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It's 1997 and threre is some contrast on the streets of Dublin. KD 218 is seen loading up on Abbey Street with a 39 to Clonsilla. The route had transitioned to CitySwit operation in 1993 and was replaced by single-deckers operating a high-frequency timetable. Some of them can be seen behind the KD. Due to the increase demand on this route Dublin Bus did get some new Olympian double-deckers branded for CitySwift from 1996 on, so it is somewhat unusual to see the much older KD on the route in 1997. This bus had been delivered between 1982/83 and was coming near the end of its career at this point.
In 2018 no buses terminate on this part of Abbey Street and the 39 runs from Burlington Road to Ongar. 01/03/1997
This week we go back to 2012 and to a bus route no longer operated by Dublin Bus. AV 76 and AV 395 are seen at Dundrum, both on route 161. This route connects Dundrum with Rockbrook via Whitechurch. This route commenced in 1999 and originally terminated at Nutgrove Shopping Centre. It was operated by mini-buses but in later years it has become a double-decker route. Although the route destination is shown as Rockbrook, the bus route actually continues on along Tibradden Road for the bus to turn around near Marlay Park. From January 20th 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over the route and single-deckers returned to the route.
AV 76 was delivered to Dublin Bus in 2000 and AV 395 in 2004. By 2014 AV 76 was operating the UK, while AV 395 finished its days in Summerhill, being withdrawn in 2018.
24/01/2012
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 are going back to 1988 and to KD 85 at Donabate railway station. It is displaying route 33B although it may be on the 33C, although both routes were very closely related. The 33B connected the city centre with Portrane via Swords and Donabate. Overtime the city centre connection was reduced, with only two services from Dublin and four services to Dublin in 1988. Most departures went to / from Swords. By the early 2000s the route was solely confined to Swords to Portrane via Donabate. In 2018 the route transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland.
Route 33C ran between Donabate Station to Portrane Hospital. It was removed from the network at the same time as the 33B was cut back to Swords. The 33B was also diverted to serve Portrane Hospital.
KD 85 was delivered new to Dublin in 1982. It was destroyed in a fire by vandals at Skerries station in 1989. 25/06/1988
It is the year 2000 and GAC Bombardier KC 197 is still in service, but not for much longer. The bus entered service in 1982 five years before Dublin Bus was incepted, and eight months later all Bombardier buses had been withdrawn by Dublin Bus.
KC 197 operated out of Clontarf Garage and is seen here operating route 53. This is one of the shorter routes in Dublin, operating from the City Centre to Dublin Port via East Wall. Journey time is under half an hour. The bus is seen here at a terminus on Abbey Street. The bus stop has the 51A on it, and the 53 traditionally operated from Beresford Place. Today the route goes from Talbot Street, and this terminus is used by the 33, 41/A/B/C. Abbey Street, 07/03/2000
This week we re going back thirty-two years to 1993, and to P 5 at the route 39 terminus in Clonsilla.
Route 39 started running between the City Centre and Blanchardstown in 1926. Between 1972 and 2004 its western terminus moved around between Sheepmoor, Clonsilla, Coolmine and the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. In 2004 it settled on Ongar as a western terminus. In 2010, under Network Direct, the city terminus moved to Baggot Street and three years later to Burlington Road.
In 1993 route 39 became the first CitySwift route in Dublin. The concept was to run single-decker buses at a higher-frequency than before. When this started, Clonsilla was the terminus as seen here.
P 5 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1993, with the P Class the first class of bus purchased for CitySwift operations. The P Class ultimately number 40 members, and were later joined on CitySwift routes by members of the AD, VA, RV and AV Classes. P 5 was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the early-2000s, and had joined the Bus Eireann school fleet in Cavan by 2003. By 2013 it had been withdrawn and stored in Dundalk garage for eventual scrapping.
18/09/1993
This week we are throwing back to a throwback! In 2011, Dublin Bus was still undertaking the Network Direct re-organisation of the bus network in the capital. In August of that year it made its presence known to routes 19 and 19A. These were considered some of the premier routes in the city, up there with the 3, 10 and 46A. However Network Direct took no prisoners and the 19 from Jamestown Road to Bulfin Road was abolished and the 19A from Jamestown Road to Limekiln Avenue regenerated into the 9. The last day of both routes was Saturday 27th August, but on the Wednesday before a special run was organised with preserved Leyland Olympian RH 7. It is seen here at the Bulfin Road terminus of the 19 before heading cross city to Finglas.
Incidentally, this was also the day Steve Jobs resigned from Apple. 24/08/2011
This week we are throwing back twenty-one years to 2001 and the end of Bombardier buses in Dublin. On the 13th January 2001, Dublin Bus ran a farewell trip for the Bombarder buses. KD 114 and KD 353, the latter seen here, represented the double-deckers, while KC 100 represented the single-deckers. The tour ended in Donnybrook Garage, where KD 353 and KC 100 were handed over to the National Transport Museum based in Howth.
KD 353 is seen here at the terminus for route 8 in Dalkey. The first KD to enter service was KD 2 on the the 28th May 1981 and did so on route 8. KD 353 entered service in June 1983. The last proper KD in service had been on route 16 in December 2000, but on the day of the farewell run, the final fare-paying passenger was picked up while the tour was operating along route 11 to Clonskeagh. Bombardier buses remained in service with Bus Eireann around the country for a few more years.
Route 8 started operating between the city centre and Dalkey as a bus route in 1949 (replacing the trams). It stopped briefly between 2001 and 2005, but ended completely in 2016. Under Bus Connects, it is proposed to use the route number on a new route between the city centre and Beaumont Hospital via Clontarf.
13/01/2001
A trip back in time this week of twenty-six years to 1990. KD 1 is seen at a bus rally in the Phoenix Park. This was the first of 366 KD buses delivered to CIE between 1980 and 1983. These buses were built in Shannon by Bombardier and an extra one was built for and shipped to Baghdad. KD 1 itself was built in Hamburg in Germany by FFG. The last KD was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 2000. KD 1 was based in Donnybrook Garage and that is reflected in the scrolls for route 8 in the photograph. This was the first route to have a KD operate on it. In light of recent sporting events, the ad for the World Cup in Italy is quite topical. Phoenix Park 30/06/1990
***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:)
This week we are back in Dun Laoghaire, this time to see KC 87 on the 111 in 1990.
At this time the 111 was only four years old. It was one of a number of routes designed to connect in with the new electric DART train service. These DART feeder services included the the 88 in Howth, the 102 in Sutton, the 101 in Harmonstown, the 103 in Killester, the 90 at Connolly, the 52 at Sydney Parade, the 113 and 114 in Blackrock and the 111 in Killiney. The 111 connected Dun Laoghaire with Loughlinstown Park going via Sallynoggin. Over the years the route saw its frequency cut-back as the DART feeder concept slowly faded away. By 2009 it was a peak-hours only service, Monday to Friday. However, in 2015 a reorganisation of the Dun Laoghaire network took place, and the 111 went through a remarkable transformation. The 111 was rerouted to run from Brides Glen Luas stop to Dalkey, via Loughlinstown, Sallynoggin and Dun Laoghaire, as well as regaining an all-day timetable. Until 2018, the new timetable was Monday-Saturday, but when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the route, it became a seven-day operation.
KC 87 was delivered new to Dublin in 1983.
Finally, this area around Dun Laoghaire station has changed a lot over the last thirty years, with the buildings in the background replaced by an apartment and office block, the bus stops and shelters and have also been replaced, and most of the buses that park here now are operated by Go-Ahead Ireland. The 46A is the only Dublin Bus route to stop here.
Dun Laoghaire, 17/04/2020
This week we are going back a decade to July 2010 and RV 582 at the 14 terminus in Dundrum.
The 14 is a route that can trace its origins back to the tram days when it connected the city centre with Dartry. From the 1950s the bus route operated from Phoenix Park to Churchtown, being extended to Ballinteer in the 1990s. It was further extended to Dundrum in the 2000s, to provide some interchange with the recently opened Luas Green Line (This photograph was taken from the Dundrum tram stop). Under Network Direct in 2011 the 14 was merged with the 14A and 20B to become a cross-city route from Beaumont to Dundrum. In August 2020, the terminus is due to switch to the other side of the road due to the main street becoming one way.
RV 582 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999 and withdrawn in 2012. It then emigrated to the United Kingdom where most recently it has been doing school bus duties with Fowler's Travel near Peterborough. 29/07/2010
This week we are going back fifteen years to 2010 and to AV 311 in Kilmainham, with a service on route 19 to Bulfin Road.
Route 19 started running between Glasnevin and Rialto in 1939. Initially its terminus was Ballygall Road East, but moved to Cedarwood Road in 1967. Around 1989 the southern terminus moved to Bulfin Road in Inchicore, and in 2001 the northern terminus moved to Jamestown Road. The route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct, when it was partially replaced by routes 9, 83, 83A, 68 and 68A. The number returned to the network in 2025 when a new route 19 started running between Dublin Airport and the city centre under Bus Connects.
AV 311 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. It was withdrawn in late-2017, and was sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
09/10/2010
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.
It is 1986 and D 653 is seen on one of the shorter bus routes in Dublin. Route 53 connects Dublin Port with the City Centre via the residential area of East Wall. In the past it was a busier route, used by the dock workers in Dublin Port. There was a 53A too which took a more direct route and avoided East Wall. Over time the routes became less popular. Part of this decline can be attributed to the frequent route 151 (started in 2007) which has a terminus on East Road and the Luas tram line to the Point Depot (started in 2009). Under Network Direct the 53A was abolished and the 53 was extended to the Irish Ferries terminal. For a while Dublin Bus also ran a 53B from Heuston Station to this ferry terminal but this was a commercial contract which terminated in 2017.
D 653 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and withdrawn in 1994. It is seen on East Road as it climbs over one of the railway yards for the port. In 2019 this is the only remaining yard operated by Irish Rail in the port, the rest having been sold for development. 13/05/1986
A trip back to the last century this week as we see KC 117 at Dublin Airport. This bus was one of four buses (KC 116-119) that was done up for the express service between the airport and Bus Aras, the central bus station in Dublin. Later the route was extended to Heuston Station. The buses differed from regular members of the KC class by having no middle doors and better seats They entered service on the route around 1986 and remained in service until 1999. In their last few years KC 116 and KC 117 were painted in the new Airlink livery, the brand applied to the route with the arrival of the AD class buses in 1994. KC 118 and KC 119 rejoined the normal fleet in 1994, and had a centre door fitted as well as being painted into Dublin Bus livery. In 1999 the route gained some RV double-deckers, low-floor double-deckers in 2000 (AV Class) followed by newer ones in 2009 (VG Class). To date those are the newest buses the route has received.
This week (in 2020) National Express started three new services between Dublin Airport and the city centre under the brand name Dublin Express. Aircoach have also been providing a similar service for twenty years. Dublin Airport, 06/03/1999
Throwback Thursday, part 1
Locomotor 362 + rongenwagen op de Wilhelminakade van de HAL (Holland Amerika Lijn) in Rotterdam, foto Robert Boer Hirschhorn , datum onbekend.
This week we are going back to 1998 and to KC 121 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 42B. This route can trace its origins back to 1958. Initially it terminated in Artane but in 1966 it (and the 42A) was extended to Harmonstown. In the early 1980s it was extended to Blunden Drive and there it remained until 2011, although its routing around the Harmonstown area varied over the years. In September 2011 the 42B effectively became the new route 27A.
KC 121 was delivered new to CIE in 1985. initially it was based in Dundalk Garage, but over its career it operated out of five more garages. In 1986 it moved to Dublin and went to Conyngham Road, 1994 to Summerhill, 1997 to Clontarf, and 1999 to Donnybrook. In 2000 it then returned to the provincial fleet and became a school bus based out of Tralee. It is also worth noting that in 1994 it was stolen and extensively damaged but was repaired by Louth Commercials.
10/01/1998
L-R A900 (2008) with Minolta AF 35-200mm Zoom xi, A100 (2006) with Sony DT 18-55mm SAM II zoom, R1 (2005) with integral Carl Zeiss 24-120mm Vario-Sonnar lens.
This week we are going back thirty-two years and a look at a future that could have been MD 1 is seen on Marlborough Street after arriving with a service on route 32. MD 1 was one of two demonstrators evaluated by Dublin Bus in late 1988 as it considered what new buses to purchase to modernise its fleet. The bus was an MCW Metrobus with a Cummins engine. The bus was used in all Dublin Bus garages during its time in Ireland. When it returned to the UK it was sold to Stevenson's. MCW were obviously keen to get the contract to supply buses to Ireland as they painted the bus up in Dublin Bus livery. The second demonstrator was a Leyland Olympian and it came in an all white livery. However, between 1990 and 1999, 640 Olympians entered service with Dublin Bus, compared to 0 Metrobus's. The streets of Dublin could have looked very different if the order had gone the other way.
Route 32 can trace its origins back to the Great Northern Railway (Ireland), and passed to CIE in 1958. It mainly operated between Dublin and Portmarnock, with some services to Malahide operating as route 32A. In November 2012, routes 32 and 32A were merged into just the 32 and operates from Dublin to Malahide via Portmarnock.
23/12/1988
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.
Throwback Thursday this week is going back to 1982 and the end of rear-entrance buses in Dublin. RA 138, R 1 and KD 52 are seen on Drimnagh Road at the terminus of the 23 while on a special run to mark the end of these buses. The actual last day was over a week later on the 2nd April.
The 23 eventually became route 123 under the City Imp brand and extended to Kilnamanagh Road. 27/03/1982
Currently in 2016 the centre of Dublin is being dug up as part of Luas Cross City. Work started just over a year ago and is now substantially complete. This week we are going back thirteen years to when the first Luas lines were being built. In this shot the Red Line can be seen under construction on Store Street as it makes its way from Abbey Street to Connolly Station, AV 117 is picking up passengers outside Bus Aras as it operates route 747 to Dublin Airport. At the time the destination was shown in a variety of languages. The route is still running today but by VG-class busses in a two-tone green livery. 21/09/2003
This week we are going back to 2003. That was the year when then Special Olympics came to Dublin. The games took place in a number of venues around the city from the 21st-29th June. Dublin Bus provided a shuttle bus service between the venues with the Red and Yellow routes running from the Phoenix Park. The WV-class of buses were used as they were low-floor and easily accesible which resulted in some unusual buses on the routes the WVs normally operated on.
WV 25 is seen at the Phoenix Park terminus while operating the Yellow Route. 22/06/2003
A festive Throwback Thursday from 1985. KD 90 is seen parked in the yard at Skerries Station. It is dressed for route 33 and the picture is taken on Christmas Day.
It has hard to imagine now, but up until the early 1980s there were bus services provided for part of Christmas Day. No doubt the main impetus was to bring people to and from church, but it also allowed people to travel around the city and visit friends or relatives.
At the time this photograph was taken, KD 90 was about four years old. Although the 33 was operated out of Summerhill Garage, close to Dublin City Centre, there was an outstation here at Skerries for a few buses. This meant buses could start or finish here and not have to run empty back to Dublin, 35 kilometres away.
The ad on the side of the bus is for CDL coal distributors. These were taken over by Bord na Mona in 1995.
Skerries, 25/12/1985
It is 1998 and RH 159 is seen on Abbey Street between duties on the 37. This bus was already five years old when the picture was taken and lasted in service with Dublin Bus until 2006. It then went on to continue its career in the UK. The bus was delivered in two-tone Dublin Bus green but received this wrap in 1998 to celebrate 100 years of Esso (ExxonMobil) in Ireland. The bus was still in a wrap for Esso in 2003 but ended its days in Dublin Bus core-livery of blue and cream.
Esso service stations only lasted a little longer with Topaz taking over the final ones in 2014/15.
The 37 route connected the City Centre with Castleknock and Carpenterstown. Its terminus in 1998 was on Abbey Street but Luas works saw tramlines laid along this part of the road in the early-2000s so the 37 had to move to the southside around Hawkins Street and Corn Market Exchange. Under Network Direct it moved to Wilton Terrace off Baggot Street and was extended to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in 2011. 26/07/1998
This week we are going back to 1988 and to D 720 on Aston Quay with a 79 to Ballyfermot.Route 79 to Ballyfermot began in 1949. The original terminus was on Kylemore Road before being extended to Cherry Orchard Avenue in 1985. In the early 1990s it was then extended to Spiddal Park where it still terminates today. The early 2000s saw it share a lot of its routing with the 79A which operates to Parkwest.
D 720 was delivered new to Limerick in 1975. It moved to Dublin in 1986 and operated out of Conyngham Road Garage until 1993, when it was withdrawn. It was sold for scrap in 1994.
11/11/1988
I set up this account to upload photos from our trip to Australia 9 years ago, a trip for my 40th birthday! It is oddly reassuring to see that my hair was thinning even then!!!this was taken the day before my birthday. A week after we returned we left London for good.
I wonder where we'll be for my 50th?
If you'd been stood in this exact spot oooh say er, in about 1997, this would have been a passenger train. A class 37 and a motley looking collection of mk2's.
Similarly back then, there was a little bit of a shortage of rolling stock. But instead of slashing the service and playing the 'poor us' game, someone got off their backside and did something about it.
Just saying...
3Q95 Crewe-Bangor, which I think was an ultrasonic test train, saunters into the down passenger loop at Rhyl on 19 May 2021.
Leading the way is 37612, a long term hire loco for Colas from the Harry Needle fleet. There's some history here, released into traffic as D6879 in October 1963, the loco was a solid South Walian for many years and there's a good number of pictures about of the loco on passenger duty on the South West Wales branches as 37179, a number carried from late 1973.
The loco was selected for a 1980's refurb, re-numbered to 37691 in 1987 and then spent time with Trainload Coal and Railfreight General before being selected for the EPS (European Passenger Services) fleet, further modified in 1995 for use on Nightstar work and re-numbered again to 37612.
Batty as it now sounds, the idea was direct sleeper trains through the tunnel from both Plymouth and Swansea to Paris and Brussels were to be hauled from the west to Dollands Moor by pairs of EPS 37's, running with Nightstar stock powered by a generator van converted from a mk3 sleeper.
Despite the conversions and the newly built Nightstar stock being in place, it never actually happened. Via Rail Canada came along and stole the stock for sixpence (almost literally...), the generator cars were quietly forgotten about and most if not all of the twelve class 37/6 locos were sold to the the fledgling Direct Rail Services, an operation established by BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels) to shift nuclear material around the country after the privatisation of the Railfreight operations.
Twenty years of DRS use ended in 2017 when DRS had one of their periodic clear outs and the loco was obtained by HNRC.
We've another Q train due tomorrow, the four-weekly visit of 1Q30 and it should be two red class 43 power cars. Pity the sky won't be quite so blue...
Originally Taken: May 12, 2011
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Camera: Nikon D80
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So, it seems Throwback Thursday totally slipped my mind this month and now I'm scrambling at the very last minute to get one done!
This was taken back when my neighbour and I were walking up to the coffee shop on each nice day we were both available, this was just me fooling around with the camera while she was inside the store getting a refill. Our walks together have been further and further apart since her little one arrived and she's gone back to work, so I thought that in every sense, this really suited the Throwback Thursday theme!
Hope all is well!
Throwback
"We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself, anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we'll meet in a coffee shop in a faraway city somewhere, and we could give it another shot."
This week we are going back forty years to 1982 and D 638 on route 42A. This bus was delivered new to CIE in 1975. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994 and sold for scrap.
Route 42A started operating between the city centre and Kinsealy / Malahide in 1926. In 1953 it was cut back to Coolock, and in 1954 to Artane. In 1966 it was extended to Harmonstown. In 1988 it was merged into (and replaced by) the 42B, before reappearing again in 1996 as the service to Blunden Drive. In 2005 it was extended to Beaumont Hospital and in 2011 it was removed from the network again under Network Direct.
The bus is seen at the terminus on Talbot Street, and this is still used by route 42 to Malahide today.
31/03/1982
It's 1983 and D 279 is seen at the 62 terminus in Kilmacud (or is it Stillorgan?). This terminus is located just off the Lower Kilmacud Road, but is just behind the Stillorgan Shopping Centre. However the route more appropriately served the Kilmacud area, so the destination on the front of the bus is probably the right choice. A number of routes have terminated over the years, the 52, 62, 64, 64A, 46B and most recently the 11. With the rerouting of the 11 to Sandyford Business District during Network Direct, this terminus is no longer used, but the 47 and 75 still serve the Lower Kilmacud Road.
The 62 operated from the City Centre to here via Ranelagh, Clonskeagh and Goatstown, and ceased in 1999 when it was merged with the 11.
D 279 entered service in 1969 and was withdrawn in 1985. 17/02/1983
This isn’t a Corvette. It’s the Equus Throwback.
Okay, so it is a Corvette, sort of.
But this Corvette has been restyled, and given a little bit more grunt by Equus Automotive, creator of the Bass770.
The retro-inspired Throwback is a limited model, with only 25 planned by the Detroit-based company, which utilises the ‘Vette as a basis to create a “significantly upgraded” muscle car.
The Corvette’s supercharged V8 can be tuned to an output of 746kW and 1114Nm. Equus says it’s capable of a 2.5-second run to 97km/h (60mph), and has a top speed of 354km/h.
Equus Autmotive’s goal with the Throwback was to inspire a sense of nostalgia in muscle car fans while providing a car with modern-day usability.
“The Throwback model uses unique styling language in its outer skin to create a breathtaking vision of the ultimate Corvette. Equus takes the customer down memory lane to an era when Corvettes were synonymous with performance and class.
“The Throwback can be personalized for the design orientated drivers or for the fastest paced performance centric customer, always emphasizing the original love of an icon, desire for innovation and uncompromised quality.
“Just as companies like Brabus and Alpina focus on European brands, Equus Automotive is focused on providing American Sports car lovers the ultimate interpretation of todayʼs designs.