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This week we are going back fifteen years to 2010, and to VG 24 on Ardlea Road with a service on route 27B to Eden Quay.
Route 27B started operating between the city centre and Castletimon (going via Artane and Kilmore) in 1971. In 2004 it was extended to Harristown, going via Santry.
VG 24 was new to Dublin Bus in 2008, and is still in service. In 2025 it lost its Dublin Bus livery for the Transport for Ireland livery.
18/12/2010
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. ;-)
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.
A frying pan, some water, different colored papers and a flash. The recipe used in the kitchen this time.
So, for those of you who don't know (which is probably everybody except for Ace and Kody atm), this was my original account! It was like what, four years ago? Give or take. I was twelve when this bad boy started up. So weird to see how crappy memes, mediocre customs, and really bad apps for All New 98 and MUW (if you don't know what those are, you missed out on some good stuff) led to where I am now. I can't thank everyone enough who supported me then and those who support me now. I've come a long way, and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for me.
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 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
Because certain rules can be broken...
Shot in Cape Town (South Africa) with the beautiful Milinda
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E255-01 splits 153.6 with an SD40-2 on the point. CSX 8312 being in front of the GEVO was kick ass, add old signals that are close to being replaced and you can't go wrong...
heading back to the dawn of my digital photography era.. 2001... yep, twenty years ago, and here's a young thirty-something me - still living in the 1980s by the look of that suit LOL ;-)
This week we are going back six years to 2017 and AX 523 in Parnell Square on route 7A. The bus is in a special livery for Dublin Pride. Although Dublin Bus had been a supporter of Dublin LGBTQ Pride for a number of years, this was the first year a bus received a special livery to mark the occasion. In 2018 three buses were done up, as were three other buses in 2019. Covid-19 saw nothing happening in 2020, and in 2021 Go-Ahead Ireland wrapped a bus up which is still around today.
Route 7A to Loughlinstown Park started in 2016 when the two branches of route 7 were given their own route numbers. Traditionally the 7 went to Loughlinstown Park, but it was decided instead to assign that number to the Brides Glen variation of the route.
AX 523 was new to Dublin Bus in 2006. It was withdrawn around 2019 and sold on to an operator in the UK.
22/06/2017
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
#throwback to Friday, 13 May 2016
Super Train liveried GM 071 powers through the former station at Kilsheelan, between Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel with the RPSI "071 40th Anniversary" Diesel Railtour from Connolly to Connolly via Waterford and Limerick Junction.
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Last working day of the week as I'm off to Leeds tomorrow for a couple of nights. So to celebrate here's a photo from August last year that I never got around to posting. This was the first time I'd ever met Eliza yet she somehow mostly managed to drag a smile out of me. Hopefully a few more smiles this weekend when we and a few other friends meet up again.
Here's a pic I took five years ago that I've never shared with anyone. I thought it would be perfect for a "Throwback Thursday" memory!