Throwback Thursday (515)
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to 1988, and to D 756 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 11 to Clonskea.
Route 11 started running between the Ballymun Road and Clonskea in 1939. In 1967 the northern terminus moved to Griffith Avenue, before it reached Wadelai Park (St. Pappin's Road) in 1983. In the late-1990s it was extended to Kilmacud from Clonskea, and in 2011 its southern terminus became Sandyford Business District. In 2025, under Bus Connects, it was replaced on the northside by new route 19, and its city terminus became Phoenix Park.
D 756 was new to CIE in 1975. It then went on to have colourful career, literally. In 1986 it gained this all-over ad livery for Philips Philishave. In 1987 it spent some time on loan to Bus Eireann in Cork for the ad to be shown there. At the end of 1988 it received a new all-over scheme when it became the Santa bus for the Christmas period. Then in 1989, it received an all-over ad for the Blood Donors. The bus was withdrawn in 1993 by Dublin Bus, and spent its final years in the Dublin Bus two-tone green livery.
29/01/1988
Throwback Thursday (515)
This week we are going back thirty-eight years to 1988, and to D 756 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 11 to Clonskea.
Route 11 started running between the Ballymun Road and Clonskea in 1939. In 1967 the northern terminus moved to Griffith Avenue, before it reached Wadelai Park (St. Pappin's Road) in 1983. In the late-1990s it was extended to Kilmacud from Clonskea, and in 2011 its southern terminus became Sandyford Business District. In 2025, under Bus Connects, it was replaced on the northside by new route 19, and its city terminus became Phoenix Park.
D 756 was new to CIE in 1975. It then went on to have colourful career, literally. In 1986 it gained this all-over ad livery for Philips Philishave. In 1987 it spent some time on loan to Bus Eireann in Cork for the ad to be shown there. At the end of 1988 it received a new all-over scheme when it became the Santa bus for the Christmas period. Then in 1989, it received an all-over ad for the Blood Donors. The bus was withdrawn in 1993 by Dublin Bus, and spent its final years in the Dublin Bus two-tone green livery.
29/01/1988