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It is 2012 and the sun is setting on RV 568 at UCD Belfield. The bus is operating route 17 from Rialto to the DART station at Blackrock. This was, and still is, a popular route with students of the college.It is one of the orbital routes in Dublin and connects places like Crumlin, Rathfarnham and Dundrum as it crosses the southern part of the city. However it was one the routes that the NTA put up for tender, and by the end of 2018 it will probably be operated by Go-Ahead. If not in 2018, it definitely will be in 2019 as that company takes over the orbital routes.
The sun literally did set on RV 568 in 2012 as Dublin Bus withdrew the last of the Olympians. A Donnybrook bus when the picture was taken, it spent its final weeks in Summerhill before ending its days in service in October.
This bus stop in UCD Belfield is also now gone, and is the location of a lake with some ducks and swans. 18/01/ 2012
For Throwback Thursday this week we are going back to 1988 and a bus route that is no longer with us. KC 111 is seen loading up on Abbey Street with a 51A to Beaumont Hospital. This route survived just over twenty years before being abolished on the 24th April 2009. The route was one of those oddities within Dublin as the rest of the 51 family served Clondalkin, but the 51A came no closer to it than O'Connell Street and Abbey Street. It ran to Beuamont Hospital via Ballybough, Griffith Avenue and Grace Park Road.
The bus has also two pieces of extra branding. One is for the DART as it was also used on DART Feeder services, though the 51A was not one of those routes. The second is the Dublin Millenium logo towards the rear which was to mark 1000 years of Dublin City in 1988.
Abbey Street has also undergone some change since then too with the lane the bus stopped at now the only road lane and the two in the forefront now used by the trams on the Luas Red Line tram.14/04/1988
A few from the archives...
Just look at that pot belly hanging out....we sure fixed that, didn't we? 😉
KD 361 is seen enjoying the sun on Eden Quay as it rests between duties on route 7 in 1990.
The bus is in an all-over ad for B&I Line, and the ferry services they offer between Dublin/Holyhead and Rosslare/Pembroke. B&I Line started life as the British and Irish Steam Packet Company in 1836. In 1965 it was nationalised by the Irish government, but was privatised again in 1992 when it was taken over by the Irish Continental Group, who also own Irish Ferries. This latter brand is the one that survives to this day, with the B&I name phased out by 1995.
KD 361 was delivered new to Dublin in July 1983 and was withdrawn in 1999. During its time in this all-over ad it visited Cork.
Route 7 connected Eden Quay with Loughlinstown Park, via Dun Laoghaire in 1990.
The skyline in the background is almost unrecognisable now in 2020, with multi-storey developments in the Tara Street area having taken place in the intervening thirty years. 21/05/1990
..to a couple months ago. Forgot to post this neat consist that was on the point of a LINGAL manifest, caught in Burlington, Ia.
Was looking through photos on my phone & realised I never posted three of Warhol when I took her up to Hahndorf (a town in the hills I like to visit) last year.
Trying to be cheeky! Early attempt at the cross legged from behind shot. I am not sure I am any better at capturing that shot now than I was 15 years ago! Older but not necessarily wiser...
Flashback to 2010: The year of the Arab spring, the eruption of Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull, and the gulf of Mexico is engulfed in a massive oil spill. During all of this, a 16 year old kid was drawing pictures of cars and making vroom noises during math class and discovering the joys of driving and bricklink. Here we have my first recreation of a real car and one of the first ones I was and still am proud of. Sadly, this 356 Speedster has been cannibalized, but maybe one day I'll revisit it. More pictures can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/bing-bong_brothers/sets/72157625516...
This week we are going back nineteen years to 2006, and to RA 186 on O'Connell Street displaying route 14 to Ballinteer.
Route 14 started running (as a bus route) between the city centre and Dartry in 1948. From 1953 its northern terminus was moved to Annamoe Road, before reaching the Phoenix Park in 1955. In the same year it reached Churchtown on the southside. Around 1988 it was cut back on the northside to the city centre, and in 1995 it reached Ballinteer. Around 2005 it was extended to Dundrum. In 2011 it was merged with route 20B under Network Direct, and it became a cross-city route from Ardlea Road (Beaumont) to Dundrum. The city centre routing took it along Eden Quay instead of O'Connell Street.
RA 186 was new to Dublin Bus in 1994. It was withdrawn in late-2006, and was sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
04/12/2006
A short trip back this week to 2014, where AX 647 is offering to #ShareACoke. Buses in Dublin used to have a quite a tradition of being wrapped for ad campaigns for Coca Cola but that died off in the late 1990s. 2014 was when the tradition was revived with this campaign. Coca Cola were branding bottles and cans of their product with people's names instead of their more familiar brand name. AX 647 in Donnybrook and AX 601 in Phibsboro received the all-over ads. In 2015 three buses received a more traditional red Coca Cola wrap,but sadly there has been nothing more since then. In 2018 AX 647 received a wrap for Dublin Pride.
Route 61 to Whitechurch commenced in 2011, replacing the 48A and parts of the 15B. Construction of the Rosie Hackett Bridge commenced in 2011 and was completed in 2014. It was built to facilitate the Luas Cross City tramline and trams started crossing over it in 2017.
AX 647, Rosie Hackett Bridge, 19/07/14
A trip back 23 years to route 230. RA 249 is seen at the 230 terminus in Dublin Airport. Behind it is .the road ramp down from the departures area of what is now Terminal 1, but back then was the only terminal in the airport. This terminus was the furthest from the main door of the arrivals area. The direct express bus to the city centre was the closest, followed by the routes such as the 16 or 41. Nowadays those last two routes go some distance away from the terminal building, on the other side of the multi-storey carpark. Where the 230 is in the photo is approximately the area where Aircoach goes from, a private operator that started around 1999.
Route 230 connected the airport with Portmarnock going via Swords and Malahide. It started in 1991 but in 2008 it was merged with the 102 and extended to Sutton. In 2018 this 102 was taken over by Go-Ahead Ireland.
RA 249 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1995. It remained with the company until around 2016, but spent those last 10 years or so as an open-top bus in the tour fleet.
Dublin Airport 14/12/1996
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I was going though some documents on and old laptop and found a few of these pics among them which I don't ever remember having but I remember this night as we had a small get together drinking champagne. Must have been a birthday or something on the night as it probably 12 years ago or there abouts.
Angie had taken me to Vegas for my birthday and we made a day excursion to the Grand Canyon's Western Rim
This week we are going back twelve years to 2012 and to AX 484 on route 77X, passing through College Green.
Route 77X started in the mid-1990s as a CitySpeed route, running between Westbrook Lawns in Citywest, and the city centre (inbound in the morning and outbound in the evenings). From around 2001 some departures operated from Tallaght, others from Citywest, and the route was extended beyond the city centre to UCD Belfield. CitySpeed also became Xpresso around that time. In 2009 the route was reduced to one departure, operating in one direction only (from Citywest to UCD Belfield). The route remains the same today.
AX 484 was new to Dublin Bus in 2006. It was withdrawn in 2019 and sold on to another Irish operator.
05/09/2012
This week we are going back twenty-five years to the year 2000, and to RV 567 parked on Hawkins Street while dressed for route 46A to Dun Laoghaire.
Route 46A started running between the city centre and Dun Laoghaire in 1936, having first reached Cabinteely in 1926 and Goatstown in 1933. In 2010 its city centre terminus was relocated to the Phoenix Park in 2010 when under Network Direct it replaced route 10 on the northside. The route ceased to operate in January 2025 when it was partially replaced by route E2 under Bus Connects.
RV 567 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was withdrawn in October 2012 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
06/08/2000
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to Christmas Day 1985, and to KD 82 parked at Skerries Station.
The bus is dressed for route 33. CIE took over operation of this route from the GNR(I) in 1958, and it is still operated by Dublin Bus to this day. The route connects the city centre with Skerries, going via Swords, Lusk and Rush. Certain departures are extended to / from Balbriggan, and it is the most northerly route in the Dublin city network. Buses are also still left overnight at the shed in Skerries.
KD 82 was new to Dublin Bus in June 1984. It was still in service with Dublin Bus in June 1996, but had been withdrawn by October 1997.
25/12/1985
I was sorting some old photos and found some that I had taken in the production area where I was employed as a graphic designer. Without all these machines and pieces of various equipment it would not matter that we upfront spent time to design a beautiful piece of art or that our sales staff worked hard to secure the account because without production and all the pieces of machinery we could not produce the final (book, magazine, brochure, poster, etc) that shipped to the public which enabled us to stay open for business. Yeah for machines . . .