Dublin Bus D464 (464 ZD) – 11 May 1996 (313-1A)

Saturday 11 May 1996 – Dublin Bus (Bus Átha Cliath) D464 (464 ZD) was originally new to CIÉ (Córas Iompair Éireann) in December 1972 and is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1 with CIÉ bodywork on frames manufactured by Metal Sections Limited. There around 500 of this type (521?) delivered between 1967 and 1973 which were of a style quite different from the ‘boxy’ examples many claimed bodywork on Atlanteans to be. At 23 years of age it was now employed on sightseeing tour and was seen parked outside the Dublin Bus offices at 59 Upper O’Connell Street in Dublin.

Once the operator of both Dublin city bus services and provincial bus/coach services CIÉ later became the holding company for the separate subsidiaries Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann.

The building with the fluted Corinthian columns and portico is the National Irish Bank Building completed in 1863.