I reckon it has to be the No. 16 which goes from Kingston (Ballinteer) to Dublin Airport. A total of 31 stops. At least 25km.
Anyone know of a longer route?
16 bus journey
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No 44 Larkhill, Collins Ave. to Enniskerry?
27 bus goes from Clare Hall avenue, Dublin 13 to Fortunestown Road, Dublin 24. Rough distance of 32 km – 35 bus stops!
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Examples/Google-Map/?routeNumber=27&direction=IO&towards=Jobstown&from=Clare+Hall
Ohh..
How about the 33? Lwr. Abbey St to Balbriggan…34 km
We may have a winner!
N° 13. But you just need to take it from Kilmainham Jail (1796) to the GPO in Sackville Street (1916) to get a long, strong taste of Irish history.
Number 65 surely? All the way from town to Blessington (or Ballymore Eustace)!
It also goes to ballyknockan.
Much longer
And the No.16 route just misses this First Class Relic of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress. So no joy at all there.
http://dominusvobiscuit.blogspot.com/2012/05/first-class-relic-iec1932.html
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bus 66x from maynooth to bellfield? is close to about 30 km i think, not sure. the 66 is about 25 km from maynooth to city centre
it has about 60 stops, unless im completely reading that wrong
I’m with my namesake – surely the 65. Normal Blesso route probably does it at 33.0km (http://goo.gl/maps/0CnB) but:
40.6km to Ballymore, 4 times a day. (http://goo.gl/maps/eH7m)
45.7km to Ballyknocken, twice a day M-F (http://goo.gl/maps/Gjjx)
Winner?
On the original question, one of the outer surbabn routes probably does it:
Newtownmountkennedy (route 184);
Newcastle (Co Wicklow) (route 84);
Ballyknockan (65); or
Balbriggan (33 and 33a).
But if we amend the question to require the route be entirely within Dublin and/or to require that it not entail an outer suburban fare. what do we get?
The 13 has 91 stops, and plotting the route on googlemaps gives a distance of 54.7km (plus a few metres)
The 33a only goes to Swords.
Used to work on the 84 back in the late 80’s. People used to get it for a day trip out to Newcastle or Kilcoole (to see some of the sights from Glenroe). They would go all the way to the terminus and stay on the bus and go all the way back into town again.
I’m digressing slightly but there were also people who used the bus to go from Mass to Mass. The 11 and 13 used to have a good few of these nutters who’d start off at Mass at some unearthly hour in Adam and Eves, find a 7.30 mass then get the bus to a 8.30 mass on then to the 10 Mass in Home Farm Road and so on. They used to love Holy Days!
I’d heard of pub crawls before, but not a Mass crawl. There is an article waiting to be written about that.
Still find a few of those heads around Swords – Cronans early mass then the 11 Mass in the town before heading for the Airport. Must be for the Wine.
The 75 from The Square Tallaght to Dun Laoghaire might be the longest route that doesn’t cross the Liffey. It’s a three hour round trip.
The longest Dublin Bus route is the 33, in particular the 0450 journey from Balbriggan which diverts from the normal route after Lusk and double runs via Donabate & Portrane re-joining the normal route again near Lissenhall. The total distance is just over 51km for this journey and it serves an incredible 116 bus stops!!. Other than that, the 65 City to Ballyknockan is the longest.
65 to ballyknockan about 35k I think.
Beautiful route.
Done it 4 times now.
Just measured it on Google Maps, using the distance tool to manually create line segments following the 65 route. Started going blurry eyed towards the end of it — it might have been quicker to just drive it and use the trip counter…
Anyway, the 65 route is 45.6 km thanks to the really long stretches on the N81. That’s a serious trip!