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Details: Another mystery solved, perhaps! Ford Transit Mk8 crew van 8863F was new in mid-2019. However, it was missed by our Acton watchers, so we were not sure of its livery. A couple of reports later in the year stated that it was in TfL white/blue, but it was then not seen again for some time. On 5th March 2021 it turned up at Eltham Bus Station, and luckily Ray managed to catch it. The reported livery had made me wonder if this van was allocated to the rump of the infrastructure services department (which seems to still make use of white/blue VW van 8267VW). However, Ray's photo suggests that it may be with Passenger Data. Their Vauxhall Movano minibus 8302V is visible parked in the background (along with several of the resident Incident Response vans). So, I am now going to speculate that the white/blue/red applied to LBSL vehicles from early 2017 (and carried by 8302V) has been dropped because it is too similar to the LUL livery. This would seem to be supported by the fact that the four Nissan Leaf cars new in TfL white/blue in autumn 2020 have been allocated to LBSL work.

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