I have been looking over old footage of places in Dublin for the past couple of weeks now and I'm absolutely loving all the footage I've seen from O'Connell St. to Ballymun and finglas now Tallaght ... god how time LITERALLY flies by before you know it... your an adult. Im very nostalgic about seeing the old days even if its the 1950' 60's .... it's just brilliant that somebody had the means to record this and never realising the future in technology we had ahead of us all. Thanks a mill to the person who owns ,uploaded and thought of this.

Ahh the old buses, I remember how the engine would warm the back seats and also have a constant smell of fumes coming from them...

They were the days when Dublin and all of Ireland was a beautiful place to live in ....Nowadays it is just not the same anymore .......😢

Great footage. My family moved out to blessington in 1989 but i still went to school in churchtown so remember the 65 well. Funny you'd picked the spot were the duel carriage way went back to the original N81 country road. Each year one of those big trees would fall down. Only one or two left now. The roads were so filthy from sand trucks that ppl couldn't see out of the lower deck windows and often missed their stops. They were bleak times, today's youth don't know the half of it.

I moved into Killinarden on Donomore Crescent in 1980, I think? The Crescent was still being constructed at that time. That winter was brutal but I can't remember if it was the next year, or the year after (82) where the Winter was proper arctic. We had snow drifts up the upper windows of the house and had to jump out of them on more than one occasion to leave the home. Snow days? What were they? We trudged to school in weather that would have made sherpas reach for the duvet and make a hot cocoa. This was a spring day in comparison.

@Pfessor_Moriarty

Жыл бұрын

It was 82, we were in Springfield, opened the back door one morning and the whole doorway was covered in a layer of ice. We haven't had snow like it since

Those young lads are now 40 and they're still throwing snowballs at the buses....

@philipmcdonagh1094

2 жыл бұрын

If their lucky to ever see snow.

Great footage, I recall every Sat morning at the 76 stop outside St Marks School, used to get very excited seeing the single deckers coming. We used to get it to the pool in Clondalkin. Good times. Those old Bombardier's had a very distinctive sound.

liam you must have being loaded to have a camera in 85?

Fantastic footage, my gran lived up on Dunomore Ave. Nothing but great memories of Tallaght. Always great craic and the people were lovely.

Back when Tallaght had a decent bus service!

does anyone remember a "go ahead" you paid the conducter half fair but got no ticket...money went in his pocket....when an inspector got on..the conducter ran upstairs rolled a ton of tickets, told everyone to say they got on 2 stops ago, you'd then have to pay again or jump off, if near stop........

Great footage

whoever filmed this sure did like buses...

The single decker hahaha but see the buses didn't stop back then and I was only 7 that year but I remember how bad the snow was. I can't get over the quality of this for a camera in 85 it must of been a very good one

@karloconnor6955

Жыл бұрын

The year I was born. In that exact area

Grew up looking at those hills, jobstown/raheen/kilinarden junction,

Good video - I remember those buses well - all built in Ireland.

I lived in Killinarden, my road was directly across from the bus stop, weird looking at it as my baby brother was born during that snow and it was so bad my dad had to walk to the Coombe hospital to visit....missed birth obviously!

I took it for granted how good the bus service was back then, compared to now.

1985. When the bus was mostly green and the drivers overwhelmingly Irish. Ireland was far from perfect workers taxed to the hilt but we still had the National ideal.

The 76 used to be called The wanderly wagon 😂 good times bk then ,

classic loved it thank u so much!!!

the noise of these buses was mad.

The big freeze was actually 1982. This in 1985was nothing by comparison.

Better than the rubbish buses today.

Great videos !

Ah here........ fast forward to the present we get one flake and there is a stand still, airport roads schools work etc, all closed back then, but we just got on with it. Less road safety back then too.

The speed of that KD from 3:33 to 3:47... thats either one brave driver or one clueless idiot! Great video lads

I love this video, brings me right back to my childhood. I haven't seen one of those orange buses in 25 years

The speed of the busses in the snow

Do you remember the bell for the driver to stop was a rope on the ceiling with an actual bell attached to it?

Excellent footage for 1985. Jayzus those Orange buses hahaha. My legs had to be peeled off them leather seats in the summers.,with sunburn too Ouch! I can see aul Rourkeys gaff. & kiki's.

Ah jeeesus. I remember those "Dan-Air" ad's. Its on the side of a buss at 1:52. =)

great video.

its the N81 between the killanarden juction and the jobstown turn off, tis where i grew up :D

thats a good clip makes me feel old but!!

hopefully we can make it through... even though im only 15, i know the effects of the last recession and how bad the current one is, i may be lucky enough to just escape it after my leaving cert...

Goddamn...those are some nasty Cummins engines on those small buses, but I gotta love those double deckers with the 6v71!

I guess it is the bottom of Cheeverstown Road and the end of the Tallaght By Pass to be exact, only reason I can place it is from the dual carriageway.

jayses I remember them green buses and the small ones

@Fcutdlady

4 жыл бұрын

Bombardier buses. The double deckers are KD class, the single deckers are KC class a friend of mine has preserved an example of each. The tan double decker buses, like the one in my avatar, are standard D Leyland Atlanteans

@Paul5520

3 жыл бұрын

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Spot on there mate!

That's bustop near my old home the 76 time is a cruel misstress

jaysus the time of the big freeze. i remember it well, no school cause the pipes burst ! the vid looks to be taken at the intersection with the bypass looking at killinardin. most of those buses were headed to either saggart or blessington. no citywest in those days ! :) theres a whole load of houses across from the road where its shot now and 76 doesnt go to fettercairn half as much anymore. but like another poster said the NOISE of those thing. alway though the exaust was about to fall off:)

was that the coca cola factory bus at the start lol i went on that in fifth class bout 15 year ago, the hack of the motors but they were top of the range back then its great the way people upload vids from years ago

I Was Born In August 2010 There Was A Snow In Tallaght In December But Now Can You Change Tallaght

thts on the corner of the turn for brookfield and glenshane on the tala bypass haha nice find ther

76 on time for once?

Good video dude,if it wasn't for the double decker buses you think you was winter in Moscow

Good footage liam.Where exactly was this shot? Is it the old blessington road at springfield? btw I'll bet your video camera was a big as a sack of coal? he he

yea jobstown alright the blessington road u can c the muck hills, its mad looking at that i was only 5 at the time

@Noeladishi noo the 59 is

thats a whopper bit of footage Liam - i can almost smell that single decker bus!

Jayus it must have been really bad. I was oblvious to how bad it was. I had got a "Snowcat" Action force toy from Santa. I even more delighted with myself when it snowed!

How comes Route 76 on the KC bus wasnt showing where it was going on it's destanation Display.

@daratheanimator4660

5 жыл бұрын

The One At 3:56 Did Show Where It Was Going

Footage from January '85? I don't recall snow in Killinarden/Jobstown in December '85. Quite a few views of Killinarden to the south west, nestled at the base of the wicklow mountains. It's really strange seeing this footage of Killinarden. Brings back many good and bad memories of growing up there during the 1980s (high unemployment, drug problems, crime etc.) I think that the coach at 2:20 that turns right onto the N81 took kids from Tallaght to and from Drimnagh Castle/Assumption

@neo-qg1wh

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering myself if this was January 1985 or December 1985. The answer came at the end of the video. The single decker with the registration PZV145 tells us that this was December 1985 as the PZV issue was released in late 1985 - October or November. CIE and its subsidiaries from 1987 onwards, had the habit until 2009 of reserving batches of registration numbers to be used at a slightly later date for their buses so the serial numbers would match the registrations numbers. Hence PZV145 referred to a bus having a serial number KR145.

@johnbuggy9121

3 жыл бұрын

@@neo-qg1wh Fair enough. I don't recall snow in December 1985, but I guess even registration numbers don't lie?!

@neo-qg1wh

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnbuggy9121 I don't recall snow either in Dec 1985. I think it snowed in Jan 1986.

@johnbuggy9121

3 жыл бұрын

@@neo-qg1wh My recollection of December 1985 was that it was mild. I think there was a mixture of rain and sunshine on Christmas day. Maybe this vid was shot in January '86. In any case, it's quite a blast from the past.

@philipmcdonagh1094

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know anything about numbers, but the green buses only started in mid 85.

were did Route 50A go to

@daratheanimator4660

5 жыл бұрын

The 50A Was The Old Route For The 27 Which Goes To Jobstown

Hi Liam, this is a real gem. Where is this filmed? Which Street? Looks very familiar but I can't quite identify the Street? I remember that winter. I was a student at TCD and shared a house with some Dutch Students in Old Bawn Way. A friend of mine came down from the North to spend Christmas with us and got stuck at Connolly Station. No buses that day. The winter of 1981 was much worse. A lot of traffic got stranded and retarded criminals stole the wheels off the stranded cars.

@Kerritwyford

7 жыл бұрын

That's at the junction of jobstown and Glenshane on the N81

@daratheanimator4660

5 жыл бұрын

That's Cheeverstown Road Turn At N81

yup the narden

and hurricane charlie was to hit a year after this......Peter Roache was killed in ballybrack co dublin wen the hurricane blew a tree down and crushed his car...he was a neighbour of my cousin and i still have pictures of me playing in his garden with his yellow renault / fiat parked in the drive way at the time i was living in ballybrack, elen court, just acrros the road

your caravan was only over the road

Those orange buses had leather/plastic seats that were nice on a sunny day but i was happy to see the green buses, the orange buses look miserable.

i was living in ballybrack at the time, i was 5, but i still remember the heavy snowfall skidding down the hill on our bikes & big wheels

tralee 2008-ditto

OMG u couldn't really c nothin On 65 bus the destination board was cover in snow lol

jesus de hack uf dat bus

cool to see the old stuff....why the obsession with buses , was there seriously nothing else at all interesting happening in the snow other than buses coming and going

@catrionastokes1001

5 жыл бұрын

Why not? What's wrong with having a passion about buses??

England buses made ireland

Not one person wearing a mask...disgraceful

@Barry_C00p3r

4 ай бұрын

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