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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
It is 1982 and D 122 is seen on Hawkins Street. The bus had only a short time left in service in Dublin. It had been delivered new to CIE in October 1967 and withdrawn in December 1982 after fifteen years in service. Hawkins House on the right was only five years older than the bus, but in 2018 it is not planned to have a much longer future.
Interestingly the destinations shown on the front of the bus are all in Irish. From top to bottom they are "Ranelagh", "Clonskeagh" and "City Centre".
35 years after this photograph was taken, trams returned to Hawkins Street and it is still a busy route for buses.
Hawkins Street, 29/11/1982
Time to pull out some from the photo albums....for the younger ones here, "photo albums" are where we old dudes would store "paper based" photos after we spent all our hard earned money on 35mm film and processing with the option of "gloss or matte finish". (Yutes today......they just don't understand how expensive photography was in the 'olden days' for those of us with gray hairs).
Anyway, it's September 1991 as solo Soo SD60M 6058 is passing the Hartland WI cream city depot and ABS signal on the wrong main on account of track work two miles behind them. This train came complete with brown Soo caboose #3. Behind me, the crossover switch is lined for them to head back over to the eastbound main and onward to Milwaukee.
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 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
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
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.
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 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 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 going back nine years to 2016 (the year this series started) and to EV 49 at the station in Skerries with a service on route 33 to Balbriggan.
CIE started operating route 33 between the city centre and Skerries in 1958, when they took over the route from the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). The 33 went via Swords, Lusk and Rush. Certain departures on the route operated to Balbriggan, and the route basically operates the same today.
Some buses were, and still are, parked overnight at the railway station in Skerries. This is evidenced here by the shed in the background and SG 106 parked beside it. Driver changes can also happen here, which is why EV 49 is at the station. Most services on the 33 do not serve the station directly like this.
EV 49 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007. In 2017 it joined the DoDublin Tour, operated by Dublin Bus, and became an open-top bus.
SG 106 was new to Dublin Bus in 2015, and is still in service today.
11/07/2016
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
This week we are going back a decade to 2015, and to AV 423 and AV 424 parked on Abbey Street.
AV 423 (at the front) has arrived with a service on route 41B. This route started running between the city centre, Swords and Rolestown in 1948, and has basically not changed since then.
AV 424 (at the back) has arrived with a service on route 41A from Swords Manor. This route has a more complicated history. The first version of this route ran between the city centre and Walsh Road in Drumcondra, between 1929 and 1939. The second version of the route started in 1948, and was used for services between the city centre and Dublin Airport. The route ceased to operate in 1998, being a weekend only route for its final few years. The route number was revived around 2001, for services between the city centre and Swords Manor that went via Glen Ellan. In 2005, route 41C was extended from River Valley to Swords Manor via Glen Ellan, which meant route 41A became a morning peak working that only operated from Swords Manor. In 2018 the route ceased to operate completely.
AV 423 and AV 424 were new to Dublin Bus in 2005. Both were withdrawn in 2019 and sold on to operators in the United Kingdom.
03/07/2015
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'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
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
This week we are going back twenty-four years to RV 403 on Marlborough Street on a short-lived route. Route 27C started in summer 1999, operating between Clare Hall and the City Centre, operating a more direct route than the normal route 27, going straight down the Malahide Road. It is possible returning services only operated to Darndale Roundabout and no known timetable was produced. It also didn't last very long and was cancelled around autumn 1999. Its short existence may explain why it had a paper route number in the windscreen.
A 27C reappeared around 2001, as a peak-hour service between Clare Hall and Leeson Street Bridge. It ceased in 2009. The 27C lives on today as short workings on the regular cross-city route 27 that terminate in the city centre.
RV 403 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998 and withdrawn in 2008, before being sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. 15/06/1999
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
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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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
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
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!
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.
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
This week we are going back forty years to 1985 and to D 746 parked on Fleet Street, dressed for route 15C.
Route 15C started running between the city centre and Willington roundabout in Templeogue. It was not a very frequent route and was replaced in Willington by the 54A and the 150 in the early-1990s. The next version of route 15C ran from the City Centre to Whitechurch, it started in 1999, as a partial replacement to the 47 group of routes, and lasted until 30th September 2007 when it was replaced by the 15B.
D 746 was new to CIE in 1975. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus in 1994 before being sold for scrap.
27/11/1985
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
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!
This Throwback Thursday pic from August 8th 2012 is a mirror pic out shopping somewhere. I was just getting used to a natural presentation then while growing my hair out. I wasn't full time yet and had been on hormones less than three months but I was trying out keeping it real with no wig, bra padding etc. and learning that I didn't need all that to be myself. It will never be perfect whatever I do, but I just have to be me, and it does keep getting better...