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This week it is a trip back to 1990 to a bus that is no longer with us, a route that is no longer with us and a road that is currently undergoing a massive change.
KD 152 is seen parked between duties on Marlborough Street. It is operating route 28 to Edenmore. This route lasted until 1996 when it was merged with the 42A. This route itself lasted until 2011 when it was replaced with the current 27A.
Marlborough Street is currently being rebuilt as part of Luas Cross City and the southbound line from Broombridge to St. Stephen's Green is being ;aid where the buses are parked in the photo.
Finally KD 152 is in an all-over ad for Brylcreem. 14/07/1990
This week we are going back nine years to 2016 (the year this series started) and to EV 49 at the station in Skerries with a service on route 33 to Balbriggan.
CIE started operating route 33 between the city centre and Skerries in 1958, when they took over the route from the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The 33 went via Swords, Lusk and Rush. Certain departures on the route operated to Balbriggan, and the route basically operates the same today.
Some buses were, and still are, parked overnight at the railway station in Skerries. This is evidenced here by the shed in the background and SG 106 parked beside it. Driver changes can also happen here, which is why EV 49 is at the station. Most services on the 33 do not serve the station directly like this.
EV 49 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007. In 2017 it joined the DoDublin Tour, operated by Dublin Bus, and became an open-top bus.
SG 106 was new to Dublin Bus in 2015, and is still in service today.
11/07/2016
This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1997 and RA 316 on Talbot Street. The bus is dressed for route 27. This route started operating between the city centre and Coolock in 1966. Thirty years later the route went over to CitySwift, as seen on RA 316 and the bus behind it here. The northern terminus also moved to Clare Hall. In 2011 the route was also merged with the 77, and the new cross-city route ran from Edenmore to Jobstown. Although the northern terminus was soon moved back to Clare Hall from Edenmore.
RA 316 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the UK.
This terminus on Talbot Street is now used by routes 42, 43 and 53.
17/08/1997
Throwback photo. When I saw this I laughed coz I thought, do I always grab food like that? And Arno, that boy, poses as if nothing's happening beside him. :)))
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
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 twenty-six years to 1998 and KD 88 at Heuston Station. The bus is dressed for route 91.
This route did not have a timetable and ran as required. It was there to provide extra capacity on route 90 during periods of great demand (such as two trains arriving together). Whereas the 90 connected Heuston with Connolly (and for a while the IFSC), the 91 only went as far as Aston Quay. The route faded away over time, especially when the Luas tram started running in 2004, providing a new connection between Heuston and Connolly.
KD 88 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus around 1999/2000.
The ad on the side of the bus is for a referendum to ratify to Good Friday Agreement. This agreement was signed on 10th April 1998, and the referendum was held on the 22nd May 1998.
Work beside the bus is part of a refurbishment / upgrade of Heuston Station. This expanded the concourse of the station into the original building at the front of the station.
02/05/1998
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
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
A hop back twenty-five years this week to D 689 in Dublin Airport on the 230 in 1995. Route 230 started in 1991 between Dublin Airport and Malahide, although it was soon extended to Portmarnock. Initially it was operated by mini-buses (some displaced from local services in Tallaght), but KC single-deckers took over within two years. The Airport Express KCs found themselves on this route in 1994 after the AD class arrived to takeover the Airlink. Double-deckers only became common on the route in the late 1990s, and D class VanHools like D 689 were very rare on it. In 2008 the route was absorbed into the 102 and extended to Sutton Station. In 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over operation of the route and single-deckers returned, although double-deckers do appear on some of the busier departures.
D 689 was delivered new to Summerhill Garage in Dublin in 1975. It was withdrawn within a year of this photograph being taken and was sold for scrap in 1999.
The bus may be gone, the route may be gone, but Heinz ketchup is still going strong. 15/07/1995
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 twenty-five years to 1998, and to RH 139 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 20A. This route started running between the city centre and Donnycarney North in 1948, and was an off-shoot of route 20. These routes (along with the 20B) went via Fairview and the Malahide Road. In 1997 the 20A was cut back to just a handful of departures, becoming a derivative of the 20B in the process. The route finally ceased to operate in 1999, with the 20B lasting until 2011. A definitive history of the route can be found here: dublinbusstuff.com/Routes20.html
RH 139 was new to Dublin Bus in 1992. It was withdrawn in 2006 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
20/07/1998
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
I'm not sure what era this sign dates from, but it takes me back to the 1960s before McDonald's was the franchise behemoth that it is today. It was a time when all they had were single patty burgers and fries. You also probably got a milkshake. The location is downtown Muncie, Indiana.
First Charters and Tours Transportation, Inc. (First Charter)
Bus number: 228
Coachbuilder: Santarosa Motor Works
Model: SR Exfoh
Chassis:
Engine:
Suspension: Air/Leaf Spring Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2×2
Seating Cpacity: 49 Passenger Seats
1 year ago na po ito picture na ito.
In an undated photo, this view at Sheff, Indiana is looking N/N/W from just south of the tower and Big 4 crossing. Thomas Boldman stands at right in the middle of the 3 men. I am assuming this was taken by either Wilmer or John Boldman and I would guess that the other 2 employees standing with Thomas are management type. I don't see the operator in the tower, but I don't think the other 2 outside are operators by the way they are dressed.
Along with "F" tower stand 3 track side shanty's. I would guess there were signal, section and possibly just a shanty for Thomas' motorcar.
The New York Central's Egyptian line was in it's prime at this time and unfortunately, the Boldmans didn't take any train pictures. Most of the stuff I have got from Phil is people and building and construction type photos.
SHEFF, INDIANA
Ca. 1920's
CROSSING OF NYC'S EGYPTIAN LINE AND NYC'S BIG FOUR.
BOLDMAN FAMILY PHOTO
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
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
This week we are going back nine years to 2015 and to SG 34 in Monkstown with a service on route 8 to Mountjoy Square.
Route 8 started running between the city centre and Dalkey in 1949, replacing the last tram route in the city. In 2001 the route was suspended, but following an appeal to the European courts, it returned in 2005. When it returned it was sent along a new routing between Monkstown and Dalkey. Instead of going via Dun Laoghaire, it went via Carrickbrennan Road (as seen here), Glenageary Road Upper and Castle Park Road. In 2016 the axe struck again when the route finished for the last time in November. A review of bus services in Dun Laoghaire saw changes to routes 59 and 111, and it was deemed the 8 was no longer needed.
SG 34 was new to Dublin Bus in 2014. In 2018 it transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland where it became 11506, and it is still in service with them today.
31/07/2015
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1996. Dublin Bus KD 172 is seen at the terminus for route 8 on Burgh Quay. This route became a bus route in 1949, having been the last tram route to run in the city on the 9th July of that year. It ran between the city centre and Dalkey via Dun Laoghaire. Controversially, Dublin Bus withdrew the route in 2001, but it returned in 2005 going via Glenageary Road Upper instead of Dun Laoghaire. It was withdrawn for good again in November 2016.
KD 172 was delivered new to CIE in 1982. The last member of the Dublin Bus KD fleet was withdrawn in 2000.
Dublin Bus no longer use this stop on Burgh Quay. Instead it is home to Dublin Coach who offer services to Waterford, Cork, Limerick and elsewhere.
29/07/1996
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
This week we are going back twenty-three years to 1999 and AD 19 on Hawkins Street. The bus is dressed for route 86. This route started operating between Bray and Dublin city centre as a replacement for the Harcourt Street railway line that closed on the last day of 1958. Around 1971 the terminus was cut from Bray to Cabinteely. Around 2005 the route had been reduced even further, only running between Shankill and Sandyford Industrial Estate. The route ceased to operate on the 17th April 2009. By this point the Luas Green Line had been running along the old Harcourt Street line to Sandyford for five years. A subsequent extension to the tramline saw part of extended along Hawkins Street, in the traffic lane beside AD 19 in the photo.
AD 19 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1994, being one of 70 that made up the AD Class. It was originally painted in CitySwift livery. By 1998 it had received two-tone green Dublin Bus livery, and when it was withdrawn around 2004 it was in Dublin Bus blue and cream livery. It then joined the Bus Eireann school fleet in Cork and was withdrawn by 2011.
15/06/1999
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
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