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This week it is a trip back to 1991 and a short-lived shuttle bus. MW 7 was one of a number of mini buses delivered to Dublin Bus in 1990. It was used on local services in Tallaght, as well as a shuttle for Superquinn before taking up duties on this shuttle for the Irish Museum of Modern Art. It connected that institution in Kilmainham with the City Centre, but it did not last long. To show of its different status to normal buses it has "VIP" shown as a route number. Dawson Street 04/08/1991
It is 1995 and the 20B is making its presence known on Marlborough Street. D 689 is seen displaying an outbound working to Ardlea Road, while behind it is a KD on an inbound working to the City Centre. This route served the northern suburbs of Fairview, Donnycarney and Beaumont. The 20B was once just one route that served these areas, along with the 20 and 20A. However over the years these routes fell by the wayside and the 20B outlived them all until 2011 when it was merged with the 14. This created a new cross-city route from Beaumont to Dundrum.
D 689 had a long career in Dublin. It was delivered new to CIE in 1975 and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the summer of 1996.
Beside the bus is the offices of Church and General Insurance. This was rebranded in 1999 as Allianz. Finally, the location where the bus is parked became the Marlborough tram stop on the Luas Green Line in 2017. 20/03/1995
This week we are only going back to 1998, but we are at the western extremes of the Dublin Bus network. RA 312 is seen in Maynooth (Co.Kildare) at the 67A terminus. The main 67 route ran between Dublin and Celbridge with a few extensions west to Maynooth, which operated as the 67A. Under Network Direct in November 2010, the 67 and 67A were combined and all departures on the 67 ran to Maynooth via Celbridge. Maynooth is also served by route 66 which had services to the town of Kilcock, further west than Maynooth. However Network Direct in 2010 also removed those workings and both the 66 and 67 now terminate in Maynooth.
RA 312 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 2008 and then bought by Warrington Borough Transport. It remained in service with them until at least 2014.
The ad on the side is for Eircell, which was Eircom's mobile phone network. It was subsequently sold to Vodafone. Maynooth, 07/09/1998
Thirtysomething throwback: elegant brunette Mariëlle caught in a mindful pose on a sofa in the luxury suite at the Stadhouderlijk Hof hotel, in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
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Shot on ISO 400 film using a Konica FS-1 analogue SLR camera.
This week we are going back eleven years to VG 21 at UCD Belfield with a service on route 39B. The 39B has had two existences. The first version ran for a decade, ending around 1993 when the CitySwift operation began on route 39. This original 39B operated between the city centre and (at various times) Clonsilla, Sheepmoor and Coolmine. The route was resurrected in 2001. Initially operating between Inglewood and UCD Belfield in the peaks, its western terminus moved to Clonsilla in 2003 and Ongar in 2004. There it remained util the route ceased again in October 2010 under Network Direct, though a lot of it was covered by new route 39A.
VG 21 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2008 and is still in service today. There is one noticeable aspect to it though. Previously, all buses delivered to Dublin Bus had their fleet number reflected in the last three digits of the registration plate. Dublin Bus used to block book sequences when they were registering new buses so this feature would occur, and it was certainly an handy way for bus enthusiasts to identify buses too. However, a premium had to be paid for this option with the registration authority and during the financial crisis Dublin Bus had to make savings. This was an easy one to make, so VG 20 was the last bus delivered where the registration matched the fleet number, and VG 21 was the first one to arrive with a general registration plate.
Finally, back in 2010 this part of UCD Belfield was only used by the peak-hour Xpresso bus routes but today it is the main bus terminus on the college campus, and used by the vast majority of bus routes that serve there.
21/10/2010
Here's a picture of Stagecoach 36326 (LX58CKK) on route v354 (school extra). These buses did actually go on the 354 most of the time when it was still Stagecoach, so it's quite an interesting catch. It's nice to see 354 with SLN again.
Since it's Thursday and I recently found this cute picture of me, I thought I could make it a "Throwback Thursday" picture. :)
This is probably from 2004-05 when I was about 6 or 7. I had been asking for a Disney Princess doll for ages and one day I got this Ariel for Christmas from my grandparents. Thinking back on it, she was a evil looking Ariel with a weird face and eyebrows, but hey, she was Ariel!!
This week we are going back eighteen years to 2007, and to AX 528 on Leeson Street with a service on route 46B to Belarmine.
Route 46B started running between the city centre and Kilmacud Road (Stillorgan) in 1988, replacing route 64A. In 2002 the southern terminus was moved from Stillorgan to Sandyford Industrial Estate. In 2006 certain peak-time departures were extended to and from Belarmine, near Stepaside. These lasted until 2008 when route 47 started. The 46B lasted until September 2010 when Network Direct saw changes to the bus routes on the Stillorgan QBC, and routes 46B, 46C, 46D, 46X and 746 ceased to operate.
AX 528 was new to Dublin Bus in 2006. It was withdrawn in 2019, and sold on to another Irish operator.
18/04/2007
For Throwback Thursday this week we are going back a mere twenty-six years to 1990. At the time there was only bus service from the Dublin city to Dublin Airport and it was operated by Dublin Bus. Summerhill Garage provided the buses and it operated from Bus Aras to the airport. It had no fleet number, buses were in standard livery, and the timetable was not very frequent. Three years after this picture was taken and the route was transformed into "Airlink", with a distinctive livery, an increase in frequency and new single-deck buses. It also became route 747. Today it is still running, with double-deck buses and operates every ten-minues from Heuston Station to Dublin Airport. It also still serves this bus stop at Bus Aras. KC 30 is seen at Bus Aras (note the destination spelling on the bus) after arriving from the Airport.
19/05/1990
I'm closing in on 2 million total views (1,980,463 as of this morning) and began to think of my journey so I thought I'd post a shot from deep within the vault to commemorate.
Before 2007, Toni was only a figment of my imagination and did not have a face. 2007 marked the first year that Toni made a full debut including facial pictures; thanks to the new-found support from my wife.
This week we are going back twenty-three years to 1999 and RA 226 on Middle Abbey Street. The bus is dressed for route 67A , which started running between the city centre and Maynooth (via Celbridge) around 1988. It ceased in 2010 when the regular 67 was itself extended to Maynooth from Celbridge.
The bus is branded for the "25A Lucan Road Flyer". Certain routes in the city, mostly CitySwift routes, received this type of branding in the late-1990s. It was mostly an attempt to relaunch the CitySwift brand. Part of this including branding some buses, like this one, with Super CitySwift also.
RA 226 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1995. It was withdrawn in 2007 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. 22/06/1999
This is a throwback to October of 2014.
I was searching Point Beach State Forest for salamanders to photograph. On the final morning of my camping trip, I found this Wood Frog hopping along the forest floor. This was the first and only time I've seen a Wood Frog.
I've really enjoyed this photo, but it was taken with my old, lower quality camera. I'd love to be able to take this exact same shot again with my current camera.
It is 1998 and KD 318 is on Aston Quay with a 51B. This bus was delivered new to Conyngham Road in 1983 where it spent the rest of its career with Dublin Bus. At this time the bus was coming close to the end of its career after 15 years in service.
The 51B was part of the 51 group of routes (apart from the 51A) that connected Clondalkin with the City Centre. The year this photo was taken the 51B was added to the new CitySwift network, so this bus was a bit out of place on the route. In later years the 51B was extended to Grange Castle until 2011 when it was merged with the 13. It then became a cross-city route connecting Grange Castle with Harristown via the City Centre. Instead of using Aston Quay, the 13 uses Dame Street. 10/01/1998
It is 1984 and KC 14 is seen at the 80 terminus on Ormond Quay. This route can trace its history back to the DUTC and even before that. The route ran from the city centre to Clonsilla via Castleknock and Luttrellstown. As the 39 provided a more direct route to Clonsilla, Luttrellstown was often used as the destination on the bus. In 1984 the route was run out of Conyngham Road Garage and ran Monday to Saturday. The route was withdrawn in 1993 when CitySwift started on route 39. By then the 80 was departing from Middle Abbey Street along with the other Navan Road routes. The routing of the 80 has mostly been replaced by a combination of the 37 and 239.
KC 14 was delivered new to Dublin in October 1983.
The building beside the bus was for years the Zanzibar and then Bondi Beach night clubs. With a prime location beside the Ha'penny Bridge, it is now being turned into a hotel. 01/04/1984
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.
It is May 2000 and the Bombardiers are counting down their final months with Dublin Bus. The first AVs went into service in September 2000 (these being the first low-floor double-deckers bought by Dublin Bus) and the final KD ran in December 2000. KD 332 is seen here on Eden Quay with a working on the 56A. It entered service in Dublin in 1983 so had a career of 17 years. Whereas some of the KDs that made it to 2000 got updated blinds with yellow letters/numbers, KD 332 managed to retain white ones to the end.
The 56A connects Dublin city centre with Tallaght, like a number of bus route, but perhaps not in the most direct way. This is reflected in its history of slowly moving its terminus further west over the years. Initially it went to Ballymount when it started in the early 1980s, then Fettercairn and eventually The Square. For a time there was a 56 too, the most recent incarnation linking Dolphin's Barn and The Square. This route was abolished during Network Direct in 2011. Over the years the 56A frequency has also been cut as it parallels the Luas Red Line for a lot of its route. Its most recent claim to fame is that it passes the garage of Go-Ahead Ireland in Ballymount. Eden Quay 03/05/2000
This week we are sort of doing a sequel to Throwback Thursday (204) as we revisit D 756 a month after we last saw it. For December 1988 it was repainted as the Dublin Zoo Santa Bus but it finished its duties on that before the end of the month (and year). After returning very briefly to regular duties it was sent off again to receive a new all-over ad. This time for Pelican House, the Irish blood donation service. D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn four years after this photograph was taken, in 1993.
The bus is making its way down O'Connell Street and is passing the Savoy Cinema. On this day it was showing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a film that was initially released in the United States in the Summer of 1988. Unlike nowadays, major American releases could take a while to get to these shores. The Savoy is also showing "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, another Summer 1988 release.
Beside the cinema is Pizzaland, a chain of restaurants that first opened here in 1976, but closed in the 1990s. 02/01/1989
A slightly different Throwback Thursday this time were the bus is not really the primary interest in the photo but rather the background is.
D 533 is seen on Tara Street and is not operating a route. It was delivered new to Phibsboro Garage in 1973 and was withdrawn in 1991. Like a lot of buses in 1988, this has received the Dublin Millennium badge alongside the company name on the side of the bus. Apart from that there is not a lot else to say about the bus.
So why is the background more interesting? Behind the bus is Apollo House. This was built in 1969 and was one of three buildings in the area that were of a similar style. Hawkins House from 1962 and College House from 1974 being the other two. Collectively all three are regarded as some of the worse looking buildings in Dublin. With all three being eight storeys or over, they did dominate the skyline. During the 2000s Apollo House was sold and lay empty for a while. Plans existed for a long time to demolish and redevelop all three buildings but the 2008 recession delayed those plans. Before Christmas 2016 Apollo House was taken over by activists to house some homeless people and to highlight the crisis affecting the country. By early 2017 they were gone and the building was empty again. Finally 2018 demolition began and by August of that year the site was completely flattened. Around the same time Hawkins House was emptied and work began on College House. It seems after all of these decades, the redevelopment is finally happening. 21/09/1988
It is 1996 - the buses are green and there are no trams on Abbey Street. RH 124 is seen parked on Abbey Street between duties on the 37. Prior to the coming of the Luas, Abbey Street was one of the great bus terminii in the city. Buses could be seen parked facing west from the junction of Beresford Place to the junction of Liffey Street, with other buses parked off Strand Street. The northern side of Lower Abbey Street was also used by buses heading east and north-east. With the arrival of the Luas tram line in the early 2000s, buses were removed completely from the southside of Abbey Street. The 37 was relocated to Hawkins Street before moving to its current terminus on Wilton Terrace. The 37 in 2019 runs to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre but back in 1996 it only went as far as Castleknock.
RH 124 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1991 and survived in service until August 2005 (which is after the Luas tram system started). Initially sold to Ensign Bus in the UK it was sold the following year to Yahoo.
In the background is the bank operated by TSB. In a sign of where we have come in the last twenty-years, this will reopen in May 2019 as a Wetherspoons. 18/04/1996
Train splitting and joining used to be a common practice all over Germany and while it still happens todays modern DMUs make the process alot less interesting if far more efficient. The ALEX operations to Lindau and Oberstdorf are a wonderful exception. We have arrived from Lindau aboard a Munich bound train and in quick order the inbound train from Oberstdorf is shunted onto the back and in a few minutes the combined train will be off to Munich. Meanwhile the train to Lindau will soon arrive and set out the last 3 coaches which will head to Oberstdorf.
Gleich als in der Vergangenheit
Zugtrennen auf lokzuggen war in vorbei üblich, aber heute es ist fast gesichte in Deutscheland. Ein tolles Ausnahmen ist der Zugen von ALEX zwischen Muenchen-Lindau und Oberstdorf. Wir haben gerade in Immenstadt von Lindau erreichen und schnelligkeit der Oberstdorf teil ist am unser Zug rangiert. In kurze moment der Zug werdet weiter zu Muenchen fahren und der gegen zug von Muenchen werdet einfahred. Es werdet der hinterer drei wagonen hier lassen fuer der Fahrt nach Oberstdorf.
UP 3488 leads an MVPPR past Kay Siding in this scene from 2008. Kinda cool to see the rebuilt Dash 2s coming back now, but these were the days.
Bit of a cross over this week for Throwback Thursday. As mentioned in February this is the thirtieth anniversary of Dublin Bus. During those three decades the company has had a number of liveries for its core fleet. A selection of those, and same that came before Dublin Bus when it was still CIE, can be seen here in this shot taken at the Dublin Port Rally, 28/09/2014.
From left to right, we have KD 353 and D 839 in two-tone green for Dublin Bus, D 464 in tan for CIE and D 44 in white/navy blue also for CIE. In the distance is an SG in the current blue/yellow livery for Dublin Bus.
For a bit more history on the Dublin Bus core liveries of the last thirty years, check out this blog post on the Graphic Mint website:
It is 1988 and a certain bus route only has five months to go. D 476 is seen on Burgh Quay. It is displaying route 54 to Cherryfield Drive, via Connolly Station. This route was a cross-city route that connected Donnycarney/Killester on the northside with Harold's Cross and Walkinstown on the southside. The route was operated out of Summerhill Garage, and ran in conjunction with the 54A. The latter route was cut back from the northside in 1988 and in November 1988 the 54 was cut back from the northside. While the 54A continues on today, the remaining 54 did not make it out of the 1990s. The 54A is also now operated by Donnybrook Garage.
D 476 had a similar fate as it was delivered new to Summerhill in 1972 and withdrawn in 1990. The bus is gone, the route is gone but McDonald's is still with us. 08/06/1988
Some pretty girls I should pay more attention to
Here are 3 Steffi Love I washed today, I'm not the biggest fan of this girl, especially the new one but I do have a lot of them in my collection as they are easier to find than Barbies, as they are cheaper and in the 90's she used to do almost everything Barbie was doing ^^
I'm sure I'm probably wrong for their clothes, it's definitely not their originals clothes but it's almost impossible to ID a Steffi as they never changed her face and makeup, I just gave them some clothes which were for Steffi ^^
It is a trip back to 1999 and Celtic Tiger Ireland, where anything was possible. AD 54 is seen in Parnell Square on the Icon Shuttle. The Icon Centre was opened by Bailey's in Leopardstown Racecourse in April 1999. It was designed to be a tourist attraction in the same vein as the Guinness Storehouse and Jameson Distillery. However, it was far less successful than either of those two. When it closed in 2001 it was attracting 80,000 visitors a year against a target of 200,000. Dublin Bus were contracted to run an hourly shuttle between the city centre and Leopardstown, which had a journey time of 45 minutes.
AD 53 and AD 54 were the two buses dedicated to the route. Both buses were delivered to Dublin Bus in 1994 and operated out of Donnybrook Garage. Both buses lost the Icon wrap around November 2000 and returned to the core Dublin Bus livery.
Parnell Square, 04/10/1999
Phil Boldman is pictured here with a fresh derailment at MP 9.70 (Main Street, Highland, Indiana) on Penn Centrals Danville secondary on February 28th, 1973. Phil had just arrived at "another fucking derailment due to the horseshit merger..." as he said. Phil hired on Penn Central in 1969 and according to Phil, when all the PRR & NYC lines merged in Indiana, it caused a lot of problems with the men, seniority, rights, etc, etc. Phil was a die hard NYC man, because his entire family had worked there, but like any mega-merger, there will always be issues.
This derailment pictured shows what looks like the underframe of an autorack. It looks as though this view is looking S/W from somewhere near the Main Street crossing. The derailment has been long forgotten by Phil. There were so many in PC days that it was just another day at the RR. This line would start to fall apart south of Schneider, Indiana, Phil would load it up full of speed restrictions that never got fixed and him & the line that his family built through Kentland would both be retired in 1999.
When Phil retired in 99, his title under Conrail was "I&R Foreman" (Inspection & Repair) and his territory included the following:
MC-Hartsdale to Chicago Heights.
PRR-When still in service, Hartsdale east and west to ends of track.
NYC-Osborn, Indiana to Cairo, Illinois.
NYC-Hennepin, Illinois to Wheatfield, Indiana.
CCC&StL-Sheldon secondary (Sheff, Indiana to Kankakee, Illinois) & Fowler secondary (Sheff, Indiana to Templeton, Indiana).
I believe Phils co-worker took this upon arrival. Phil opened the door on purpose to hide the PC logo.................gawd. Of course, I kick myself for not photographing his truck in the 80's, it was ALWAYS sitting in his driveway and I was there every damn day.....GAWD.
For this week we are going back to 2008 and a route that had a short life with Dublin Bus. Route 74 commenced in May 2007 and ran from Stocking Avenue to City Centre via Templeogue and Rathmines. Initially the City Centre terminus was Eden Quay but within a few months it moved to Macken Street down in Dublin's docks. In 2009 it moved again to Britain Quay. The route lasted until December 2011 when it was replaced by the 15 under the Network Direct changes.
This 74 was not the first route 74 to operate in Dublin. The previous one to this was introduced with the opening of The Square Shopping Centre in Tallaght. That route connected the centre with Lucan and was not very successful, lasting less than a year.
AV 317 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2003 and withdrawn around 2017 when it was sold to a private operator in Galway.
Finally Suffolk Street was once one of the more busier streets in Dublin for buses but when Luas Cross-City works arrived in the area in January 2015, buses were diverted away and now it is pedestrianised. 01/10/2008
Another week and another hop back a decade to 2010. Dublin Bus AX 522 is seen departing Hawkins Street with a service on route 51B to Grange Castle. Although the 51 was synonymous with Clondalkin since 1927, the 51B only came into being in 1981. Originally the terminus was Bawnogue but in the 1990s it moved to Dunawley. In 1997 it became a CitySwift route, replacing the 51 as the main bus route to Clondalkin. The business park at Grange Castle became its terminus and remained so until the route was absorbed into the new, cross-city route 13 in October 2011 under the Network Direct revisions.
AX 522 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006. Originally it operated out of Conyngham Road garage, before moving to Ringsend. In 2013 it moved to Donnybrook and it is still there today.
The background has changed substantially over the last three years or so. The Screen Cinema was demolished in 2019, along with College House beside it. Demolition of Hawkins House, which dominates the background, began in 2020. Hawkins Street is also now home to the tram tracks of the Luas Green Line.
05/11/2010
It is 1998 and RH 137 is seen on Eden Quay. It is loading up prior to departing for Ardlea Road on the 20B. This route was once part of an extended 20 family, but it ended up being the longest surviving one. Under Network Direct the route became part of an extended cross-city route 14. This connects Beaumont with Dundrum. The 20B was mostly a northside route, serving Fairview, Donnycarney and Beaumont. However, certain peak workings crossed the Liffey and served St. Stephen's Green.
RH 137 was new in 1992 and had been delivered in the two-tone green livery. The bus stop beside is green, but the bus has been repainted into the new core livery. The last bus arrived in the green livery in 1997. After the bus ended its career it was sold to Dualways and became an open-top tour bus. 18/04/1998
This week we are going back thirteen years to 2013 and to AX 624 in Donabate with a service on route 33B to Swords.
CIE started operating the route between Swords and Portane in 1958, taking over from the GNR(I). It only gained a route number around 1972. In 1975 certain departures were extended to and from the city centre, but in 2002 it was cut back to Swords again. In 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route.
AX 624 was new to Dublin Bus in 2006, and was withdrawn in 2024.
22/10/2013