Throwback Thursday (522)

This week we are going back forty-two years to 1984 and to KD 288 in Balbriggan, dressed for route 33B to Portrane.

 

Balbriggan, of course, is not served by route 33B but by route 33. CIE took over this route from the GNR(I) in 1958. It provided a connection between the city centre and Skerries via Rush, with certain departures extended to Balbriggan. CIE took over route 33B from the GNR(I) in the same year. That route connected Swords and Portrane, although it had no route number between 1958 and 1972. From 1975 to 2002, certain departures were extended to the city centre. Go-Ahead Ireland took over route 33B in 2018.

 

There was a departure on route 33, in each direction, that ran between the city centre and Balbriggan, going via Donabate and Portrane. This started in 1966 when a new secondary school opened in Rush. In 2002 the afternoon trip from Balbriggan via Portrane on the 33 was cancelled, and in 2003 the morning trip from Dublin was shortened to Skerries. In 2018 the Portrane 33 was renumbered 33E.

 

KD 288 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the late-1990s.

 

19/03/1984

Done