Photo Thread

Grandeeod · 29-06-2013 9:58pm #1

Thought I'd support this new forum. I'm not a bus enthusiast, but I came across these historic gems on a FB page I frequent. Worth a look.

First 18 from Ballyfermot.jpg

17A 1980s.jpg

Skid pan Broadstone.jpg

79.jpg

Leyland Royal Tiger.jpg

Grandeeod · 29-06-2013 9:59pm

Some more.

Busaras.jpg

Leyland Royal Tiger2.jpg

Grandeeod · 29-06-2013 10:00pm

Maybe the Mods might want to sticky this thread.

BenShermin · 30-06-2013 12:17am

As a Ballyfermot lad I'm enjoying the memories here.

BenShermin · 30-06-2013 12:22am

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/80246451@N02/8711015879/

Saw this a few weeks ago on my Flickr flicking. Is this ripping the piss or what?

Grandeeod · 30-06-2013 12:28am

BenShermin wrote: »

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/80246451@N02/8711015879/

Saw this a few weeks ago on my Flickr flicking. Is this ripping the piss or what?

Wasn't like that when I was a student!!

BenShermin · 30-06-2013 12:35am

You could be a real arsehole and ask the bus driver to open the luggage doors for your school bag

corktina · 30-06-2013 7:27am

Grandeeod wrote: »

Thought I'd support this new forum. I'm not a bus enthusiast, but I came across these historic gems on a FB page I frequent. Worth a look.

First 18 from Ballyfermot.jpg

17A 1980s.jpg

Skid pan Broadstone.jpg

79.jpg

Leyland Royal Tiger.jpg

Is there a story behind the 17A on Northern Plates?

Grandeeod · 30-06-2013 10:37am

corktina wrote: »

Is there a story behind the 17A on Northern Plates?

There is. Its in Ulster Bus colours and was on demonstration to Dublin Bus. I think the photo dates from 1989.

Losty Dublin · 30-06-2013 1:48pm

A selection of ex DB Olympians parked up at M3 Parkway station. Which looking rather Impish, this is actually their new private livery which has been applied to them.

chinwag · 30-06-2013 2:33pm

Came across these pics (link below). There was also a good thread (with photos) in 2008 about Dublin bus and street scenes started by a boards mod.
However, here is my humble offering to this thread.

http://transportsceneireland.smugmug.com/BusScanIreland/Bus-Types/Route-Unknown-R/17702021_RcfsCd#!i=1350702226&k=5mJLTbr

steamengine · 30-06-2013 2:59pm

chinwag wrote: »

Came across these pics (link below). There was also a good thread (with photos) in 2008 about Dublin bus and street scenes started by a boards mod.
However, here is my humble offering to this thread.

http://transportsceneireland.smugmug.com/BusScanIreland/Bus-Types/Route-Unknown-R/17702021_RcfsCd#!i=1350702226&k=5mJLTbr

Went to school on those buses, the open platform with that vertical bar was very handy for boarding when the bus was in motion. The more skilled could board at speed. As the bus passed by you grabbed the bar firmly with the left hand and then the right. The legs would trail out behind at first, and then fall back on to the platform. Some conductors were not too amused. How H&S has changed.

30-06-2013 11:21pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

A selection of ex DB Olympians parked up at M3 Parkway station. Which looking rather Impish, this is actually their new private livery which has been applied to them.

Are they the Jerry Nolan ones? I see one heading down Santry Avenue most mornings. The centre door has been removed but the flap which contained the door open handle still remains.

Losty Dublin · 30-06-2013 11:36pm

Karsini wrote: »

Are they the Jerry Nolan ones? I see one heading down Santry Avenue most mornings. The centre door has been removed but the flap which contained the door open handle still remains.

These seem to have had the doors retained in them but they may well have been converted since then; it was March when I met them.

KCAccidental · 01-07-2013 1:12am

BenShermin wrote: »

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/80246451@N02/8711015879/

Saw this a few weeks ago on my Flickr flicking. Is this ripping the piss or what?

They sometimes used to use the bigger coaches for the morning college rush. Thought the deckers had eliminated the need for them in recent years though!

dublinman1990 · 02-07-2013 11:35am

I found this picture of CIE double decker RA106 from Portlaoise on The Wanderer on Smugmug. It has something unusual on it's front blind.

http://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2013Photos/June-2013/29767818_QcKp2w#!i=2555433177&k=JRWqJcQ

dfx- · 04-07-2013 10:08pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

A selection of ex DB Olympians parked up at M3 Parkway station. Which looking rather Impish, this is actually their new private livery which has been applied to them.

I've seen them outside Intel while passing on the 66 to Maynooth. The red looks terrible. There's a couple of red ex-London? bendy buses there I think

dublinman1990 · 17-07-2013 3:19pm

This happened to Donnybrook's DART branded KC199 while on the Sandyford Road on 14th April 1987.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58660422@N07/8453871683/

Photo Courtesy of Des Willis

Grandeeod · 22-07-2013 11:48am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK46FF4F5T4

Judgement Day · 24-07-2013 7:37pm

Anybody know the current whereabouts of E8 http://www.flickr.com/photos/48993163@N05/5390478211/in/photostream/ or who now owns it?

Losty Dublin · 24-07-2013 7:47pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

Anybody know the current whereabouts of E8 http://www.flickr.com/photos/48993163@N05/5390478211/in/photostream/ or who now owns it?

PM sent.

foggy_lad · 09-08-2013 9:15pm

A few bus pictures. The last one is a kerry coaches tourliner, the 2nd one seen this evening in dublin.

MGWR · 03-09-2013 4:44am

The rare New York City Atlantean...ran on the bus routes for Fifth and Madison Avenues.

Losty Dublin · 03-09-2013 8:49pm

A wee drive up the mountains led me to Glencullen just in time to bump into a good friend of ours

MGWR · 03-09-2013 11:11pm

One time when I was younger, I was lucky enough to ride a VanHool-bodied Atlantean on the full length of the 44B from Hawkins Street all the way to that remote bus loop in the mountains. The roads through Barnacullia and Ballyedmonduff do look rather dangerous from the upper deck of one of those buses. (For all the money purportedly spent on the roads in Ireland, they couldn't widen those roads for safety's sake, no?)

Losty Dublin · 04-09-2013 12:50pm

MGWR wrote: »

One time when I was younger, I was lucky enough to ride a VanHool-bodied Atlantean on the full length of the 44B from Hawkins Street all the way to that remote bus loop in the mountains. The roads through Barnacullia and Ballyedmonduff do look rather dangerous from the upper deck of one of those buses. (For all the money purportedly spent on the roads in Ireland, they couldn't widen those roads for safety's sake, no?)

The problem is that there are too many house hugging either side of the road at barnacullia which makes wideing almost impossible without CPO's and some amount of cutting into the granite rock base.

There goes a story that around 2001, the regular marked in KC failed one afternoon and an new AV with a spare man was called in to cover the route. The plucky if naive driver took a wrong turn around the Blue Light and got the bus lodged at the mouth of a cul de sac blocking the main road up and down; it took an evening to free up the bus and one very embarrassed driver

aujopimur · 04-09-2013 1:39pm

Unfortunatley not in the best condition.

Losty Dublin · 04-09-2013 2:46pm

aujopimur wrote: »

Unfortunatley not in the best condition.

Is that one of those in the Kells museum?

aujopimur · 04-09-2013 6:17pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Is that one of those in the Kells museum?

I've no idea, this one is in the yard behind The Halfway Pub on the Cork to Bandon Rd..

MGWR · 05-09-2013 5:27pm

Grandeeod wrote: »

Thought I'd support this new forum. I'm not a bus enthusiast, but I came across these historic gems on a FB page I frequent. Worth a look.

First 18 from Ballyfermot.jpg

17A 1980s.jpg

Skid pan Broadstone.jpg

79.jpg

Leyland Royal Tiger.jpg

I used to use the old 27A (to Cromcastle Green in Kilmore) to visit relatives along the Oscar Traynor Road in the 1980s, and I never saw that type of bus on the 17A. What part of the 1980s did it run in?

I also remember the 79 crossing the O'More Bridge back when Victoria Quay still had two-way traffic prior to the Sherwin Bridge opening. The other bus routes going that way at the time were the 24, 68 and 69.

LXFlyer · 05-09-2013 6:37pm

It was a trial - Dublin Bus were assessing the suitability of the vehicle.

MGWR · 06-09-2013 6:28pm

Thanks. That would certainly explain why I never got to see it during the transition from C-class Leopards to KC-class on that route; just was not fortunate enough to catch it during travels.

Anyone familiar with this blogspot page, of one Rob McCaffery? Lots of photos of CIE buses (mostly Dublin District, but also provincial/Expressway/Airport, and some Ulsterbus and private operators) from between 1979 and 1981.

Losty Dublin · 08-09-2013 2:59pm

I saw this scene outside a wedding yesterday and the Drifters song. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." came into my head.

MGWR · 08-09-2013 7:12pm

Ah, route 150. That looks like the corner of Clogher and Sundrive Roads, right? which means that's St. Bernadette's.

(Probably too much to ask out of DB to turn the 150 back into the 50, even with the former route to Jobstown long cancelled.)

Losty Dublin · 08-09-2013 8:49pm

MGWR wrote: »

Ah, route 150. That looks like the corner of Clogher and Sundrive Roads, right? which means that's St. Bernadette's.

(Probably too much to ask out of DB to turn the 150 back into the 50, even with the former route to Jobstown long cancelled.)

Thats the spot, man.

If you ask me, they should rename it the 81 or 22A

john boye · 09-09-2013 12:20am

MGWR wrote: »

Ah, route 150. That looks like the corner of Clogher and Sundrive Roads, right? which means that's St. Bernadette's.

(Probably too much to ask out of DB to turn the 150 back into the 50, even with the former route to Jobstown long cancelled.)

It's strange to think but these days the only relevance it has to the old 50 is from CC to the coombe and from the star bingo to Millgate Drive

Cookie_Monster · 09-09-2013 11:06am

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I saw this scene outside a wedding yesterday and the Drifters song. "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." came into my head.

Honestly it staggers me that someone who has to go and get a CPC and is expected to drive responsibly and safely on behalf of themselves and 80 odd passengers just dumps a bus on the footpath like that...
There is no excuse for that.

corktina · 09-09-2013 12:44pm

and no excuse for those indicators either (I'll overlook the 66D registration)

Losty Dublin · 09-09-2013 1:06pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Honestly it staggers me that someone who has to go and get a CPC and is expected to drive responsibly and safely on behalf of themselves and 80 odd passengers just dumps a bus on the footpath like that...
There is no excuse for that.

Ring Dualway and complain about it in that case. I'm only posting a nice photo of two buses

MGWR · 17-09-2013 9:30pm

New York City tested a China-built BYD K-9 battery-powered 35-seater on route M42 (42nd Street Cross-Town route in Manhattan) recently. (Do not know if New Flyer or Gillig have any competing designs. GM appears to be out of the bus business.)

MTA Flickr photo set here.

Csalem · 22-10-2013 3:24pm

Some buses this week are being turned out in All-Over Ads for Oreos. So far I have seen the following.
Ringsend's AX 490, 21/10/13:

AX 490 Pearse Street 21/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

Phibsboro's AV 446, 22/10/13:

AV 446 College Street 22/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

dfx- · 22-10-2013 4:33pm

the war against "J-Os":pac:

TheBandicoot · 22-10-2013 5:30pm

Think that war is lost, J-Os are far superior.

Doesn't help either that Oreo seems to be using the same shade of blue as J-O's advertising.

Csalem · 22-10-2013 6:24pm

I think I will stick with a custard cream or a bourbon.

Trebor176 · 23-10-2013 2:01pm

I wonder could these be referred to as Oreo Speedwagons

Csalem · 04-11-2013 5:28pm

Managed to get another of the two Oreo buses so that is four out of five. Just need the elusive Summerhill one.

AX 532:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60501971@N08/10644512423/in/photostream/

AX 551:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60501971@N08/10673009913/in/photostream/

islanderre · 04-11-2013 10:33pm

This bus was on the sight seeing service around toronto..... I presume its ex London Bus....

[IMG][/img]

[IMG][/img]

Csalem · 08-11-2013 2:57pm

Hi all,
I spent two days in London last week and took a few photos of buses there. I have uploaded my Borismaster shots first and can be seen at the link below, and show them operating on routes 9, 11, 24 and 38.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60501971@N08/sets/72157637443496556/

LT 91 & LT 64 The Strand 31/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

Enjoy!

foggy_lad · 11-11-2013 10:56pm

B56FC15989B74E6DADD584F0E8EC2A48-0000328874-0003429720-00800L-4CD9AB24D8844917883C57D7D24EBA11.jpg

00D324C2B1EE4BBB81A65967EABB6727-0000328874-0003429719-00800L-95BB2CFBCB5A4E8483EFA23326F13CFC.jpg

New expressway vehicle?

Csalem · 19-11-2013 10:12am

I have uploaded some more pictures from my trip to London, with non-LT shots now included:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60501971@N08/sets/72157637443496506/with/10882626225/

And if you want a comparison in open-platform buses...

RTL 453

RTL 453 Trafalgar Square 31/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

RM 2060

RM 2060 The Strand 31/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

LT 79

LT 79 Trafalgar Square 31/10/13 by Rail Scene Ireland, on Flickr

TirEoghain · 26-11-2013 12:13pm

foggy_lad wrote: »

New expressway vehicle?

Think they would use a spellchecker. Like the spelling of "buses"!

Photo Thread

Comments