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This week we are going back to 1990. KD 365 is seen heading south on O'Connell Street with an 11B to Belfield. It is passing the now closed Clery's department store. The bus was originally meant to be the last one in the KD fleet, but after KD 111 was written off in an accident an extra bus was built which became KD 366. The bus is also in an all-over ad for Mars chocolate. 07/07/1990
This week we are going back eighteen years to 2007 and to AV 84 in Bray with a service on route 45A to Ballywaltrim.
Route 45A operated between the city centre and Bray from 1936 to 1942. 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, and then extended to Kilmacanogue in 2015. Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operation of the route in October 2018.
AV 84 was new to Dublin Bus in 2000. It was withdrawn in July 2013 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom. In 2003 AV 84 was used to test an experimental livery that was not adopted. instead it is seen here wearing the winning design that was trialled on AV 76.
This part of Quinsborough Road in Bray was done up as part of the building of the new bus interchange that opened in 2025.
25/07/2007
As time went on and DeGrazia’s success exploded, a demand for his art reached an all time high. In 1974 DeGrazia formed his artists guild. They would reproduce his original images to satisfy public demands, which included jewelry, figurines, candles, and many more items. Happy Throwback Thursday!
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
CSX Q418-12 stretches out on the straight away just east of TL, seen here at Heacock Road led by SD40-2 8027, a former Seaboard/L&N unit followed by a former Conrail CW40-8 with the usual short consist. January 12, 2017.
This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2003 and MV 77 at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. The bus is dressed for route 270.
This route started operating between Dunboyne and the shopping centre, going via Littlepace, in September 2000. It has remained pretty consistent since then. Only major changes were in 2006 when the bus stops at the Blanchardstown Centre were relocated, and in 2019 when Go-Ahead Ireland took over the operating of the route.
MV 77 was new to Dublin Bus in 1998. Between 1997 and 1998, Dublin Bus received 25 MV-Class minibuses, the last minibus fleet delivered to the company. The following year would see the WV-Class midibuses start to arrive. MV 77 was withdrawn around the end of 2006, and was subsequently sold on to another Irish operator. It did around another decade in service during its second life.
Although the bus is in City Imp livery, neither route 270 nor any other of the local Blanchardtsown routes were City Imp routes.
28/03/2003
After skipping a week due to holidays, we are back with a trip back in time to 2014. AV 110 is seen in Rathfarnham on route 17 from Rialto to Blackrock. This is a Donnybrook route but the bus is synonymous with Summerhill Garage. There it started off on the 33 before moving to the 20B in 2002. It then settled on that route before leaving the garage in 2013. It transferred to Donnybrook before being withdrawn in mid-2014. While at that garage it occasionally appeared on the 145 which went to Kilmacanogue in Wicklow, so the bus had a career that spanned the entire length of Dublin, from Balbriggan in the north to Wicklow in the south. 01/03/2014
New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia dedicates the statue of Father Francis Duffy, the World War I chaplain of the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion 69th Infantry in Times Square on May 2, 1937. Duffy died on June 27, 1932 and his death was mourned city-wide. The area around his statue in Times Square is now known as Duffy Square (photo courtesy of the National Archives).
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joshua Blong, Maritime Raid Force, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, scans the area for threats during gas and oil platform seizure training during Exercise Leading Edge 13, Feb. 7. The exercise is a multinational and interagency supported exercise designed to develop and refine weapons integration capabilities among partnering nations including suspect maritime material inspections, seizure and disposition. The 15th MEU is deployed as part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group as a U.S. Central Command theatre reserve force, providing support for maritime security operations and theatre security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
Photo by Cpl. Bobby J. Gonzalez
This week we are going back twelve years to 2012, and to VG 16 with a service on route 142 to Rathmines, as the sun rises over Malahide.
Route 142 started as a peak-extra that operated between Portmarnock and Palmerston Park in 2007. It reached the city centre by going via Malahide and the Dublin Port Tunnel. In 2013 it was extended south via Milltown and Bird Avenue to terminate at the old route 11B terminus within UCD Belfield. This peak-hour service was operated by Harristown Garage, but in 2014 a shorter version of the route was introduced between the peaks, operated by Donnybrook Garage. This version ran from UCD Belfield to Portobello, terminating on Charlotte Way. The off-peak route was suspended in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and has yet to return. The peak 142 via Malahide still operates.
VG 16 was new to Dublin Bus in 2008, and it is still in service today. It lost its Dublin Bus livery in 2022 and gained Transport for Ireland livery instead.
14/11/2012
This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1995, and to RH 40 parked on Hawkins Street, dressed for route 48A.
Route 48A started operating between the city centre and Goatstown in 1926. In 1933 it was extended to Ballinteer. It remained there until the route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct. It was partially replaced by routes 14 and 48A.
RH 40 was new to Dublin Bus in 1990. Around 1999 it became an open top tour bus. It was sold by Dublin Bus around 2010 and was bought by another Irish tour operator. It ended its career in Belfast and was withdrawn in 2022.
The bus is in an all-over ad for Swatch.
05/08/1995