Dublin & Ireland

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RE: Dublin & Ireland

LF230 Burgh Quay 13 November 2024
As I sometimes mention, never worry about the reg on TFI buses, they don't really give a true reflection of a bus/ coaches age! The EA single deckers are an example having had a long time in store somewhere. This LF is slightly different, though again the story is complicated. The public service obligation (PSO) 245X replaced the commerically run Expressway 8/ X8 between Dublin and Cork. Frequency is similar and to be fair the LF is a very comfortable coach. The inital contract was put out as an emergency and surprise surprise Bus Éireann won it. New LF2xxs were put on it. The service was put out to tender and a batch of 5 or 6 of the LF2xxs were stored for the winning contract. And what happended, BÉ won it. So no change in the operator, bus type is the same though there is now a dedicated batch on it all with C for Cork regs. Other tenders are out at present and these may provide for some more interesting changes. City Direct who are from Galway won the Kilkenny City tender a few years back and have recently won the tender to operate the new Portlaoise town service. More about that again!