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It's 11:22pm where I am, so I just got in my Throwback piccy. This is a picture circa 2009. It was when I fell in love with the skinny jeans and ballet flats. I had not uploaded from this set in several years. I went deep into the vault for this one.
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 The route was withdrawn in 1993 when CitySwift started on route 39.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 The routing of the 80 has mostly been replaced by a combination of the 37 and 239.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
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.
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
Another week and another hop back a decade to 2010. Dublin Bus AX 522 is seen departing Hawkins Street with a service on route 51B to Grange Castle. Although the 51 was synonymous with Clondalkin since 1927, the 51B only came into being in 1981. Originally the terminus was Bawnogue but in the 1990s it moved to Dunawley. In 1997 it became a CitySwift route, replacing the 51 as the main bus route to Clondalkin. The business park at Grange Castle became its terminus and remained so until the route was absorbed into the new, cross-city route 13 in October 2011 under the Network Direct revisions.
AX 522 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 2006. Originally it operated out of Conyngham Road garage, before moving to Ringsend. In 2013 it moved to Donnybrook and it is still there today.
The background has changed substantially over the last three years or so. The Screen Cinema was demolished in 2019, along with College House beside it. Demolition of Hawkins House, which dominates the background, began in 2020. Hawkins Street is also now home to the tram tracks of the Luas Green Line.
05/11/2010
@shimokitamom is asking: Who on #instagram have you #met #IRL? I've met @suziehippy ( and later @syana206 too ) on her first visit to SG and I sometimes meet her when I happen to be in JP ^^
I have also met @jamiest , her ( husband @kedkin ) and @puppychun we actually first met online through Flickr many moons ago then we all switched over to IG xD we met IRL when they came back to visit SG on separate trips xD
I also met @shimokitamom last month in Shimokitazawa (of course!) For the first time :)
I also got to meet @feli_cia who saw my IG post and came to visit on of my flea market booths xD so honoured!
And not forgetting, I met @karissagoh @yehhua @elloeunice @nettetten when they came to pick up their #hamsters from #hesedetanghamstery xD
In the near future I am also hoping to meet @kookysheltie for the very first time when I finally do visit the @nekojam office xD
This has been a serious brain exercise! xD I do apologise if I've left anyone out xD
This #photo is a #throwback to when #horlickstheham and #milodinosaurtheham were still #tiny and slept in piles xD xD
#hamster #ハムスター #hamstagram #petsmagazinesg #pet #pets #hamstar #cute #clubpets #friendsofnekojam
A slightly different Throwback Thursday this time were the bus is not really the primary interest in the photo but rather the background is.
D 533 is seen on Tara Street and is not operating a route. It was delivered new to Phibsboro Garage in 1973 and was withdrawn in 1991. Like a lot of buses in 1988, this has received the Dublin Millennium badge alongside the company name on the side of the bus. Apart from that there is not a lot else to say about the bus.
So why is the background more interesting? Behind the bus is Apollo House. This was built in 1969 and was one of three buildings in the area that were of a similar style. Hawkins House from 1962 and College House from 1974 being the other two. Collectively all three are regarded as some of the worse looking buildings in Dublin. With all three being eight storeys or over, they did dominate the skyline. During the 2000s Apollo House was sold and lay empty for a while. Plans existed for a long time to demolish and redevelop all three buildings but the 2008 recession delayed those plans. Before Christmas 2016 Apollo House was taken over by activists to house some homeless people and to highlight the crisis affecting the country. By early 2017 they were gone and the building was empty again. Finally 2018 demolition began and by August of that year the site was completely flattened. Around the same time Hawkins House was emptied and work began on College House. It seems after all of these decades, the redevelopment is finally happening. 21/09/1988
It is 1998 and RA 280 is seen on Burgh Quay. The bus is dressed for the 44B but more likely on the 44C. The destination shows Ballyogan and that is where the 44C went to. It was effectively a short working of the 44. In contrast the 44B went to Glencullen and not a route that can take double-decker buses all the way.
One thing that can be said for certain is that neither bus route was a CitySwift one. The main CitySwift example operated by Donnybrook Garage was the 46A, which was a very frequent route. By 1998 though the CitySwift brand had become diluted as some branded routes did not match the standards set by earlier routes. Furthermore CitySwift buses started straying onto non-CitySwift routes. Dublin Bus responded by adding branding for the key corridors. "Stillorgan Flyer" was the name given to the 46A route. The branding did not restore the damage done to the CitySwift brand and within a few years both were gone.
The bus was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1996. Most RAs were withdrawn by 2008. Burgh Quay is no longer a Dublin Bus terminus but rather used by long-distance private operator coaches. 11/04/1998
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.
It is 1984 and KD 92 is seen on Eden Quay displaying route 65A, a route which I don't know a lot about. What I do know is that it was part of the 65 group of routes and that it ran from the City Centre to The Embankment pub, just past Tallaght on the road to Blessington. The regular 65 continued on south to serve either Blessington, Ballympre Eustace or Ballyknockan. Due to the length of these routes, in the peaks they operated minimum fares. A number of longer distance ion the routes charged these slightly higher fares in order to discourage passengers from using the routes for shorter journeys, thus allowing people going further afield an opportunity to get on the bus. The 65A was withdrawn from the Dublin Bus network in 1994, around the same time the nearby Citywest development was taking off. It was not until 2012 that the 65B was extended from Killinarden Heights to Citywest.
KD 92 was delivered new to Dublin in 1982 and operated out of Ringsend Garage. It was withdrawn and scrapped in the 1990s. 27/02/1984
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
Teilt die Geschmäcker, Gerüche und Essen eurer Vergangenheit auf Facebook mit uns! Diese Woche geht es bei Throwback Thursday um Mahlzeiten und gemeinsame Festessen!
Kramt in euren alten Fotos und postet eure schönsten Bilder mit ordentlich viel Retro-Charme direkt auf Facebook. Dafür den Link zu eurem Foto auf Flickr einfach im Kommentarfeld hinterlassen. Die besten Bilder präsentieren wir dann nächste Woche im Flickr Blog! #TBT
(Foto: Cloyne and District Historical Society - flic.kr/p/szipkd)
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
This week we are sort of doing a sequel to Throwback Thursday (204) as we revisit D 756 a month after we last saw it. For December 1988 it was repainted as the Dublin Zoo Santa Bus but it finished its duties on that before the end of the month (and year). After returning very briefly to regular duties it was sent off again to receive a new all-over ad. This time for Pelican House, the Irish blood donation service. D 756 was delivered new to Dublin in 1975 and was withdrawn four years after this photograph was taken, in 1993.
The bus is making its way down O'Connell Street and is passing the Savoy Cinema. On this day it was showing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" a film that was initially released in the United States in the Summer of 1988. Unlike nowadays, major American releases could take a while to get to these shores. The Savoy is also showing "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise, another Summer 1988 release.
Beside the cinema is Pizzaland, a chain of restaurants that first opened here in 1976, but closed in the 1990s. 02/01/1989
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 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's the year 2000 and the days of the Bombardier KDs are coming to an end. 365 KDs were built between 1980 and 1983, with most of them based in Dublin. The fleet was fully withdrawn from public service by December 2000, with a farewell run taking place in January 2001. The year 2000 was also the year Dublin Bus received their first delivery of low-floor double-decker buses. The AVs and AXs were delivered consistently over a number of years with the last of the 648 buses arriving in 2006. In 2012 the last step-entrance bus was withdrawn by Dublin Bus.
KD 145 is seen at Heuston Station with a 91 to the City Centre. the 90 was the main route connecting Connolly and Heuston stations but the 91 was used to supplement this service when needed. The area beside the bus underwent a great change when the Luas Red Line was built. This resulted in the tram connecting the two stations. The 90 went from an all-day service to morning peak only, and the 91 was eventually removed from the network. 03/05/2000
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...
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
Yesterdays throwback sketch, Tapping into a graphic children’s book design style from back in my days as an illustrator. #childrensbookillustration #pattern #texture #sketching #watercolor #nature
Built mid-August 2013, when I first discovered Gravity Falls this bust was merely a WIP and was later dismantled for pieces.
As I recall, back than there were no Mixel printed eyes which would have suited him very nicely.
Might try to rebuild this and finish it up one day, I think that shaping is quite good.
I found this pic now, among couple of others, and decided to upload it.
More info on this character (beware spoilers)
Some pretty girls I should pay more attention to
Here are 3 Steffi Love I washed today, I'm not the biggest fan of this girl, especially the new one but I do have a lot of them in my collection as they are easier to find than Barbies, as they are cheaper and in the 90's she used to do almost everything Barbie was doing ^^
I'm sure I'm probably wrong for their clothes, it's definitely not their originals clothes but it's almost impossible to ID a Steffi as they never changed her face and makeup, I just gave them some clothes which were for Steffi ^^
This week we are going back to 1998 and MA 15 at Bray Station (although the destination says Bray Depot Station). The bus is operating a service on route 145. Back then, the 145 was a local service around Bray. Starting in the mid-1990s it served the Palermo estate on the northern side of the town, and Ballywaltrim and Kilmacanogue on the southern side. It was one of those Dublin Bus routes that operated in Wicklow and not Dublin. Also, being a local service, it operated under the Localink brand which had been introduced in the late 1980s by Dublin Bus. Like most brands created by Dublin Bus, it was later phased out. However there was a brief private operated service in the Ballinteer area called Locolink and the current national rural bus service operates as Local Link.
The 145 underwent a massive transformation in 2004 when it became a radial route from Kilmacanogoue to Dublin city centre via Bray and the Stillorgan QBC. For all intents and purposes it became a new route. Later it was revised slightly to run between Heuston Station and Ballywaltrim. It has become one of the busier routes in the city and for a period was a regular home to tri-axle double-deckers.
MA 15 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1993 and withdrawn around 2000/2001.
The railway station in Bray opened in 1854. It became the southern terminus for the DART in 1984.
20/01/1998
This week it is a trip back in time to 2010 and to a scene long gone. AW 19 is seen in the company of AW 17 at the bus terminus in UCD Belfield. It is about to work back to Dublin as a 10C. The two buses are part of a twenty-strong fleet of bendi-buses Dublin Bus got in 2000. The buses were not a success in Dublin and within four months of this photograph being taken were in store in Harristown Garage. They spent their last few years there, mainly working on the 4. They were part of the Harristown fleet when this picture was taken but prior to that they spent time in Phibsboro and were regulars on the 10.
The route 10 only last ten more days after this photograph was taken before being removed from the network.
Finally a few years ago this bus terminus was relocated to a spot behind where the buses are, and this location is now a lake. All this change within the last six years. 20/10/2010
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!
Bit of a cross over this week for Throwback Thursday. As mentioned in February this is the thirtieth anniversary of Dublin Bus. During those three decades the company has had a number of liveries for its core fleet. A selection of those, and same that came before Dublin Bus when it was still CIE, can be seen here in this shot taken at the Dublin Port Rally, 28/09/2014.
From left to right, we have KD 353 and D 839 in two-tone green for Dublin Bus, D 464 in tan for CIE and D 44 in white/navy blue also for CIE. In the distance is an SG in the current blue/yellow livery for Dublin Bus.
For a bit more history on the Dublin Bus core liveries of the last thirty years, check out this blog post on the Graphic Mint website:
A trip this week to Dublin Airport in 1994 and AD 35 on the Airlink. AD 35 was the first of 6 ADs specially delivered to Dublin Bus in April 1994 as part of the relaunch of the Airport coach service. It was that May that the Airlink brand was launched, along with this new yellow / green / grey livery. With the new Airlink brand the number of services to Heuston Station was also increased, though most still terminated at Bus Aras. By 2020 the main Airlink route (the 747) runs all services from Heuston Station to Dublin Airport via Bus Aras.
In total Dublin Bus received 70 members of the AD class between 1994 and 1995. Most were used on CitySwift routes across routes, with AD 35-40 and 69/70 dedicated to the Airlink routes. They lasted on those routes until around 2000 when they were started to be phased out first by RV double-deckers in 1999 and then AV double-deckers in 2000. The bus ended its days on school duties with Bus Eireann in the Wexford area.
This location in Dublin Airport was subsequently used by Aircoach and, from March 2020, Dublin Express.
02/07/1994
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
Phil Boldman was in charge of keeping Conrails Danville secondary clear of snow between Schneider, Indiana and Danville, Illinois. Fortunately, he took shots along the way.
This photo is looking south at Kentland, Indiana on January 15th, 1982. This was the area where I took most of my photos as a kid. At left is the house track which for some reason is full of cars. Straight ahead is the signal, US route 24 crossing, the TP&W diamond, Goss street and Allen street. At far right is the old wood bridge over the ditch for the interchange track. The slight bend in the alignment here was always a pain in my ass while watching for the nightly northbound.
Snowplowing CR's Danville secondary, formerly NYC's Egyptian Line
January 15th, 1982
Looking south at Kentland, Indiana, MP 61.8