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This week we are sort of doing a sequel to Throwback Thursday (204) as we revisit D 756 a month after we last saw it. For December 1988 it was repainted as the Dublin Zoo Santa Bus but it finished its duties on that before the end of the month (and year). After returning very briefly to regular duties it was sent off again to receive a new all-over ad. This time for Pelican House, the Irish blood donation service. D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn four years after this photograph was taken, in 1993.
The bus is making its way down O'Connell Street and is passing the Savoy Cinema. On this day it was showing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a film that was initially released in the United States in the Summer of 1988. Unlike nowadays, major American releases could take a while to get to these shores. The Savoy is also showing "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, another Summer 1988 release.
Beside the cinema is Pizzaland, a chain of restaurants that first opened here in 1976, but closed in the 1990s. 02/01/1989
This Throwback Thursday pic from August 8th 2012 is a mirror pic out shopping somewhere. I was just getting used to a natural presentation then while growing my hair out. I wasn't full time yet and had been on hormones less than three months but I was trying out keeping it real with no wig, bra padding etc. and learning that I didn't need all that to be myself. It will never be perfect whatever I do, but I just have to be me, and it does keep getting better...
It is a trip back to 1999 and Celtic Tiger Ireland, where anything was possible. AD 54 is seen in Parnell Square on the Icon Shuttle. The Icon Centre was opened by Bailey's in Leopardstown Racecourse in April 1999. It was designed to be a tourist attraction in the same vein as the Guinness Storehouse and Jameson Distillery. However, it was far less successful than either of those two. When it closed in 2001 it was attracting 80,000 visitors a year against a target of 200,000. Dublin Bus were contracted to run an hourly shuttle between the city centre and Leopardstown, which had a journey time of 45 minutes.
AD 53 and AD 54 were the two buses dedicated to the route. Both buses were delivered to Dublin Bus in 1994 and operated out of Donnybrook Garage. Both buses lost the Icon wrap around November 2000 and returned to the core Dublin Bus livery.
Parnell Square, 04/10/1999
It's the year 2000 and the days of the Bombardier KDs are coming to an end. 365 KDs were built between 1980 and 1983, with most of them based in Dublin. The fleet was fully withdrawn from public service by December 2000, with a farewell run taking place in January 2001. The year 2000 was also the year Dublin Bus received their first delivery of low-floor double-decker buses. The AVs and AXs were delivered consistently over a number of years with the last of the 648 buses arriving in 2006. In 2012 the last step-entrance bus was withdrawn by Dublin Bus.
KD 145 is seen at Heuston Station with a 91 to the City Centre. the 90 was the main route connecting Connolly and Heuston stations but the 91 was used to supplement this service when needed. The area beside the bus underwent a great change when the Luas Red Line was built. This resulted in the tram connecting the two stations. The 90 went from an all-day service to morning peak only, and the 91 was eventually removed from the network. 03/05/2000
A slightly unusual Throwback Thursday this week as I have very little information on the bus. All i can say is that the bus is KD 273. It was based in Donnybrook Garage and it is in an all-over ad as Euro Bus, celebrating the people of the European Union.
It is seen on St. Stephen's Green, at what was once the location of a number of bus stops for a lot of routes in the city, but were subsequently relocated when the Luas Green Line opened, thirteen years ago this week. 27/06/1990
Yesterdays throwback sketch, Tapping into a graphic children’s book design style from back in my days as an illustrator. #childrensbookillustration #pattern #texture #sketching #watercolor #nature
Throwback to when Ruby was around 12 weeks old - she turns 1 next month and I don't know how I'll cope with my little girl growing up!
Built mid-August 2013, when I first discovered Gravity Falls this bust was merely a WIP and was later dismantled for pieces.
As I recall, back than there were no Mixel printed eyes which would have suited him very nicely.
Might try to rebuild this and finish it up one day, I think that shaping is quite good.
I found this pic now, among couple of others, and decided to upload it.
More info on this character (beware spoilers)
Some pretty girls I should pay more attention to
Here are 3 Steffi Love I washed today, I'm not the biggest fan of this girl, especially the new one but I do have a lot of them in my collection as they are easier to find than Barbies, as they are cheaper and in the 90's she used to do almost everything Barbie was doing ^^
I'm sure I'm probably wrong for their clothes, it's definitely not their originals clothes but it's almost impossible to ID a Steffi as they never changed her face and makeup, I just gave them some clothes which were for Steffi ^^
Throwback Hawaii photo from 2018. Unfiltered and grainy but at least I'm smiling. Always happy in Hawaii
This week we are going back to 1998 and MA 15 at Bray Station (although the destination says Bray Depot Station). The bus is operating a service on route 145. Back then, the 145 was a local service around Bray. Starting in the mid-1990s it served the Palermo estate on the northern side of the town, and Ballywaltrim and Kilmacanogue on the southern side. It was one of those Dublin Bus routes that operated in Wicklow and not Dublin. Also, being a local service, it operated under the Localink brand which had been introduced in the late 1980s by Dublin Bus. Like most brands created by Dublin Bus, it was later phased out. However there was a brief private operated service in the Ballinteer area called Locolink and the current national rural bus service operates as Local Link.
The 145 underwent a massive transformation in 2004 when it became a radial route from Kilmacanogoue to Dublin city centre via Bray and the Stillorgan QBC. For all intents and purposes it became a new route. Later it was revised slightly to run between Heuston Station and Ballywaltrim. It has become one of the busier routes in the city and for a period was a regular home to tri-axle double-deckers.
MA 15 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1993 and withdrawn around 2000/2001.
The railway station in Bray opened in 1854. It became the southern terminus for the DART in 1984.
20/01/1998
Here is a photo of a C&EI passenger train stopped at Momence, Illinois depot, circa 1920. Willard H. Slater is at left with the cigar. I have always wished more was in this shot, but it's a great old photo for sure!
Willard H. Slater and unidentified man at Momence depot, Momence, Illinois
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
C&EIHS collection, Danville Chapter
Photographer unknown
They're renovating the shop up the road. And in the process, have taken down the old sign. This was underneath. I think they should leave it like that!
Bit of a cross over this week for Throwback Thursday. As mentioned in February this is the thirtieth anniversary of Dublin Bus. During those three decades the company has had a number of liveries for its core fleet. A selection of those, and same that came before Dublin Bus when it was still CIE, can be seen here in this shot taken at the Dublin Port Rally, 28/09/2014.
From left to right, we have KD 353 and D 839 in two-tone green for Dublin Bus, D 464 in tan for CIE and D 44 in white/navy blue also for CIE. In the distance is an SG in the current blue/yellow livery for Dublin Bus.
For a bit more history on the Dublin Bus core liveries of the last thirty years, check out this blog post on the Graphic Mint website:
Union Pacific 5466 shoves hard the rear of a ZLAME as the train finishes the small grade exiting Spadra and gets back up to track speed behind the limited amount of trees in the area which will hopefully change colors out here soon.
A trip this week to Dublin Airport in 1994 and AD 35 on the Airlink. AD 35 was the first of 6 ADs specially delivered to Dublin Bus in April 1994 as part of the relaunch of the Airport coach service. It was that May that the Airlink brand was launched, along with this new yellow / green / grey livery. With the new Airlink brand the number of services to Heuston Station was also increased, though most still terminated at Bus Aras. By 2020 the main Airlink route (the 747) runs all services from Heuston Station to Dublin Airport via Bus Aras.
In total Dublin Bus received 70 members of the AD class between 1994 and 1995. Most were used on CitySwift routes across routes, with AD 35-40 and 69/70 dedicated to the Airlink routes. They lasted on those routes until around 2000 when they were started to be phased out first by RV double-deckers in 1999 and then AV double-deckers in 2000. The bus ended its days on school duties with Bus Eireann in the Wexford area.
This location in Dublin Airport was subsequently used by Aircoach and, from March 2020, Dublin Express.
02/07/1994
This week we are going back twenty-seven years to 1997 and RA 228 on Middle Abbey Street. The bus is dressed for route 66.
The DUTC started running this route between the city centre and Maynooth in 1934. Around 1988 some departures started terminating on Straffan Road in Maynooth, but around 1996 it became the full-time terminus for the 66. The route ceased to operate in November 2021 when it was replaced by route C3 under Bus Connects. The C3 still uses Straffan Road as a terminus.
RA 228 was new to Dublin Bus in 1995, and was delivered in Wedding Bus livery. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. The Wedding Bus concept lasted until 2017.
11/01/1997
It is December 1995 and RH 239 is making its way around St. Stephen's Green as it operates a 46A to Dun Laoghaire. At this time all the southbound traffic used this side of the park. When the Luas opened in the early 2000s and stopped traffic using the western side, the southbound traffic was diverted away from the park. The route in the picture was then used by northbound traffic. A contraflow bus lane was maintained from Hume Street and thus the 46A used this side of the park in both directions. In 2014 the route in the picture was reopened to buses (with a slightly different road layout) and the 46A goes this way once more without having to use Hume Street.
The bus in the picture was relatively new at the time, and initially was part of the RH Class. However it was later decided to reclassify them as RA Class as they were slightly different from the first 175 RH buses. Later on a further variation would result in the RV Class. In total there was 640 buses between all three, with the last one withdrawn in December 2012.
In 1995 the 46A served Stillorgan village but in the 2000s the route was taken out, in order to improve punctuality and journey times, and stayed on the Stillorgan By-Pass instead. 12/12/1995
This week we are going back a decade to 2015, and to GT 4 passing through UCD Belfield with a service on route 17 to Rialto.
Route 17 started running between Dolphin's Barn and Blackrock around 1971, with its western terminus becoming Rialto around 1982. Until 1990, the Blackrock terminus was on Newton Avenue. It then moved to the railway station. In January 2016, Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route. The route ceased in November 2023 when Bus Connects brought in new orbital routes on the southside. Route 17 was partially replaced by route S6.
GT 4 was new to Dublin Bus in 2012, and is still in service today.
The bus is seen passing through the bus gate within UCD Belfield. During the peak periods, the road through the campus was closed to traffic, with the bus gate introduced to ensure only buses used the road. The bus gate was used in both directions, and the bollard in the middle of the road lowered to let the buses pass through. It was relatively new at the time, but shortly after this picture was taken the bollard was replaced with barriers. It is no longer in use. Bus gates are not a common feature on the Dublin Bus network, but a few do exist around the city. There is even one in Lucan that is no longer in use.
14/08/2015
This week we are only going back a short hop to four years ago, and GT 22 on route 40 at Liffey Valley. The 40 reached Liffey Valley in November 2011, under Network Direct. Prior to that it had operated since 1925 between the city centre and Finglas. Route 78A was merged into it through Network Direct making it a cross-city route from Finglas to Liffey Valley. Then in November 2022, the route was split again, with the city centre to Liffey Valley part becoming route G2 under Bus Connects, and the 40 again becoming the city centre to Finglas route.
This bus stop has been the bus terminus at Liffey Valley since the shopping centre opened in 1998. However, work started in 2022 on a new bus interchange at the front of the shopping centre, that is also close to the bus stops on the N4 road (served by the C-Spine and other routes). This, combined with road works in the shopping centre that turned the roundabout in the background of the photo into a signalled junction, has seen the old bus terminus just become a single, regular bus stop. Although currently it is still serving as the bus terminus until the new one opens in early-2023.
GT 22 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2012. It was one of 160 such buses delivered between 2012 and 2013, and it is still in service with Dublin Bus. 26/01/2019
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1994 and to AD 25 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 3 to Whitehall.
Route 3 started running between Whitehall and Sandymount in 1940. In 1947 it was extended to Larkhill, and in 1972 it was extended from Sandymount Tower to St. John's Church. In 1990 certain departures were extended to UCD Belfield. The route ceased to operate in 2012 under Network Direct. It was replaced on the northside by routes 1 and 44 and on the southside by routes 1 and 47.
AD 25 was new to Dublin Bus in 1994. It was withdrawn in 2004 and joined the Bus Eireann school fleet in Cork. It was withdrawn in 2011. The bus was delivered in CitySwift livery as seen here, but had the branding removed before entering service. It was later repainted into Dublin Bus two-tone green livery, and later again into the blue and cream livery. It spent its final years in Bus Eireann livery.
It is worth noting that "White Hall" on the destination blind is incorrectly spelt as two words rather than one.
05/06/1994
It is 1998 and RH 137 is seen on Eden Quay. It is loading up prior to departing for Ardlea Road on the 20B. This route was once part of an extended 20 family, but it ended up being the longest surviving one. Under Network Direct the route became part of an extended cross-city route 14. This connects Beaumont with Dundrum. The 20B was mostly a northside route, serving Fairview, Donnycarney and Beaumont. However, certain peak workings crossed the Liffey and served St. Stephen's Green.
RH 137 was new in 1992 and had been delivered in the two-tone green livery. The bus stop beside is green, but the bus has been repainted into the new core livery. The last bus arrived in the green livery in 1997. After the bus ended its career it was sold to Dualways and became an open-top tour bus. 18/04/1998
This week we are going back eleven years to 2012, and to RV 584 at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. On this day, October 13th, an enthusiast trip was organised by Dublin Bus to mark the end of the Volvo Olympian buses (as well as the end of the high-floor buses). RV 584 and RV 586 visited a number of locations around the city, following certain bus routes. Both buses had been delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999 and within a week of the trip, both had been withdrawn. Both were sold on to other Irish operators. The actual last Olympian to run in passenger service was RV 560 on the 19th December 2012.
In the background is AV 405 on route 40. This had been the terminus of the 40 since 2011, when the route had been merged with the 78 and 78A. It was cut back again in 2022 when route G2 started under Bus Connects. In 2023 this stop was remodelled to become just an intermediate stop as a new bus interchange opened at the front of the shopping centre. AV 405 was withdrawn around the start of 2019, and sold on to another Irish operator. In just over a decade, everything in this scene has changed. Even the bus livery is on the way out.
13/10/2012
It's 1988 and KD 74 is seen in the north County Dublin town of Skerries. It is operating route 33 to Babriggan, the most northerly place on the Dublin Bus network, and where Dublin Bus remeets Bus Eireann. The 33 can trace its roots back to the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) and the bus services it operated in conjunction with its railway operations. When the company was absorbed into CIE (and the UTA in Northern Ireland) in 1958 the bus routes became part of the Dublin city network. The route still operates today, and is supplemented by the 33A which operates between Swords and Skerries/Balbriggan. This latter route is due to be operated by Go-Ahead while the 33 stays with Dublin Bus. In the past Skerries used to have short workings between its railway station and the main street, which was not a very long journey.
KD 74 entered service around 1981/82 and has gained a Dublin Millennium logo in the rear downstairs window, to mark a thousand years of Dublin city in 1988. It is in the Dublin Bus livery which was about a year old at this point, although the bus stop is still CIE. 21/02/1988
An NS Westbound 800 series rolls through Christiansburg, Va. The leader is a rare standard cab SD60. Its not something you see very often on the mainline.
It is 2013 and AV 333 is seen on the 13 to Harristown. And to continue with the 3 theme, AV 333 was delivered new to Dublin Bus on 2003. This bus spent most of its career operating out of Harristown Garage, although in 2013 it moved to Summerhill. It was withdrawn in 2017 after spending some time in Broadstone Garage. This is a bus that has gotten around a bit.
Route 13 connects Harristown with Grange Castle This was one of the cross-city routes corrected by Network Direct in the early-2010s. Traditionally the 13 was the route that connected the City Centre with Ballymun. Clondalkin was connected by the 51 family of routes. When the merger happened the 13 won out and became the number of thew new route. The 51 only lives on now in the 51D and 51X.
The bus is seen passing the Luas Red Line on James Street. It is seen at the point where the tram line turns off to descend Steeven's Lane to Heuston Station.In the background the Luas line passes through St. James Hospital, the site where the new National Children's Hospital is being built. As a result of that, the 13 may become a much busier route in future, if it survives Bus Connects. 27/02/2013
This week we are going back eleven years to 2013 and to AV 390 at Rockbrook terminus of route 61.
This was the second route 61 to operate in Dublin, starting in 2011 under Network Direct. Running from the city centre to Whitechurch via Ranelagh and Dundrum. It was a replacement for routes 15B, 16A, and 48A. In the peaks, certain departures were extended to and from Rockbrook, to the south of Whitechurch. Throughout the rest of the day, this area was served by route 161 which runs from Dundrum to Rockbrook. The actual terminus of the 61 (and 161) was beyond Rockbrook, where the bus went down Tibradden Road and terminated near the junction with Whitechurch Road, as seen in the picture here. Route 61 ceased to operate in November 2023 under Bus Connects changes. Route 161 still serves Rockbrook, although the bus stops in the photograph have been removed.
AV 390 was new to Dublin Bus in 2004. It was withdrawn in late-2018 and sold on to another Irish operator.
09/08/2013