This first map shows the CIE Dublin City Bus Services route map in 1966. For the most part
this map would still get you around today with most of the then extant bus numbers
still existing and corresponding to similar routes nowadays. I like how stylishly utilitarian it looks in its limited palette with the angular simplified routes.
The CIE map is to me more intriguing. It dates from about 1950. It shows the CIE train and bus network at the time. As can be clearly seen this was when Ireland's railway network was far more encompassing than in later days with much of the network shut down during the '50s and '60s, victims of an earlier bout of straitened times. What I don't understand is why significant parts of Counties Leitrim, Sligo and Monaghan, not to mention the entirety of Counties Donegal and Louth are not shown as parts of the network. If anyone can explain this one please leave a comment.
These maps were found on this
flickr account which contains a mindboggling array of ephemera, especially transport and design related.
"What I don't understand is why significant parts of Counties Leitrim, Sligo and Monaghan, not to mention the entirety of Counties Donegal and Louth are not shown as parts of the network. If anyone can explain this one please leave a comment."
ReplyDeleteComing a bit late to this, but the reason those areas are left out is that they were served by the then-independent Great Northern Railway (GNR) and the County Donegal Railway Company. The GNR also operated its own bus network, including a route on the north side of Dublin from Eden Quay to Howth.