Dublin Bus Fleet Livery & Fleet List

Guide to DUBLIN BUS various fleet liveries/ fleet allocations

2008

CITY TOUR/ COASTAL TOUR

The AIRLINK livery is used exclusively for express Dublin Airport/ City Centre/ Bus & Train Station routes 747 & 748. Only 14 double decker AV class Volvo B7TL''s are painted in this livery. Buses feature air con, double glazing & centre doors.

Summerhill based AV 116- 128 are in Airlink livery.

A new Airlink livery is currently being developed ( 2006 ).

The CORE livery is the basic Dublin Bus standard livery. These colours can be found on a variety of buses, from single , artic & double deckers. This livery is the corporate colours of Dublin Bus.

Due to garage decisions & constraints, CORE & CITYSWIFT vehicles generally overlap with both types appearing on the same routes at the same time.

These fleet colours are set to vanish by the end of 2006 during cyclical resprays.

CITYSWIFT is a concept developed on certain routes from the City Centre to large suburbs right across the greater Dublin area. Investment in bus infraastucture, such as bus shelters & continous bus lanes is part of the CITYSWIFT brand, using the logo " directy, all over the city. CITYSWIFT routes are usually high frequency services throughout the week. The routes have the same price structure & frequent bus stops as conventional services.

Both single & double deckers have this livery applied.

These fleet colours are set to vanish by the end of 2006 during cyclical resprays.

CITY TOUR livery has been applied to a fleet of open top Leyland & Volvo Olympians which operate circular hop on- hop off tours of Dublin City Centre.

3 Donnybrook based Volvo B7TL's with ALX400 bodywork operate in similar livery with " Coastal Tour " decals. Closed top buses for North & South Coast daily half day tours of Dublin.

The Broadstone based open topper fleet & Donnybrook based Coastal Tours AV have this livery applied.

Using a fleet of specially converted fleet of Leyland Olympians, the DRIVER TRAINER fleet is based in Broadstone & trains all new recruits.

WEDDING BUS is a concept for that " very special day". Wedding buses are allocated to all garages giving a good spread of coverage & buses only remain in Wedding colours for a few years. During wedding hire, the interiors are fitted with accessories. Buses are used on normal Dublin Bus routes when not required for hire.

Only Volvo B7TL's & Volvo Olympians are painted in this livery.

The NITELINK is a concept of express late night services from Dublin City Centre along the major route corridors to the suburbs. All types of CITYSWIFT/ CORE double deckers are used for the service, there is a new nitelink livery just introducted on 1 AV. ( RA 177 previously - until July 2003 ) . NITELINK liveried minibuses act as mobile ticket sales kiosks around the City Centre in the NITELINK livery but do NOT operate the routes.

CITY IMP features this eye catching bright red & yellow livery on all Dublin Bus minibuses. These minibuses are used on low frequency/ poor demand routes.

While the CITY IMP function was originally devleoped as a high frequency service, the have become a victim of their own sucess & most minibuses now being replaced by single deck midibuses ( also in the CITY IMP livery ) or even double deckers.

Conyngham Road

AV 93- 103, 225- 227.

AX 288-298, 351-362, 399-415, 517-525, 638 & 646

RV 332 -346, 348- 349, 390 - 399, 469 ,517 - 520, 532, 610.

Clontarf

AV 34-36, 61 - 68, 106/7, 212, 229 - 244.

AX 283 - 287, 344-346, 416-417.

EV 9-22

RV 402- 407, 423 - 431, 463 - 468, 497 - 501, 541.

WV 17- 20, 41 - 46.

Donnybrook

Donnybrook 1

AX 449- 468, 526- 545, 617-619 ,640, 642 & 644

EV 23 -36

RA 258-259, 261-263, 278-283, 300-306

RV 326 - 331, 412 - 422, 436 - 445, 458 - 462, 482 - 496, 521 - 526

Donnybrook 2

AV 69 - 92, 131 - 138, 147 - 151, 197 - 203, 256 - 265.

AX 321 - 330, 347-350, 387-398

RV 567- 569, 575 - 586.

WV 8,10, 12-16, 21. ( WV 9 destroyed by fire September 2006 )

VL 2 - 5.

VT 1-20.

RH 21 ( open top City Tour - HOTEL SWEEPER ) ( January 07 - no longer used as sweeper & returned to tour duty)

Harristown

Harristown 1

RV 357-365, 400-401, 450-452, 470-477, 552-566 , 570-574, 587-599

AV 54-60, 108, 152-168, 173-174, 213-223, 274-282, 333-343, 377-380,

AX 447-448

AW 1-20

Harristown 2

RV 480-481, 505-512, 527-530, 533-540, 542-551, 604-609, 617-626, 628-634

AX 496-516, 546-548, 620-627, 641, 643, 645, 647-648

EV 37-49

DT 1-8, 10

WV 4-7.

( Harristown is now split into two garages for maintenance purposes only )

( some RV's out of service as surplus to requirements, AW's pending warranty works )

Phibsboro

AV 139 - 146, 169 - 171, 175 . 177, 180- 196

AX 363-376, 381-382, 484- 493, 495, 585- 589, 600-616

RV 615-616, 635-640

Broadstone

( re opened 31st October 2006 )

initially peak time Monday- Friday euro xpresso duties 25X, 51B, 51D, 51X, 66X & 67X

Ringsend

AV 1 - 21, 104/5, 204 - 211, 245 - 255.

AX 308 - 320, 383-6, 469 - 483, 599

EV 1-8

RV 470-479, 502-504, 527-531, 533-537, 600-609

WV 1-3, 47 - 52.

Summerhill

AV 109 - 130, 228, 266 - 273.

AX 331-332, 418-429, 494, 628-637 & 639

DF 450 ( Ghost Bus ).

RH 31 ( Ghost Bus June 06 onwards ).

RV 366 - 389, 432 - 435, 457, 513 - 516

WV 22-40.

RH 23 Tree Cutting Bus ( allocated to Summerhill for maintenance )

Sightseeing Tour Fleet ( Open Top ) at Broadstone

RH 2 - 5 , 21- 22, 40, 66, 67, 86, 87. 130, 154 & 156

RA 216 - 219, 246 - 247, 249, 250 -251, 260.

AV22-24 - new Dublin Bus Tour opentopper

Driving School ( based at Broadstone, buses maintained at their host garages )

Donnybrook Garage : (1) RH 157 & 158, RA 176 & 177 (2) RH 84 & 88

Ringsend Garage : RH 6, 7 , RA 178 & 179

Summerhill Garage : RH 19, 20, RA 181

Conyngham Road Garage : RH 163, 164 & RA 180

Clontarf Garage : RH 140, 141, 142 & RA 196

Phibsboro Garage : RH 32

Harristown Garage : RH 160, 166, RA 187 - 198

( The RA's from Donnybrook were added to the fleet to cope with the extra 100 buses & required extra driver recruitment )

Uniform/ Stores Bus

RH 52 based in Broadstone. maintained by PB ( withdrawn pending sale to Ensignbus ).

Nitelink Ticketbus

ME 21 Phibsboro

ME 22 Donnybrook

ME 26 Clontarf

ME 27 Summerhill

DUBLIN BUS FLEET ALLOCATION :

NEW CORE LIVERY 2004 onwards

In August 2003, Dublin Bus applied an experimental livery to Donnybrook based AV 76.

Following evaluation on AV 76 & then AV 84, this livery is to be adopted, replacing the current " core " & cityswift design.

From a start point in 2004 in all garages, this livery will replace the old core livery by the end of 2006 during cyclical vehicle resprays.

DUBLIN BUS VEHICLE TYPES

Alexander, Transbus & now Alexander-Dennis bodied ALX400's on Volvo B7TL

AV class = AV 1 to 282 AX class = AX 283 - 484 upwards

Transbus bodied ALX400's on Dennis Trident with Cummins ISC engine ( DT 1 - 10 )

Alexander bodied Leyland Olympian with Cummins L10 engine ( RH 1- 125 )

Alexander bodied Leyland Olympian with Cummins L10 engine ( RA 176 - 325 )

Alexander bodied Volvo Olympian with Volvo engine ( RV 326 - 640 )

Alexander bodied Ultra with Volvo DH10 engine ( VL 1- 6 )

Wright aretic bodied Fusion with Volvo D7C engine ( AW 1- 20 )

Alexander Setanta body on DAF SB220 chasis & LT160 engine ( AD 1 - 70 )

Mercedes Benz Vario 814D with Eurocoach body ( MV 60 - 84 )

Wright bodied Crusader 2 on Volvo B6BLE chasis & D6 engine ( WV 1- 52 )

Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 with Volvo D9A engine ( VT 1- 20 )

Update to :

17th April 2008

New AIRLINK ( 2006 onwards )

New Airlink livery introduced in 2006, developed by Best Impressions UK, first applied to Airlink AV 116 ( click here )

Alexander Dennis Enviro400 on Volvo B9 - EV class