Retro irish bus pics c1989

carchaeologist

Old pic of dublin buses etc...and some great 80s street scenes pics
http://www.dublinbus.cc/wity21989.htm

And the millenium celebrations.i remember being there for it...
http://www.dublinbus.cc/wity21989.htm

20 years ago now,seems like a lifetime!!

Gary ITR

Excellent find

carchaeologist

Thanks,i just came upon it this morning,this site below is also good,some great pics in it!:)
http://www.freewebs.com/eirebus2006/alloverads.htm

*grabs anorak*:P

carchaeologist

Heres the index,enough stuff here to look at for a week!!!:)

http://www.dublinbuses.com/

Max_Damage

That's a good website , been on it many times before.

Brings back memories of taking the Irish-built Bombardier 'KD' and 'KC' buses home from school back in the early-mid 90's. They were days!

I contacted the owner of that site a few weeks back and he said that he'll be doing every year right up to 2008 (he adds a year at the start of each month. I think next month he'll be putting up pictures of 1994).

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

That's a good website , been on it many times before.

Brings back memories of taking the Irish-built Bombardier 'KD' and 'KC' buses home from school back in the early-mid 90's. They were days!

Yeah, i think i went to and from school on most of bus eireanns back catalogue in the 90s!!!Those were the days indeed!!

Gary ITR

Max_Damage wrote: »

I think next month he'll be putting up pictures of 1994).

That was the year that the first of the 'city swift' buses were used

Max_Damage

Does anyone remember what year Dublin Bus got rid of the green livery and introduced that pasty cream and blue livery? It was around the late 90's I reckon.

Also, this was a sad day :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wCI9Rk20o

carchaeologist

That vid wont work for me..

Gary ITR

Vid is gone...

Edit; works if you go to youtube and watch it

Wishbone Ash

Max_Damage wrote:

I think next month he'll be putting up pictures of 1994

Onkle wrote: »

That was the year that the first of the 'city swift' buses were used

The first City swift was on the 39 route in June 1993 (using the ill-fated P class DAF single deckers).

Max_Damage

Strange that, works for me...

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wCI9Rk20o

Gary ITR

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The first City swift was on the 39 route in June 1993 (using the ill-fated P class DAF single deckers).

Could have sworn the first single decker was launched on the 78A route. I remember news crew being on them the day they started on that route. Dublin Bus came around to our school just before they launched too to show them off

Wishbone Ash

Onkle wrote: »

Could have sworn the first single decker was launched on the 78A route. I remember news crew being on them the day they started on that route. Dublin Bus came around to our school just before they launched too to show them off

The 78 route was changed to City Swift in February 1994 (possibly the second route to go City Swift?).

Gary ITR

Must have been so. Those first swifts were bloody awful, the seats were terrible. They didn't last too long either. I remember there was one of the old Bombardier single deckers repainted in the city swift colours, only the one though

Wishbone Ash

Onkle wrote: »

Those first swifts were bloody awful, the seats were terrible. They didn't last too long either

Some went to Bus Eireann for school runs and some changed to the City Imp livery.

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

Strange that, works for me...

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wCI9Rk20o

Saw it on you tube,very good.
This one is a bit sad too...

Max_Damage

Hear the Detroit Diesel V6 engines roar from the KD's:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7PcdxEEhiiU

carchaeologist

Older again!!

carchaeologist

These came from,and theres some more dublin pics here.. http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?cat=16

carchaeologist

An 80s/early 90s shot..