Throwback Thursday (516)
This week we are going back seventeen years to 2009, and to VT 40 on a snowy Hawkins Street with a service on route 39 to Ongar.
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, after being on Hawkins Street for nearly a decade, and three years later to Burlington Road.
Also, in 1993 route 39 became the first City Swift route.
VT 40 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007, being one of fity Enviro 500s delivered that year. It is still in service today with Dublin Bus, at the tender age of 19.
Beside the bus is the Screen cinema. It closed in 2016 and the building was demolished in 2019. Hawkins House behind it was demolished in 2022.
05/02/2009
Throwback Thursday (516)
This week we are going back seventeen years to 2009, and to VT 40 on a snowy Hawkins Street with a service on route 39 to Ongar.
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, after being on Hawkins Street for nearly a decade, and three years later to Burlington Road.
Also, in 1993 route 39 became the first City Swift route.
VT 40 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007, being one of fity Enviro 500s delivered that year. It is still in service today with Dublin Bus, at the tender age of 19.
Beside the bus is the Screen cinema. It closed in 2016 and the building was demolished in 2019. Hawkins House behind it was demolished in 2022.
05/02/2009