Dublin & Ireland

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RE: Dublin & Ireland
The weather has been terrible recently. Good weather in Scotland was followed up with poor weather in Newcastle and appalling rain in London on the 1st of March with a tube strike mixed in. Anyway, I had to visit Cork today and again heavy rain was due at 15.00, unfortunately it can two hours earlier so I rapidly curtailled my trip. Cork City and County bus services continue to be interesting with lots of recent additions but secondhand from Galway and Limerick due to the arrival of the E400ERs there. These are only three to four years old, but Cork people like to give out!
Some pictures.


VWD401 Merchant's Quay 12 March 2022 - A transfer from Galway and the first of the VWD400 class. These are slightly shorter than their predecessors and are two door buses. Spread between Galway, Limerick and Cork. Three of them however, VWD423 to 425 have been based in Drogheda on delivery even though they are Limerick registered and it can be assumed were to be sent there.


VB443 Cork Kent 12 March 2022 - The modern Bus Éireann stage carriage coach/ bus.


VWD70 Parliament St 12 March 2022 - Standard Cork Bus.


MC316 Washington St 12 March 2022 - For a city dominated by single-deckers in the past, they are rare now. The MC class are the only single-deckers in service now. Similarly Galway is all Double Decker, Limerick is going that way also. Double deckers are also found in Dublin to Ashbourne services, Dundalk, Drogheda and Waterford. Sometimes also in Balbriggan on the B1 town service.

More here:
https://transportsceneireland.smugmug.co...arch-2022/