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Continuing on with "Throwback Thursday" to highlight some of my old LEGO photos that I've never posted on social media. This one is a real oldie from 2015. It was an image I took for a Classic Space project that never became a reality. I always liked the idea of these explorers roughing it on a harsh, unforgiving alien planet. Remember when I used to use yellow faces for my NCS figures?
These pics are from 2017. I felt I have to post something, because it has been almost three weeks since my last posting.
But hopefully I have time for some dressup fun next week. I can feel an urgent need to spent some time as Rikky again.
By the way, thanks to all my lovely friends and followers. Your comments help me to make it through these periods. 😘 😘 😘
This week we are going back 12 years to 2010, and Dublin Bus AW 4 arriving at journeys end on route 4 at Harristown. Harristown Garage opened in 2005 and is the newest, purpose built bus garage operated by Dublin Bus (since then they have taken upgraded part of the Broadstone site to become a new depot and Go-Ahead Ireland have opened a depot in Ballymount). It is located just south of Dublin Airport beside the Horizon Logistics Park. After it opened, the operation of a number of routes were transferred to the garage and some of them were extended to terminate there.
Two routes designated 4 have operated in Dublin. The first ran between Annamoe Road and Pembroke Road between 1965 and around 1984. The current route started in 2006, initially between Ballymun and St. Vincent's Hospital. In 2007 it was extended to terminate just outside the garage at Harristown, as well as at Blackrock. In 2010, shortly after this picture was taken, it was extended further south to Monkstown Avenue.
AW 4 was one of twenty dual-door AW Class buses to operate in Dublin. They were all delivered in 2000 from Wrights, but these articulated buses were not very successful and were all withdrawn by early-2011. AW 4 was sold on to Ensignbus in the UK.
15/09/2010
This week we are going back sixteen years to RV 326 on O'Connell Bridge with a service on route 46E.
This route was introduced following the opening of Stillorgan Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) in 1999. Initially it operated in peak-hours between the city centre and Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock. Certain services operated to Heuston Station, and certain services went via Stillorgan Village. In 2002 it was extended to Blackrock Station. Then in 2010 it was cut back to operate only in the morning-peak from Blackrock to Mountjoy Square via the Stillorgan QBC, with no return workings in the evening.
RV 326 was new to Dublin Bus in 1997, and was the second last Olympian delivered in the two-tone green livery. It was withdrawn in 2008 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
24/04/2008
Where have you been?” asked DeGrazia when he met New York sculptor Marion Sheret as she visited the first DeGrazia studio at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue. They married in the jungles of Mexico in 1947, lived at the studio, then bought the 10-acre foothills site near Tucson that became DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. Marion was instrumental in DeGrazia’s success, according to longtime DeGrazia friend Dick Frontain, “I don’t think he would have done it without her. In fact, I’m sure he wouldn’t. She was the drive he needed.” Happy Throwback Thursday!
This week we are going back seventeen years to 2009, and to RV 481 on D'Olier Street with a service on route 83 to Kimmage.
Route 83 started running between the city centre and Kimmage in 1936. In 1992 it became the first City Imp route, when red / yellow minibuses were introduced that ran at a high frequency. Around 2003 it was extended north to McKelvey Avenue in Finglas when it replaced route 134. In 2004 it was extended further north to Harristown. In 2024 the route was slightly rerouted to go via Crumlin Village, following the Bus Connects changes to the southern orbital routes. It then finally ceased to operate in 2025 when it was partially replaced by routes 23, 24 and 82 under the Bus Connects F-Spine changes.
RV 481 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was withdrawn in 2009, and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
08/01/2009
A shot of me from about ten years ago. Shot by my son on a 5D2 and EF 851.2L. Focal point was my right eye.
This was a little dress I purchased for work, back in 2013. I never posted it, but thought it would be a great "throwback" video. ;-)
A desk of papers in the East Broad Top machine shop is a true look into the past, with a calendar dating back to 1954. Two years before the EBT ceased revenue coal service.
As the spring season has started brightening the northern hemisphere, I could not help but remember the colours of autumn.
Olympus OM-D-EM10 + TTArtisan 35mm f1.4
Exeter, United Kingdom
First moc on mocpages where I started the bonkle sharing business(ignoring bionicle.com). I was such a knob back then, now I'm a bigger knob.
This week we are going back ten years to 2013 and to AV 321 on Nutley Lane. The bus is about to do the Saturday-only, 16:05 departure on route 17 from Nutley Lane (although the timetable said St. Vincent's Hospital) to Rialto. The regular route 17 started operating between Blackrock and Dolphin's Barn / Rialto around 1971. Select departures to and from St. Vincent's Hospital started operating on and off from 1985. They ceased in 2019 when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the route.
AV 321 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. This Volvo ALX400 was withdrawn in 2017 and sold on to another Irish operator.
23/02/2013
A frying pan, some water, different colored papers and a flash. The recipe used in the kitchen this time.