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| Details: Lee has supplied quite a few photos recently, taken on various walks around his part of south-west London. A couple of these were taken in portrait orientation, which I have cropped to landscape. I have published portrait photos in the past but I am trying to stick to a 3:2 aspect ratio since it makes the page layouts neater. Lee's photos were still usable, though the cropping on this one was rather tight and I now realise I have chopped off one interesting aspect. Taken from Wellington Gardens on 22nd February 2021, it shows the corner of the front yard of Fulwell Garage, with the large water/oil tank on the right being adjacent to the main garage building. Most RATP staff were on strike on this day and the yard was crowded with buses. Of interest to us were the service vehicles visible. Nearest is Ford Fiesta van LS15CZY, new in 2015 and used by London Sovereign from Harrow Garage. Replaced by new Dacia Sandero cars in early 2020, it was presumed to have been withdrawn. Beyond is Renault Master van MF20RZK, one of a dozen delivered in July 2020. Most of these vans arrived with yellow/red chevrons on the rears and light-bars on the roofs, except that MF20RZE had neither. It appears that MF20RZK is also plain (the missing light-bar is the thing that I chopped off). RATP currently has eleven bus garages, so I had assumed that eleven of these Renaults would be garage engineer's vans, with RZE for admin duties. If RZK is also an admin van, then one of the garages will not have got a new van. Just visible on the right is one of the white Dacia Sandero cars. Allocations for several of these are still unknown, though at least eight are at Epsom Garage and are likely to become spare when that location closes later this year. | |||||
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