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I cannot think of a more appropriate way to mark the 150th Throwback Thursday than with a photograph of AV 150 on route 150.
The bus is seen at the terminus of the route on Fleet Street. The route connects the City Centre with Rossmore via Crumlin. The route began in 1994 under the City Imp brand, replacing route 50. In 2011 it was rerouted slightly to replace route 121 in the Liberties. The current 150 terminus is on Hawkins Street.
AV 150 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2000. It was initially allocated to Donnybrook Garage where it spent most of its career. It moved to Ringsend Garage to finish out its career. By 2016 it had crossed the sea to Scotland to take up work with McColls.
Fleet Street, 05/06/2015
This week we are going back twenty years to 1996. KD 160 is seen at Heuston Station. Although the front of the bus shows "Ballyfermot" the side number probably shows its true intent. Route 91 ran as required between the City Centre and Heuston, working inbound via Dame Street. It was designed to provide extra capacity on route 90 when required. With the extension of the 145 to Heuston a few years ago, route 91 silently faded away and no longer runs. Visible through the front door is the old magnetic strip ticket validator. These too are also now gone, replaced by tag-on machines. 18/08/1996
Slightly different Throwback Thursday this week as we are commemorating the end of a route. On Friday 11th November 2016 the 8 will run for the final time as part of changes to bus routes in the Dun Laoghaire. This is not the first time Dublin Bus has tried to get rid of the 8. An attempt was made in 2001 but thanks to a successful European Court case it returned in 2005. But this time in 2016 it will be the last run of the 8. The 8 also holds the distinction of being the last tram route to run in Dublin, back in 1949
RH 45 is seen at the Eden Quay terminus of the route 24 years ago. The bus is in an all-over ad for the First National Building Society. 22/11/1992
It is 1994. The bus stops (and most buses) are green, the trains are orange and some buses are advertising the trains. RH 41 is seen on Hawkins Street at the 48A terminus. The bus is in an all-over ad for Irish Rail. The national railway company was going through an era of growth and rebranding with new trains and a new logo. This is reflected in the design on the bus.There was a second bus done up for Irish Rail at this time too focusing on its Fast Track delivery service. Sadly that is no longer with us, and the trains are no longer orange.
The 48A connected the City Centre with Ballinteer via Milltown and Dundrum. With the arrival of the Luas in the early 2000s, patronage on the route dropped. Under Network Direct in 2011 the route was dropped, replaced by the 61 for the most part.
RH 41 was delivered new in 1990 to Donnybrook Garage as a Wedding Bus. Following the end of its career in Dublin it moved to Cork where it operated an open-top tour for Cronin's. Hawkins Street, 21/08/1994
Even though it's Wednesday still a throwback. I elected, on a whim, to try my old hairstyle. I do like the shorter one better!
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
A trip back ten years this week to 2009. RV 553 is seen heading north on O'Connell Street with a 140 to St. Margaret's Road. This route was one of a number of routes created in the early 2000s to cope with the expansion of Dublin due to the Celtic Tiger. The routes themselves, such as the 4, 128 and 140, more accurately started towards the end of the Celtic Tiger and the start of the economic crisis. The 140 commenced in 2008 connecting Wilton Terrace with Finglas, being a more direct route than the traditional 40. In late 2009 it was extended to Ikea near Ballymun and then in 2011 it was extended south to Rathmines as part of Network Direct. It replaced the 128 on the southside making the 128 a short-lived route of only 4 years. At one point consideration was given to merge the 140 with the 54A instead, which would have extended it beyond Tallaght to Kiltipper.
RV 553 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999. When this picture was taken it was based in Harristown Garage but was subsequently transferred to Summerhill. It was withdrawn in 2012. 06/01/2009
It is April 1985 and KD 5 is seen on Marlborough Street (not Abbey Street as on the caption) in Dublin. It is seen after arriving with a working on the 31 from Howth. This route can trace its origins back to the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) and was absorbed into CIE Dublin bus network in 1958. It follows the railway line from Dublin to Howth through villages such as Raheny and Sutton. However in recent times, unlike the railway, it continues through Howth Village and terminate at Howth Summit. As a result, this is a very popular bus route with visitors.
KD 5 was delivered new to CIE in 1981. It survived in service with Dublin Bus to the mid-1990s, spending all its life at Clontarf Garage.
The block of buildings beside the bus are no longer standing on Marlborough Street having been demolished in the early-2000s. The road beneath the bus became the Luas tram line in 2017. 11/04/1985
It's March 1988. Dublin Bus is just over a year old and a smart looking D 540 is seen on Eden Quay. The bus was fifteen years old at this point, having been delivered new to Phibsborough in 1973. However in 1987 it moved to Ringsend where it stayed until withdrawn in 1991.
The bus is seen on Ringsend route 15B. This operated from Eden Quay to Ballyroan, although in later years it went to Whitechurch and currently goes to Stocking Avenue. 15/03/1988
This week we are going twenty-five years to RH 130 at the terminus of route 13A on Kildare Street. The first 13A started around 1977, and ran from Ballymun to Beechwood Avenue. In 1980 it moved terminus to Poppintree, and the route ceased around 1983/1984. It returned to the network in 1994, running between Poppintree and Kildare Street. In 1997 it moved its southern terminus to Merrion Square. In 2004 it moved its northern terminus to Harristown, and in 2009 it started serving Ikea (near Ballymun). The route ceased in October 2011, as part of the changes brought in under Network Direct.
RH 130 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992. In 2006 it lost part of its roof and joined the Dublin Bus tour fleet. It was withdrawn in 2014 and sold for scrap. During its career it was one of the few RH Class members to receive CitySwift livery.
21/09/1996
It is 1984 and KC 20 is seen in Rialto with a 17. This route is one of the orbital routes in Dublin city, in that it connects the suburbs together rather than with the city centre. In 1984 the 17 connected Rialto with Dolphin's Barn, Crumlin, Dundrum and Blackrock. The route still does this today in 2019. In 1984 when this photograph was taken, the route was operated by CIE. Dublin Bus took over upon its formation in 1987 and then in 2019 Go-Ahead Ireland assumed responsibility for it and other orbital routes in Dublin.
KC 20 was delivered new to Donnybrook in 1981 and ended its career at Phibsborough Garage in the 1990s.
It is 1989 and KD 22 has just completed a journey on route 31 from Howth Summit. This route can trace its origins back to the bus service operated by Great Northern Railway (Ireland), even through they also ran a parallel rail service to Howth village. In 1959 the GNR(I) was absorbed into CIE and the 31 joined the Dublin City Services. Traditionally the 31 terminated on Marlborough Street and started on Lower Abbey Street but in 2014 the terminus moved to Talbot Street as this part of Marlborough Street was taken over by Luas Cross City works. This exact location is now the Marlborough tram stop on the Green Line. The bus stop it is parked at is actually the set-down stop for the 33, 33B, 41, 41A, 41B, 41C and 60. These were all Swords Road routes that terminated on Eden Quay.
KD 22 was delivered new to CIE in 1981 and remained in service until the late 1990s. It spent most (if not all) of its working life in Clontarf Garage.
The ad on the side of the bus is advertising the power of ... advertising on a bus. The pub in the background does not seem to be lacking in advertising on its frontage.
Finally it is worth noting that because it is a dual-door bus, the front doors have stickers saying "Entry Only" while the middle doors have signs saying "Exit Only". The Olympians in 1999 were the last dual-door buses delivered (apart from 15 AVs for Airlink in 2000) until the GT Class arrived in 2012. Since then, all double-decker buses delivered to Dublin B us have been dual-door.
16/01/1989
These 4 photos were taken January 26th, 1984 of Phil Boldmans snow removal crew, which he was a part of every winter between Schneider, Indiana and Danville, Illinois on Conrails Danville secondary (NYC Egyptian line). Photos are 2 miles north of Kentland, Indiana at the County Road W. 1400 S. crossing, looking south towards Kentland. The southbound distant signal "60 S" can be seen, Ethan Allen and the other Industries on the North side of Kentland can be seen at left in the 1st 3 photos.
I didn't get any info on the consist of this, but there was a CR owned Jordan Spreader #64622, 3 engines and a caboose.
I have approximately 30 photos from Phil while he was plowing this line that I will post in an album with this one.
Conrail Northbound M-O-W Crew
CR Danville Secondary, MP 60.02
January 26th, 1984
Kentland, Indiana (location between Kentland and the Iroquois River bridge)
Views look S/S/E
This week we are going back thirty-nine years to D 516 in Finglas.
The bus isn't showing a route number, and is displaying "City Centre via Whitworth Road". However, it is turning off Cardiffsbridge Road onto Cappagh Road, which was not the way any bus route took to get to city centre. However, it was the routing of route 40A, and the lack of passengers on board suggests it may have been working out to the 40A terminus to a do a service back into the city.
Route 40A started running between the city centre and Finglas in 1932. From the start until 1995, its terminus was on the Cappagh Road, with some services terminating at Cappagh Hospital. From 1995 to 2001 it terminated at Finglas Place. Then it moved to St. Margaret's Road until 2009, before gaining Charlestown as its final terminus. To route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct changes.
D 516 was new to CIE in 1973, and was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1991.
02/04/1987
Slightly unusual Throwback Thursday this week, and one I debated about posting. When I started this series in 2016 all public service obligation bus services in Dublin were operated by Dublin Bus, and prior to that it was CIE, from whom Dublin Bus was formed from in 1987. In 2015 the National Transport Authority sought expressions of interest to operate some of the routes around the city. During 2016 this became an official tender. Dublin Bus applied to retain and operate the routes, as did other bus companies. The winner which was announced in 2017 was Go-Ahead, a transport company that operates bus and rail services around the world. 23 routes transferred from Dublin Bus to Go-Ahead Ireland and one new route started, the 175.
The 175 commenced running on September 9th 2018. The route takes it from Citywest to UCD Belfield via Tallaght, Ballinteer and Dundrum, and back again. It provides some relief to the busy route 75 while also providing new connections between some of the southern suburbs in Dublin.
11572 is seen passing through the bus gate in Tallaght Village. This was one of 24 Wright Geminis bought specifically for the tendered routes, Another 49 members of the Dublin Bus SG class transferred over, as well as 12 GT class buses. In 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to provide extra services for school children, 7 AX buses also went to Go-Ahead Ireland.
So, the bus landscape has changed a bit in the four years since Throwback Thursday started. The Go-Ahead Ireland contract is for five years. With it starting in 2018, there is a chance another operator will be running this route in four years time. Of course, if Bus Connects happens, then none of the current bus routes could be around in four years. We live in interesting times...
10/09/2018
almost 3 years ago.... Baby Boy is doing math homework now
He is no longer a baby, but he is still as cute
This week we are going thirty-nine years to 1984 and D 373 parked on Hawkins Street. The bus is dressed for route 62 to Kilmacud, via Ranelagh and Clonskeagh. This route started operating in 1936, being extended from Goatstown to Kilmacud in 1962, and to Beaufield Park (behind the Stillorgan Shopping Centre) in 1966. The route ceased to operate in 1999 when it was replaced by an extended route 11.
D 373 was new to CIE in 1970 and was withdrawn in 1986.
Beside the bus is the New Metropole cinema, which opened in 1972. In 1984 it became the Screen Cinema, but it closed for the final time in 2016. The site is currently being redeveloped.
24/05/1984
This week we are returning to 2000 and the era of demonstrators. 99 D 76023 was a Volvo / Plaxton President, and was one of number of low-floor buses trialled by Dublin Bus. 1999 had seen the last step-entrance buses delivered to Dublin Bus in the form of the Volvo Olympians. An example of this bus can be seen in the background. By this point accessibility had become a much more important issue, and all future bus orders for Dublin Bus would be low-floor, Ultimately it was decided to go with Alexander bodied buses on Volvo chassis, starting with the AV class in late 2000. However in 2005 some tri-axle Enviro 500s were delivered from Alexander Dennis, and the bodies of these buses borrowed some stylings from the Plaxton President. For many years they operated from Dun Laoghaire the 46A, and other routes.
This bus went on to a long career in the UK, joining Sullivan's once its career as a demonstrator was over. It remained with Sullivan's up until at least 2017, with the registration X15 JOP.
Currently in 2020 Dublin Bus have some hybrid buses on trial, with CO2 emissions becoming the issue of the day, like accessibility was twenty years ago. 20/02/2000
It's 2008, AV 330 is based at Donnybrook Garage and is operating the 45. This route connected the City Centre to Bray, and for many years was the main bus route to that Wicklow town. When the DART arrived in the 1980s, the railway provided a much quicker journey to the city. The 45 kept going though. It had two termini in Bray, one at Oldcourt and the other on the seafront. This latter one was helpfully referred to as "Esplanade" on the destination displays. The route reached Bray by going via Blackrock and Cabinteely. It was supplemented by route 45A from Dun Laoghaire to Bray. In the early-2000s Dublin Bus introduced the more direct route 145 which used the Stillorgan Road QBC. The 45 became less busy and attempts were made to cut it back from the City Centre by terminating in Ballsbridge. This was unpopular and the route was restored to Merrion Square. However Network Direct saw the end of the route in 2012.
AV 330 is no longer in service with Dublin Bus. D'Olier Sreet 26/04/08
A slightly unusual Throwback Thursday this week as I have very little information on the bus. All i can say is that the bus is KD 273. It was based in Donnybrook Garage and it is in an all-over ad as Euro Bus, celebrating the people of the European Union.
It is seen on St. Stephen's Green, at what was once the location of a number of bus stops for a lot of routes in the city, but were subsequently relocated when the Luas Green Line opened, thirteen years ago this week. 27/06/1990
This week we are going back 36 years to D 394 in 1984. The bus is seen on route 7 at the terminus on Eden Quay. The original 7 was part of the tram network in Dublin, with the first bus route 7 starting in 1949. It only lasted until 1951 and was peak-hour only services between Dun Laoghaire and the city centre. The main route on the corridor at that time was the 8 to Dalkey. A 7A started in 1950 between Sallynoggin and the city centre, but the 7 itself did not return to the network until 1980. From then to 1988 its southern terminus was Ballybrack (Wyatville Road), but it was then extended to Loughlinstown Park. Today the 7 runs to Cherrywood and the 7A to Loughlinstown Park.
D 394 was delivered new to Dublin in December 1970. In 1987 it transferred to Irish Rail where it became the staff bus in Inchicore. It was sold for scrap in 1990 and went to the scrapyard in the CIE tan-livery as seen here. 15/10/1984
It is a grey day in February 2010, and AV 217 is seen in Drumcondra. It is operating route 40A from Parnell Street to Charlestown via Finglas. The 40 family of routes are synonymous with Finglas, although the 40B is a bit of an outlier as it goes to Toberburr near St. Margarets. The 40A served some of the estates in Finglas off Cardiffsbridge Road before terminating in the village. In 2009 the route was extended to the new development at Charlestown. By the end of 2011 the 40A had been absorbed into the new cross-city 40 which ran from Finglas to Liffey Valley. The 40 itself was extended to Charlestown in 2017.
Whitworth Road in Drumcondra runs beside and above the railway line served by trains to Docklands Station. It is a busy bus route with the 40s all serving it. In the past the 13 to Ballymun also went this way. It is also heavily used by Bus Eireann. 12/02/2010
This week we are going back a mere eight years and two very different generations of buses. Dublin Bus EV 9 is seen parked on Marlborough Street after arriving with a service on route 130 from Castle Avenue. Behind it is preserved RA 37 dressed for the long-gone route 30 to Dollymount.
EV 37 is an Enviro 400 built by Alexander Dennis on a Volvo chassis in 2007. It is currently still in service with Dublin Bus, and has spent all of its career (so far) in Clontarf Garage. RA 37 is a Leyland Titan PD3/2 that was delivered new to CIE in 1959. It spent its entire career in Dublin, initially in Ringsend Garage, and ended its days in Clontarf Garage. It arrived there in 1976 and was withdrawn in 1982, when it passed to preservation.
Route 30 commenced running between the City Centre and Dollymount in 1937. In 1996 it was combined with the 44A to become City Imp route 130. In the early 2000s the route was subsumed into the regular network as the City Imp brand was slowly dropped.
This layover on Marlborough Street has in more recent times become a tram stop on the Luas Green Line. 02/12/2012
Throwback to when Ruby was around 12 weeks old - she turns 1 next month and I don't know how I'll cope with my little girl growing up!
This week we go back twenty-five years to 1996 and RH 132 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 20A. The was the first of two derivatives to route 20. The 20 started in 1939 and connected Donnycarney with Bulfin Road. The 20A started in 1948 and ran from Donnycarney North (Killester Avenue) to the city centre via Malahide Road and Fairview. The 20B started in 1980 and ran from Beaumont (Ardlea Road) to ythe city centre. This latter route outlived the other two routes. The 20A started to be merged into the 20B around 1997. Departures were reduced on the 20A and certain departures on the 20B operated via the 20A route. In June 1999 the 20A was finally withdrawn when the 42A was rerouted along Collins Avenue to replace the 20A. The 20A outlasted the 20 by 9 years, and the 20B kept going until it was absorbed into the 14 in 2011. In 1970 the 20A gained one notable footnote in the timetable when one departure in the morning ran from Donnycarney to North Wall for dock workers. There was however no return working.
RH 132 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992. It was one of twenty-eight Olympians delivered that year. In 1997 it was painted into CitySwift livery, though did not receive the same interior as the new CitySwift Olympians. In 2005 it was withdrawn from the regular fleet and joined the driving school. The following year in 2006 it was sold to Dualway Coaches and became an open-top tour bus. However the bus was destroyed in a fire in the Dualway garage in 2011.
11/02/1996
It is 1999 and a decade, century and a millennium is coming towards an end. And so is a bus livery. RV 326 is seen parked on Burgh Quay between duties on the 14A. It and RV 327 were the last buses delivered new in the two-tone green livery of Dublin Bus in 1997. This livery was introduced in 1987 and started to be replaced in the mid-1990s with a new cream/blue "core" livery. The VLs were the first buses delivered in a new, and unique, standard livery in 1997 ( but not the final one that was chosen). RV 326 was one of five new buses allocated to the 14A when delivered. RV 327 as mentioned was in two-tone green, RV 328 and RV 329 were in Wedding Bus livery and RV 330 was in Coastal Tours livery.
RV 326 also has the distinction of being the first RV delivered to Dublin Bus, and thus the first Volvo Olympian. The last one to be delivered was RV 640. Being the first, RV 326 received marker-lights above the upper-deck windscreen, something the rest of the 1997 deliveries did not get.
The 14A was a variation of the 14, and connected the City Centre with Ballinteer via Dartry while the 14 served Rathgar. Under Network Direct the 14A was absorbed into the 14, the Dartry routing was dropped, buses went via Ballinteer to Dundrum and was extended on the northside to Ardlea Road.
Finally, the bus is parked beside the building of the Irish Press which was a newspaper published between 1931 and 1995. Burgh Quay, 18/07/1999
This week we are going back thirty-five years to Maynooth in County Kildare. KD 291 is seen Maynooth at the terminus of route 66. This 66 has a long history with the DUTC taking over the route from private operators in 1934. It then passed to CIE in 1945 and Dublin Bus in 1987. From 1951 until 2010, a number of departures extended further into Kildare to Kilcock, but that town is now primarily served by Bus Eireann. The 66 terminus in Maynooth was extended further south along Straffan Road in 1996, where it still currently terminates. The route runs to Dublin city centre via Leixlip, Lucan and Chapelizod. The 67 also connects the two placed but goes via Celbridge instead of Leixlip. Over the years the 66 has spawned the 66A, 66B, 66D, 66E and 66X.
Maynooth is one of the few locations on the Dublin Bus network that is also served by Irish Rail and Bus Eireann (although it is not possible to travel into or out of Dublin on Bus Eireann). It is also served by TFI route 139 between Blanchardstown and Naas.
KD 291 was delivered new to Dublin in 1982. It was withdrawn between 1996 and 2000. 24/09/1985
#throwback 10 years ago to Wednesday, 29 June 2016.
Cork driver Ken Fox passes between Glounthaune and Little Island with the Cobh to Cork weedsprayer.
© Finbarr O'Neill
it is a trip back twenty-five years this week to 1994. KD 172 is seen at Blackrock Station with a 114. The destination displays are slightly confusing as it is showing Sandyford Industrial Estate as the main destination, and "Via Airport" below it. The "via" routing is definitely wrong, and the main destination is partially accurate but should probably be in the "via" part.
The 114 was introduced in 1987 as a DART Feeder service and ran from Blackrock to Kilcross via Sandyford Industrial Estate. A number of other Feeder services were introduced over the years such as the 113 and 115, but the 114 is the only one to survive. In 2006 the route was extended to Ticknock Hill. In January 2019 it was transferred to Go-Ahead Ireland as part of it winning the tender to operate some of the orbital/peripheral routes in the city.
The terminus in Blackrock is also currently home to the 17 and the 46E. The latter is the only Dublin Bus route to operate from here (the 17 also being operated by Go-Ahead Ireland), and only has two departures a day, Monday to Friday.
KD 172 was delivered new around 1981/82 to Donnybrook Garage and remained there all its life, being withdrawn from service in the latter-half of the 1990s.
27/08/1994
It is 1992 and RH 120 is seen heading north on O'Connell Street with cross-city route 10 from UCD Belfield to Phoenix Park. Until its withdrawal in 2010, this was one of the more famous bus routes in Dublin with most people's experiences of it either being to take them to college in UCD or the Zoo in the Phoenix Park. Under Network Direct, the northern half of the route was taken over by the 46A, and the southern half by the 39A.
The bus is in an all-over ad for the "Travel Ten" ticket. This was an initiative by Dublin Bus where one prepaid ticket offered ten journeys. This ticket later morphed into the "2 Eazy" ticket, which then evolved into the current smartcard "Leap".
RH 120 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1991. It was withdrawn in the early-2000s and went to operate with Veolia in the United Kingdom. 14/03/1992