Oh it certainly brings back my school days in the early 1980s. I think the last of them left Roxboro around June 1985 with the AN68s fading out a few months later. Those that could, went mainly to Ringsend but were in poor condition and did not last long. I used to love their shape, the pneumo-cyclic gear boxes, blue seats, blue floors and "Srika"(?) heaters. I think they looked a hell of a lot better in the Monastral Blue & Cream.....
I messed up the first comment ! Great credit to the people who maintain these lovely machines. From memory we received 2 of them in Waterford when new : D331 and D491. The local paper actually ran an item on their arrival. But they had a shorter service life than expected - the local Garage foreman seemed to detest them.
Just noticed something. You can see my back at 5:47 I'm the large lady in the black baseball cap blue jeans, dark jumper and a badge covered backpack 😀
At 6.27 the chap watching the destination 'inter' scroll turning doesn't seem to know the English translations. From the top it's Inchicore + Naas Rd(can be for 51, 68, 69). Lucan + Leixlip(66). Inchicore + Clondalkin(68, 69). Blackhall Place + Manor St(37, 72). Kilmainham + Inchicore Road(78, 78A, 78B, 79). Heuston Bridge + Johns Road(79). Phibsboro + Baggot St (4, 10). Phibsboro + Stephen's Green(4, 10). Phibsboro + Ranelagh(12). Phibsboro + Dolphins Barn (19, 19A, 22, 22A). Church St + Glasnevin(34, 34A). Glasnevin + Whitworth Rd(35, 40, 40A, 40B, 40C). There is also a Church St + Phibsboro (34, 34A, 38A) combination as the bus reverses.
I used to go to school in them in Limerick in the early 1980s and they were in pretty rag order at that stage. However I really miss them and they certainly had a character. At the time of course there was no internet and I had no idea that they would be replaced in the provincial cities by the grossly inadequate KCs.
@@paulbelfastlimerick my fellow bus enthuiasts here in Dublin look back at the bombardier buses with some affection. While I'm glad thete are examples preserved as they are unique type of buses that only ran in ireland they were not my favourite type of bus either. As you can see from my avatar i am partial to the Atlanteans. Yes they did become unreliable towards the end of thier lives but engineering was not as advaced as it is in thrse days. That was bound to happen.
Oh yes they did . Some Standard D class Leyland Atlanteans (not the AN68s) ran well into the Dublin Bus era, therefore some of them did run driver only . None of them have been preserved in Dublin Bus green livery but they did run in it .
@@Fcutdlady I was referring to the buses pictured above, not the later Van Hool-McArdle buses which eventually did run OPO within Dublin Bus. The livery was never intended to be that of Dublin Bus, and was used in other city locations at least on Bombardier KD's, and mostly GAC KC's. The two-tone green was to be that of a Dublin area bus and train interconnected rapid transit system including subterranean commuter railways, and that was all later to be known as Dublin Area Rapid Transit. There was a brief experiment on route 79 to Ballyfermot thru Decies Road on this type of bus with OPO, whereas they were crew operated on the 78 routes along Ballyfermot Road. Upon their use two-door versions were misused as the personnel of CIE's Dublin City services refused to operate the egress of passengers by the aft doorway.
Congrats to the people who preserve and maintain
i was never on these, always wanted too
Oh it certainly brings back my school days in the early 1980s. I think the last of them left Roxboro around June 1985 with the AN68s fading out a few months later. Those that could, went mainly to Ringsend but were in poor condition and did not last long. I used to love their shape, the pneumo-cyclic gear boxes, blue seats, blue floors and "Srika"(?) heaters.
I think they looked a hell of a lot better in the Monastral Blue & Cream.....
I messed up the first comment ! Great credit to the people who maintain these lovely machines. From memory we received 2 of them in Waterford when new : D331 and D491. The local paper actually ran an item on their arrival. But they had a shorter service life than expected - the local Garage foreman seemed to detest them.
Great video !
Just noticed something. You can see my back at 5:47 I'm the large lady in the black baseball cap blue jeans, dark jumper and a badge covered backpack 😀
At 6.27 the chap watching the destination 'inter' scroll turning doesn't seem to know the English translations. From the top it's Inchicore + Naas Rd(can be for 51, 68, 69). Lucan + Leixlip(66). Inchicore + Clondalkin(68, 69). Blackhall Place + Manor St(37, 72). Kilmainham + Inchicore Road(78, 78A, 78B, 79). Heuston Bridge + Johns Road(79). Phibsboro + Baggot St (4, 10). Phibsboro + Stephen's Green(4, 10). Phibsboro + Ranelagh(12). Phibsboro + Dolphins Barn (19, 19A, 22, 22A). Church St + Glasnevin(34, 34A). Glasnevin + Whitworth Rd(35, 40, 40A, 40B, 40C). There is also a Church St + Phibsboro (34, 34A, 38A) combination as the bus reverses.
God be with the skills of both drivers . They're not light buses to drive.
I used to go to school in them in Limerick in the early 1980s and they were in pretty rag order at that stage.
However I really miss them and they certainly had a character. At the time of course there was no internet and I had no idea that they would be replaced in the provincial cities by the grossly inadequate KCs.
@@paulbelfastlimerick my fellow bus enthuiasts here in Dublin look back at the bombardier buses with some affection. While I'm glad thete are examples preserved as they are unique type of buses that only ran in ireland they were not my favourite type of bus either. As you can see from my avatar i am partial to the Atlanteans. Yes they did become unreliable towards the end of thier lives but engineering was not as advaced as it is in thrse days. That was bound to happen.
Is that Joe from Broadstone
Thse bus's bodywork was unique to Ireland. They never did operate them properly without a conductor.
Oh yes they did . Some Standard D class Leyland Atlanteans (not the AN68s) ran well into the Dublin Bus era, therefore some of them did run driver only . None of them have been preserved in Dublin Bus green livery but they did run in it .
@@Fcutdlady I was referring to the buses pictured above, not the later Van Hool-McArdle buses which eventually did run OPO within Dublin Bus. The livery was never intended to be that of Dublin Bus, and was used in other city locations at least on Bombardier KD's, and mostly GAC KC's. The two-tone green was to be that of a Dublin area bus and train interconnected rapid transit system including subterranean commuter railways, and that was all later to be known as Dublin Area Rapid Transit. There was a brief experiment on route 79 to Ballyfermot thru Decies Road on this type of bus with OPO, whereas they were crew operated on the 78 routes along Ballyfermot Road. Upon their use two-door versions were misused as the personnel of CIE's Dublin City services refused to operate the egress of passengers by the aft doorway.