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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RV 636 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1999 and was withdrawn in October 2012 It then moved to the UK and most recently was with Priory Coaches.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
Flashback to 2010: The year of the Arab spring, the eruption of Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull, and the gulf of Mexico is engulfed in a massive oil spill. During all of this, a 16 year old kid was drawing pictures of cars and making vroom noises during math class and discovering the joys of driving and bricklink. Here we have my first recreation of a real car and one of the first ones I was and still am proud of. Sadly, this 356 Speedster has been cannibalized, but maybe one day I'll revisit it. More pictures can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/bing-bong_brothers/sets/72157625516...
For my first post of 2026, I thought I’d take a look back to one year ago today at the Tanfield Railway’s Whistle Off, which kick-started the Railway 200 celebrations.
More images from the event can be found here >> www.mattditch.photography/rail#/tanfield-railway-railway2...
For my first post of 2026, I thought I’d take a look back to one year ago today at the Tanfield Railway’s Whistle Off, which kick-started the Railway 200 celebrations.
More images from the event can be found here >> www.mattditch.photography/rail#/tanfield-railway-railway2...
This week's Throwback Thursday might be a bit more Provincial Past, but it is a bus from Dublin Bus. RV 629 is seen on Abbey Street in August 2000. Although registered in 1999, the bus did not enter service until January 2000, and it and RV 628 went on loan to Bus Eireann for most of 2000. Bus Eireann wanted to trial double-deckers on commuter routes around Dublin and the buses operated mainly on the 103 to Ashbourne and Ratoath, but RV 628 spent some time based in Drogheda and was used on local services there to Laytown. The trial was a success and in 2001 Bus Eireann ordered 6 Volvos with East Lancs Vyking bodywork. Later these buses (DD 11-16) were joined by 17 more DDs and over a hundred Wright Geminis and used not only in Dublin, but also Cork, Limerick, Galway, Drogheda, Dundalk and Waterford.
RV 629 returned to Dublin Bus and operated on some of the City Swift routes. It was one of the last Olympians to be withdrawn, surviving until October 2012, when it was sold on to a different operator.
Cafe Kylemore used to be one of the main coffee shops, / restaurants / bakeries in Ireland, competing with Bewleys, but is now a shadow of its former self. 05/08/2000
A trip back to 2013 this week. AV 247 is seen on D'Olier Street while operating route 9 to Limekiln Avenue from Charlestown. The bus is in an all-over ad (or at least a "three quarters"-over ad) for Brennan's Bread. Buses in Dublin over many decades were covered in ads like this but this was phased out in the 2000s. But around 2012 this policy was reversed and a number of buses received some wraps. Sadly as I post this today in 2017 there are no Dublin Bus buses in an all-over ad. Maybe it will change soon? 08/02/2013
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 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
This week we are going back thirteen years to 2012 and to AV 341 in Malahide with a service on route 102 to Dublin Airport.
Route 102 started running between Sutton Station and Malahide in 1986, and was one of the DART Feeder bus routes introduced around that time. These routes were designed to provide frequent connections into the new electrified train service in Dublin. In March 2008, the 102 was merged with route 230, with this new route 102 running between Sutton Station and Dublin Airport, via Malahide and Swords. In December 2018, Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route. In 2024 the route was modified slightly to serve Portmarnock Station.
AV 341 was new to Dublin Bus in 2003. It was withdrawn in 2018 and sold on to another Irish operator.
14/11/2012
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
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Was looking through photos on my phone & realised I never posted three of Warhol when I took her up to Hahndorf (a town in the hills I like to visit) last year.
I was sorting some old photos and found some that I had taken in the production area where I was employed as a graphic designer. Without all these machines and pieces of various equipment it would not matter that we upfront spent time to design a beautiful piece of art or that our sales staff worked hard to secure the account because without production and all the pieces of machinery we could not produce the final (book, magazine, brochure, poster, etc) that shipped to the public which enabled us to stay open for business. Yeah for machines . . .
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
Phil Boldman took this shot while hi-railing the NYC's Danville secondary on July 22nd, 1974. At this time, it was Penn Central and would soon be Conrail. This view was taken from MP 68 looking north towards Sheff at an old location known as "York". This location was between Sheff, Indiana and Free, Indiana. The bridge in the distance was used by the "York-Richland Elevator" and was located at MP 67.65. The NYC did have this location in the timetable as "York Switch" and "Hawkins", but only in the early days. This bridge was abandoned when Phil took this photo. The line was seeing little use and in 6 years, would be hosting Milwaukee Road trains.
Phil Boldman Photo.
7/22/1974
Looking North just south of Sheff.
Built in March 2012 this model of white T-34 with full interior has never been uploaded to Flickr for reasons unknown.
Now I see a million things that could be done better, but hey, it was made a while ago and my collection of parts was not as good as it is today!
Sorry for terrible pictures, but I am lucky that I have any left.
It is the last (or second last) year of the millennium and RV 403 is standing in the rain on Abbey Street. The bus is seen after arriving with a 43 from Swords. The 43 route number was first used in 1925 when the DUTC launched their first bus route. It ran between the city centre and Killester. The route was subsequently merged into the 54 and 54A around 1939. The number was resurrected in 1985 for the current route which runs to Swords via the Malahide Road and Kinsealy. Whereas the 41 and 41C terminate in west Swords, the 43 terminates on the eastern side in Swords Business Park. Also, unlike the 41s which operate out of Summerhill Garage, this route operates from Clontarf Garage. Over the years it has had termini on Beresford Place, Abbey Street and Eden Quay. Currently it uses Talbot Street.
RV 403 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1998 and was withdrawn in 2008. It then moved to the UK and was in service on their school duties until at least 2018, working in the Birmingham and Daventry areas.
Although this livery had been around for around 2 years at this point, it is worth noting the bus stop is still in Dublin Bus green. 06/02/1999