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This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1998, and to RH 139 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 20A. This route started running between the city centre and Donnycarney North in 1948, and was an off-shoot of route 20. These routes (along with the 20B) went via Fairview and the Malahide Road. In 1997 the 20A was cut back to just a handful of departures, becoming a derivative of the 20B in the process. The route finally ceased to operate in 1999, with the 20B lasting until 2011. A definitive history of the route can be found here: dublinbusstuff.com/Routes20.html
RH 139 was new to Dublin Bus in 1992. It was withdrawn in 2006 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
20/07/1998
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1998, and to ML 2 at The Square in Tallaght. The minibus is operating a service on route 201 to Kilnamanagh.
Tallaght gained three local routes in the late-1980s, and these were numbered T01, T02 and T03. These routes served the various housing estates around Tallaght. When The Square shopping centre opened in 1990, the routes started serving calling there. Around that time they were also renumbered 201, 202 and 203. The 201 connected Killinarden and Kilnamanagh, In the 1990s it had a few changes, moving western terminus to Jobstown and eastern one to Aylesbury and later Kiltipper. In the early-2000s it started operating between Citywest and Bohernabreena, and this was its final form until the route was withdrawn around 2009.
ML 2 was one of thirty-five ML Class minibuses delivered to Dublin Bus between 1994 and 1995. Some of these buses did not last long with Dublin Bus, and transferred to Bus Eireann in Waterford and Cork. ML 2 was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the early-2000s and had been sold on to another operator by 2003.
13/06/1998
Throwback Thursday: 1972...the new Mercedes-Benz 220D. Me far right with my three brothers and mom (mom and the youngest one inside the car) ~ Sussex, NJ
Iowa Pacific E8As 515 and 518 in IC inspired brown and orange led six matching cars past the wig-wag signal at Acova, Wis. on June 22, 2014. Word is the signal was removed last summer.
This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1997 and RA 316 on Talbot Street. The bus is dressed for route 27. This route started operating between the city centre and Coolock in 1966. Thirty years later the route went over to CitySwift, as seen on RA 316 and the bus behind it here. The northern terminus also moved to Clare Hall. In 2011 the route was also merged with the 77, and the new cross-city route ran from Edenmore to Jobstown. Although the northern terminus was soon moved back to Clare Hall from Edenmore.
RA 316 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the UK.
This terminus on Talbot Street is now used by routes 42, 43 and 53.
17/08/1997
This week we are going back forty-one years to 1981 and D 818 on the seafront (or Esplanade) at Bray. The bus is dressed for route 45A, a route that started operating between Dun Laoghaire and Bray in 1936. In 2004 it was extended to Ballywaltrim (it had previously served there too in the late-1980s/early-1990s), and in 2015 it was extended further south to Kilmacanogue. The latter change was part of a terminus swap with route 145 which moved to Ballywaltrim instead. In 2018, Go-Ahead Ireland took over operating the route.
D 818 was delivered new to CIE in 1976. It was withdrawn and sold for scrap in 1994.
Bray Esplanade ceased to be on the Dublin Bus network in 2012 with the end of route 45.
21/04/1981
A trip back twenty-five years this week and another KD in an all-over ad. KD 363 is seen on Eden Quay after terminating with a 7 from Loughlinstown. The bus is in an all-over ad for Moss Technology, a company that was founded in Dublin in 1987 but ceased trading a few years ago. Nowadays the 7 goes a little further on the northside to Mountjoy Square and the Rosie Hackett Bridge is at this location. 21/07/1991
A hop back twenty-five years this week to D 689 in Dublin Airport on the 230 in 1995. Route 230 started in 1991 between Dublin Airport and Malahide, although it was soon extended to Portmarnock. Initially it was operated by mini-buses (some displaced from local services in Tallaght), but KC single-deckers took over within two years. The Airport Express KCs found themselves on this route in 1994 after the AD class arrived to takeover the Airlink. Double-deckers only became common on the route in the late 1990s, and D class VanHools like D 689 were very rare on it. In 2008 the route was absorbed into the 102 and extended to Sutton Station. In 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over operation of the route and single-deckers returned, although double-deckers do appear on some of the busier departures.
D 689 was delivered new to Summerhill Garage in Dublin in 1975. It was withdrawn within a year of this photograph being taken and was sold for scrap in 1999.
The bus may be gone, the route may be gone, but Heinz ketchup is still going strong. 15/07/1995
This week we are going back seven years to VT 7 on Leeson Street. The bus is operating a service on route 46A from Dun Laoghaire to Phoenix Park via the city centre. The 46A started operating in 1926 between Dublin city centre and Cabinteely. In 1936 it reached Dun Laoghaire.In the late 1990s the route became 'super charged' when it joined the CitySwift network and the Stillorgan Road Quality Bus Corridor became operational. The route started the new millennium as one of the most frequent in the city. In 2010 it became a cross city route when its northern terminus became the Phoenix Park, after it absorbed the northern half of route 10 under Network Direct.
VT 7 was one of twenty Enviro 500 tri-axle buses delivered to Dublin Bus in 2005. When these buses arrived their presence on the streets were certainly noticeable as this was a class of bus more associated with Hong Kong than with Europe. These buses were initially allocated to just the 46A (and some of the other 46 family of routes) but in 2007 another fifty arrived and the class started to appear on some of the busiest routes around the city. VT 7, along with the rest of the other first twenty VT buses, was withdrawn in 2018. It was sold to the UK and is now used on school services by Sussex Coaches. 28/10/2014
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For our 300th Throwback Thursday I thought I would go back to the start. The very first picture in this series was posted in 2016 and showed a bus in Bray Station, so here is a photograph of Dublin Bus GT 87 at Bray Station in 2016. Route 185 started in 1995, and was a direct replacement for route 85. It mostly operated between Bray and Enniskerry (Shop River). The change to 185 coincided with a reorganisation of local routes in Bray and the introduction of minibuses onto those routes. Around 2004 the 185 started serving the Palermo estate in Bray too. In 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over the 185 and it became two routes: Bray - Palermo and Bray to Shop River via Palermo. The route also switched from double-decker buses to single-deckers. Under Bus Connects, the 185 will be replaced by the L14 and L15.
GT 87 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2013. It is still with Dublin Bus, however it is now in the new Transport for Ireland (TFI) green and yellow livery. The TFI logo on the side of GT 87 has since been updated to a new style one. GT 87 was built by Wrights (on a Volvo chassis) in Ballymena and back in 2016 Dublin Bus was still receiving buses from that company, but of the SG class. The last SG was delivered in 2020, after Wrights were brought out of administration. However, starting in 2021, Dublin Bus have been receiving new hybrid buses from Alexander Dennis, the SG being the last fully diesel bus to be bought by TFI.
A lot has changed in the five years since this picture was taken, and since Throwback Thursday has started. Who knows what the next five years will bring? Thanks as always for looking at my photographs. 22/10/2016
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to D 386 on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 6A to Blackrock. This route started in 1965 running between the city centre and its terminus at Granville Park in Blackrock, going via Ballsbridge. In 1980 the route was extended to Sandyford Industrial Estate but it had completely ceased to operate by 1988.
D 386 was delivered new to CIE in 1970. It was withdrawn six months after this photograph was taken.
22/01/1985
This week we are going back thirty years to KD 203 on Lower Abbey Street. The bus is operating a service on route 29A. This route was taken over by CIE from the GNR(I) in 1958, and it connected the city centre with Raheny (with a northern terminus at Grange Road Cross). Around 1970 it was extended to Newgrove Cross and then to Baldoyle in November 2012. Under Bus Connects it will effectively become route H1.
KD 203 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. It spent most of its life in Phibsborough Garage, though temporarily moved to Clontarf Garage to increase the audience for this all-over ad campaign. It was withdrawn around 2000.
The bus is in an all-over ad for PMPA Insurance. This was once the largest car insurance company in Ireland, but went into administration in 1983, and didn't exit it until 2013. A levy was placed on all insurance policies in Ireland in order to make up the losses of the company. PMPA eventually was absorbed into AXA insurance.
The building behind the bus is currently a Wetherspoon's pub. 13/05/1991
This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2000 and to KD 329 on Eden Quay. This was the last year of Bombardier bus operations in Dublin. The first KD double-decker entered service in May 1981 (it was KD 2 on route 8). CIE went on to receive 366 double-deckers in total between 1981 and 1983, the vast majority built in Shannon. Originally there were only meant to be 365 KDs but KD 366 was built in 1983 to replace KD 111 which had been written off in an accident in 1982. Another extra one was built and sent to Baghdad to be trialled there, this one being left-hand drive. The majority of the CIE buses operated in Dublin, but there were also some in Limerick, Galway and Cork. The final day of normal KD operation in Dublin was in December 2000. A farewell run ran in January 2001 when the final fare-paying passenger was also carried. KD operation in Cork and Limerick had finished in the late 1990s.
As can be seen here, the two-tone green livery was also on the way out. The bus stop is blue, and two Olympians in the background are in the new standard livery, while the third is in CitySwift livery.
Route 77 became a DUTC bus route in 1939, connecting the city centre with Tallaght. It became more frequent in the 1980s and 1990s as that suburb of Dublin began to expand, and became a CitySwift route in 1997. It became cross-city route 27 in 2011 under Network Direct, and this route still serves Eden Quay.
14/04/2000
This week we are going back twenty-three years to 1999 and AD 19 on Hawkins Street. The bus is dressed for route 86. This route started operating between Bray and Dublin city centre as a replacement for the Harcourt Street railway line that closed on the last day of 1958. Around 1971 the terminus was cut from Bray to Cabinteely. Around 2005 the route had been reduced even further, only running between Shankill and Sandyford Industrial Estate. The route ceased to operate on the 17th April 2009. By this point the Luas Green Line had been running along the old Harcourt Street line to Sandyford for five years. A subsequent extension to the tramline saw part of extended along Hawkins Street, in the traffic lane beside AD 19 in the photo.
AD 19 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1994, being one of 70 that made up the AD Class. It was originally painted in CitySwift livery. By 1998 it had received two-tone green Dublin Bus livery, and when it was withdrawn around 2004 it was in Dublin Bus blue and cream livery. It then joined the Bus Eireann school fleet in Cork and was withdrawn by 2011.
15/06/1999
For our 84th Throwback Thursday we are going back to 1984 and a sad sight. The remains of KD 317 are seen in the yard at Donabate Station after being the victim of an arson attack. The bus was based in Summerhill Garage and was new there in 1983, therefore having a very short life. Donabate at the time was served by routes 33B and 33C which also served Portrane. The 33B connected Portrane and Donabate with the City Centre while the 33C ran between Swords/Donabate and Portrane. Today there is one departure each way Monday - Friday between Portrane/Donabate and the City Centre with the 33D, and a regular service between Portrane/Donabate and Swords on the 33B. Last week though it was announced that from late 2018 or early 2019, the 33B will no longer be operated by Dublin Bus, but rather Go-Ahead. We live in interesting times. Donabate, 16/08/1984
A trip back to 1984 this week to KC 1 in Conyngham Road Garage. This was the first of an eventual 202 KC single-deckers built for city services in Ireland. Most were built in the Bombardier factory in Shannon but this one was built in Hamburg by FFG in 1981. The bus lasted fifteen years in service seeing the transition from CIE to Dublin Bus and spent its working life at Conyngham Road. The last KC was withdrawn in Dublin in 2001.
Some photos on KC 1 in its original tan livery can be found on Dublinbus.cc:
Conyngham Road Garage 28/07/1984
This week we are going back twenty-years to RV 458 on Parnell Square. The bus is dressed for the brand new route 116 to Whitechurch via Stillorgan. This route was one of the many new routes that started around this time to tie in with the new Quality Bus Corridor along the Stillorgan Road. During 2000 the 116 was expanded to serve not just Whitechurch but also Clonskea, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Ballinteer and DCU. In more recent years the route has been cut back to just Whitechurch again.
The branding on the side of RV 458 (Stillorgan Flyer) refers to the 46A. It was part of the rebranding of that route as part of the Stillorgan QBC, even though the 46A was already a CitySwift route.
RV 458 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in February 1999. The Volvo Olympian only lasted ten years, being withdrawn in 2009. It spent all its career in Donnybrook Garage. It was sold on to Procter of Leeming Bar in the United Kingdom.
24/08/1999
This week we are going back thirty-one years to D 787 at The Square, Tallaght. The bus is operating a service on the short-lived route 74. The Square shopping centre opened in 1990 and a number of new routes started, while others in Tallaght were rerouted, to serve it. The 74 and 74A started on the 22nd October 1990. Route 74 ran from Arthur Griffith Park in Lucan to Tallaght, via Neilstown and Clondalkin. However, neither it nor the 74A were very popular, and both routes last ran on the 27th April 1991 (just over two months after this picture was taken). The number 74 was next used on a bus route in 2007 and that one lasted a little longer before it was merged into the 15B in 2011. Bus Connects are proposing to use the number on a new route to Whitechurch at some point.
D 787 was delivered new to CIE in 1976. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994 and sold for scrap. 16/02/1991
I'm not sure what era this sign dates from, but it takes me back to the 1960s before McDonald's was the franchise behemoth that it is today. It was a time when all they had were single patty burgers and fries. You also probably got a milkshake. The location is downtown Muncie, Indiana.
It is 1999 and Dublin Bus are trying out a demonstrator bus. But first some context. In 1997 five single deckers (VL 1-5) were delivered to Dublin Bus, being the first full-length low floor buses in the fleet. The following year VL 6 arrived as a demonstrator which was run on natural gas and painted in a special Bord Gais livery. All of these buses operated on routes 1,2 and 3 which operated between Larkhill, City Centre, Ringsend and Sandymount.
In 1999 this second demonstrator arrived from the UK and was put briefly onto these routes too. The bus was built in 1997 and operated on liquefied petroleum gas. Hence why in the UK it had as its registration "P10 LPG". As a demonstrator it was operated by a number of bus operators in the UK too. Eventually the bus was converted to a standard diesel bus and was sold to Arriva, operating in the north of England for most of its career. It remained in service until withdrawn in 2013.
It is worth noting that Larkill is misspelled on the destination - the h is missing. At least it got the route number correct. It is also worth noting the slightly shorter than usual bus stop, although this was later replaced with a standard one.
All in all, this was one of the more unusual buses operated by Dublin Bus for a brief period.
Ringsend 11/10/1999
This week we are going back to 1994 and the final weeks of route 55. KD 34 is seen at the 55 terminus on College Street, alongside the wall of Trinity College. This route started in 1953 connecting the city with Kimmage and Walkinstown Cross. In the 1970s it was extended to Greenhills and was still terminating there on Limekiln Avenue in 1994. During the summer of 1994 the 55 underwent City Imp conversion, and became route 155, with services running at a much higher frequency than before. The 155 itself was absorbed into the 19A in 2001, which then became route 9 in 2010.
KD 34 was delivered new to Ringsend Garage in 1981 and spent all its life there. It was withdrawn in 1995 and was sent for scrap.
This location on College Street is no longer a bus terminus and is instead the Trinity tram stop on the Luas Green Line. College House in the background on Townsend Street was demolished in 2019.
Also in the background is MA 15 on the 83, a bus which featured in Throwback Thursday (226)
28/05/1994
This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1996 and the end of a bus route. KC 44 is seen on Marlborough Street dressed for route 30. This route started in 1938, replacing a previous tram route, and connected the City Centre with Dollymount, via Clontarf. The terminus in Dollymount was Mount Prospect Avenue. Route 30 was replaced by City Imp route 130 on the 17th March 1996, a week after this photograph was taken. Originally it was meant to have started on 10th March, but the introduction of the new route was slightly delayed. The 130 also replaced route 44A on the same time, which operated between the City Centre and Seafield Park in Clontarf.
KC 44 entered service with CIE in December 1983. It was withdrawn in 1999. It spent most of its life in Clontarf Garage, though it ended its career in Conyngham Road Garage.
This part of Marlborough Street is now also used by Luas trams, as well as the occasional bus.
09/03/1996
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1996. Dublin Bus KD 172 is seen at the terminus for route 8 on Burgh Quay. This route became a bus route in 1949, having been the last tram route to run in the city on the 9th July of that year. It ran between the city centre and Dalkey via Dun Laoghaire. Controversially, Dublin Bus withdrew the route in 2001, but it returned in 2005 going via Glenageary Road Upper instead of Dun Laoghaire. It was withdrawn for good again in November 2016.
KD 172 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. The last member of the Dublin Bus KD fleet was withdrawn in 2000.
Dublin Bus no longer use this stop on Burgh Quay. Instead it is home to Dublin Coach who offer services to Waterford, Cork, Limerick and elsewhere.
29/07/1996
It is 1983 and D 751 makes its way through the parked cars in Larkhill as it operates a 3 to Sandymount Tower. At the time, the bus was nearly eight years old, having been delivered new to CIE in 1975. It had a long career in Dublin, being finally withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994.
Route 3 was one of the many cross-city routes in Dublin, tracing its origins back to the tram network. Initially a southside route, it served the areas of Ringsend, Irishtown and Sandymount along with routes 1 and 2. In the 1940s route 3 was extended north to Whitehall and eventually into Larkhill. Under Network Direct the route was largely replaced by a new route 1 in 2012. This used Santry and Shanard Route as the northside terminus. The 44 from Enniskerry was extended north from the city centre to initially terminate in Larkhill. It was later extended to DCU on Collins Avenue, but still loops around Larkhill in both directions. Larkhill 06/06/1983