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Provincial Past
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1990 sees TE 35 loading up Tralee with a service to Rosslare via Killarney and Cork. Today in 2020 this is route 40 in the Expressway network. TE 35 was one of forty buses with Leyland Tiger chassis and Alexander bodywork delivered between 1988 and 1989. The class also introduced this livery for Expressway that was rolled out to other types.
The TE Class ended their careers on school duties and were withdrawn around 2008. 03/08/1990
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1983 sees KD 50 parked in the yard at Galway Station. This bus was based in Limerick and had just completed a trip on the Expressway route from there (which today is route 51/X51). The bus was delivered new in 1981 and lasted until the mid-1990s. 13/08/1983
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1996 sees KC 180 in Limerick. The bus is operating a service on route 8 to Raheen. The bus was delivered new to Limerick in 1985 and was withdrawn in 2000. The bus is in an all-over ad for Allied Irish Banks. 26/08/1996
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At the start of this series I stated that one of the rules would be no photos from Dublin, and instead it would focus on the rest of Ireland. Well, we got as far as Provincial Past (31) for the rule to be broken, but I think this is special enough to justify it.
1987 sees Bus Eireann's KR 2 at the Janelle Shopping Centre in Finglas. The shopping centre was converted from an old factory and opened in 1987. The anchor tenant was Super Crazy Prices, a division of Quinnsworth. Both were taken over by Tesco in the 1990s. Bus Eireann won the contract to provide a shuttle bus service from Cabra and Blanchardstown to the centre. KR 2 and KR 219 were allocated to the service and received this special livery / all-over ad for it. The service ran until the 1990s (the shopping centre itself was later replaced by Clearwater Centre in the late 1990s / early 2000s), and thus it was one of the rare bus services (albeit contacted) that ran in Dublin city and was operated by Bus Eireann.
KR 143 also provided a similar service in a similar livery in Wexford town.
KR 2 was second member of the 226 strong KR class built by GAC Bombardier. It entered service in 1986.
Finglas, 01/09/1987
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1992 sees KC 6 in Waterford while operating a service to Browne's Road. KC 6 was delivered new to Waterford in 1983. Between 1992 and 1996 it moved to Galway, and by 1998 was withdrawn in Thurles.
Currently in 2020 Browne's Road is the terminus for the W4 but previous to 2018 it was for the 603. The Quay, Waterford, 08/09/1992
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1992 sees KC 6 in Waterford while operating a service to Browne's Road. KC 6 was delivered new to Waterford in 1983. Between 1992 and 1996 it moved to Galway, and by 1998 was withdrawn in Thurles.
Currently in 2020 Browne's Road is the terminus for the W4 but previous to 2018 it was for the 603. The Quay, Waterford, 08/09/1992Provinical Past (32) by Cathal O'Brien, on Flickr
It was destined for Cork, both it and KC 5 were transferred to Thurles for collection by Cork, only 5 was collected. I read somewhere that KC5 was against the wall in Waterford and condemned for scrap before being rebuilt in 1997.0 -
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Cork Trucker wrote: »Was that KR2 with the side ad?
Yes it has 4 mega phones up top.....
Reminds me of this....
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punisher5112 wrote: »Yes it has 4 mega phones up top.....
Reminds me of this....
Correction on the side ad, it was a full AOA
Here's Csalem's photo with megaphones in place
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60501971@N08/50290460613/in/photolist-2jBZKR8-9tKvT40 -
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1988 sees HB 254 parked at Rosslare Harbour. This bus started life as C 254 and was delivered new to CIE in 1966. Initially it operated out of Broadstone before moving to Cork, and then ending up in Waterford. In 1985 the middle door was added and it moved to Rosslare Harbour where it shuttled people between the ships and the land. It was withdrawn in 1990.
It did not work alone when in Rosslare. C 203 was similarly converted to become dual-door HB 203, and both buses joined HB 56 which had been converted from.school bus SS 56. 15/09/1988
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1982 sees KE 1 parked at the depot in Donegal town. The bus was the first of fifty-two coaches delivered to CIE by Bombardier. These were the first single-decker buses delivered to CIE by that company, though the later classes (KC and KR) were built by GAC. KE 1 was slightly different from the following coaches as it had a more rounded roof. KE 1 - 22 were delivered as intercity coaches whereas 23 to 52 were touring coaches. But over time all ended up on passenger services. The fleet was delivered throughout 1981 and withdrawals started in 1995.
Donegal town depot, like a lot of Bus Eireann depots, was built at the site of a former railway station. 25/09/1982
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1985 sees KR 33 picking up passengers in Balbriggan while operating a service from Dublin to Drogheda. KR 33 was only a few weeks old at this point but was destroyed by fire at Navan railway station in late-1986. It holds the distinction of being the only KR never to operate for Bus Eireann.
Today this bus route is route 101. Balbriggan, 06/10/1985
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1984 sees KC 139 loading up with passengers at Drogheda bus station before departing on a service to Laytown. This bus along with KC 137 and KC 138 were delivered new to Drogheda but were only there for a short while before more KRs arrived. The KCs subsequently moved to Clontarf Garage in Dublin. KC 139 was withdrawn by Dublin Bus around 2000, and was one of the last KCs to operate out of Clontarf.
Currently there are two routes between Drogheda and Laytown numbered the D1 and D2. These routes replaced the 190 between these two points. 12/10/1984
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1996 sees Bus Eireann KR 109 in Waterford with a service to Tramore. KR 109 was delivered new to CIE in 1985. It was withdrawn in the early-2000s, spending its last few years on school duties. KR 109 and KR 168 were the only members of this class to be painted in this version of Bus Eireann livery.
Today the service to Tramore is operated as routes 360 and 360A and often has double-decker buses allocated to it. 19/10/1996
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1996 sees Bus Eireann KR 109 in Waterford with a service to Tramore. KR 109 was delivered new to CIE in 1985. It was withdrawn in the early-2000s, spending its last few years on school duties. KR 109 and KR 168 were the only members of this class to be painted in this version of Bus Eireann livery.
Today the service to Tramore is operated as routes 360 and 360A and often has double-decker buses allocated to it. 19/10/1996Provincial Past (37) by Cathal O'Brien, on Flickr
Does anyone know what the Bus Eireann branded square plate near the door is about? It looks like that's where you might have a route number.
That...or maybe there's a light behind that panel to make it easy to identify this as a BE bus in the dark? Kinda curious...0 -
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1984 sees KC 139 loading up with passengers at Drogheda bus station before departing on a service to Laytown. This bus along with KC 137 and KC 138 were delivered new to Drogheda but were only there for a short while before more KRs arrived. The KCs subsequently moved to Clontarf Garage in Dublin. KC 139 was withdrawn by Dublin Bus around 2000, and was one of the last KCs to operate out of Clontarf.
Currently there are two routes between Drogheda and Laytown numbered the D1 and D2. These routes replaced the 190 between these two points. 12/10/1984
I remember KC138 being a regular feature on the 27 and it had awful brakes!
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1999 sees Bus EIreann KC 8 in Galway on a service on route 2 to Knocknacarra. The bus was one of 202 members of the class built for CIE by GAC / Bombardier in the early 1980s. Dublin Bus withdrew all of theirs by 2000 while Bus Eireann's continued on into 2001.
The bus is in an all-over ad for Heineken. This was part of a national campaign with buses in Cork and Dublin also wrapped for it.
In 2020 most routes to Knocknacarra are operated by City Direct but the 402 operated by Bus Eireann still runs from Seacrest / Knocknacarra to Merlin Park. Eyre Square, 26/10/1999
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zilog_jones wrote: »A double decker from Limerick to Shannon Airport must have been a slow service, where city buses not limited to 40 MPH back then?
Also: What happened to the double deckers in Limerick city? I have vague recollection of an accident or something (might be completely wrong!), and they all disappeared for a long time (only returned in the past decade or so). For the '90s I only recall KC's and a lone Volvo doing city services in Limerick, until the low floor buses appeared.
EDIT: According to a Limerick Leader article, there were no double deckers in Limerick between 1984 and 2016.
1987-92 I was in college in Limerick - They regularly ran a double decker from Roscrea to Limerick on a Sunday night to cater for large amounts of returning students as Roscrea was a bus hub in the day. There would be a couple of Expressway single deckers and there'd be a scramble to get on them as they were way faster and way more comfortable than the double decker. Some people used to get travel sick sitting upstairs.
They had the occasional double decker from Limerick City Centre out to the university back then, the bus couldn't fit under the bridge on the Ballysimon Rd so it went via St Patricks Road instead. I was on it a couple of times when the driver forgot, so he had to be reminded somewhere along Childers Rd that he wasn't going to make it.
Great reading in the thread, I remember a fair few of the buses from the 70's, 80's and 90's. You'd be dreading certain buses showing up as they were terrible.
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November 1980 sees D 412 on a city service in Waterford. This bus was delivered new to CIE in 1972. It operated out of Donnybrook Garage in Dublin until it transferred south in 1977 (Originally D 413 had been sent south but 412 replaced it. D 413 went on to have a long career in the Dublin Bus tour fleet). D 412 was withdrawn in 1983, and therefore never operated under Bus Eireann, nor Dublin Bus. 11/1980
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2001 sees us revisiting an old friend. KR 109 is seen parked in Callan during its later career as a school bus. Previously we had seen it on the city services in Waterford in Provincial Past (37), but at the turn of the new century the bus transferred from the regular fleet to the school fleet. As part of this transfer it became KS 109, to reflect its new role. The bus ended its days around 2007 in Dungarvan. 14/11/2001
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2002 sees PL 106 arriving into Drogheda bus station with a service on route 189. This was a member of the third fleet of PLs operated by CIE / Bus Eireann. The first group were delivered in the 1960s. The second PL fleet were three secondhand buses that entered service in 1990 but built in 1984. PL 61 to 124 were again mostly (if not all) secondhand buses too dating from 1990/91, coming from Shearings Travel. In its former life PL 106 was 837 with Shearings. The PL classes were Leyland Tiger chassis with Plaxton Paramount bodies. Most of the final two fleets of PLs ended up on school duties and were all withdrawn by 2010.
Route 189 currently runs from Drogheda to Clogher and Grangebellew. 16/11/2002
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