Dublin Bus D396 (396 IK) – 11 May 1996 (312-27)

Saturday 11 May 1996 – Dublin Bus (Bus Átha Cliath) D396 (376 IK) was originally new to CIÉ (Córas Iompair Éireann) in October 1970 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 26 years of age it was now employed on sightseeing tour work in the CIÉ livery it had when new and was seen parked near 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.