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This week we are going back thirty-one years to 1990 and KC 200 in Tallaght. This incarnation of the route started in February 1990 and initially used the 49 terminus as seen here in Old Bawn. Later in the year it moved to The Square shopping centre, following its opening. A number of Tallaght routes were reorganised in October 1990 because of the new shopping centre. The 75 ran to Dun Laoghaire, going via Rathfarnham, Stillorgan and Dundrum. It started with single-deckers but it soon became a popular route and double-deckers took over. In 2018 it was one of the routes that went out for tendering and in October 2018 Go-Ahead Ireland took over.
Before this route 75 commenced in 1990 there was a short-lived version in the late 1980s that provided a local service in Tallaght between Fettercairn and Kilnamanagh.
KC 200 was one of the last KC single-deckers delivered by GAC. The bus was initially delivered in 1986 to CIE and had a registration of LZS 200. It was then reregistered in 1987 to have the new numberplate format.
The main road behind the bus is still served by the 75, as well as the 75A, 77A and 175.
03/03/1990
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This week we are going back twenty-five years to 1996 and the end of a bus route. KC 44 is seen on Marlborough Street dressed for route 30. This route started in 1938, replacing a previous tram route, and connected the City Centre with Dollymount, via Clontarf. The terminus in Dollymount was Mount Prospect Avenue. Route 30 was replaced by City Imp route 130 on the 17th March 1996, a week after this photograph was taken. Originally it was meant to have started on 10th March, but the introduction of the new route was slightly delayed. The 130 also replaced route 44A on the same time, which operated between the City Centre and Seafield Park in Clontarf.
KC 44 entered service with CIE in December 1983. It was withdrawn in 1999. It spent most of its life in Clontarf Garage, though it ended its career in Conyngham Road Garage.
This part of Marlborough Street is now also used by Luas trams, as well as the occasional bus.
09/03/1996
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This week we are going back to 1986 and KD 8 in Malahide. The bus is seen at the terminus for route 32A on St. James's Terrace. The 32A can trace its origins back to the GNR(I). In 1958 it passed to CIE but ceased in 1966. However it was back on the network by 1971. The route operated from the city centre via Raheny, Baldoyle and Portmarnock. The route ceased in November 2012 when route 32 was extended to Malahide from Portmarnock. This was not the first time the 32 went to Malahide as some departures terminated there in the late 1960s when the 32A was not operating.
KD 8 was delivered new to CIE in August 1981. It spent the majority of its life in Clontarf Garage, although it spent some months in Conyngham Road Garage in 1996. It was withdrawn around 1998/1999.
19/03/1986
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This week we are going back to 1986 and KD 8 in Malahide. The bus is seen at the terminus for route 32A on St. James's Terrace. The 32A can trace its origins back to the GNR(I). In 1958 it passed to CIE but ceased in 1966. However it was back on the network by 1971. The route operated from the city centre via Raheny, Baldoyle and Portmarnock. The route ceased in November 2012 when route 32 was extended to Malahide from Portmarnock. This was not the first time the 32 went to Malahide as some departures terminated there in the late 1960s when the 32A was not operating.
KD 8 was delivered new to CIE in August 1981. It spent the majority of its life in Clontarf Garage, although it spent some months in Conyngham Road Garage in 1996. It was withdrawn around 1998/1999.
19/03/1986Throwback Thursday (271) by Cathal O'Brien, on Flickr
I see there in your photograph that the CIE logo on KD 8 is coloured in orange & black on the front of the bus with a white one on the side. I don't know if you could tell us if there were any other KD's with other CIE logos painted in that way or not.0 -
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This week we are going back thirty-five years to 1986 and KC 16 on route 90. The bus is seen at the eastern terminus of the route at Connolly Station. It connected the two main stations in Dublin, Connolly and Heuston in the west. The route travelled along the quays and also provided connections to Bus Aras and Tara Street Station. The route was initially planned as one of the DART feeders to coincide with the introduction of that rail service in 1984. It was however delayed until February 1986. In 2005 the route was extended further east to the IFSC, merging with the short-lived 90A. In 2009 the Luas Red Line opened and this tram route provided another connection between Connolly and Heuston stations. This naturally took passengers from the 90 and the route was cut back to operate just in the morning peak. The route has been suspended since June 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The bus is parked at the entrance to Connolly Station, at the top of the ramp that used to rise up from Amiens Street. This was removed in 2003 in order to become the tram terminus for the Luas Red Line, with the 90 serving a stop on Amiens Street instead.
KC 16 was delivered new to CIE in 1983. It was withdrawn in May 1996.
24/03/1986
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This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1995 to see RH 148 trying out a new livery. At the time Dublin Bus was eight years old and was considering a new livery to replace the two-tone green and orange stripe. RH 147 received a blue/white livery with a yellow stripe, whereas RH 148 received a two-tone green livery with orange stripe. As can be seen in the photo, when compared to the buses around it, it was only really the lower green that was modified from the standard livery. Unsurprisingly, this livery was not adopted as the new fleet standard. Nor was the livery on RH 147. Instead a blue and cream livery with orange was introduced a few years later. In 2003 Dublin Bus adopted a blue and yellow livery, and now in 2021 a new TFI livery is being rolled out across Ireland.
Route 45 ran between Dublin City Centre and Bray, with termini in the latter either at Oldcourt or Esplanade. It was removed from the network in 2012, but the 45A continues on today between Dun Laoghaire and Kilmacanogue via Bray.
RH 148 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992 and was withdrawn in 2006. It was then sold on to an operator in Scunthorpe in the United Kingdom. It was subsequently withdrawn at some point after 2013. D'Olier Street, 01/04/1995
Throwback Thursday (273) by Cathal O'Brien, on Flickr 0 -
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BonnieSituation wrote: »I had never seen that RH147 livery before.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48073612@N04/5191015260/
Interesting.
It also made an appearance as TBT (67):
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103278869&postcount=121
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It also made an appearance as TBT (67):
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103278869&postcount=121
Well, then this is a f**ckin' lie!!!!
BonnieSituation wrote: »I had never seen that RH147 livery before.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48073612@N04/5191015260/
Interesting.0 -
This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1995 and to RH 143 on Eden Quay. The bus is in an all-over ad for AIB (Allied Irish Banks). The bank is one of the largest banks in Ireland and was founded in 1966 after the merging of three other banks. During the financial crash in 2010 the bank was nationalised by the Irish government, who still retain a majority stake in it in 2021.
RH 143 was delivered new to Dublin Bus in 1992. It was withdrawn in 2006 and sold to an operator in the UK. It spent most of its working life in Dublin operating out of Donnybrook garage. It received this all-over ad in 1994 and remained in it into 1996. While painted like this it did spend some time operating out of Phibsborough Garage.
Route 84 connects Dublin with towns in north Wicklow such as Greystones, Kilcoole and Newcastle. It started running to Kilcoole in 1936 and Newcastle in 1946, and is still operating to this day. However, journeys to the city centre are operated by limited stop route 84X. The northern 84 terminus was moved to Blackrock in 2012, after having been moved from the city centre to UCD in 2010 during the first phase of Network Direct. 08/04/1995
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This week we are going back twenty-one years to 2000 and to KD 329 on Eden Quay. This was the last year of Bombardier bus operations in Dublin. The first KD double-decker entered service in May 1981 (it was KD 2 on route 8). CIE went on to receive 366 double-deckers in total between 1981 and 1983, the vast majority built in Shannon. Originally there were only meant to be 365 KDs but KD 366 was built in 1983 to replace KD 111 which had been written off in an accident in 1982. Another extra one was built and sent to Baghdad to be trialled there, this one being left-hand drive. The majority of the CIE buses operated in Dublin, but there were also some in Limerick, Galway and Cork. The final day of normal KD operation in Dublin was in December 2000. A farewell run ran in January 2001 when the final fare-paying passenger was also carried. KD operation in Cork and Limerick had finished in the late 1990s.
As can be seen here, the two-tone green livery was also on the way out. The bus stop is blue, and two Olympians in the background are in the new standard livery, while the third is in CitySwift livery.
Route 77 became a DUTC bus route in 1939, connecting the city centre with Tallaght. It became more frequent in the 1980s and 1990s as that suburb of Dublin began to expand, and became a CitySwift route in 1997. It became cross-city route 27 in 2011 under Network Direct, and this route still serves Eden Quay.
14/04/2000
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This week we are going back twenty-six years to 1995 and KD 14 on Marlborough Street. The bus is dressed for route 27B to Castletimon. This route started serving that part of Dublin in 1971. It started serving Beaumont Hospital in the late 1980s/early 1990s and around 2005 it was extended further north to the new bus garage at Harristown. Proposals to merge it with the routes 79/79A under Network Direct in the 2010s came to nothing, as did a subsequent plan to extend it to Heuston Station.
KD 14 was delivered new to CIE in Dublin in September 1981 and spent most of its career in Clontarf Garage. It spent some time in Donnybrook and Ringsend Garages over its life. The bus was withdrawn after 1996.
The remains of the Dolphin's Discs shop is beside the bus. This music shop had a number of outlets around the city, including two of them just around the corner on Talbot Street. The final shop closed in 2012.
This part of Marlborough Street is now home to the tram tracks of the Luas Green Line. 22/04/1995
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This week we are going back thirty-seven years to 1984 and D 290 on Hawkins Street. The bus is operating a service on route 62 to Kilmacud, although this Kilmacud could also be called Stillorgan. Route 62 started in 1932 and originally ran from the city centre to Goatstown, via Ranelagh and Clonskeagh. In 1962 it was extended to Kilmacud. But in 1966 it was extended further along the Lower Kilmacud Road to a new terminus at Beaufield Park, behind Stillorgan Shopping Centre. The bus continued to terminate here (and show Kilmacud as a destination) until it was merged with route 11 in 1999. The 11 stopped serving the Kilmacud terminus in 2011 when it moved to Sandyford Business District instead.
D 290 was delivered new to CIE in 1969. It spent all its life in Dublin and was withdrawn at the end of 1987.
Beside the bus is the Screen cinema. It was demolished in 2019. Hawkins House behind it is due to be demolished in 2021.
30/04/1984
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This week we are going back twenty-nine years to 1992 and MW 2 on College Street. The bus is operating a service on route 83. This route started in 1936, running between Dublin city centre and Kimmage. By the late-1980s the route was in decline and a decision was taken to revitalise the route. In April 1992 the City Imp brand was launched on the 83. The regular buses were replaced by mini-buses in a bright yellow/red livery. The frequency of the route was increased to every 8 minutes in the peak and 12 minutes in the off-peak. Also between Kimmage and Rathmines "Hail n' Ride" was introduced, where passengers could board the bus anywhere along the road as long (at or away from bus stops) as long as it was safe for the bus to stop. The City Imp concept was rolled out to other routes around the city but the 83 was the only one to keep its original route number. Around 2000 these routes had become successful again, and the minibuses on the 83 were replaced by standard buses, with the route losing its City Imp identity. In 2003 the route was merged with the 134 and extended north to McKelvey Avenue in Finglas. A year later it was extended further to Harristown Garage. In 2021 it still operates from Harristown to Kimmage via the city centre.
MW 2 was one of ten MW class minibuses delivered to Dublin Bus in 1990, originally for Localink services. They lasted in service around a decade and most went on to find careers elsewhere.
This location on College Street is now the Trinity tram stop on the Luas Green Line. 06/05/1992
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