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Seems a fitting time to share this image again, seeing as I put my deposit in yesterday for another fun weekend of cosplay shooting later this year (Covid permitting).
Here we see Jalal defend his stash of toilet paper...
This week we are going back fifteen years to 2007 and RV 466 on Amiens Street with a service on route 130 to Castle Avenue. This Volvo Olympian bus was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. Initially it was in CitySwift livery but was repainted in the early-2000s. It was withdrawn in 2009 and later sold on to another Irish operator.
Route 130 started in 1996, initially as a City Imp minibus route. The 130 was the merging of two routes, the 30 and the 44A. Route 30 ran from the city centre to Dollymount via Clontarf and started in 1938. Route 44A started in 1936 and ran from city centre to Mount Prospect Avenue via Haddon Road and Castle Avenue. The 130 started with mini-buses, before getting midi-buses around 2000. However within a couple of years double-decker buses started to take-over and have remained ever since.
02/12/2007
This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1998 and RH 136 on Marlborough Street. The bus is laying over between duties on route 20B. This route started around 1980, initially between Ardlea Road and Bulfin Road. By 1988 it was only operating between Ardlea Road and the city centre, and in 2011 it was absorbed into a new cross-city route 14 under Network Direct.
RH 136 was new to Dublin Bus in 1992 and was withdrawn in 2005 and moved to a UK operator the following year.
The bus was also recently repainted into the new Dublin Bus livery when the picture was taken. Around 2003 Dublin Bus started experimenting with a new livery, before finally settling on a new blue / yellow one. That blue / yellow livery is currently being phased out, but is currently the Dublin Bus livery with most longevity.
Finally the bus is displaying the Irish for city centre - "An Lár". This was a very common destination for decades, but in early-2000s was replaced by a new translation - "Lár na Cathrach".
28/06/1998
This week we are going back fourteen years to 2007 and AV 263 on route 45 in Bray. Route 45 first started connecting Dublin city centre with Bray, via Ballsbridge and Cabinteely, in 1927. The route had two main terminii in Bray - the Esplanade along the seafront and Oldcourt from around 1975. AV 263 is seen here heading to the Esplanade. Based on the length of the route, this had to be one of the least informative destinations on the front of a bus in Dublin. In the early 2000s Oldcourt became the main destination, with Esplanade being served much less frequently. In May 2012 the 45 was removed from the network, as its usage had dropped over the years following the much more direct, and frequent, route 145. Route 45A still lives on, operating between Dun Laoghaire and Kilmacanogue via Bray.
AV 263 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2002. It was withdrawn around 2016/2017 but stayed in Dublin and moved to Executive Express. It spent all its career in Donnybrook Depott, though was involved in the shuttles for the Tall Ships Race in Waterford in 2005.
Behind the bus is the stadium of Bray Wanderers Football Club, that also doubled for Croke Park in the 1996 film, Michael Collins.
25/07/2007
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1995 and KD 14 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 27B to Castletimon. This route started serving that part of Dublin in 1971. It started serving Beaumont Hospital in the late 1980s/early 1990s and around 2005 it was extended further north to the new bus garage at Harristown. Proposals to merge it with the routes 79/79A under Network Direct in the 2010s came to nothing, as did a subsequent plan to extend it to Heuston Station.
KD 14 was delivered new to CIE in Dublin in September 1981 and spent most of its career in Clontarf Garage. It spent some time in Donnybrook and Ringsend Garages over its life. The bus was withdrawn after 1996.
The remains of the Dolphin's Discs shop is beside the bus. This music shop had a number of outlets around the city, including two of them just around the corner on Talbot Street. The final shop closed in 2012.
This part of Marlborough Street is now home to the tram tracks of the Luas Green Line. 22/04/1995
***Decided to merge images from my old Flickr account with my current account. Photos and descriptions from 2007-2009.
Location: Barcelona, Spain
This week we are going back thirty-three years to 1990 and KD 362 parked on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 8, a bus route which dates back to 1949. Connecting Dublin city centre with Dalkey (going via Blackrock), this route was also the last tram route to operate in Dublin city. In 2001 the route was suspended, but following an appeal to the European courts, it returned in 2005. It ran for the last time in November 2016.
KD 362 was new to CIE in 1983. It was one of the last Bombardier's to be withdrawn, lasting until around 1999/2000.
The bus spent many years in a variety of all-over ads. Here it is in one for Johnson & Johnson, highlighting its baby skincare range. Although this bus spent all its life in Dublin, it did go on a six week holiday to Cork while in this all-over ad during 1990. It had only recently returned when this picture was taken. And shortly after this photo was taken, it temporarily transferred from its life-long home depot of Donnybrook, to the northside depot of Phibsboro. All of these movements were to increase the visibility of the ad.
19/05/1990
Used to wear the green headpiece before I swapped to the white one. The green one is cute but I'm short and the white one gives me much needed height!
The outfit is older too, but nothin' wrong with simplicity!
This week we are going back twenty-three years to the year 2000 and RH 132 at Dublin Airport. The bus is on a service on route 16A to Nutgrove Avenue. This route started in 1955 between Beaumont and Lower Rathfarnham. In 1985 it reached Santry and during 1999 reached the airport. The route ceased to operate in 2012 under Network Direct changes.
RH 132 was new to Dublin Bus in 1992. Originally delivered in two-tone green, it received CitySwift livery in 1997, which in some ways as the start of the decline of the CitySwift brand. Previously CitySwift routes had new buses done to a higher spec with individual seats for example. But here, an older bus was just repainted, and kept its standard bench seats. The bus regained standard fleet livery in the early-2000s as the CitySwift concept faded away. In 2005 it joined the Dublin Bus driving school, before being sold on to another Irish operator in 2006. It was destroyed by fire in 2011.
It is interesting to note that back in 2000 the city buses were still serving bus stops near the main entrance to the terminal building at Dublin Airport. Nowadays they serve a stop some distance away, on the opposite side of a multi-storey car park. It is also worth noting that one Bus Eireann route calls here too, the service to Belfast. Dublin Airport is a major hub for Bus Eireann routes now, except they no longer run a route to Belfast.
14/04/2000
Sort of a topical throwback this week as we revisit 1989. D 474 is seen on Marlborough Street at the junction with Abbey Street. It is on route 20B which operated to the City Centre from Ardlea Road in Beaumont. This route lasted until 2011, when it was merged with the 14 to become a cross-city route to Dundrum.
Where the bus is parked in the shot is to become the location of a Luas tram stop in late 2017. The Red Line uses Abbey Street to get from Docklands to Tallaght, and the Luas Cross City line from Broombridge to St. Stephen's Green uses Marlborough Street. This location is the junction between two lines, and on Saturday 17th June 2017 the first test tram ran on this route. The full cross city tram route is due to open December 2017. 22/06/1989
It is a trip back to 1988 this week for Throwback Thursday. D 543 is seen parked between duties on Fleet Street. The destination suggested it may have worked in on the 15B from Ballyroan. Over the last decade or so this part of Fleet Street has seen a lot of rebuilding with the old Irish Times building beside the bus demolished and replaced with a new structure. 1988 was also the year which marked a thousand years of Dublin. It is worth noting the bus has been adorned with the official logo to mark this, halfway down the bodyside before the company name. I am sure most families in the capital still have the milk bottle or the 50p piece that was also adorned with this. 06/10/1988
NS 3297 leads a good sized L75 into Leipsic on a bitter cold blustery winter day in 2011. There are now only 4 high hood SD40-2's left and on this day I had already shot 3 leading. Oh I wish I could go back.
Although route 25 only last appeared two weeks ago, I think it is worthy of inclusion again, only because there is so much happening in this shot. As a quick reminder, the route connects Dublin city centre with Dodsboro going via Lucan Village. In 1985, the city centre terminus was on Middle Abbey Street, as seen here.
And as can be seen here, it was a very busy street at that time. On the left can be glimpsed Arnotts department store. It holds the distinction of being Dublin's oldest and largest department store, having been founded in 1843. Beside it is the Adelphi cinema. It opened around 1938/39 and closed in November 1995. It had been taken over by Arnotts and is now the exit from the multi-storey car park. Across the road, beside the bus, is the Cameo Cinema. On this date it was showing "Porky's Revenge" and "Revenge of the Nerds". Beside the cinema is PAB Travel which still trades to this day.
Final item to note is the CIE bus stop, once ubiquitous around the city, but repainted and redesigned over the years since. One CIE stop managed to remain looking pretty much like this until 2018 before it was removed.
D 787 was delivered new in 1976 and withdrawn in 1994. 04/09/1985
This week we go back nine years to 2014 and Dublin Bus AV 186 in Lucan Village on route 25. This route started in 1940, replacing the previous tram line of the same route number which ran from the city centre. By 1991 the terminus had been extended slightly west to Dodsboro. The route ceased to operate under the C-Spine changes of Network Direct in November 2021. The road in the foreground is only served by route L52 which takes the road to the left to Blanchardstown, while the road in the background is unserved by buses.
AV 186 was new to Dublin Bus in 2001, and was the first member of the AV Class with the revised driver windscreen, which now curved in at the top instead of going straight up. It was withdrawn in 2015, and sold on to another Irish operator.
19/04/2014
This week we are throwing back twenty-six years to KD 153 on Eden Quay. The bus seems to be slightly confused as it is displaying route number 33B but is showing Ardlea Road (terminus for the 20B) as a destination. As the bus stop only shows 20B, it is probably safe to say it is on route 20B. This route started around 1980, initially between Ardlea Road and Bulfin Road. By 1988 it was only operating between Ardlea Road and the city centre, and in 2011 it was absorbed into a new cross-city route 14 under Network Direct.
KD 153 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn in 2000.
10/02/1996
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to 1984 and D 290 on Hawkins Street. The bus is operating a service on route 62 to Kilmacud, although this Kilmacud could also be called Stillorgan. Route 62 started in 1932 and originally ran from the city centre to Goatstown, via Ranelagh and Clonskeagh. In 1962 it was extended to Kilmacud. But in 1966 it was extended further along the Lower Kilmacud Road to a new terminus at Beaufield Park, behind Stillorgan Shopping Centre. The bus continued to terminate here (and show Kilmacud as a destination) until it was merged with route 11 in 1999. The 11 stopped serving the Kilmacud terminus in 2011 when it moved to Sandyford Business District instead.
D 290 was delivered new to CIE in 1969. It spent all its life in Dublin and was withdrawn at the end of 1987.
Beside the bus is the Screen cinema. It was demolished in 2019. Hawkins House behind it is due to be demolished in 2021.
30/04/1984
This week we are going back ten years to 2012 and EV 78 on Abbey Street. The bus is operating a service on route 32B to Portmarnock. This route started in 1967, operating between the city centre and Baldoyle. From 1975 its terminus in Baldoyle moved to Abbey Park. Around 1999 it was extended to Portmarnock, but still operated via Abbey Park. In November 2012 the route ceased to operate under the Network Direct changes. Route 32 itself ended in 2021 when it became the H2 under Bus Connects.
EV 78 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2008. Although members of the EV Class started to be withdrawn in 2021, EV 78 is still in service in 2022. It was also the first member of the EV Class to be repainted into the TFI green / yellow livery.
02/02/2012
Happy new year out there!
I moved to Iceland recently to finish my bachelor, so hopefully i can experiment with some landscape photos soon.
This week are going back nine short years to 2012 and Dublin Bus AX 478 on Fleet Street with a service on route 77X to UCD Belfield. The 77X is one of the more unusual / rare routes in Dublin, in that it currently runs once a day, in one direction, Monday to Friday. This Xpresso route started in the. mid-1990s, initially running between Westbrook Lawns in Citywest and the City Centre. Back then the route ran in both directions, in the morning and evening peak. In 2000 it was extended to UCD Belfield via the City Centre. In 2009 the return workings were dropped, resulting in the route only operating in the morning peak to UCD Belfield from Citywest.
AX 478 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2009. It is currently the oldest AX still in service with Dublin Bus, though it will probably be withdrawn within the next few months. It has spent all its life in Ringsend Garage.
10/09/2012
Well, not really....
WC GP40-2 3027 sits in the west end of Brantford yard after being set off by a westbound freight on June 23rd, 2006
Circa 2009 in Las Vegas. Makeup from the Glamour Boutique. Back when I still went by the name Toni Richards.
This week we are going back a decade to 2015, and to AV 423 and AV 424 parked on Abbey Street.
AV 423 (at the front) has arrived with a service on route 41B. This route started running between the city centre, Swords and Rolestown in 1948, and has basically not changed since then.
AV 424 (at the back) has arrived with a service on route 41A from Swords Manor. This route has a more complicated history. The first version of this route ran between the city centre and Walsh Road in Drumcondra, between 1929 and 1939. The second version of the route started in 1948, and was used for services between the city centre and Dublin Airport. The route ceased to operate in 1998, being a weekend only route for its final few years. The route number was revived around 2001, for services between the city centre and Swords Manor that went via Glen Ellan. In 2005, route 41C was extended from River Valley to Swords Manor via Glen Ellan, which meant route 41A became a morning peak working that only operated from Swords Manor. In 2018 the route ceased to operate completely.
AV 423 and AV 424 were new to Dublin Bus in 2005. Both were withdrawn in 2019 and sold on to operators in the United Kingdom.
03/07/2015
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1990 and KD 348 passing through College Green on route 10. This route started in 1940, operating between the Phoenix Park and Donnybrook. Around 1970 it was extended south to Belfield. This route has probably been used by a lot of people over the years, either heading to Dublin Zoo in the Phoenix Park on the northside, or to go study at University College Dublin in Belfield on the southside. However, in 2010 the route was removed from the network by Network Direct. Route 46A replaced it on the northside, and route 39A on the southside.
KD 348 was delivered new to CIE in 1983. It was withdrawn around 1999/2000. Over the years it wore many different all-over advertisements. Here it is advertising Lee Cooper jeans. It also advertised PMPA Insurance and Telecom Eireann CallCards.
05/08/1990
14 years ago, before safety vests were mandatory on the P&W, PR-2 was found working the south end of Valley Falls Yard with B40-8 #4003.
This is well before I had a quality camera, but what was quality were the guys that worked out of The Valley. Living just minutes from the yard, I was there often camera in hand or not. They were always extremely nice and as long as we didn't get in the way they didn't mind having us around. Larry was no exception. Seen here wearing his well worn Carhartt jacket and winter attire; he was the man. Old school railroader, always smiling, waving, and willing to shoot the shit. I later had the privilege of working with him a few time's when PR-2 or PR-3 would interchange with the Seaview Railroad (where I worked for 5 years). Shortly after the G&W takeover in 2016, he happily retired after 30+ years on the Providence and Worcester Railroad.
I'm sure I've included him in a photo post here somewhere before, but it's guys like him that made/make the "hobby" enjoyable. There are many, many more, but Larry and his "class" of co-workers (guys that worked there since the beginning) from this time in my life were a different breed and made me feel welcome when I was around. Thus giving young me the courage to keep up with photography and not put the camera down. I'm thankful that there are current employees of multiple different railroads who I can say have become close friends and have also helped me keep up with this hobby. Too many guys to name, but you all know who you are.
February 2010
Cumberland, RI.
This week we are going back to 1993 and KC 14 on Fleet Street with a service on route 78. This route started operating between the city centre and Ballyfermot in 1953. Its original terminus in Ballyfermot was Spiddal Park (now home to route 79). The route ceased in 1994 when the 78A became a City Swift route, but it was reinstated in 2003 with its western terminus at the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. Finally in November 2011 the route left the network when it and the 78A were merged into the new cross-city route 40 under Network Direct.
KC 14 was delivered new to CIE in 1983. It spent all of its career operating out of Conyngham Road Garage and was withdrawn after 1996.
It is hard to imagine now, but for many years this part of Fleet Street was home to many bus routes. The tarmac has been replaced by cobble stones and the building beside the bus is now the Thunder Road Cafe, which opened in 1995. 09/06/1993
“The cholla, cut about four inches long, is sanded and sealed with wax. The tops of some of the cholla I dye in color. Then I bed them in cement. The finished floor produces a feeling of walking in a strange magic place. You see it; you feel it in your feet–texture on your toes, so to speak, a magic rug.” Happy Throwback Thursday!
Boy do I wish I had more of these types of photos from Phil Boldman. This one comes from Kentland, Indiana, sometime in the 1940's. Wilmer Boldman took this photo of these 3 men as they stopped here. Pictured are left to right:
O. V. Sparks, NYC daylight operator at "KN" tower.
Thomas Boldman, NYC Track Inspector.
Man at right is someone that was riding with Thomas, maybe a dispatcher, superintendent or new official who needed to see the property. He is unidentified.
This is the best "old" photo I have ever seen of Kentland tower. Operator Sparks and Boldman both lived in town.
This photo is looking north on NYC's Egyptian line. The double-track seen here ran from Morocco to Sheff. Seen past the 3 men is KN tower, the PRR (nee-PCC&StL Ry) diamonds, the Seymour Street (route 24 crossing), the freight depot at right, the semaphore, beyond the signal at left was the small pumphouse shack, across from that at right in the distance was the NYC passenger depot and the building at left of the tracks in the distance looks like a house. Washington Street did in fact cross there at this time, but was long removed by the time I moved there. It also appears that there is a large man standing in the N/E quadrant of the diamonds at right who is looking this way. The coal tower was too far away to see. Looks as though it is noon time by the shadows and cold outside. Trees are empty so it could be early spring. By the 3 mens expressions, it was either very sunny or windy or both.
Kentland was the only location between Morocco and Sheff on the double track section that had interlocked crossovers. There was a trailing point crossover on the north side of the plant (just past the 24 crossing) and a facing point crossover on the south side of the plant (just in photo, at the 3 mens feet).
The "Egyptian" was going south by here at 12:15 am and north at 4:40 am. Looking at the schedule for the Egyptian, it's no wonder I haven't found any photos of it here.
New York Central "KN" tower
Kentland, Indiana
ca. 1940
Wilmer Boldman photo, Phil Boldman collection.
This evening was hard. I thought and talked about her a lot. If I don't, I feel like I'll forget her. This is why I had her name put on me permanently. So I'll never forget.
This week we are going back twenty-two years to 2000 and the final year of Bombardier bus use by Dublin Bus. KC 113 is seen at the terminus for route 51A in Lower Abbey Street. This route started operating between Dublin city centre and Beaumont in 1936. It stopped running in 1942, before resuming again in 1949. Around 1988 it was extended to Beaumont Hospital after it opened. The route ceased to operate in 2009. It was always one of the numbering oddities within the Dublin bus network as the other routes in the 51 series served Clondalkin in west Dublin. The end of the 51A also saw roads like Grace Park Road and Clonliffe Road lose their bus services.
KC 113 was delivered new to CIE in 1986. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 2000, along with the other remaining KD and KC buses. This marked the end of the use of Bombardier / GAC buses by Dublin Bus, apart from a farewell run in January 2001.
This stop on Abbey Street is now the terminus for route 33.
05/05/2000
This week we are going back thirty-one years to RH 78 in Maynooth, on route 67A. This route started operating between the city centre and Maynooth, going via Celbridge around 1988. It ceased to operate in 2010 when it was merged into the regular route 67, which saw all departures extended to/from Maynooth. In 2021 the 67 became route C4 under Bus Connects. The current terminus is further up the Straffan Road, closer to the railway station.
RH 78 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1991. It was withdrawn in 2005 and later sold on to an operator in the UK.
20/07/1991
This week we are going back twenty-nine years to 1992 and MW 2 on College Street. The bus is operating a service on route 83. This route started in 1936, running between Dublin city centre and Kimmage. By the late-1980s the route was in decline and a decision was taken to revitalise the route. In April 1992 the City Imp brand was launched on the 83. The regular buses were replaced by mini-buses in a bright yellow/red livery. The frequency of the route was increased to every 8 minutes in the peak and 12 minutes in the off-peak. Also between Kimmage and Rathmines "Hail n' Ride" was introduced, where passengers could board the bus anywhere along the road as long (at or away from bus stops) as long as it was safe for the bus to stop. The City Imp concept was rolled out to other routes around the city but the 83 was the only one to keep its original route number. Around 2000 these routes had become successful again, and the minibuses on the 83 were replaced by standard buses, with the route losing its City Imp identity. In 2003 the route was merged with the 134 and extended north to McKelvey Avenue in Finglas. A year later it was extended further to Harristown Garage. In 2021 it still operates from Harristown to Kimmage via the city centre.
MW 2 was one of ten MW class minibuses delivered to Dublin Bus in 1990, originally for Localink services. They lasted in service around a decade and most went on to find careers elsewhere.
This location on College Street is now the Trinity tram stop on the Luas Green Line. 06/05/1992