Throwback Thursday (524)
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to D 516 in Finglas.
The bus isn't showing a route number, and is displaying "City Centre via Whitworth Road". However, it is turning off Cardiffsbridge Road onto Cappagh Road, which was not the way any bus route took to get to city centre. However, it was the routing of route 40A, and the lack of passengers on board suggests it may have been working out to the 40A terminus to a do a service back into the city.
Route 40A started running between the city centre and Finglas in 1932. From the start until 1995, its terminus was on the Cappagh Road, with some services terminating at Cappagh Hospital. From 1995 to 2001 it terminated at Finglas Place. Then it moved to St. Margaret's Road until 2009, before gaining Charlestown as its final terminus. To route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct changes.
D 516 was new to CIE in 1973, and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1991.
02/04/1987
Throwback Thursday (524)
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to D 516 in Finglas.
The bus isn't showing a route number, and is displaying "City Centre via Whitworth Road". However, it is turning off Cardiffsbridge Road onto Cappagh Road, which was not the way any bus route took to get to city centre. However, it was the routing of route 40A, and the lack of passengers on board suggests it may have been working out to the 40A terminus to a do a service back into the city.
Route 40A started running between the city centre and Finglas in 1932. From the start until 1995, its terminus was on the Cappagh Road, with some services terminating at Cappagh Hospital. From 1995 to 2001 it terminated at Finglas Place. Then it moved to St. Margaret's Road until 2009, before gaining Charlestown as its final terminus. To route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct changes.
D 516 was new to CIE in 1973, and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1991.
02/04/1987