2024 - Update 24:


Summerhill's recently reinstated EV22 is seen operating Route 41 on the Shantalla Road Flyover on the 31st August 2024 (click on photo for larger version).

As noted last week the 19th August saw quite a bit of reorganisation in the Dublin Bus Fleet. With Summerhill's acquisition of the 150, they received no transfers from Ringsend. Thus they reinstated 4 EVs that had previously been withdrawn, namely:

  • EV5: This bus had been in operation in Ringsend up until the 8th August having rejoined the Ringsend fleet in March 2024. So it was only out of service for a week or so before its reinstatement. Originally new to Ringsend in 2007, this is EV5's second stint in Summerhill having spent a month or so there from late November to late December 2023. Prior to that it had been in service in Harristown for a few months from September 2022 to February 2023, having been first withdrawn from Ringsend with the C-Spine launch at the end of 2021.
  • EV7: This bus was withdrawn from operation in Harristown in June 2024, so was a two months off before reinstatement in Summerhill. Also new to Ringsend in 2007, EV7 had a long career there before being withdrawn from operation with the C-Spine launch in 2021. It was retained in Ringsend as a Covid cleaning bus stationed at Hawkins Street before returning to service in Harristown in September 2022. It found more favour there than EV5, being retained in operation there up until June 2024.
  • EV22: The odd one out of the reinstated, in that this bus was off service for more than 2 years, last operating in Clontarf in February 2022. It was kept maintained and DoE'd by Clontarf in the meantime as a standby bus if required, hence it was ready for its return to service. Like EV5, this is EV22's second stint in Summerhill. New to Clontarf in 2007, it moved to Summerhill in 2010, transferring back to Clontarf in November 2017.
  • EV66: New to Harristown in 2008, EV66 operated there until its withdrawal from service there in early July 2024.


Summerhill's EV66 is seen operating Route 15A on Townsend Street on the 31st August 2024 (click on photo for larger version).


Summerhill's EV5 is seen operating Route 41 at the Lower Abbey Street terminus on the 31st August 2024 (click on photo for larger version).

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