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This week we are going back twelve years to 2012, and to VG 16 with a service on route 142 to Rathmines, as the sun rises over Malahide.
Route 142 started as a peak-extra that operated between Portmarnock and Palmerston Park in 2007. It reached the city centre by going via Malahide and the Dublin Port Tunnel. In 2013 it was extended south via Milltown and Bird Avenue to terminate at the old route 11B terminus within UCD Belfield. This peak-hour service was operated by Harristown Garage, but in 2014 a shorter version of the route was introduced between the peaks, operated by Donnybrook Garage. This version ran from UCD Belfield to Portobello, terminating on Charlotte Way. The off-peak route was suspended in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and has yet to return. The peak 142 via Malahide still operates.
VG 16 was new to Dublin Bus in 2008, and it is still in service today. It lost its Dublin Bus livery in 2022 and gained Transport for Ireland livery instead.
14/11/2012
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1993 and to RH 136 at Dublin Airport.
This Leyland Olympian was new to Dublin Bus in 1992. The bus was one of a batch that was delivered without ad-frames as a new design was being implemented. The bus was withdrawn in 2006 and was sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
The bus is operating a service on the Airport Express service. CIE, and later Dublin Bus, ran an express service to Dublin Airport from the city centre for many decades. In its final form, as Airlink route 747, it last ran in early-2020. It was then suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic and then cancelled completely in 2021.
03/07/1993
It's fun to go back to older photos once in a while and play around with them, so here's a black and white panning shot of Corey Elkins for your day in between games. Game 5 of the Liiga semi-finals tomorrow at Nordis, will you be there?
TAMPERE, FINLAND 2015-11-28. Liiga: Tappara - HIFK at Hakametsän Jäähalli in Tampere, Finland. (Photo: Riku Laukkanen/R1ku Exposures)
This week it is a trip back twenty-six years to 1990. RH 41 is seen on Burgh Quay with a 48A to Ballinteer. The bus was new at the time and was delivered in Wedding Bus livery. The Wedding Buses were meant to be used on special private hires to move wedding guests between locations. Now in 2016 Dublin Bus are phasing out the Wedding Bus concept with the buses being repainted into the standard yellow/blue livery. The route to Ballinteer was abolished a few years ago with the 14 and 61 replacing parts of it. The 48A fell victim to the success of the Luas Green Line. 15/091990
4th of 5 photos taken on New York Central's (nee-CI&S) Egyptian Line at Sheff, Indiana in 1914 showing the completion of the watering facilities. In this photo, the view appears to be looking S/E from an area south of the tower about 1/2 mile or so, showing the newly installed standpipe on the east side of the main. Boldman family photograph, courtesy Phil Boldman.
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If you’re furry and you know it, then your chest will surely show it! If you’re furry and you know it, clap your hands! 👏
Beginning with his Masters Thesis paintings in the mid-1940’s and continuing through the mid-1950’s, artist Ted DeGrazia produced a small number of nonrepresentational abstract oils, watercolors, and screen prints. Although these pure abstracts account for less than one half of one percent of his known work, DeGrazia repeatedly explored the style and devoted serious attention to it for more than a decade. Happy Throwback Thursday!
Finally finished recreating my SHIPtember 2020 entry, Dusk Adder, in Studio and rendered it today. Heavily influenced by Red M's "Sturgeon" (flic.kr/p/2iKeTTC) and LEGOLIZE IT MAN's "muulla" (flic.kr/p/yhRUN8)
In my opinion, Intercity Swallow was probably the third best livery to be applied to any of BR's locos, preceeded by BR Green and BR Blue.
This week we are going back thirty-two years to 1992 and to KD 160 on Eden Quay, dressed for route 45.
This route started running between the city centre and Bray, going via Blackrock and Cabinteely, in 1927. It ceased to operate in 2012 under Network Direct changes. Over the years it had various terminus locations in Bray, with the final one being at Oldcourt. One terminus for many decades was Bray Esplanade, but this was often unhelpfully displayed on buses from Dublin as "Esplanade". Since 2004, route 145 has been the main bus route between Bray and Dublin.
KD 160 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the late-1990s.
The bus is in an all-over ad for "Bad Bobs". Bad Bobs restaurant and nightclub opened in Temple Bar in 1987 and is still trading today, although has changed owners over the years. The all-over ad was applied to KD 160 in late-1990 and was removed in late-1993.
Behind the bus is KC 60 on the 63 to Glenamuck.
18/07/1992
As it’s throwback Thursday I thought I’d post an old photo of me in a jump suit before going out to Delmonicas in Glasgow
This week we are going back forty-one years to 1983 and to to D 137 on Hawkins Street. The bus destination blinds are showing (in Irish) Rathmines and Rathgar, as well as "Via Rathmines". Along with the lack of route number, its not easy to figure out what route it was on. However, being on Hawkins Street can help deduce it was on either a 47A or 47B, and with the bus in the background on a 47B to Grange Road, we may assume it was probably on the 47A. This route started running between the city centre and Churchtown in 1932. At the time the photograph was taken, the Churchtown terminus was on Landscape Road. The route briefly disappeared around 1984, but reappeared in 1989, but this time it ran to Rockbrook. In 1999 the route, along with the 47 and 47B was completely removed from the network.
D 137 was new to CIE in 1967. It was withdrawn four months after this picture ws taken, in June 1983.
The New Metropole cinema behind the bus opened in 1972 but closed in 2016 (as the Screen Cinema). It was then demolished and a new building is currently being erected in its place.
08/02/1983
This isn’t a Corvette. It’s the Equus Throwback.
Okay, so it is a Corvette, sort of.
But this Corvette has been restyled, and given a little bit more grunt by Equus Automotive, creator of the Bass770.
The retro-inspired Throwback is a limited model, with only 25 planned by the Detroit-based company, which utilises the ‘Vette as a basis to create a “significantly upgraded” muscle car.
The Corvette’s supercharged V8 can be tuned to an output of 746kW and 1114Nm. Equus says it’s capable of a 2.5-second run to 97km/h (60mph), and has a top speed of 354km/h.
Equus Autmotive’s goal with the Throwback was to inspire a sense of nostalgia in muscle car fans while providing a car with modern-day usability.
“The Throwback model uses unique styling language in its outer skin to create a breathtaking vision of the ultimate Corvette. Equus takes the customer down memory lane to an era when Corvettes were synonymous with performance and class.
“The Throwback can be personalized for the design orientated drivers or for the fastest paced performance centric customer, always emphasizing the original love of an icon, desire for innovation and uncompromised quality.
“Just as companies like Brabus and Alpina focus on European brands, Equus Automotive is focused on providing American Sports car lovers the ultimate interpretation of todayʼs designs.
For our four-hundredth Throwback we are going back forty years to D 400 on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 6. This route started operating between the city centre and Blackrock in 1949, terminating at Castlebyrne Park from 1966. In 1975 it was extended up the Link Road to Abbey Park. The route ceased to operate in 1989. However a new route 6 between the city centre and Howth (going via Shielmartin Road) started in 2021 as part of Bus Connects.
D 400 was new to CIE in 1971. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus at then end of 1987 and sold for scrap.
The ad on the front of the bus is for CDL coal distributors. These were taken over by Bord na Mona in 1995.
18/02/1983
This week we are going back fourteen years to 2011 and RV 633 dressed for route 29A on Marlborough Street.
CIE started operating route 29A between the city centre and Grange Road Cross in 1958, taking the route over from the GNR(I). By 1971 it had reached Newgrove Cross, as seen on the bus here. In 2012 it was extended to Baldoyle. In 2021 the route became the H1 under Bus Connects.
RV 633 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was withdrawn in 2011 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
This location on Marlborough Street is now home to the Marlborough tram stop on the Luas Green Line.
23/01/2011
In 1949, the DeGrazias' 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!
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