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Matched HELM SD40-2's are seen passing under the B&O signal bridge at Great Cacapon, WV. These signals were ripped down within the following year.
This week we are going back six years to 2016 and AV 378 on Collins Avenue with a service on route 31D to DCU. Route 31D started in October 2016, along with the 42D and 70D. These three routes operated one return trip Monday-Friday during college term time. The 42D ran from Portmarnock via Malahide and the 70D from Dunboyne via Cabra. The 31D ran from Baldoyle and went via Raheny, Killester and Collins Avenue. In May 2022 it ceased to operate when Bus Connects introduced new route N4 along Collins Avenue, and passengers from Baldoyle could travel by H1 or H2 to meet the N4 in Killester.
AV 378 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2004. It was withdrawn in 2018 and sold on to another operator in the United Kingdom.
01/11/2016
This week we are throwing back twenty-six years to 1990. D 513 is seen parked on O'Connell Street outside what is now Penneys. This bus is adorned in ads with a large McDonald's ad on the side. Last year ads of this size made a return to Dublin Bus, but now cover some windows. The ad of 1990 did not do that. The front of the bus also has an ad for pork sausages. Sadly buses today do not have ads on the front. This bus entered service in 1973 and was withdrawn less than a year later in June 1991. 01/09/1990
This week we are only going back a short four-year hop to 2018 but to a sight that did not last very long. Go-Ahead Ireland 11562 is seen on Sheriff Street operating one of the many papal shuttles that operated from around the city to the World Meeting of Families in the Phoenix Park. For this event, most of the shuttle services were operated by Dublin Bus. Translink Metro (from Belfast) operated one from M3 Parkway to Fairyhouse and Go-Ahead Ireland operated this shuttle to Dublin docklands. This was the first service to be operated by Go-Ahead Ireland in Dublin, as route 175 did not start until September 2018, and the first routes from Dublin Bus did not transfer over until October 2018.
The buses used that day were in the new Transport for Ireland livery that was due to roll out across the country. However, when the 175 started in September, the buses had received a yellow front following feedback from disability groups. That version of the livery was replaced in 2021 by a new yellow and green livery.
11562 was delivered new to Go-Ahead Ireland in 2018. It was part of a batch bought new for the tender it had one, rather than part of the SG batch that transferred over from Dublin Bus.
Although the number of participants at the papal mass in the Phoenix Park were not as high as expected, a very large public transport operation successfully took place that day.
26/08/2018
pattern and buttons that wouldn't feel out of place in the 1970's :)
149.365.2014/1245 days in a row
This week's Throwback Thursday can also be seen as part of Provincial Past too. 1996 finds Dublin Bus P 34 at Bus Aras about to depart with a service to Kells for Bus Eireann. This DAF Plaxton Verde was delivered to Dublin Bus in 1993 to help convert route 39 to CitySwift status. In 1998 it was repainted into the new core Dublin Bus livery but spent its final few years with Dublin Bus in City Imp livery. In 2003 it was withdrawn by Dublin Bus and officially transferred to Bus Eireann, where it joined the school fleet. It spent its final years operating out of Galway and was withdrawn and scrapped around 2014.
Bus Eireann still operate to Kells today with route 109.
It was not uncommon up to the early 2000s for Dublin Bus to lend vehicles to Bus Eireann to help out at busy times or to trial different bus types. This picture also demonstrates what was common practice at Bus Aras for many decades - buses reversed into the stands, and passengers had to walk the length of the bus to board. In more recent times this has been reversed, with buses facing inwards at the stands.
15/03/1996
Provincial Past can be found here: flic.kr/s/aHsmKxn1JE
Who doesn't love rummaging through old photo boxes full of memories that were made long before our time? Seeing our parents or grandparents as young couples and lovers, full of hope and promises?
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Photo from the Costică Acsinte Archive (flic.kr/p/yCXnCJ)
This week we are only going back eight years to AV 364 on route 120 to Ashtown Station. The bus is seen crossing Reilly's Bridge over the Royal Canal. This bridge dates to the 1790s, and provided bit of a bottle-neck on the Ratoath Road in more recent times. Not only was this a narrow hump-bridge, but behind the bus was a level crossing over the Dublin to Sligo railway line. In 2013 construction started on a new, wider, bridge that went over the railway line and canal, just to the east of this location. When it opened in 2015, the level crossing and the 18th Century bridge closed to traffic, and the 120 used the new bridge.
Route 120 itself started in 1993 as a City Imp route to Ratoath Road, using mini-buses. In 2004 it was extended to Ashtown Station (the actual stop being a small distance from the station), and around this time double-decker buses started to replace the minibuses on the route. In 2011, certain morning and evening departures were extended to Ballsbridge.
AV 364 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2004. It was withdrawn in 2018, and sold on to an operator in the UK.
24/03/2014
Circa early 2009. Follower of Argentaros and another of the seven mysterious Quntaino, the beings hatched from the keystone eggs on Terra Nui.
A throwback much in the same vein as Snimurai a few weeks ago -- in some ways simpler, but I liked the use of the glow-in-the-dark armor, such as on the chest.
I can't believe this was taken 15 years ago. It's been my icon pic since I signed up to Flickr. I asked Paul to take it of me in my Auntie and Uncles pool as I had imagined this kind of image for ages. I tried to spread my dreads out so it would look like I was floating which of course I was!
Reckon I look pretty damn happy. I think I can be that damn happy right now too. Always good to find some self inspiration. Have a happy day everyone xx
This week we go back eleven years to RV 534 on O'Connell Bridge with a service on route 15A to Limekiln Farm. This bus was one of nearly 200 Volvo Olympians delivered to Dublin Bus in 1999, and also the last batch of high-floor double-decker buses to be delivered. This bus was withdrawn in 2012 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. In the background is RV 555 on the 16 to Ballinteer, another bus that had a career from 1999 to 2012.
Route 15A started running between the City Centre and Whitehall Road in 1949. In 1978 it reached Greenhills, and Limekiln Farm around 1982. Two days after this photograph was taken, the city centre terminus moved from Eden Quay to Benson Street in Grand Canal Dock, and the southern terminus moved to Limekiln Avenue. Except it didn't really. For years the 19A (which became the 9) and teh 15A terminated at the same spot, but the former called it Limekiln Avenue and the latter Limekiln Farm. Under Network Direct changes in 2011, the 15A destinations were made consistent with route 9 by having both display Limekiln Avenue.
With the move to Benson Street the 15A and 15B no longer crossed O'Connell Bridge to cross the River Liffey.
16/12/2011
2012 finds AV 374 arriving into the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre with a service on route 220 to Lady's Well Road. This route started running between Lady's Well Road / Ladyswell Road, in Mulhuddart, and Finglas around 1989. In 1990 it was extended east to Ballymun. Although route 17A also connected Blanchardstown, Finglas and Ballymun, it went a more direct way than the 220 which also served Finglas South and Poppintree. In 2019 Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route, and it was extended to DCU.
AV 374 was new to Dublin Bus in 2004. This ALX400 was withdrawn in 2017 and sold on to another Irish operator in 2018.
02/11/2012
An early awkward attempt at sultry posing... 1997 pre-digital 35mm, back when you had to wait to get photos back from the lab, LOL.
A throwback to when NECR 610 hit a small ice-clogged crossing in Windham, CT and 3039 got thrown off of the tracks. Photo taken on February 23, 2015.
Random unrepeatable moment I bumped into on my HDD: nostalgia trolley waiting for departure at the old Arany János utca end station, which was used till February, 2019.
The neighbouring square has been completely redesigned with more green areas, spanning over the former street visible on the image.
This week we are throwing back to 2007 and AX 627 on route 128.
This route was relatively new at the time, starting a month earlier, on the 11th November. The 128 operated from Palmertson Park in Dartry / Rathmines to Clongriffin. The route had a relatively short life as it ceased on the 17th December 2011. It was replaced on the northside by an extended route 15, and on the southside by route 140. The bus is displaying the incorrect destination of "Baldoyle Station", instead of Cloingriffin. Between 1844 and 1848 there was a Baldoyle Station, but the 128 actually terminated at Clongriffin Station. However this didn't open until 2010, and Baldoyle Station had been the original proposed name for this station. The correct destination for the route, and the one used for the vast majority of the time was "Clongriffin".
AX 627 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006. It is one of the few AX Class buses still in service in late 2021. Eden Quay, 18/12/2007
Another golden oldie from the old photo album. When I first came across this shot I could not recall ever trying red hair...alas it is just the evening sun playing tricks with the old 35mm camera.
Gotta love this old Brady Bunch 1970's era kitchen, I could not get that remodeled fast enough after purchasing this place the year before.
This week we are going back thirty-two years to 1990 and D 394 inside Inchicore Works. This bus was delivered new to CIE in 1970 but by 1987 it had become a staff bus for Irish Rail within Inchicore. It was replaced in 1990 by another Atlantean bus, D458, and was scrapped by Louth Commercials around 1992. It was one of the last buses to retain the CIE tan livery.
Pritt Stick is just slightly older the bus, having first gone on sale in 1969, whereas Granby Everyday Pork Sausages have been around since 1933.
Inchicore Works has been around since 1846, built by the Great Southern & Western Railway, and now operated by Iarnrod Eireann.
01/09/1990
This week we go back thirty-two years to 1991 and Dublin Bus RH 56 parked at Bus Aras on Store Street, between duties on route 42. This route started in 1925, running between the city centre and Coolock. In 1953 it was extended north along the Malahide Road to Kinsealy and Malahide. In 2005 it was extended from Malahide to Portmarnock, where it still runs to today.
RH 56 was new to Dublin Bus in 1990. This Leyland Olympian was withdrawn in 2002 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. It was finally scrapped in 2014.
Bus Aras is the main bus station in Dublin for regional and long distance services operated by Bus Eireann. It was designed by Michael Scott and opened in 1953.
27/04/1991
This week we are going back to 1989. KD 346 is seen heading along Dame Street with a 19 to Glasnevin from Rialto. The bus is in an all-over ad for Manhattan Peanuts and Popcorn, a company that is still running today and producing these products.
The same cannot be said of the bus nor the route. The bus survived for nearly another decade before ending its days in Phibsborough Garage. The route ended (controversially) in August 2011 under Network Direct. It was replaced in part on the northside by the 83/A and on the southside by the 122 and 68A. 27/07/1989
At Momence, Illinois, a northbound C&EI train with 2-8-2 #1926 comes through "MJ" interlocking (if it was still interlocked at this time) with C&EI at Momence with 2-8-0 #941 switching in the siding. Track towards the far left was the CA&S and the switch to the right is towards the south elevator. Photograph was taken near the south bank of the Kankakee River, looking southeasterly. Photographer is unknown. Marked "C&EI 1940, Momence"
C&EI 2-8-2 Mikado #1926 was built by ALCO in August of 1918. Specs - class N-2, 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 26x30" cylinders, engine wt of 292,000 lb, tractive effort of 54,779 lb. Retired sometime between August 1949 to August 1950.
C&EI 2-8-0 #941 was built by By Burnham Williams & Co. in June of 1906 as C&EI #375. 1X28 cylinders, 55" drivers, H-6b class.
Northbound C&EI train at Momence, Ill
1940
Photographer is unknown
Collection of the C&EIHS, Danville Jct. Chapter, NRHS Negative
This week’s Flickr #TBT is all about things that radically changed our lives. We want to see old pictures of items or ideas that were a totally new discovery to you, something #Revolutionary! Was it a certain historic moment, a new fashion style, a color tv, new cellphone, camera or your first computer that amazed you?
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#1 in my throwback series circa 2005 my first girly Christmas when I received the first feminine gifts I desired since I was a young "girl" ( in my mind) a wonderful memory I look back on with fondness 💓💓
Ever since the introduction of money, people shopped! This #TBT, we want to see the history of commerce.
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This week's Flickr #TBT theme is #Fashion.
Fashion has changed dramatically over the last few decades. And every so often, the coolest outfit of the time, looks the most ridiculous in retrospect. What was your greates fashion faux pas? We'd love to see it!
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Original photo by John Atherton - flic.kr/p/3YFYca.