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A quick hop back five years this week to 2012. RV 608 is seen crossing the Samuel Beckett Bridge with a 15B to Benson Street from Stocking Avenue. The Beckett Bridge is the newest bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin, having opened in December 2009. It is designed to represent a harp, a symbol associated with Ireland. The 15B, along with the 15A, started using the bridge to access the Grand Canal Dock area of the city in December 2011, when their termini was relocated from Eden Quay. The bus itself was withdrawn before the end of 2012. 12/01/2012
A trip back to 1992 and KD 25 is off to the races. The bus is seen parked on Eden Quay between duties on the 45. It is in the company of two other buses in all-over ads - an RH advertising Harp and another KD advertising Heineken. KD 25 is advertising the Leopardstown Races. An ad panel on the side is showing details for a specific race: 'The Golden Pages Handicap on Saturday 18th July". That panel could be swapped out for different races while the rest of the bus remained in the general ad for the racecourse.
Route 45 was the main route between Bray and the City Centre. It went via Blackrock and Cabinteely but in the early 2000s the 145 was introduced on the more direct routing via the Stillorgan Road. The 45 was eventually removed from the network in May 2012.
The view from Eden Quay has changed a lot since this photograph was taken, with new high-rise development behind Tara Street station and the derelict buildings replaced by a modern apartment block. Note too the ad for the Maastricht Treaty referendum on the billboard in front of those derelict buildings.
KD 25 was delivered new to Donnybrook Garage around 1981/1982 and was withdrawn in the mid to late 1990s. Eden Quay 12/06/1992
CHICAGO, INDIANA & SOUTHERN COAL DOCK & WATER FACILITIES KENTLAND, INDIANA, ca. 1912.
This photograph was taken in 1912 in Kentland, Indiana of Chicago, Indiana & Southerns (later NYC > PC > CR) coal docks along their Indiana Division. It was located on the north side of Kentland, Indiana at MP IH 60.55. This is the original photo unedited taken by Wilmer Boldman and used with permission from his grandson Phil Boldman.
View is looking N/N/E towards route 41. The tree line in the distance is the Iroquois river. The mainlines are out of photo at left. This view is mostly focused on the water tank that was there. This and the other photo of this location taken the same day are the only 2 photos I have ever seen of this operation. Here is a link to my other posted photo...
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This was before everything was moved to Sheff, 5 miles south. The track chart I just posted of this location shows the tank between the pass track and pocket track.
CI&S (NYC) Coal Dock & Water Tank
Kentland, Indiana
MP IH 60.55
NYC Egyptian Line
Wilmer Boldman Photo, Phil Boldman collection
Circa 1912
with all my love, happy birthday to dear halle.
you have been so supportive of me especially when it comes to photography. always lending me a kind hand when i ask you to model for shoots.
i have learnt so so much and really couldnt have come so far without you <3
thank you <3 hope we can arrange a shoot sometime soon xx
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***Decided to merge images from my old Flickr account with my current account. Photos and descriptions from 2007-2009.
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Throwback to last summer which feels like years ago with all this rain we’ve had this year. So looking forward to better weather and sunny days 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
It is 1992 and RH 134 is interested in some music and shopping. The bus is seen on O'Connell Street operating route 16A to Omni Park. This is a shopping centre that was built in Santry in 1991. Soon after some of the services on the 16 and 16A that terminated on nearby Shanard Road were diverted to serve the shopping centre. Over the following decade other routes also went to Omni, such as the 103, 104 and 300 but over time all routes were pulled out. Now buses stop outside the shopping centre on the Swords Road.
The 16A was removed from the Dublin Bus network in 2012 under Network Direct. In its latter years it ran from Dublin Airport to Nutgrove.
The bus is in a partial all-over-ad for 98Fm, a local music radio station in Dublin, that began broadcasting in 1989.
RH 134 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992 (it was about three months old when this photograph was taken). It was withdrawn in 2005, when it was sold to Dualway's and joined the City Sightseeing open-top tour fleet. It remained with them until around 2015. 30/05/1992
LOL!....I can't believe how old this pic is but here we are being Throwback Thursday.
I was actually on my way out to....of all things a horse race with some like minded friends...from memory I had the best time and way too much champagne on the day.
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 the beginning of his day on January 15th, 1982 and shows both the Williams ditch and Kankakee river bridges. The pump house and water tank were located here in the steam days. Note that the bridge over the Kankakee river is a double track bridge. The NYC never had 2 tracks over this bridge but was ready in case it ever happened. The double track officially ended at Charlotte street in Schneider and was interlocked from the tower. However, it continued to this location for the water facilities. The switch was on this side of the bridge. US 41 is at right out of photo.
Snowplowing NYC's Egyptian Line
January 15th, 1982
Looking south at the Kankakee River
Schneider, Indiana
A short trip back ten years to a scene that has changed a lot beneath the service. RV 636 is seen on O'Connell Street heading south to Drimnagh with a service on route 121. The 121 started in 1997 as a City Imp route. Initially this. mini-bus route ran from Parnell Square to Drimnagh Road (outside Crumlin Hospital) via The Liberties and Clogher Road. Within a year it was extended north to Cabra via Berkeley Road and Dowth Avenue. In 1999 the Cabra terminus was moved from Fassaugh Road to Ratoath Road. In the early-2000s the route was converted from mini-bus to double-decker operation, losing the City Imp brand in the process. However in 2011 the route was abolished under Network Direct, with the 150 taking over most of its southside routing and the 120/122 continuing to serve Cabra.
RV 636 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999 and was withdrawn in October 2012 It then moved to the UK and most recently was with Priory Coaches.
In the background is a fellow ex-Dublin Olympian. It was doing the City Sightseeing tour for Dualway's. In 2019 the CitySightseeing franchise moved to Extreme Ireland, and Dualway's sold their tour fleet to Big Bus.
RV 626 has an ad for Corona Extra. 2010 was a time when Corona brought to mind a beverage and not a global pandemic. 18/09/2010
This week we are going back 26 years to 1991. KD 326 is seen at The Square in Tallaght with a route 76 service from Ballyfermot. At this time the shopping centre was only a year old and was the largest shopping centre in Dublin. Today one can travel along the M50 from Tallaght and visit the equally large (if not larger) shopping centres at Liffey Valley and Blanchardstown. The current incarnations of routes 76 and 76A connect the three shopping centres, but in 1991 the main purpose of the 76 was to bring people to Tallaght. It was one of the orbital routes created when the shopping centre opened and served many of the housing estates in the area.
At the time KD 326 operated out of Conyngham Road Garage. 03/08/1991
2 years ago, I had a photoshoot with this doll. This doll has a bittersweet memory because I had her on the day my cat died. :|
What a difference three years makes. SG 96 is seen on Hawkins Street with a 15 from Clongriffin to Ballycullen Road. Ths bus route still uses this road but shares the road space here with the Luas Green Line. The tram extension opened in December 2017 connecting Broombridge on the northside to Brides Glen on the southside.
The Screen Cinema is seen beside the bus with an ad for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. The cinema opened in 1972 but closed in 2016 under plans to redevelop this area. Currently it is in a partially demolished state though could be fully gone by the end of 2018. This week in 2018 the sixth Mission Impossible film (Fallout) was released. In the background is Hawkins House. This was built in 1962 and housed the Department of Health. Like the cinema, this building is due to be demolished and replaced. These plans progressed by the end of July 2018 with the Department relocating to Baggot Street.
Finally SG 96 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in the latter half of 2015. In 2018 this bus is due to transfer to Go-Ahead Ireland in 2018 for when they take over 10% of bus routes in the Greater Dublin Area. A lot of change in three years. 01/08/2015
This week we are going back fourteen years to 2009, and to VT 33 in Skerries on route 33X. Route 33X was an Xpresso route that started operating between Skerries and Dublin city centre (later UCD) around 2000. It was not a long-lived route and ceased to operate in 2002. It then made a return in 2007, using the M1 motorway from Lissenhall (north of Swords) and the Dublin Port Tunnel. When it came back it was not a very frequent route, with one departure in each direction, Monday - Friday. That changed in August 2009, when part of the viaduct at Malahide Estuary collapsed, and the railway line into Dublin from Drogheda / Belfast was closed. An emergency timetable saw a 33X running nearly every ten minutes in the mornings and evenings, with some during the day too. When the railway line reopened in November 2009, the 33X retained a good service frequency and today in 2023 it has about five return trips eeach weekday. 2009 also saw the evening departures from the city operate to Balbriggan (as the buses went via Balbriggan from Skerries to access the motorway on their return trips to the garage). As part of the expansion in services during the railway line closure, nearly every Dublin Bus garage provided buses to operate these services. This is how a tri-axle VT that was normally found on the Blanchardstown / Lucan routes ended up in north County Dublin. VTs became very common on the 33X for a while. VT 33 in this pictures was actually working into Dublin and not to Skerries as the destination suggests.
VT 33 was new to Dublin Bus in 2007. Originally allocated to Phibsoro Garage, in 2010 VT 21 - 35 moved to Donnybrook Garage as part of Network Direct changes to routes 46A and 145. VT 33 was withdrawn from service around December 2021.
14/09/2009
Thirty years ago today in 1987, Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann came into being. The three companies replaced CIE as the main transport operators in Ireland, although they were subsidiaries of CIE. The three companies created their own identities by modifying the current CIE liveries. Dublin Bus added an orange stripe to the two-tone green livery that had initially appeared on the KD class and rolled it out onto the rest of the fleet. This livery lasted until the AV arrived in 2000. D 442 is seen on Burgh Quay four months after Dublin Bus created in the new livery but without the new company logo. This took a bit longer to appear as a number of options were considered. The bus is on route 62. 10/06/1987
*Update* Thanks to poster shilltpo on the Irish Road Passenger Transport Forum for following info: "I suspect the 62 was OPO at that stage but DF 442 wasn't converted for OPO operation. The route scroll looks more like 52 rather than 62 which suggests that the bus was on the 47B perhaps which was mostly D operated at that stage. The VIA Rathmines also would suggest the 47B over the 48A."
From around 1993. Ironically I use more hair products now but not as much shampoo and conditioner. ;p
Currently in 2017 there are at least four buses in all over ads within the Dublin Bus fleet. In the 1980s and 1990s there were much more, but in the early 2000s Dublin Bus went through a fallow period of having none. This changed in 2012 when they started to reappear again. One difference was that the front of the bus did not receive an ad, so no longer was it really an all-over ad, but it did cover most of the bus. AV 247 was the second bus to be treated and it was done up like a loaf of Brennan's Bread. It lasted a long time like this, and although it was a Ringsend bus, it spent time in Phibsborough so the ad could gain maximum audience coverage. It is seen here on Hawkins Street with a 27 to Jobstown. 02/11/2012
Wearing CP's classic scheme, CP 7011 rolls solo on CP 686 past the signals at Techny as they prepare to roll onto the UP, then to Bensenville, and reportedly eventually Florida.
This week we are throwing back to 1993, when Dublin Bus were experimenting with a new livery. After 6 years of two-tone green with an orange stripe, they decided to try something new. So KD 223 was painted into a livery comprising of two-tone green with an orange stripe. As can be seen when compared with the RH behind, the greens were adjusted with the top green made much paler and the lower green much darker. This experiment was not a success and the buses continued to be painted in the standard livery until the end of the decade. It wasn't all green in 1993 though as City Imp and City Swift were appearing on the streets.
KD 223 is seen in Dun Laoghaire about to operate to the City Centre with a 46A. Back then the route still served Stillorgan village. 13/04/1993
Pomona CA Jack, taken during a 1994 visit. Jack's still there, but looks a bit newer. That's my Hertz Ford Aerostar too.
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With the coronavirus situation developing across the world, I like many people, have been working from home this week (and at least next week too). Home is Balbriggan, and chance would have it that it is the turn of a Balbriggan photograph this week.
RH 131 is seen loading up at the 33 terminus in Balbriggan with a working back to Dublin. Unusually, this is the 16:15 departure which goes via Portrane. One outbound bus from Dublin also went via Portrane in the mornings. The usual 33 route was to go straight on from Swords to Lusk, Rush, Skerries and Balbriggan. The deviation vie Donabate and Portrane started in 1966 when a new secondary school opened in Rush and it was a way for Donabate students to get there and back. Traditionally students going to Skerries or Balbriggan from Donabate would get the train. In 2002 the afternoon trip via Portrane on the 33 was cancelled, and a private school bus filled the gap. In 2003 the morning trip from Dublin was shortened to Skerries. In 2018 when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the 33A, the Portrane 33 was renumbered 33E and was operated by Phibsborough Garage. In January 2020 the 33E switched back to Summerhill Garage.
The original 33 terminus was on the other side of the road (where the photographer is standing). In the early 2000s it relocated from where the bus is in the photo to further south along this road, opposite Ss Peter and Paul Church. All three stops are also Bus Eireann stops on route 101 between Dublin and Drogheda.
RH 131 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in February 1992. It was withdrawn in 2005 and joined the Dualway open-top tour fleet in 2006. It was withdrawn after 2013.
19/03/1992
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1998 and RH 174 parked on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 77A.
The 77A started running between the city centre and Tallaght in 1972. Initially its southern terminus was at St. Maelruen's Park, but between 1973 and the mid-1990s it moved to Bawnville Road, Bolbrook, Old Bawn Road, and finally The Square Shopping Centre. In 2011, under Network Direct, the 77A was extended beyond The Square to Citywest, where it still terminates today.
RH 174 was new to Dublin Bus in 1993. It was withdrawn in 2006 and sold on to another operator in the United Kingdom, where it provided at least another decade of service for a variety of owners.
The bus is in the new "core" livery for Dublin Bus which was introduced around the end of 1997. This marked the end of two-tone green livery on Dublin Bus, as exemplified on the bus stop and the buses in the background. Green would not return as the main livery for buses in Dublin until 2021.
11/04/1998
A short throwback this week to 2007. EV 7 is seen on O'Connell Street with route 3 from Larkhill to UCD Belfield. The bus was brand new at the time, and marked a change from the ALX 400 which Dublin Bus had ordered from 2000. This bus was allocated to Ringsend Garage and is still there today. The route however is not. Most of it became route 1 while on the northside the bit to Larkhill became the 44. The bus stop it is calling at lists many bus routes no longer with us, including: 1 (the original route to Pigeon House), 2, 3, 11A and 121. Note the bus stop is also in blue and an older style compared to the one their today. 12/10/2007
It is 1998 and a low-emissions trial is taking place with Dublin Bus. The previous year saw five low-floor single-deckers delivered to Dublin Bus. These in themselves were a novelty as they represented some of the first wheel-chair accessible buses in the fleet. The W-Class minibuses were another example. VL 1-5 were operated out of Donnybrook Garage and were mostly confined to routes 1,2 and 3. Passengers could identify which services they were on by the departure times in the timetable being written in red.
VL 6 arrived in 1998, and unlike the other 5, used natural gas as a power source. The trial was run in conjunction with Bord Gáis and the bus was used in service on routes 1,2 and 3. Whereas the other VLs survived with Dublin Bus until 2009, this one left the fleet in 2000. 19 years later, in early-2019, a number of buses have been on trial in Dublin and Cork to test alternative fuels to diesel that could reduce emissions. At least one of these trial buses involved natural gas.
Route 2 was a shortened version of route 3, providing extra capacity on the southside and only going as far as Parnell Square on the northside. It was merged into the new route 1 under Network Direct in 2012. O'Connell Street, 09/05/1998