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Details: This remarkable photo was taken outside Acton Works on 22nd September 2008 and shows three Ford Transit Connect vans loaded on the upper deck of a car transporter. The vans are the batch delivered to TfL Highways in 2005 and based at Carlisle Lane. They returned to Acton Works in September 2008, having been replaced by a batch of VW Transporter vans, and were presumably on their way to a dealers when photographed. Nearest the camera is 5775F with 5776F in the middle and 5774F up front. The lower deck was subsequently loaded with un-liveried cars before the lorry departed. Needless to say, the lorry parked on the bus stop bay, coupled with the movements of vehicles being loaded, caused a fair deal of disruption to the Bollo Lane traffic. By the way, following a request, I will in future be distinguishing the TfL Highway Maintenance vehicles (as TfL Highways) from the TfL Streets Management (TfL Streets) fleet. Basically, the former are silver and based mainly at Carlisle Lane, the latter are white and orange and based mainly at Victoria.

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Ray	Needless to say that the level crossing being closed added to the problems, especially when it re-opened and there were queues both sides of the transporter!	Sun 05/10/2008, 08:12
Ray	I think we can now say that they were replaced by three Vauxhall Combo vans.	Thu 02/04/2009, 07:55