parked on O'Connell Street.
This Leyland Atlantean was new to CIE in 1970. In 1988 Dublin Bus started operating tours around the city. The same year this bus, as part of the tour fleet, emerged in a special livery to mark Dublin's millennium. Initially it had no roof, but later that year it received this perspex roof. After 1988 it had a number of either special or advertising liveries, before receiving this design in 1992. The bus was withdrawn in 1997 and later sold for scrap.
When delivered in 1970, it had the registration plate "378 IK", but for its millennium livery it received registration plates displaying 88-D-988.
Dublin Bus still operate open-top tours around the city in 2025.
27/03/1992