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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 back twenty-six years to 1995 to see RH 148 trying out a new livery. At the time Dublin Bus was eight years old and was considering a new livery to replace the two-tone green and orange stripe. RH 147 received a blue/white livery with a yellow stripe, whereas RH 148 received a two-tone green livery with orange stripe. As can be seen in the photo, when compared to the buses around it, it was only really the lower green that was modified from the standard livery. Unsurprisingly, this livery was not adopted as the new fleet standard. Nor was the livery on RH 147. Instead a blue and cream livery with orange was introduced a few years later. In 2003 Dublin Bus adopted a blue and yellow livery, and now in 2021 a new TFI livery is being rolled out across Ireland.
Route 45 ran between Dublin City Centre and Bray, with termini in the latter either at Oldcourt or Esplanade. It was removed from the network in 2012, but the 45A continues on today between Dun Laoghaire and Kilmacanogue via Bray.
RH 148 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992 and was withdrawn in 2006. It was then sold on to an operator in Scunthorpe in the United Kingdom. It was subsequently withdrawn at some point after 2013. D'Olier Street, 01/04/1995
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1998, and to ML 2 at The Square in Tallaght. The minibus is operating a service on route 201 to Kilnamanagh.
Tallaght gained three local routes in the late-1980s, and these were numbered T01, T02 and T03. These routes served the various housing estates around Tallaght. When The Square shopping centre opened in 1990, the routes started serving calling there. Around that time they were also renumbered 201, 202 and 203. The 201 connected Killinarden and Kilnamanagh, In the 1990s it had a few changes, moving western terminus to Jobstown and eastern one to Aylesbury and later Kiltipper. In the early-2000s it started operating between Citywest and Bohernabreena, and this was its final form until the route was withdrawn around 2009.
ML 2 was one of thirty-five ML Class minibuses delivered to Dublin Bus between 1994 and 1995. Some of these buses did not last long with Dublin Bus, and transferred to Bus Eireann in Waterford and Cork. ML 2 was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in the early-2000s and had been sold on to another operator by 2003.
13/06/1998
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
This photo was taken on June 14th, 1972 of then Penn Central employee Frank Burman working on putting new banners on the switchstand at St. John, Indiana along the former NYC Egyptian Line at MP 15.20. This view is looking north near Joliet street (in distance) with the northbound signal for the L&N (nee-Monon) crossing in the far distance. The industry at left I believe was a lumber company and in this general vicinity was once a turntable and roundhouse.
Photo by Phil Boldman.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Throwback to another scenic campsite from a few years ago. Hope your weekend is as relaxing as a campout in the desert.
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They're renovating the shop up the road. And in the process, have taken down the old sign. This was underneath. I think they should leave it like that!
We grow old when we stop playing. So this #TBT you can rescue your old teddy bears, dolls and cars from the dusty old trunk and share best photos with us.
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It is a trip back to 1995 for the second last Throwback Thursday of 2016. KD 346 is seen on Abbey Street, prior to operating route 22B to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. This was a bit of an odd route that did not last very long. From Abbey Street it served Berkeley Road, New Cabra Road, Fassaugh Avenue, Navan Road, Castleknock Road and Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. It therefore provided a connection between the latter and Cabra, and was not the most direct route from the city centre to Blanchardstown. Where the bus is parked is now the Luas Red Line, and in fact the connection to the Green Line has gone in at this point. 22/12/1995
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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
It is December 1995 and RH 239 is making its way around St. Stephen's Green as it operates a 46A to Dun Laoghaire. At this time all the southbound traffic used this side of the park. When the Luas opened in the early 2000s and stopped traffic using the western side, the southbound traffic was diverted away from the park. The route in the picture was then used by northbound traffic. A contraflow bus lane was maintained from Hume Street and thus the 46A used this side of the park in both directions. In 2014 the route in the picture was reopened to buses (with a slightly different road layout) and the 46A goes this way once more without having to use Hume Street.
The bus in the picture was relatively new at the time, and initially was part of the RH Class. However it was later decided to reclassify them as RA Class as they were slightly different from the first 175 RH buses. Later on a further variation would result in the RV Class. In total there was 640 buses between all three, with the last one withdrawn in December 2012.
In 1995 the 46A served Stillorgan village but in the 2000s the route was taken out, in order to improve punctuality and journey times, and stayed on the Stillorgan By-Pass instead. 12/12/1995
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.
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
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.
A trip back twenty-one years this week to 1998. KD 128 is seen on Middle Abbey Street at the terminus of route 25. This route, like a lot of lot of Dublin bus routes, can trace its origins back to the era of the tram. The tram route connected Lucan village with the city centre at Bachelor's Walk, going via Chapelizod. With the demise of the tram in the middle of the Twentieth Century the bus took over. The route was subsequently extended to the Dodsboro to the west of Lucan village. The 25 route has decreased in importance over the years. In 1996 the 25A, which served the newer housing developments in Lucan, became a CitySwift route with a high frequency of services provided. One of the new single-deckers bought for this conversion can be seen behind KD 128. Today the 25, along with the 25A and 25B, terminate on the southside in Merrion Square.
KD 128 was delivered new to Dublin around 1981/1982. This bus withdrawn by mid-1999 and the last KD was withdrawn in 2000.
Neither Chapters Music Store, nor the book store that was across the road, are still on Abbey Street. Rather a combined shop is on Parnell Street. In front of the bus is a Telecom Eireann van, a year before the company was privatised. 22/08/1998
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
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
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