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This week we are going back ten years and to the final year of another bus route in Dublin. Dublin Bus VG 35 is seen at the terminus of the 20B on Ardlea Road. Except it is not. In reality it is Maryfield Drive (just off Ardlea Road) in Beaumont. The 20B has a relatively short history, tracing its roots back to 1979. It was a derivative of the 20, which started running on 1939. However, during the 1980s the 20B came to replace the 20 as the main route to the Beaumont area via the Malahide Road. Initially the 20B had Bulfin Road as its southern terminus but it was cut back to the city centre after a decade. Some peak services continued to serve St Stephen's Green. In August 2011 the 20B was merged with the 14 and became the new cross city route 14 to Dundrum.
VG 35 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2009. It was one of fifty Wright Gemini double-deckers delivered to the company between 2008 and 2009. They marked the beginning of the Wrights dominance on the fleet as they were followed by 160 GTs and over 600 SGs. 2021 will be the first time in a long time that new double-deckers will enter service with Dublin that are not built by Wrights in Northern Ireland. VG 34 - 50 were based in Summerhill Garage. VG 36 - 48 were used on Airlink services and painted in Airlink livery, while the remaining four buses could appear on regular services as well as on the Airlink. However, around 2015 all four were repainted out of the yellow / blue standard livery and into Airlink livery for use on the 747, and later the 757. They can still appear sometimes on routes like the 16. 18/12/2010
Meet the delightful Miss Stern. You will obey her commands, or you won't sit down for at least a week! Obey her commands and you definitely won't sit down for a week. Either way you lose!
It is 1992 and KD 109 is "Proud Bean Irish". The bus is seen parked on Cathal Brugha Street , between operating services on the 51A. This route was one of a number of oddities within the Dublin Bus network. Every other route in the 51 series served the area around Clondalkin in one way or another. The 51A connected the City Centre with Beaumont Hospital via Ballybough, Drumcondra and Grace Park Road. It was one of the few routes operated by Clontarf Garage to travel down O'Connell Street on its outbound workings. In its latter years it terminated on Abbey Street. Also towards the end the route was operated by Harristown and Clontarf garages. It was removed from the network in April 2009. This meant that Clonliffe Road, parts of Griffith Avenue, and Grace Park Road lost their bus services. However towards the end the 51A operated on an infrequent basis, mainly running in the peaks. The 27B continues to serve Beaumont Hospital to/from the City Centre.
KD 109 was delivered new to Dublin around 1981/1982 and spent all of its working life in Clontarf Garage. 15/08/1992
It is 1982 and there are no Luas trams in sight. Instead D 59 is seen on Parnell Street with a 40A to Cappagh Hospital. D 59 was delivered new to Ringsend in 1967. In 1971 it transferred to Phibsborough were it remained until it was withdrawn in December 1982. The bus was finally sold for scrap in 1984. D 1 to D 217 were delivered as single door buses, while the remainder of these type of Atlanteans were delivered as dual-door buses.
The 40A was part of the 40 family routes that served Finglas and the areas around it. The route ceased to run in November 2011 when it was merged with the 40 as part of the Network Direct review of the bus network.
With the 40 becoming a cross-city route, the 40B and 40D are the only routes (along with the 120) to terminate on Parnell Street, but on the opposite side of the road to where D 59 is in the photo. The location in the photo is now a tram stop on the Luas Cross City. Parnell Street, 30/08/1982
This week we go back thirty-five years to 1988 and D 428 on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 47B. This route started running between the city centre and Grange Road, via Ballyboden, in 1949. It lasted fifty years and ceased to operate in 1999, when its southern end was replaced by route 16.
D 428 was new to CIE in 1972 and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1990.
There is a slight contrast in the ads on the buses in the photo. D 428 is selling the virtues of a real coal fire on its front, while the side of the bus in the background is advertising an anti-smoking campaign.
08/06/1988
I tried to upload this from my phone 3 times but it would ever take! This is our family in September 1981
Photo of a photo displayed in Angie's sister's spare bedroom that we use when visiting!!!
This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2000 and to KD 329 on Eden Quay. This was the last year of Bombardier bus operations in Dublin. The first KD double-decker entered service in May 1981 (it was KD 2 on route 8). CIE went on to receive 366 double-deckers in total between 1981 and 1983, the vast majority built in Shannon. Originally there were only meant to be 365 KDs but KD 366 was built in 1983 to replace KD 111 which had been written off in an accident in 1982. Another extra one was built and sent to Baghdad to be trialled there, this one being left-hand drive. The majority of the CIE buses operated in Dublin, but there were also some in Limerick, Galway and Cork. The final day of normal KD operation in Dublin was in December 2000. A farewell run ran in January 2001 when the final fare-paying passenger was also carried. KD operation in Cork and Limerick had finished in the late 1990s.
As can be seen here, the two-tone green livery was also on the way out. The bus stop is blue, and two Olympians in the background are in the new standard livery, while the third is in CitySwift livery.
Route 77 became a DUTC bus route in 1939, connecting the city centre with Tallaght. It became more frequent in the 1980s and 1990s as that suburb of Dublin began to expand, and became a CitySwift route in 1997. It became cross-city route 27 in 2011 under Network Direct, and this route still serves Eden Quay.
14/04/2000
This week we pop back twelve years to 2009 and AV 242 and VG 34 at the terminus for routes 33 and 33X in Skerries. AV 242 is on route 33X to Tara Street station in Dublin, via the Port Tunnel. This route has had two existences. It first ran for around three to four years, ending in 2002, operating between Skerries and UCD Belfield. It returned in 2007, but only operated as far as St. Stephen's Green. It was a limited service, mostly operating once a day in each direction during the weekday peaks. However, that changed in August 2009 when part of the railway viaduct over the Broadmeadow Estuary in Malahide collapsed. With the railway line into Dublin cut in two for over three months, Dublin Bus had to rapidly step in and increase the number of buses on the corridor, predominately with the 33X. After the railway line reopened in November 2009, the 33X was cut back but still maintains a number of departures (far more than one) in each direction during the peaks to this day.
VG 34 is on route 33. This route can trace its origins back to the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) and passed to CIE in 1958, when it became the 33. Certain departures on this route are extended to / from Balbriggan. Whereas the 33X uses the M1 motorway and Port Tunnel after Lusk to access the city, the 33 takes the longer and slower route via Swords and Santry.
AV 242 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2002. It was withdrawn around 2016/2017 when it moved the United Kingdom and entered service with Walton's Coaches of Preston. While in Dublin it spent all its working life in Clontarf Garage. It ended up on the 33X as all garages needed to pitch in during the viaduct collapse to provide buses and run services on the route, as Summerhill Garage could not cover them all.
VG 34 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2009. In 2015 it joined the Airlink fleet and repainted into the livery for that service. In 2020 the Airlink service was suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic, and in 2021 Dublin Bus announced that the service was not going to return.
16/10/2009
A trip back to 1984 this week to KC 1 in Conyngham Road Garage. This was the first of an eventual 202 KC single-deckers built for city services in Ireland. Most were built in the Bombardier factory in Shannon but this one was built in Hamburg by FFG in 1981. The bus lasted fifteen years in service seeing the transition from CIE to Dublin Bus and spent its working life at Conyngham Road. The last KC was withdrawn in Dublin in 2001.
Some photos on KC 1 in its original tan livery can be found on Dublinbus.cc:
Conyngham Road Garage 28/07/1984
This week we are going back twenty-years to RV 458 on Parnell Square. The bus is dressed for the brand new route 116 to Whitechurch via Stillorgan. This route was one of the many new routes that started around this time to tie in with the new Quality Bus Corridor along the Stillorgan Road. During 2000 the 116 was expanded to serve not just Whitechurch but also Clonskea, Sandyford Industrial Estate, Ballinteer and DCU. In more recent years the route has been cut back to just Whitechurch again.
The branding on the side of RV 458 (Stillorgan Flyer) refers to the 46A. It was part of the rebranding of that route as part of the Stillorgan QBC, even though the 46A was already a CitySwift route.
RV 458 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in February 1999. The Volvo Olympian only lasted ten years, being withdrawn in 2009. It spent all its career in Donnybrook Garage. It was sold on to Procter of Leeming Bar in the United Kingdom.
24/08/1999
This week we are going back to 1994 and the final weeks of route 55. KD 34 is seen at the 55 terminus on College Street, alongside the wall of Trinity College. This route started in 1953 connecting the city with Kimmage and Walkinstown Cross. In the 1970s it was extended to Greenhills and was still terminating there on Limekiln Avenue in 1994. During the summer of 1994 the 55 underwent City Imp conversion, and became route 155, with services running at a much higher frequency than before. The 155 itself was absorbed into the 19A in 2001, which then became route 9 in 2010.
KD 34 was delivered new to Ringsend Garage in 1981 and spent all its life there. It was withdrawn in 1995 and was sent for scrap.
This location on College Street is no longer a bus terminus and is instead the Trinity tram stop on the Luas Green Line. College House in the background on Townsend Street was demolished in 2019.
Also in the background is MA 15 on the 83, a bus which featured in Throwback Thursday (226)
28/05/1994
It is 1999 and Dublin Bus are trying out a demonstrator bus. But first some context. In 1997 five single deckers (VL 1-5) were delivered to Dublin Bus, being the first full-length low floor buses in the fleet. The following year VL 6 arrived as a demonstrator which was run on natural gas and painted in a special Bord Gais livery. All of these buses operated on routes 1,2 and 3 which operated between Larkhill, City Centre, Ringsend and Sandymount.
In 1999 this second demonstrator arrived from the UK and was put briefly onto these routes too. The bus was built in 1997 and operated on liquefied petroleum gas. Hence why in the UK it had as its registration "P10 LPG". As a demonstrator it was operated by a number of bus operators in the UK too. Eventually the bus was converted to a standard diesel bus and was sold to Arriva, operating in the north of England for most of its career. It remained in service until withdrawn in 2013.
It is worth noting that Larkill is misspelled on the destination - the h is missing. At least it got the route number correct. It is also worth noting the slightly shorter than usual bus stop, although this was later replaced with a standard one.
All in all, this was one of the more unusual buses operated by Dublin Bus for a brief period.
Ringsend 11/10/1999
This week we are going back thirty-one years to D 787 at The Square, Tallaght. The bus is operating a service on the short-lived route 74. The Square shopping centre opened in 1990 and a number of new routes started, while others in Tallaght were rerouted, to serve it. The 74 and 74A started on the 22nd October 1990. Route 74 ran from Arthur Griffith Park in Lucan to Tallaght, via Neilstown and Clondalkin. However, neither it nor the 74A were very popular, and both routes last ran on the 27th April 1991 (just over two months after this picture was taken). The number 74 was next used on a bus route in 2007 and that one lasted a little longer before it was merged into the 15B in 2011. Bus Connects are proposing to use the number on a new route to Whitechurch at some point.
D 787 was delivered new to CIE in 1976. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994 and sold for scrap. 16/02/1991
This week we are only going back nine years to 2012 and AV 166 at the Blanchardstown Centre on route 236. When the shopping centre opened in October 1996, it gained three local routes (237, 238 and 239) that initially served the surrounding areas of Coolmine, Castleknock, Mulhuddart, Ballycoolin and Luttrelstown. Around 2001 the 236 joined this local network, serving the Ballycoolin IDA park on a circular route. It only operated in the peak-hours, and was branded as FactoryLink. For a while there was a separate route 236 that ran to a northern terminus in Tyrellstown. Under Network Direct the route was reduced again to just the Ballycoolin circular in 2010. In January 2019 the route passed to Go-Ahead Ireland, along with the other local routes in Blanchardstown. It was also joined by a new route, the 236A.
AV 166 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2000. It was withdrawn in late-2013 and emigrated to the United Kingdom where it joined the Beaverbus fleet in Leicester. 31/08/2012
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to D 386 on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 6A to Blackrock. This route started in 1965 running between the city centre and its terminus at Granville Park in Blackrock, going via Ballsbridge. In 1980 the route was extended to Sandyford Industrial Estate but it had completely ceased to operate by 1988.
D 386 was delivered new to CIE in 1970. It was withdrawn six months after this photograph was taken.
22/01/1985
It's Thursday and time for a throwback! In Gothenburg it's finally plus degrees again which means that it is raining again instead of snowing - sad, yes - but at least no more sliding to work on icy roads! Yay! So what better time to post a sunny throwback to lazy days at the pool?
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Photo: Michel Keppens @michelkeppensphotography
Model: Naomi Catrain
MUA: Sharon Grobben @sharongrobben
Stylist: Karin Nuyts
This week we are going back forty-one years to 1981 and D 818 on the seafront (or Esplanade) at Bray. The bus is dressed for route 45A, a route that started operating between Dun Laoghaire and Bray in 1936. In 2004 it was extended to Ballywaltrim (it had previously served there too in the late-1980s/early-1990s), and in 2015 it was extended further south to Kilmacanogue. The latter change was part of a terminus swap with route 145 which moved to Ballywaltrim instead. In 2018, Go-Ahead Ireland took over operating the route.
D 818 was delivered new to CIE in 1976. It was withdrawn and sold for scrap in 1994.
Bray Esplanade ceased to be on the Dublin Bus network in 2012 with the end of route 45.
21/04/1981
It is 1983 and D 751 makes its way through the parked cars in Larkhill as it operates a 3 to Sandymount Tower. At the time, the bus was nearly eight years old, having been delivered new to CIE in 1975. It had a long career in Dublin, being finally withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994.
Route 3 was one of the many cross-city routes in Dublin, tracing its origins back to the tram network. Initially a southside route, it served the areas of Ringsend, Irishtown and Sandymount along with routes 1 and 2. In the 1940s route 3 was extended north to Whitehall and eventually into Larkhill. Under Network Direct the route was largely replaced by a new route 1 in 2012. This used Santry and Shanard Route as the northside terminus. The 44 from Enniskerry was extended north from the city centre to initially terminate in Larkhill. It was later extended to DCU on Collins Avenue, but still loops around Larkhill in both directions. Larkhill 06/06/1983
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*Five Star Bus Body | Higer A80 inspired | MAN R39
For our 300th Throwback Thursday I thought I would go back to the start. The very first picture in this series was posted in 2016 and showed a bus in Bray Station, so here is a photograph of Dublin Bus GT 87 at Bray Station in 2016. Route 185 started in 1995, and was a direct replacement for route 85. It mostly operated between Bray and Enniskerry (Shop River). The change to 185 coincided with a reorganisation of local routes in Bray and the introduction of minibuses onto those routes. Around 2004 the 185 started serving the Palermo estate in Bray too. In 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over the 185 and it became two routes: Bray - Palermo and Bray to Shop River via Palermo. The route also switched from double-decker buses to single-deckers. Under Bus Connects, the 185 will be replaced by the L14 and L15.
GT 87 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2013. It is still with Dublin Bus, however it is now in the new Transport for Ireland (TFI) green and yellow livery. The TFI logo on the side of GT 87 has since been updated to a new style one. GT 87 was built by Wrights (on a Volvo chassis) in Ballymena and back in 2016 Dublin Bus was still receiving buses from that company, but of the SG class. The last SG was delivered in 2020, after Wrights were brought out of administration. However, starting in 2021, Dublin Bus have been receiving new hybrid buses from Alexander Dennis, the SG being the last fully diesel bus to be bought by TFI.
A lot has changed in the five years since this picture was taken, and since Throwback Thursday has started. Who knows what the next five years will bring? Thanks as always for looking at my photographs. 22/10/2016
We have a first for Throwback Thursday this week - a picture taken after I started doing Throwback Thursday. What was once the present, is now the past.
AV 415 is seen crossing D'Olier Street as it heads from Fleet Street to Townsend Street. This bus was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2005. During its career it has operated out of Conyngham Road and Ringsend garages. In February 2019 it became the last AV in service at Ringsend.
Here it is seen operating route 56A which connects The Square, Tallaght, with Ringsend. Along the way it passes the Go-Ahead Ireland garage at Ballymount, a bus company that started to take over a number of Dublin Bus routes in 2018 and operate them on behalf of Transport for Ireland. This company was announced as the winner of this contract in 2017.
Finally AV 415 is seen in an all-over ad for Lucozade Sport. In June 2015 it received an all-over ad for Coca-Cola. Then around September 2015 it received this Lucozade ad which, as we can see here, it maintained for over 6 months. The Lucozade ad was also on a VG, the first time a non-ALX 400 received a wrap. In 2018 they started to appear on EVs too.
07/03/2016
This week we are going back seven years to VT 7 on Leeson Street. The bus is operating a service on route 46A from Dun Laoghaire to Phoenix Park via the city centre. The 46A started operating in 1926 between Dublin city centre and Cabinteely. In 1936 it reached Dun Laoghaire.In the late 1990s the route became 'super charged' when it joined the CitySwift network and the Stillorgan Road Quality Bus Corridor became operational. The route started the new millennium as one of the most frequent in the city. In 2010 it became a cross city route when its northern terminus became the Phoenix Park, after it absorbed the northern half of route 10 under Network Direct.
VT 7 was one of twenty Enviro 500 tri-axle buses delivered to Dublin Bus in 2005. When these buses arrived their presence on the streets were certainly noticeable as this was a class of bus more associated with Hong Kong than with Europe. These buses were initially allocated to just the 46A (and some of the other 46 family of routes) but in 2007 another fifty arrived and the class started to appear on some of the busiest routes around the city. VT 7, along with the rest of the other first twenty VT buses, was withdrawn in 2018. It was sold to the UK and is now used on school services by Sussex Coaches. 28/10/2014
This week we are going back eleven years to 2012 and RV 588 at Dunboyne. The bus is waiting to depart for Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, via Littlepace, on route 270. This route started in September 2000, as a companion to the older route 70 which connected Dublin city centre with Dunboyne, as well as providing a service to the people in Littlepace. In January 2019 the route transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland.
RV 588 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was one of a number of Olympians delivered with narrower destination screens on the front, though all were later retrofitted with a standard size ones. They did keep the different type of dot-matrix used in the destination though. The bus was withdrawn in November 2012 and was sold on to another Irish operator.
Dunboyne is located in County Meath, and is one of the few places served by buses on Dublin city services (operated by Go-Ahead Ireland and Dublin Bus) and regional routes operated by Bus Eireann. In September 2010 it also regained its train service when the railway line was reopened from Clonsilla to a new station north of Dunboyne at M3 Parkway.
05/04/2012
***Decided to merge images from my old Flickr account with my current account. Photos and descriptions from 2007-2009.
Location: New York, NY
Just had dinner at Mokofuku Noodle bar. We were taking the train back to Manhattan and I saw this DRUNK gentleman waiting for the train.
Here is a link to the Noodle bar we went to.
www.momofuku.com/noodle/default.asp
Here is exactly what we ate:
www.flickr.com/photos/fooddude/2827049938/
Courtesy of Edgar Maguyon:)
Twenty years ago today, a visit to the Springfield Amtrak station finds AMTK 247 laying over between Shuttle runs, sporting its one-of-a-kind white lettering. At this point, the New Haven power pool was among the last refuges of Amtrak's once-numerous F40PH fleet, as the last of P42s were still being delivered. Having already been displaced from the Shore Line by the recently-completed electrification project, the F40s would be gone from the Springfield Line as well within a year this photo, replaced by the 800-class P40DCs.
Following its retirement by Amtrak, the 247 eventually found its way to the former Bangor and Aroostook shops in Derby, ME, where it became an engine donor for a program to re-power M62 diesels in Poland.
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to D 372 parked on Eden Quay, dressed for route 83.
Route 83 started running between the city centre and Kimmage in 1936. 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.
D 372 was new to CIE in 1970. It was withdrawn one month after this photograph was taken, and subsequently scrapped.
25/06/1986
A four pack of emd local power leads H-GALGFD through Colona, Illinois. This local set would take the manifest up to Ebner siding and tie it down.
In mid-November 2010, Dublin Bus introduced a new route through Network Direct, the 25B. This replaced the 151 as the bus route to Adamstown. Passengers from there now reached Dublin via Foxborough and the Lucan Road rather than via Clondalkin and the Crumlin Road. Interchange is possible between both routes at Foxborough.
Just over a week after the route started Dublin fell under a blanket of snow. AV 361 is seen in the snow at the 25B terminus in Merrion Square. 01/12/2010
This week we are only going back a decade to the end of a bus route. Dublin Bus AX 640 is seen at the terminus for route 11B within UCD Belfield. This route started in 1970, initially running to / from the city centre via Clonskeagh. In the early-1980s it was extended north to Griffith Avenue and Wadelai Park, though by the late 1980s all services terminated at Wadelai Park. Under Network Direct the route was abolished on the 26th June 2011 when a new route 11 started. However the day this picture was taken was actually the last day as the route only operated Monday - Friday in its latter years.
This 11B terminated in a number of locations with UCD over the years. The first one I remember in the early 2000s was behind the student centre, opposite the science block. With the construction of the new nursing school around 2005 the terminus was relocated to this location in the photo on the far side of the sports centre. Currently this home to route 142 during the week.
AX 640 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006 and is still in service today.
24/06/2011
This week we go back thirty-seven years to 1983. KD 110 is seen in Beresford Place with a service on route 27B to Castletimon. This route started operating in 1971 and operated via Fairview, Malahide Road and Ardlea Road. It did a loop around the housing estate in Castletimon. In the late-1990s it started serving Beaumont Hospital by looping in off Kilbarron Road. In the early 2000s the route was extended north to Harristown Garage via Santry, but it still did the loop around Beaumont Hospital and the one around Castletimon. Harristown Garage also became responsible for operating the route, although the 27 and 27A stayed in Clontarf Garage. In the early days of Network Direct there was a proposal to merge the route with the 79/A and it would operate from Park West to Coolock Lane. A pull in spot was even built on Coolock Lane but it the merger did not happen. Then in 2016 a timetable appeared where the route would again operate from Coolock Lane to Heuston Station. However, after objections from people in Santry who would lose their link with Beaumont Hospital, this never happened either. Bus Connects may finally see off the 27B over the next few years.
KD 110 was delivered new to Dublin in 1982. It was withdrawn in the mid-1990s.
No bus stops at this point in Beresford Square anymore as it is now the route of the tram tracks for the Luas Red Line. The 27B has its terminus on Eden Quay. 09/12/1983