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KD 353 is seen on Eden Quay in 1989. The bus is on route 7A to Sallynoggin via Dun Laoghaire. This route was later extended to Mackintosh Park before being abolished in 2011. It then returned in 2016 under unusual circumstances. Up to then the 7 ran four times an hour with one of them going to Cherrywood, and the other three to Loughlinstown Park. In 2016 it was changed with two to Brides Glen and two to Loughlinstown Park. However the traditional route 7 to the latter destination became the 7A, and the extended route became the 7. All very confusing.
KD 353 entered service in 1983 and finished its public service around 1999/2000. It is still with us in 2018, being preserved at the National Transport Museum in Howth, but is not in this all-over ad for Coca Cola but the old two-tone green livery of Dublin Bus.
Eden Quay still has a bus lane at this location but going in the opposite direction, providing access to the Rosie Hackett Bridge which opened in 2014. 06/01/1989
Just travelling back a mere six years for this weeks update but even so there has been a lot of change in that time. RV 531 loads up on College Street with a 77 to Jobstown. A handy piece of A4 paper in the front windscreen shows it goes "via Airton Road". In August 2011 RV 531 was withdrawn from service. It was one of the last buses deivered with rollerblind destinations (RV 540 being the last). Route 77 was merged with the 27 in September 2011 becoming one long cross-city route from Clare Hall to Jobstown, and adopted the 27 route number. Finally this part of College Street is currently being converted into a tram line for Luas Cross City and will become a tram stop next year. 26/02/2010
With just twenty-days to Christmas in 1988 (and 2019) D 756 is getting in the festive spirit on Westmoreland Street. Launched just two days previously, the bus was used on a special shuttle service between the city centre and Dublin Zoo. The interior was also decorated with Christmas lights hanging from the roof both upstairs and downstairs. Passengers paid a special fare which also included a visit to Santa at the zoo. The shuttle service ran for just under three weeks before finishing on December 21st.
D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn in 1993. It had a colourful career, literally, as to prior to being repainted into the "Dublin Zoo Santa Bus" livery it was in an all-over ad for Philips Philishave. Early in 1989 it was repainted into an all-over ad looking for blood donors.
It is interesting to note the bus in the background emerging from Fleet Street onto Westmoreland Street. This part of Fleet Street used to be home to a number of routes and was two-way. Now in 2019 it is one of the more busier parts of Temple Bar and although traffic can still access the street, they can only do so one-way, from Westmoreland Street. No bus routes serve here anymore.
Finally D 756 is parked outside what was one of the landmarks of Dublin - Bewley's Cafe. Their first presence on the street was in 1896 but the company contracted in the early-2000s and this branch closed down. It then became a Starbucks and is currently a TGI Friday's. There has been a lot of change in the last thirty-one years. 05/12/1988
Another trip back thirty-five years this week, except to the northside of the River Liffey and to D 369 on O'Connell Street. The bus is operating a service on route 3 from Sandymount to Larkhill. Route 3 can trace its origins back to the original Dublin tram network, but the bus route started in 1940. The route was pretty consistent over the decades, although some were extended to UCD Belfield around 1990. The route was abolished in 2012 under Network Direct, when it was mostly replaced by new route 1. This new route had its northern terminus in Santry, with the 44 extended north to terminate in Larkhill.
D 369 was delivered new to Dublin in 1970 and was withdrawn in 1986.
This bus is parked outside the BHS (British Home Stores) shop on O"Connell Street. This opened here in the 1980s but closed in 1992. BHS reopened again in the Jervis Shopping Centre in 1996 but only lasted until 1998. The store on O'Connell Street is now home to Penneys.
27/11/1985
It is 1994 and KD 235 is seen on Lower Gardiner Street in Dublin 1. It is at the 42 terminus in the city center with a departure to Seamount in Malahide. The bus is in an all-over ad for Heineken. It used to be quite common in the 1990s for all-over ads on buses to be for alcohol companies, but in more recent times this has become much less common.
The 42 is the main bus route to Malahide, travelling along the Malahide Road. The bus here is showing Balgriffin as the via point but nowadays that has dropped down the scale of importance with the housing area of Seabury taking over. Also the 42 now has Portmarnock as destination. Coincidentally, the main route to Portmarnock is the 32 but it has Malahide as a destination. This situation with the 32 and 42 is brought about by the large amount of local traffic between Portmarnock and Malahide.
Finally, today in 2017, no buses stop along this part of Lower Gardiner Street even though over the years it has been a terminus for both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann. 29/10/1994
This week we are going back thirty-six years to 1988 and to KC 118 at Bus Aras. The bus is operating one of the express services to Dublin Airport.
When this photo was taken the service to Dublin Airport was already decades old. It started with CIE and over the years had double-deckers, single-deckers and coaches on it. In 1982 KC 116 to 119 were delivered new to CIE to operate the service. In February 1988 they received this all-over ad / livery for Aer Lingus. Then in 1990 the buses lost their centre doors to increase their capacity and allow more luggage space on board. However, in 1994 they moved from the Airport Express service to route 230 and regained their centre doors. 1994 was the year Dublin Bus received new AD Class buses and rebranded the service as Airlink. Airlink suspended operations in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and then announced in 2021 the cessation of operations.
KC 118 was finally withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the late-1990s.
Aer Lingus was flew its first flight in 1936. It was floated on the stock exchange by the Irish government in 2006 and was finally taken over by IAG in 2015.
21/02/1988
Something we have not had in Throwback Thursday before, a training bus. Not only that, but a bus that did not spend most of its passenger service career in Dublin. D 481 was delivered new to CIE in 1973 and went into service in Galway, in the west of Ireland. There it remained until 1987 when it came up to Dublin to join the training school in Phibsborough, getting a repaint too into this red and white livery. Time was spent in Conyngham Road and Donnybrook before the bus was finally withdrawn in 1992 and sold for scrap.
In 2020 Dublin Bus has approximately 2,500 drivers for a fleet of approximately 1000 buses. It has a small fleet of about 20 buses dedicated to its driving school where new drivers are trained on the buses and older drivers are periodically tested. The current fleet is made up of ALX 400s.
In the background it is worth noting the shop renovation taking place which was for a Burger King restaurant. The first branch opened in Grafton Street around 1981 but this was the first one to open on the main street of the capital. O'Connell Street 29/01/1988
This week we are going back to 1989 and to a curious bus on O'Connell Street. MB 13 is seen parked outside the Dublin Bus head office. The MB class was the first new bus type delivered to Dublin Bus after the company's inception in 1987. MB 1-5 were delivered in 1987 but were shorter than the subsequent MB 6-15. The latter were delivered in 1988 and 1989. The buses were used on a variety of services around the city,such as the Localink routes in Tallaght based around The Square Shopping Centre and the Nipper route in Dublin city centre. MB 13 was based in Donnybrook Garage, and all members of the fleet were withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994. The destination on the bus is Killakee, which is a place located in South Dublin beyond Rockbrook, and near the Hell Fire Club. However this destination is referring to Killakee Road which was the terminus of one of the Tallaght local routes. The number is set to T00 as the bus is out of service. 21/10/1989
Going back 29 years this week and to D 376 on O'Connell Street. It is on the 10 from the Phoenix Park to UCD Belfield. This was one of the more famous and popular routes in Dublin, and has featured here before, but was removed from the network in 2010. D 376 entered service in 1970, so was already 18 years old when this photograph was taken. However it survived through the 1990s as it joined the Tour fleet and was repainted into the navy blue/cream livery. It certainly was not looking the best when this photograph was taken in 1988. Finally this bus stop outside the Savoy cinema is not used by Dublin Bus anymore and one is more likely to see private tour buses here now. 08/06/1988
For the second week of our thrawl through the archives we go back to 1997. W 3 is seen at the Omni Park terminus of route 300. These wheelchair accessible buses started on the City Centre route 222 before transferring to the 300 which connected north-city communities in Dublin with the Omni Shopping Centre in Santry. These were the first class of low-floor buses in Dublin Bus. 11/01/97
24Z is one of the hottest trains on the railroad and usually rates two or three of Norfolk Southern's finest widecabs... On this day, however, an ex-Conrail spartan cab SD70 is leading the way through CP 379 in downtown Kendallville.
It is 2007 and AX 470 is stuck on Grafton Street while operating a service to Whitechurch on route 15C. There have been a number of routes to bear the designation 15C over the decades in Dublin. The longest lived version ran from 1980 to around 1993, and connected the City Centre with Willington. It was not a very frequent route and was replaced in time in Willington by the 54A and the 150. The next version of the 15C was the one seen here in the photo. Running from the City Centre to Whitechurch, it started in 1999, as a replacement to the 47 group of routes, and lasted until 30th September 2007 when it was replaced by the 15B. The final version of the 15C is an "unofficial official" route that has appeared in more recent times. The current route 15 has been a cross city route since 2011, running from Clongriffin to Ballycullen Road. To highlight routes running short to just the City Centre, 15C is often used on the displays.
AX 470 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006, and based in Ringsend Garage. It was withdrawn from there in 2019 and moved to Paul S. Winson in Loughborough (UK).
This part of Grafton Street became of the Luas Green Line in 2018, with trams using in both directions, along with some bus routes, but not the 15. During the building of the tramline, the 15 group of routes (along with other routes) were diverted along Camden Street instead of Kildare Street.
Finally, the Gardai in the picture are trying to figure out what to do with a tourist's rental car which had broken down at this awkward spot, causing the traffic jam AX 470 is leading. 05/09/2007
On January 25th, 1984, this was the scene on Conrails Danville secondary (nee-NYC Egyptian Line) at Johnsonville road crossing, located at MP IH 97.65, south of Sloan and near the Ill / Ind state line. What is missing from the photos is the snowplow that was struck by a Milwaukee Road train. In the last 3 photos you can see it at left of the hi-rail. Apparently, it got stuck on the crossing somehow and was abandoned. Later, a Milwaukee train came by, didn't see it and slammed into it. Phil said it took them a week to clean up after this snowfall and the snowplow was totaled. Photos by Phil Boldman.
Conrail Hi-Rail
Johnsonville Road crossing
January 25th, 1984
CR Danville secondary, MP 97.65
It's 1997 and RA 274 is seen parked on Marlborough Street. The bus is on route 32B. This operated between the City Centre and Baldoyle/Portmarnock going via Abbey Park. In 2012 the route was removed from the network through Network Direct and Abbey Park lost its bus service. Passengers had to use an extended 29A to Baldoyle instead.
The bus had been delivered in 1996 and is in CitySwift livery. The 32B however was not one of Clontarf's CitySwift routes. The bus was withdrawn around 2007 and went on to continue its career in the UK. It was still active until at least 2016.
This location on Marlborough Street is now a tram stop on Luas Cross City. 05/04/1997
It is a trip back twenty years to 1997 this week and RA 279 on Hawkins Street. It is about to depart for Rockbrook with a trip on the 47A. This was one of the older routes in Dublin, and ran in conjunction with the 47 and 47B, serving places like Rockbrook, Tibradden and Grange Road. The routes were removed from the network in September 1999.
The 47 returned in 2008 but instead served Belarmine and Sandyford. Rockbrook was served initially by the 161 from Nutgrove, though now from Dundrum, and the occasional 61 from the City Centre.
Although the bus is in City Swift livery it was not a City Swift route, with these buses usually found on the 46A.
This is bus stop is still in use on Hawkins Street, but not by the 47. The route does pass it on the way from Poolbeg Street to Townsend Street, as does the 61 from Eden Quay. The road on the left is now tram tracks. 12/10/1997
This week we are going back to 1985 to see D 253 on Abbey Street with the 34A. This route started in 1962, eight years after the 34, and connected the city centre with Finglas. Around a decade after this picture was taken the 34A and the 34 morphed into the City Imp route 134 and then in the 2000s that route merged with the 83. The number may be gone, but the legacy lives on, even though it has been altered over the years.
D 253 was delivered new to Dublin in 1969 and was withdrawn in October 1986.
Middle Abbey Street was a major bus terminus for decades. In the background can be seen another bus on the 37. At one point in the mid-1990s the 39 had departures every five minutes from here. But with the coming of the Luas in the early-2000s this part of Abbey Street lost all bus services.
28/11/1985
It is 1982 and C 100 is seen on Townsend Street with a 63. This route operated to Glenamuck (between Carrickmines and Kilternan) via Stillorgan and Foxrock. It was operated out of Donnybrook Garage and was a regular route for single-deck operation. In more recent times it was extended to Kilternan and double-deckers became more common on it. In 2010 the route was cut back from the city centre, and instead connected Dun Laoghaire with Kilternan,which it continues to do today.
The C Class was operated nationwide by CIE. Out of a total of 260 buses, about 80 worked in Dublin. They were replaced in the mid-1980s by the new KC Class built by Bombardier. C 100 was one of the final buses to be withdrawn. It entered service in Dundalk in 1965, before transferring to Donnybrook in 1971, where it remained for 13 years. 20/12/1982
Originally Taken: September 16, 2007
Location: Walt Disney World
Camera: Nikon D80
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Way back in 2007, I bought my first DSLR, my Nikon D80 that was only replaced this year because it had finally given up on me.
Back in 2007 I knew nothing about photography, I had bought this rather expensive camera and was using it as a point and shoot.
It actually took a few years for me to dive deeper into photography and take an interest in the technical side of things rather than just composition.
So when I bought my Nikon D80 I hadn't a clue and looking back on my photos from my trip to Walt Disney World in September of 2007 it's completely obvious just how clueless I was.
So in honour of the things I didn't know then, the things I know now, and the things I still haven't figured out; I'm posting one of my earliest (digital) attempts at something past a snapshot.
Wishing everyone a good day!
Click "L" for a larger view.
This week we are going back ten years to the last day of a relatively short-lived bus route. AV 177 is seen at the bus terminus within UCD Belfield with a service on route 70B from New Ongar Road.
The 70B started operating in December 2006 and was one of the few Xpresso routes not to use the X suffix (The 70X had started in 2001 from Dunboyne to UCD Belfield). The route ran from New Ongar Road through Ongar and Littlepace before joining the N3 for its run to the city. It started with one inbound trip in the morning and one outbound trip in the evening. The route lasted less than four years. It's official last day was 30th October 2010 when the Network Direct changes reached the Blanchardstown corridor on the 31st October. However, as this was a weekday-only bus route, and the 30th October was a Saturday, its actual last day was Friday 29th October. And AV 177 did the final inbound morning trip, as seen here.
AV 177 itself was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2000 and withdrawn in 2016. It was sold to the UK where it became a school bus in the Corby area.
The terminus at UCD Belfield has seen many bus routes over the years and used by thousands of people who worked and studied there. In 2012 the bus stops were relocated within the campus and this area was transformed into a lake. 29/10/2010
It is 1995 and KD 8 is reaching for the heights at Connolly Station. The bus is seen on the road approach to the station entrance. This was high above Amiens Street and the road approach was known colloquially as "The Ramp". For many years both sides were lined with buses laying over between duties. Both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann. In 2003 it was removed and the ground leveled to make way for the tram stop on the Luas Red Line.
KD 8 is one of those buses using The Ramp as a parking area. It is displaying route 42 which connects the City Centre with Malahide and Portmarnock.
KD 8 entered service between 1981 and 1982 and was based in Clontarf Garage. 08/08/1995
I had to remove the orignial image because I kept finding it all over the internet and ebay. I wasn't really happy with the last one. So I figured I would re-edit this one and add a watermark.
Phil Boldman is pictured here with a fresh derailment at MP 9.70 (Main Street, Highland, Indiana) on Penn Centrals Danville secondary on February 28th, 1973. Phil had just arrived at "another fucking derailment due to the horseshit merger..." as he said. Phil hired on Penn Central in 1969 and according to Phil, when all the PRR & NYC lines merged in Indiana, it caused a lot of problems with the men, seniority, rights, etc, etc. Phil was a die hard NYC man, because his entire family had worked there, but like any mega-merger, there will always be issues.
This derailment pictured shows what looks like the underframe of an autorack. It looks as though this view is looking S/W from somewhere near the Main Street crossing. The derailment has been long forgotten by Phil. There were so many in PC days that it was just another day at the RR. This line would start to fall apart south of Schneider, Indiana, Phil would load it up full of speed restrictions that never got fixed and him & the line that his family built through Kentland would both be retired in 1999.
When Phil retired in 99, his title under Conrail was "I&R Foreman" (Inspection & Repair) and his territory included the following:
MC-Hartsdale to Chicago Heights.
PRR-When still in service, Hartsdale east and west to ends of track.
NYC-Osborn, Indiana to Cairo, Illinois.
NYC-Hennepin, Illinois to Wheatfield, Indiana.
CCC&StL-Sheldon secondary (Sheff, Indiana to Kankakee, Illinois) & Fowler secondary (Sheff, Indiana to Templeton, Indiana).
I believe Phils co-worker took this upon arrival. Phil opened the door on purpose to hide the PC logo.................gawd. Of course, I kick myself for not photographing his truck in the 80's, it was ALWAYS sitting in his driveway and I was there every damn day.....GAWD.
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1994, and to RA 194 parked on Burgh Quay, dressed for route 7.
Route 7 started operating between Dublin city centre and Ballybrack in 1979. In 1988 it reached Loughlinstown Park. From 2004 certain departures were extended to Cherrywood. However, in 2016 the 7 was split in two. Route 7 continued to operate to Cherrywood (although the terminus is at Brides Glen Luas stop), while services to Loughlinstown Park became route 7A. It has remained that way to this day.
RA 194 was new to Dublin Bus in 1994. When originally delivered it was designated RH 194, but was later reclassified as an RA to differentiate it from the RH Class due to some differences between the two. RA 194 was withdrawn in 2006, and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
21/08/1994
It is 2008 and RV 429 is parked on Marlborough Street between duties on the 29A. Since November 2012 this route has run from the city centre to Baldoyle via Raheny and Donaghmede. Prior to that it terminated at Newgrove, or Newgrove Cross. Newrgove Cross was what was shown initially on the bus scrolls, and refers to a place near Donaghmede Roundabout, When the bus destinations shifted from scrolls to dot-matrix displays and then LED displays, Newgrove Cross got shortened to just Newgrove.
Unlike most other bus routes in Dublin, the 29A does not trace its existence back to the trams but instead the railways. It was operated by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) and was only absorbed into the rest of the city network when the railway ceased to exist in 1958 and was taken over by CIE. The most interesting part of the route is the diversion it takes around All Saint's Road in Raheny.
RV 429 was delivered new to Clontarf Garage in 1998. It was sold to Ensignbus in the UK in 2009. It was still in operation with Imperial Coaches in Slough in 2018.
This part of Marlborough Street was used for many years as a lay-over for buses but since December 2017 it has been the Marlborough tram stop on the Luas Green Line. 23/10/2008
It is another trip back to 1997 this week, but this time to Dun Laoghaire. ME 43 is seen at the 59 terminus beside the railway station on Crofton Road. The route connected Dun Laoghaire and Killiney via Dalkey, providing local connections. Although the bus is in City Imp colours the route was not part of the brand - these smaller buses were just more suited to the route. In the early 2000s the route was extended to Mackintosh Park but this was undone in November 2016 when the route was cut back to Killiney once more.
It should be noted that the bus has an interesting destination blind with both ends of the route shown, saving the driver the effort of having to change it. It does mean there is no Irish on it though. Dun Laoghaire, 30/11/1997
This week for Throwback Thursday we are only go back four years, but it was a significant day. Network Direct was in full swing and bus routes were changing all over the city. As part of the changes we had to say goodbye to some very well known routes. On this day in 2012 we said goodbye to the 1,2 and 3. The next day we said hello to a new 1.
The old 1 operated from Parnell Square to the power station at Pigeon House. The 2 operated from Parnell Square to Sandymount and UCD. The 3 operated from Larkhill to Sandymount and UCD. AX 483 is seen beside the sea at Sandymount. It had just operated the last 1 to the Pigeon House, which can be seen in the background. It then operated as 2 from there to Sandymount and then became a 3 to Larkhill. Today the 1 operates from Sandymount to Santry, the power station has shut down and no bus route serves it. 12/05/2012
It is 1995 and D 722 is seen on O'Connell Street with a 16 to Santry. This is one of the older bus routes in Dublin, that can trace its route back to old tram network. Being a cross-city route it has connected Santry/Beaumont on the northside with Terenure/Rathfarnham on the southside. Various extensions over the years have included Nutgrove and Omni Park. In more recent times it has been routed to run from Dublin Airport to Ballinteer.
D 722 was delivered new to Cork in 1975 and transferred to Dublin Bus in 1988. It was withdrawn in late 1999, ending its days in the city tour fleet.
In the background is the head office of Dublin Bus. 27/04/1995
It is 1982 and the 54A is on the northside. KD 78 is seen on Abbey Street, near the junction with O'Connell Street. The 54 and 54A were a cross-city route that ran from Killester to Cherryfield Road (54) and Templeville Drive (54A). Initially operated jointly by Ringsend and Clontarf Garages, it transferred to Summerhill in 1971. By 1980 the 54 was operating from Donnycarney to Kilnamanagh, while the 54A was only running to Lower Abbey Street, as seen here. In 1994 the route moved to Donnybrook Garage, and around that time it was also extended to The Square in Tallaght. The 54 was abolished. The 54A is still with us in 2020, running from Pearse Street to Kiltipper Way, via Tallaght.
KD 78 was delivered new to Summerhill in 1981. It spend all its working life in that garage, eventually going for scrap in 1997.
Sean Graham Bookmarkers have been around since the 1970s, and although no longer at this location, still do have a presence around Ireland. 14/02/1982
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 . . .
Iowa Interstate's BICB train marches up the hill westbound at Locust Street in Davenport, Iowa. Old school GP38 #714 leads the way. March, 4th 2018.
For this edition of Throwback Thursday I decided to go back to Spring Break 2016.
Here we have an Air France Airbus A340 [F-GLZS] departing from Princess Juliana Airport.
The idea for this shot actually came from my dad. We were sitting by the bay side tiki bar at our resort having drinks and escaping the pop up rain showers in the area. This spot ended up having a cool view of the departures from the airport. He mentioned that I should try to get one of the poles in the shot. Well it worked out pretty well!
This aircraft is now stored.
This week we are going back to the year 2000. WV 7 is at the 150 terminus on Hawkins Street with a service to Rossmore. The bus is a year old at this point, and is one out of what will be a fleet of fifty-two midi-buses. These are bigger than a minibus and smaller than a standard single-decker bus. At the time the 150 route was still part of the City Imp brand, but within a few short years this had been dropped.
At this time this end of Hawkins Street allowed traffic to access Burgh Quay. Now things are different. Traffic can only go one way on Hawkins Street, from the quays towards College Street. The spot where the bus stop is, is now on the route Luas Cross City tram line. Since the picture was taken the 150 has shifted terminii a few times, spending the longest on Fleet Street, but in recent times has returned to Hawkins Street, but of course facing the opposite way. The 150 today is operated by double-decker buses. Two WVs survive in service but mainly on the 44B. 10/09/2000