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It is 1999 and a decade, century and a millennium is coming towards an end. And so is a bus livery. RV 326 is seen parked on Burgh Quay between duties on the 14A. It and RV 327 were the last buses delivered new in the two-tone green livery of Dublin Bus in 1997. This livery was introduced in 1987 and started to be replaced in the mid-1990s with a new cream/blue "core" livery. The VLs were the first buses delivered in a new, and unique, standard livery in 1997 ( but not the final one that was chosen). RV 326 was one of five new buses allocated to the 14A when delivered. RV 327 as mentioned was in two-tone green, RV 328 and RV 329 were in Wedding Bus livery and RV 330 was in Coastal Tours livery.
RV 326 also has the distinction of being the first RV delivered to Dublin Bus, and thus the first Volvo Olympian. The last one to be delivered was RV 640. Being the first, RV 326 received marker-lights above the upper-deck windscreen, something the rest of the 1997 deliveries did not get.
The 14A was a variation of the 14, and connected the City Centre with Ballinteer via Dartry while the 14 served Rathgar. Under Network Direct the 14A was absorbed into the 14, the Dartry routing was dropped, buses went via Ballinteer to Dundrum and was extended on the northside to Ardlea Road.
Finally, the bus is parked beside the building of the Irish Press which was a newspaper published between 1931 and 1995. Burgh Quay, 18/07/1999
This week we are going back twenty years to 1996. KD 160 is seen at Heuston Station. Although the front of the bus shows "Ballyfermot" the side number probably shows its true intent. Route 91 ran as required between the City Centre and Heuston, working inbound via Dame Street. It was designed to provide extra capacity on route 90 when required. With the extension of the 145 to Heuston a few years ago, route 91 silently faded away and no longer runs. Visible through the front door is the old magnetic strip ticket validator. These too are also now gone, replaced by tag-on machines. 18/08/1996
Slightly unusual Throwback Thursday this week, and one I debated about posting. When I started this series in 2016 all public service obligation bus services in Dublin were operated by Dublin Bus, and prior to that it was CIE, from whom Dublin Bus was formed from in 1987. In 2015 the National Transport Authority sought expressions of interest to operate some of the routes around the city. During 2016 this became an official tender. Dublin Bus applied to retain and operate the routes, as did other bus companies. The winner which was announced in 2017 was Go-Ahead, a transport company that operates bus and rail services around the world. 23 routes transferred from Dublin Bus to Go-Ahead Ireland and one new route started, the 175.
The 175 commenced running on September 9th 2018. The route takes it from Citywest to UCD Belfield via Tallaght, Ballinteer and Dundrum, and back again. It provides some relief to the busy route 75 while also providing new connections between some of the southern suburbs in Dublin.
11572 is seen passing through the bus gate in Tallaght Village. This was one of 24 Wright Geminis bought specifically for the tendered routes, Another 49 members of the Dublin Bus SG class transferred over, as well as 12 GT class buses. In 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to provide extra services for school children, 7 AX buses also went to Go-Ahead Ireland.
So, the bus landscape has changed a bit in the four years since Throwback Thursday started. The Go-Ahead Ireland contract is for five years. With it starting in 2018, there is a chance another operator will be running this route in four years time. Of course, if Bus Connects happens, then none of the current bus routes could be around in four years. We live in interesting times...
10/09/2018
It is 1992 and RH 120 is seen heading north on O'Connell Street with cross-city route 10 from UCD Belfield to Phoenix Park. Until its withdrawal in 2010, this was one of the more famous bus routes in Dublin with most people's experiences of it either being to take them to college in UCD or the Zoo in the Phoenix Park. Under Network Direct, the northern half of the route was taken over by the 46A, and the southern half by the 39A.
The bus is in an all-over ad for the "Travel Ten" ticket. This was an initiative by Dublin Bus where one prepaid ticket offered ten journeys. This ticket later morphed into the "2 Eazy" ticket, which then evolved into the current smartcard "Leap".
RH 120 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1991. It was withdrawn in the early-2000s and went to operate with Veolia in the United Kingdom. 14/03/1992
A partnership with the Fuller Fabric Company in 1952 led DeGrazia to produce many small-scale and full-sized watercolor designs for printed textiles. Happy Throwback Thursday!
Time to pull out some from the photo albums....for the younger ones here, "photo albums" are where we old dudes would store "paper based" photos after we spent all our hard earned money on 35mm film and processing with the option of "gloss or matte finish". (Yutes today......they just don't understand how expensive photography was in the 'olden days' for those of us with gray hairs).
Anyway, it's September 1991 as solo Soo SD60M 6058 is passing the Hartland WI cream city depot and ABS signal on the wrong main on account of track work two miles behind them. This train came complete with brown Soo caboose #3. Behind me, the crossover switch is lined for them to head back over to the eastbound main and onward to Milwaukee.
This week we are going back twenty-four years to RV 403 on Marlborough Street on a short-lived route. Route 27C started in summer 1999, operating between Clare Hall and the City Centre, operating a more direct route than the normal route 27, going straight down the Malahide Road. It is possible returning services only operated to Darndale Roundabout and no known timetable was produced. It also didn't last very long and was cancelled around autumn 1999. Its short existence may explain why it had a paper route number in the windscreen.
A 27C reappeared around 2001, as a peak-hour service between Clare Hall and Leeson Street Bridge. It ceased in 2009. The 27C lives on today as short workings on the regular cross-city route 27 that terminate in the city centre.
RV 403 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998 and withdrawn in 2008, before being sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. 15/06/1999
Even though it's Wednesday still a throwback. I elected, on a whim, to try my old hairstyle. I do like the shorter one better!
It is 2001 and RV 592 is seen at the bus terminus in UCD Belfield. It is waiting to depart with a 50X to Killinarden in Tallaght. the 50X had a lifespan of just under 20 years, starting in 1990 as part of the CitySpeed brand and ending in April 2009 during the review of the network and the removal of low usage routes. Although as the crow flies the distance between Tallaght and UCD is not great, the bus route operated via the City Centre, which added to its route length. Although route 50 was operated by Ringsend Garage, the 50X was one of the extra duties operated by Broadstone Garage.
The terminus at UCD Belfield has now been relocated and this location is now a lake and green area. The bus was withdrawn in 2011. 09/10/2001
It's a trip back to 1995 (and not 1997 as the label says) this week and to another experimental livery. This time Dublin Bus decided to try something different than two-tone green and went with blue and white with a yellow stripe. The livery was quite attractive but was not adopted by Dublin Bus, and only this bus was painted in the livery.
RH 147 was based in Donnybrook and is seen here at the 45 terminus on Eden Quay. This route ran to Oldcourt in Bray until 2012 when it was abolished under Network Direct. 22/04/1995
I cannot think of a more appropriate way to mark the 150th Throwback Thursday than with a photograph of AV 150 on route 150.
The bus is seen at the terminus of the route on Fleet Street. The route connects the City Centre with Rossmore via Crumlin. The route began in 1994 under the City Imp brand, replacing route 50. In 2011 it was rerouted slightly to replace route 121 in the Liberties. The current 150 terminus is on Hawkins Street.
AV 150 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2000. It was initially allocated to Donnybrook Garage where it spent most of its career. It moved to Ringsend Garage to finish out its career. By 2016 it had crossed the sea to Scotland to take up work with McColls.
Fleet Street, 05/06/2015
Following a regional tradition of building a chapel or shrine in thanks, DeGrazia’s goal was an adobe mission built from the ground up at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains. Marion DeGrazia said, “The desert was all his as far as the eye could see. There it was beautiful. It was quiet. He did not disturb the desert. He became a part of it.” Happy Throwback Thursday!
This week we are going back thirty-five years to Maynooth in County Kildare. KD 291 is seen Maynooth at the terminus of route 66. This 66 has a long history with the DUTC taking over the route from private operators in 1934. It then passed to CIE in 1945 and Dublin Bus in 1987. From 1951 until 2010, a number of departures extended further into Kildare to Kilcock, but that town is now primarily served by Bus Eireann. The 66 terminus in Maynooth was extended further south along Straffan Road in 1996, where it still currently terminates. The route runs to Dublin city centre via Leixlip, Lucan and Chapelizod. The 67 also connects the two placed but goes via Celbridge instead of Leixlip. Over the years the 66 has spawned the 66A, 66B, 66D, 66E and 66X.
Maynooth is one of the few locations on the Dublin Bus network that is also served by Irish Rail and Bus Eireann (although it is not possible to travel into or out of Dublin on Bus Eireann). It is also served by TFI route 139 between Blanchardstown and Naas.
KD 291 was delivered new to Dublin in 1982. It was withdrawn between 1996 and 2000. 24/09/1985
This photo was taken on June 14th, 1972 of then Penn Central employee Frank Burman working on putting new banners on the switchstand at St. John, Indiana along the former NYC Egyptian Line at MP 15.20. This view is looking north near Joliet street (in distance) with the northbound signal for the L&N (nee-Monon) crossing in the far distance. The industry at left I believe was a lumber company and in this general vicinity was once a turntable and roundhouse.
Photo by Phil Boldman.
This week we go back twenty-five years to 1996 and RH 132 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 20A. The was the first of two derivatives to route 20. The 20 started in 1939 and connected Donnycarney with Bulfin Road. The 20A started in 1948 and ran from Donnycarney North (Killester Avenue) to the city centre via Malahide Road and Fairview. The 20B started in 1980 and ran from Beaumont (Ardlea Road) to ythe city centre. This latter route outlived the other two routes. The 20A started to be merged into the 20B around 1997. Departures were reduced on the 20A and certain departures on the 20B operated via the 20A route. In June 1999 the 20A was finally withdrawn when the 42A was rerouted along Collins Avenue to replace the 20A. The 20A outlasted the 20 by 9 years, and the 20B kept going until it was absorbed into the 14 in 2011. In 1970 the 20A gained one notable footnote in the timetable when one departure in the morning ran from Donnycarney to North Wall for dock workers. There was however no return working.
RH 132 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992. It was one of twenty-eight Olympians delivered that year. In 1997 it was painted into CitySwift livery, though did not receive the same interior as the new CitySwift Olympians. In 2005 it was withdrawn from the regular fleet and joined the driving school. The following year in 2006 it was sold to Dualway Coaches and became an open-top tour bus. However the bus was destroyed in a fire in the Dualway garage in 2011.
11/02/1996
It is 1989 and KD 22 has just completed a journey on route 31 from Howth Summit. This route can trace its origins back to the bus service operated by Great Northern Railway (Ireland), even through they also ran a parallel rail service to Howth village. In 1959 the GNR(I) was absorbed into CIE and the 31 joined the Dublin City Services. Traditionally the 31 terminated on Marlborough Street and started on Lower Abbey Street but in 2014 the terminus moved to Talbot Street as this part of Marlborough Street was taken over by Luas Cross City works. This exact location is now the Marlborough tram stop on the Green Line. The bus stop it is parked at is actually the set-down stop for the 33, 33B, 41, 41A, 41B, 41C and 60. These were all Swords Road routes that terminated on Eden Quay.
KD 22 was delivered new to CIE in 1981 and remained in service until the late 1990s. It spent most (if not all) of its working life in Clontarf Garage.
The ad on the side of the bus is advertising the power of ... advertising on a bus. The pub in the background does not seem to be lacking in advertising on its frontage.
Finally it is worth noting that because it is a dual-door bus, the front doors have stickers saying "Entry Only" while the middle doors have signs saying "Exit Only". The Olympians in 1999 were the last dual-door buses delivered (apart from 15 AVs for Airlink in 2000) until the GT Class arrived in 2012. Since then, all double-decker buses delivered to Dublin B us have been dual-door.
16/01/1989
This week we are going back fifteen years to 2010 and to AV 372 on a snowy O'Connell Street with a service on route 121 to Ratoath Road.
Route 121 started operating between the city centre and Drimnagh Road in 1997. It was a City Imp route, and replaced previous route 22A. In 1998 the route was extended north to Cabra, initially terminating on Faussagh Road, before being extended to Ratoath Road in 1999. The route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct changes. Part of the route on southside was replaced by route 150, but other roads lost their bus service when the route ended.
AV 372 was new to Dublin Bus in 2004. It was withdrawn around 2018 and sold on to another Irish operator.
09/01/2010
Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) throwback space battle between the Enterprise and a Klingon Cruiser, made in Blender. Just starting to learn Blender, pretty cool.
it is a trip back twenty-five years this week to 1994. KD 172 is seen at Blackrock Station with a 114. The destination displays are slightly confusing as it is showing Sandyford Industrial Estate as the main destination, and "Via Airport" below it. The "via" routing is definitely wrong, and the main destination is partially accurate but should probably be in the "via" part.
The 114 was introduced in 1987 as a DART Feeder service and ran from Blackrock to Kilcross via Sandyford Industrial Estate. A number of other Feeder services were introduced over the years such as the 113 and 115, but the 114 is the only one to survive. In 2006 the route was extended to Ticknock Hill. In January 2019 it was transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland as part of it winning the tender to operate some of the orbital/peripheral routes in the city.
The terminus in Blackrock is also currently home to the 17 and the 46E. The latter is the only Dublin Bus route to operate from here (the 17 also being operated by Go-Ahead Ireland), and only has two departures a day, Monday to Friday.
KD 172 was delivered new around 1981/82 to Donnybrook Garage and remained there all its life, being withdrawn from service in the latter-half of the 1990s.
27/08/1994
This week we are only going back to 1998, but we are at the western extremes of the Dublin Bus network. RA 312 is seen in Maynooth (Co.Kildare) at the 67A terminus. The main 67 route ran between Dublin and Celbridge with a few extensions west to Maynooth, which operated as the 67A. Under Network Direct in November 2010, the 67 and 67A were combined and all departures on the 67 ran to Maynooth via Celbridge. Maynooth is also served by route 66 which had services to the town of Kilcock, further west than Maynooth. However Network Direct in 2010 also removed those workings and both the 66 and 67 now terminate in Maynooth.
RA 312 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 2008 and then bought by Warrington Borough Transport. It remained in service with them until at least 2014.
The ad on the side is for Eircell, which was Eircom's mobile phone network. It was subsequently sold to Vodafone. Maynooth, 07/09/1998
Today's #TBT shot is brought to you by the early 1990's- neon-colored everything, big baggy jeans, oversized accessories, and white people appropriating hip-hop culture! Good times!
On 'Generation Girl' Blaine- vintage Ken tshirt and baggy jeans. Hat is vintage Genuine Barbie. Sunglasses and watch are model's own. Chain is re-purposed people-sized jewelry.
On NKotB Donnie- tshirt from Olivia's Doll Closet. Vintage Ken baggy jeans. Sunglasses by Fashion Fever. Silver jacket borrowed from 'Generation Girl' Blaine. Gold chain by Barbie Basics.
This week we are going back 36 years to D 394 in 1984. The bus is seen on route 7 at the terminus on Eden Quay. The original 7 was part of the tram network in Dublin, with the first bus route 7 starting in 1949. It only lasted until 1951 and was peak-hour only services between Dun Laoghaire and the city centre. The main route on the corridor at that time was the 8 to Dalkey. A 7A started in 1950 between Sallynoggin and the city centre, but the 7 itself did not return to the network until 1980. From then to 1988 its southern terminus was Ballybrack (Wyatville Road), but it was then extended to Loughlinstown Park. Today the 7 runs to Cherrywood and the 7A to Loughlinstown Park.
D 394 was delivered new to Dublin in December 1970. In 1987 it transferred to Irish Rail where it became the staff bus in Inchicore. It was sold for scrap in 1990 and went to the scrapyard in the CIE tan-livery as seen here. 15/10/1984
This week we are going back 25 years to RA 289 dressed for route 77A on Eden Quay. Not only are we going back 25 years, but the 77A was 25 years old in 1997, having started in 1972. The route ran between the city centre and Tallaght. It's original terminus in the Tallaght area was at St. Maelruen's Park. Over the following twenty-years or so it moved to Bawnville Road, Bolbrook, Old Bawn Road and The Square. Under Network Direct in 2011 it was extended to Citywest and still operates to there to this day.
RA 239 is in CitySwift livery. The 77A was not a CitySwift route but the 77 to Jobstown was, though that only started in July 1997. RA 239 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
22/02/1997
This week we are going back fourteen years to 2009, and to VT 33 in Skerries on route 33X. Route 33X was an Xpresso route that started operating between Skerries and Dublin city centre (later UCD) around 2000. It was not a long-lived route and ceased to operate in 2002. It then made a return in 2007, using the M1 motorway from Lissenhall (north of Swords) and the Dublin Port Tunnel. When it came back it was not a very frequent route, with one departure in each direction, Monday - Friday. That changed in August 2009, when part of the viaduct at Malahide Estuary collapsed, and the railway line into Dublin from Drogheda / Belfast was closed. An emergency timetable saw a 33X running nearly every ten minutes in the mornings and evenings, with some during the day too. When the railway line reopened in November 2009, the 33X retained a good service frequency and today in 2023 it has about five return trips eeach weekday. 2009 also saw the evening departures from the city operate to Balbriggan (as the buses went via Balbriggan from Skerries to access the motorway on their return trips to the garage). As part of the expansion in services during the railway line closure, nearly every Dublin Bus garage provided buses to operate these services. This is how a tri-axle VT that was normally found on the Blanchardstown / Lucan routes ended up in north County Dublin. VTs became very common on the 33X for a while. VT 33 in this pictures was actually working into Dublin and not to Skerries as the destination suggests.
VT 33 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007. Originally allocated to Phibsoro Garage, in 2010 VT 21 - 35 moved to Donnybrook Garage as part of Network Direct changes to routes 46A and 145. VT 33 was withdrawn from service around December 2021.
14/09/2009
Originally taken: September 10, 2010
Location: Ottawa Ontario
Camera: Nikon D80
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You've probably heard me complaining about the lack of sunshine we've been having lately, as well as the fact that I am so tired of winter, so I thought to myself, well why not do a Throwback Thursday to include gorgeous light and sunshine?
This was taken as an alternate to a photo in my self-portrait 365 project in 2010. It's very similar to the portrait I ended up using, but when going through the archives, this was the photo that stood out to me. In 2010, I was just starting to take photography from snapshots to photographs and looking back at this photo, I don't know that there's anything I would have changed about the composition of this portrait.
Happy Thursday everyone.
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It is 1985 and D 755 is seen on Eden Quay. The bus is on route 6 to Blackrock via Ballsbridge. The bus was nearly 10 years old at this point, having been delivered new in 1975. It lasted in service until 1994, ending its days with Dublin Bus.
Although the destination shows Blackrock, the route actually terminated near Abbey Park in Monkstown at a place referred to in the timetable as "New Link Road" although the actual road was unnamed at this time. The 6 in some ways served as a short working of the 7 and the 8 which went further south to Dun Laoghaire and Dalkey. There was also a 6A for a time which served Blackrock and Sandyford Industrial Estate. The last 6 ran in 1989.
The bus is in an all-over ad for Bailieboro Co-Op.
18/05/1985
almost 3 years ago.... Baby Boy is doing math homework now
He is no longer a baby, but he is still as cute
It is 1995 and the 20B is making its presence known on Marlborough Street. D 689 is seen displaying an outbound working to Ardlea Road, while behind it is a KD on an inbound working to the City Centre. This route served the northern suburbs of Fairview, Donnycarney and Beaumont. The 20B was once just one route that served these areas, along with the 20 and 20A. However over the years these routes fell by the wayside and the 20B outlived them all until 2011 when it was merged with the 14. This created a new cross-city route from Beaumont to Dundrum.
D 689 had a long career in Dublin. It was delivered new to CIE in 1975 and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the summer of 1996.
Beside the bus is the offices of Church and General Insurance. This was rebranded in 1999 as Allianz. Finally, the location where the bus is parked became the Marlborough tram stop on the Luas Green Line in 2017. 20/03/1995
It's 11:22pm where I am, so I just got in my Throwback piccy. This is a picture circa 2009. It was when I fell in love with the skinny jeans and ballet flats. I had not uploaded from this set in several years. I went deep into the vault for this one.
That time it seemed like CSX was piling up once a month in Western New York, I happened to be in Johnstown, PA visiting family. One afternoon I slid out to Cresson and was caught off guard by Q118 detouring up the mountain. This was Labor Day weekend 2006 and back before Facebook groups were giving heads up. Not only was it cool to see something special but it was a complete surprise too.
For this week we are going back to 2008 and a route that had a short life with Dublin Bus. Route 74 commenced in May 2007 and ran from Stocking Avenue to City Centre via Templeogue and Rathmines. Initially the City Centre terminus was Eden Quay but within a few months it moved to Macken Street down in Dublin's docks. In 2009 it moved again to Britain Quay. The route lasted until December 2011 when it was replaced by the 15 under the Network Direct changes.
This 74 was not the first route 74 to operate in Dublin. The previous one to this was introduced with the opening of The Square Shopping Centre in Tallaght. That route connected the centre with Lucan and was not very successful, lasting less than a year.
AV 317 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2003 and withdrawn around 2017 when it was sold to a private operator in Galway.
Finally Suffolk Street was once one of the more busier streets in Dublin for buses but when Luas Cross-City works arrived in the area in January 2015, buses were diverted away and now it is pedestrianised. 01/10/2008
In 1949, the DeGrazia's bought 10-acres of land in the Santa Catalina Foothills, north of Tucson. Soon after Ted and Marion began to build their home on the grounds, at this time there was no electricity, water, or services. All supplies that they needed had to be transported from Tucson. They cooked their food in an old wood-burning stove and took showers outside with water from a bucket. Happy Throwback Thursday!