Irish Bus Memories & History - vehicles & services of the past

R34

feeds@yuku.com (C236) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:28:27 GMT

Anyone able to identify the location of this photo?

Summerhills Atlanteans

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:22:20 GMT

I've seen a picture of a standered Atlantean on Route 16. It looked strange. I was use to seeing the AN68s on the 16s. I've also seen pictures of the standered Ds on route 20b. I never really associated The standerd Ds with Summerhill. Ignorance on my part i feel. It is Time to see the error of my ways, so if any one knows the details with Summerhills standered Atlanteans i'll be grateful.

Original VCs when new

feeds@yuku.com (VWL119) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:38:48 GMT

I have to say that the VCs have been a teriffic asset to BÉ and are undoubtedly one of the great coaches, I vaguely remember the PDs but don't think they were as good(even though I know a lot of people like the PDs as well), it's frightning how much better they are than just about ever other modern vehicle bar the Scania Irizar PBs which are in a league of their own(and even more frightning when you consider that the VR is so bad and the VC300 is a bad sequel to VC1-147, a...

GNR - Tales of the Unexpected

feeds@yuku.com (R791) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:49:03 GMT

Ok, maybe because its Hallowe'en (WoOOoo) and the 50 year old ghost of the GNR is still in the ether, but a furtive imagination is a dangerous thing when it comes to an idea. So here it is:

Its 2009 and the GNR is still a thriving transport company. The last 50 years didn't happen - and it is still in business, so what has the GNR have been operating since 1959? Doubtless the AAs would have been in service from 1960 to possibly 1977, but in terms of other buses, what would...

Phibsboros Vanhools

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:38:42 GMT

Does anyone know how many Van Hools Phibsboro obtained in the early ninties and were they all from C/Road.

P Class- Cityswift

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:50:37 GMT

In October 93 I got on the P Class on route 39. I distinctly remember there was a step just slightly past halfway. I have been on each of the 40 p class over the years and none of them had a step, so obviously it had been removed. The step must have been on just one. I had the flu at the time, but I was cheered up getting on the cityswift. It is amazing the healing powers of a bus. Does anybody know the deal with the step.

30 YEARS OF THE IRISH OMNIBUS CIRCLE

feeds@yuku.com (R791) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:42:34 GMT

Going through some archive material recently, I came across my complete collection of Irish Omnibus Circle newsletters that were produced by a group of enthusiasts (many of whom are on this site) including myself thirty years ago. The last issue, with part 2 of a feature on P31-P361 (the real Ps) was produced in the autumn on 1979 and also, as with most issues, carried a CIE DCS Fleet List and fleet news from the time, and a review of bus transport...

Baghdad KD

feeds@yuku.com (R791) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:02:00 GMT

Anyone have a photo of the Baghdad KD? Would love to see what it looked like in red

kd 70

feeds@yuku.com (wayne dublin 28) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:21:33 GMT

is kd 70 still in the Glasgow Bus Museum in Scotland ?
if so any photo,s of her in scotland

North Wall Bus

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:02:39 GMT

For many years there was a special bus that use to go from Finglas to the North Wall. It's route started from the old route 40 terminus, Plunkett Road then it would serve Cardiffsbridge Road, Dunsink Avenue, Glasnevin Avenue, Ballymun Road, down through Phibsboro and all the way down the North Circular Road ending up at the North Wall. I would always see it at 7:10 in the morning. My father would get it as he worked for cie down the North wall. He would tell me that this bus use to be for...

KCs?

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:46:30 GMT

Hi all, looking for some information. Phibsboro garage obtained some kcs in the late 80s for the newly opo 40 routes. I am trying to find out were the kcs came from. Here is a list of the kcs at phibsboro.
kc2,kc3,kc4,kc9,kc16,kc17,kc18,kc19,kc20,kc21,kc22,kc91,kc92,kc110
I think kc16and17 were at c/road and kc18 at donnybrook, but can't be sure. Anyone out there in busland with some knowledge on this.

MW class

feeds@yuku.com (RM1986) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:29 GMT

I was just thinking about these buses and their route 83 days. I understand that there were ten of them. Were they all based at Ringsend? Also, I'm just wondering if any still exist today with private operators, or have they all been scrapped?

The fastest ever fleet replacement?

feeds@yuku.com (gnr302) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:55:47 GMT

What was the shortest time ever to completely replace the double deck fleet in a Dublin bus garage? All buses that were in service at one date were withdrawn and replaced by a mixture of new buses and some moved from other garages. And what's more the vast bulk of it (85%) happened in only half that time. How long (or how short) did it take? There were no buses left in service that had been in that garage at the start of the period. And I am not talking about a time when a new garage was...

O Connell Street

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:05:03 GMT

Looking at photos of buses in o connell street in the early 80s i noticed that some buses have parked in the middle of o connell street along with the cars. I can't remember seen this myself, just slightly to young at the time. Was this a driver on a break thing. Can anyone shed a bit of light on this.

Conyngham Road Garage Past ad Present

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:02:22 GMT

I was just reminiscing about the routes C/Road operated when i was a child, which was alot more then nowadays. It must have been second only to donnybrook in routes. I often wondered how they managed with all these routes because it seemed like a small garage. The routes that C/Road use to operate where 21/a, 23/a, 24, 25/a, 26, 36/a, 37, 51/b/c, 66/a/b, 67/a, 68, 69, 70, 76 78/a, 79, 80 and the hueston station buses. That is a good portion of routes. Todays C/Road routes are 51/b/c/d/x, 68,...

1964 colour CIE photos

feeds@yuku.com (griffin) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:49 GMT

The PSV Circle offer 6 sets of photos each month of various operators by several different photographers. Board members might be interested in one set this month which features 83 colour photos of CIE buses taken in August/September 1964. P-class Tigers, U-class Royal Tigers and all classes of former GNR single deckers feature as do a small number of R and AR (ex GNR) deckers. Locations are from Donegal to Cork. If anyone is interested go into the PSV Circle website, click on "Photo...

Intresting GNR airticle and photographs.

feeds@yuku.com (wayne2107) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:42:51 GMT

http://homepages.tesco.net/~greatnorthern/overview.htm

The homepage is here : http://homepages.tesco.net/~greatnorthern/ some photographs missing, but still a good few to see.

trial livery

feeds@yuku.com (wayne dublin 28) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:04:06 GMT

what was the best trial livery ?

Atlanteans Frontal Advertisements

feeds@yuku.com (happy bus) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:49:35 GMT

I loved that the atlanteans had frontal advertisement. It gave the atlanteans a face. Some of the advertisements remained on the atlanteans for years, right up untill the end. There was three main ones.

Granby sausages- in a red colour
Everybody sausages- in a blue colour
Picnic salmon- in a green colour

I remember a couple more
valspar-in a black colour
Cdl- in a white colour
It was nice to have a range of different colours. Can anybody else...

cool old photo here

feeds@yuku.com (wayne dublin 28) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:30:44 GMT

hi all
some great old photo;s here
http://andrew629.fotopic.net/c1762874_1.html