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I moved the cacti and some shelves off cinder blocks to give us a blank wall to work with. My photog friend said the light was too dim so we have a very cluttered b/g. But it's been giving gunge guys pleasure for almost 20 years now. I've heard it's on sites my friend can't even find the link too, mucky pups...gear something so I guess I'm pleased. Of course it's a vague sort of fame.
This week for Throwback Thursday we are going back to 2010 to revisit a long lost friend. WH 1 was delivered to Dublin Bus in 2008 and was the first electric-hybrid bus delivered to the company. It was based in Summerhill. Normally it operated on cross-city route 16 though it could stray onto other routes. (Famously it once made it to Balbriggan on the 33 but failed not far from the terminus). It is seen here in Belfield after arriving from Swords on the 41X. At the time this was just the Xpresso terminus but is now the main terminus for the university.
WH 1 survived until January 2012 when it was shipped off to the UK and Ensignbus. Sadly it only lasted six months there before being completely destroyed by fire on the 9th June 2012.
Dublin Bus did not give up with electric trials with DM 2 arriving in 2014 but it only made it to 2015, a considerably shorter period in service than WH 1. Belfield 05/05/2010
RH 3 makes a stop on St. Stephen's Green as it operates a service on route 10 in June 1990. This bus had been delivered new to Dublin Bus three months earlier and had only gone into service in May. The Olympians were the first new double-deckers ordered by Dublin Bus. Deliveries started with the RHs in 1990 and concluded with the last RVs in 1999, with some RAs in between. In total Dublin Bus received 640 Olympians over that decade, allowing for the withdrawal of the Atlanteans and VanHools, and most of the Bombardier KDs. RH 3 had a long life with Dublin Bus, lasting about 25 years as it spent the last decade or so of its career as an open-top tour bus.
RH 3 is seen here in its as-delivered Wedding Bus livery. This was an initiative of Dublin Bus were people could hire a bus to transport their wedding guests. The last two vehicles in Wedding Bus livery were VG 9 and 10, and both were repainted into standard livery in 2017. The first bus was KD 366 in 1989.
Route 10 was one of the more famous bus routes in Dublin, connecting University College Dublin. The cross-city route on the southside with the Phoenix Park on the northside. It was removed from the network in 2010 through the Network Direct review of the network. 27/06/1990
Ahsoka Tano's Jedi Starfighter. Im missing the clone wars series, along with all the cool sets that came along side. A glorious Lego era it was.
It is our first taste of Christmas this week, though a bus more suited to Halloween, so probably the best picture to show in November. Continuing the theme of last week, marking the 50th Anniversary of the D Class, we have a photograph this week of the last D in service with Dublin Bus. While most of the class was withdrawn in the late-1980s and early-1990s, some continued on as tour buses until just before 2000. One bus however had an even more extended career when it became the Ghost Bus around 1998. It survived another fifteen years in this form before being withdrawn at the end of 2013, at which point it was 41 years old. Prior to being the Ghost Bus, or "Molly" as it was called, it was also a coastal tour bus and the 7-Up bus. DF 450 is seen outside the GPO on O'Connell Street. 27/11/2013
For Throwback Thursday this week are going back to 1987 and Dublin Bus is just two months old. The new compnay had settled on a colour scheme in the form of adding an orange stripe to two-tone green CIE livery but the logo had not been settled yet. KC 200 is seen at Blackrock with the first attempt at a logo on the side of the bus. This bus is also in the DART Feeder livery and route 114 to Sandyford Industrial Estate was one of those routes.
The bus was also assigned the registration XZV 200 when delivered in 1986 but was registered with the new style number plate prior to entering service. 31/03/1987
Gwen Stacy (1/6 Gwen Stacy figure) is just getting used to her new office when her boss, assistant director of the hospital, Dr. David White (Hot Toys Perseus) drops by with a list of things she needs to know.
David has been an excellent friend and mentor, and Gwen just might have developed a bit of a crush on him. That he's a man of mystery only makes things more complicated and intriguing...
2010 finds AV 401 on Hawkins Street dressed for route 51B. This Volvo ALX400 was new to Dublin Bus in 2005 and was withdrawn around the end of 2018. It was then sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
Route 51B started running between the city centre and Bawnogue in 1981, but moved to Dunawley around 1998. The year before, 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 in 2004 and remained so until the route was absorbed into the new, cross-city route 13 in October 2011 under the Network Direct revisions. 08/11/2010
so I can't upload any 365's because my camera is kind of messed up right now. some scented oil got in the battery compartment and sorta burned the battery. I think the rest of the camera is okay, and it still works and all I'm just scared to use that battery so until I either clean the original battery or buy a new one, I can't upload anything new.
A trip back in time this week to 1987, a mere 29 years ago. KD 91 is seen at the 33 terminus in Balbriggan, after arriving from Dublin. It is still in CIE livery as Dublin Bus had only been created eight months previously. The terminus was the most northerly in the Dublin Bus network. At the time it was outside the cinema on Dublin Street. The bus route used to do a triangle in Balbriggan. It arrived at the terminus via Old Market Green and departed via The Square and Hampton Street. The bus stop at the terminus was also used by the Bus Eireann service from Dublin to Drogheda/Dundalk. At the time this stretch of road was also the main road to Belfast from Dublin. Having a bus parked here would not help the traffic, having one parked and another stopping certainly did not. Today the 33 terminates outside the Church in Balbriggan, which is further south along Dublin Street. it doesn't have a triangular route either, arriving and departing the terminus the same way. Balbriggan is also now by-passed with the M1 motorway. The Bus Eireann route 101 still serves the stop in this photograph though. 26/10/1987
This week we are going back a mere two years to 2017 (which is also twenty-one months after Throwback Thursday started). WV 52 is seen at the terminus of the 44B in Glencullen. This is one of the more remote terminus on the Dublin Bus network and the 44B is one of the more infrequent routes. It runs between here and Dundrum, passing the famous Johnnie Fox's Pub on the way. The route dates back to the 1930s when it used to run to the City Centre and was more frequent at the weekends as it brought walkers to the Dublin Mountains. In 2009 it was cut back to Dundrum, and only had a service in the morning peak and the afternoons. There was a Saturday only service to Ranelagh but it too was dropped in 2012.
The route is one of the most scenic in Dublin, as it climbs up out of Dundrum to Glencullen, providing great views over the city and has been known to the bus engine under some strain.
WV 52 was delivered to Dublin Bus in 2001 and was the last member of the WV Class, and therefore the last single-decker delivered to Dublin Bus until the WS Class arrived in 2017. Due to the nature of the route, only single-deck buses can be used. Three WVs were kept in service for the 44B while the rest of the Dublin Bus fleet was double-decker. WV 50 was the first to go in early 2017 and WV 51 and WV 52 were replaced by two Wright Streetlites (WS 1 and WS 2) which were purchased specifically to operate the 44B. The first one went into service on the 1st December 2017 and the WVs were then withdrawn from service. WV 52 was the only one to receive an LED destination. 31/10/2017
Circa October 4, 2021. Can you guess where this picture was taken???? It was very hot up in the mountains of N.C.
Hint: It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and is America’s Largest Home® spanning 175,000 square feet, which is more than four acres of floor space. The 250-room French Renaissance chateau includes 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces.
A recent comment on an older pic posted here reminded me of how much I loved the way I looked in this dress...not sure if it still fits...perhaps it's time for another 'Then & Now' shoot.
By 1982 the Bristol - Portsmouth cross country route was mainly worked by Class 33s, but 31s were still appearing from time to time
31 401 waits at Bristol Temple Meads with 1O73, the 11:10 to Portsmouth Harbour
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1998 and to RA 191 at the route 45A terminus in Dun Laoghaire.
From 1936 to 1942, route 45A operated between the city centre and Bray. It was then cut back from the city centre to Dun Laoghaire due to fuel shortages caused by the Second World War. From around 1985 to around 1996 it was extended to Ballywaltrim. It was then cut back to Bray Station, before returning to Ballywaltrim in 2004. It was extended to Kilmacanogue in 2015, and Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route in October 2018.
RA 191 was new to Dublin Bus in 1994. It was withdrawn in 2006 and was sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
The bus is in an all-over ad for Heinz Beans. The bus carried this ad for about 6 years.
15/08/1998
With many railroads experiencing power shortages, the Canadian Pacific removed several SOO SD60s from storage. Solo locomotive, SOO6027 leads the daily #472 train past ESS Kittredge headed eastbound for Bensenville, Illinois with about 30 cars.
Thanks to Basicbill for his usual early morning tip and thanks to Trainut for driving. (We were headed out to our model railroad club in Chadwick for the day.)
It is 1991 and RH 18 (not RH 17) is on its way to Templeogue with a service on route 15. Both the bus and the route were relatively new, having started in 1990. The 15 connected the city centre with Templeogue, and had its terminus on Scholarstown Road. The route today in 2020 runs cross-city from Clongriffin to Ballycullen Road, and was one of the first routes to go to 24-hour operation in 2019 (along with the 41).
RH 18 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in August 1990 and spent all its career based in Ringsend Garage. It arrived in the base-colours for the all-over ad, with the writing applied in the garage. It was the first Leyland Olympian in Dublin to receive an all-over ad. The bus was withdrawn in 2002 but its career did not end there as it went on to work in the Isle of Man and Scunthorpe. It was still going school work there until 2018 approximately.
Fast Fit have been around in Ireland for approximately 40 years but are now part of the Bridgestone Tyres group. College Street, 11/06/1991
I was probably feeling a little silly here. I hadn't been doing this sort of pose for long at this point....and it totally flew in the face of everything I had been taught. Though needless to say...I eventually got over it. 😉
This week we are going back twenty-five years to the year 2000, and to RV 567 parked on Hawkins Street while dressed for route 46A to Dun Laoghaire.
Route 46A started running between the city centre and Dun Laoghaire in 1936, having first reached Cabinteely in 1926 and Goatstown in 1933. In 2010 its city centre terminus was relocated to the Phoenix Park in 2010 when under Network Direct it replaced route 10 on the northside. The route ceased to operate in January 2025 when it was partially replaced by route E2 under Bus Connects.
RV 567 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. It was withdrawn in October 2012 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
06/08/2000
The right part was a WIP. Just needed to build a roof.
This and my Scarif was be displayed on my first exhibition I've ever attended.
The third of seven children, Ettore DeGrazia was born in the Arizona mining camp of Morenci in 1909. His parents were Italian immigrants from San Pietro in Amantea, Italy. A copper miner, Domenic DeGrazia moved his family to Italy for five years when the mines closed, but moved back when production resumed five years later in 1925. Ettore relearned English, was nicknamed Ted by a schoolteacher, and graduated from Morenci High School when he was 23 years old. Happy Throwback Thursday!