In message , Paul Corfield
writes

A bus was being towed back to its garage and got caught underneath the
bridge as the tow truck driver wrongly estimated the height of the
(raised up) double deck bus. There was a suggestion that the vehicle was
a First LFDD on its way back to Westbourne Park garage. The 10 runs from
Westbourne Park. As I say - a complete guess on my part.

Another guess is that it might have hit an overhanging tree branch that
was lower than usual. I've seen roadside notices along some bus routes
warning drivers of low branches.

--
congokid
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congokid wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 9 Apr 2005:

Another guess is that it might have hit an overhanging tree branch that
was lower than usual. I've seen roadside notices along some bus routes
warning drivers of low branches.

My daughter, as a schoolgirl, used to comment on the "Bus-shaped trees"
in King's Avenue!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 3 April 2005

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:37:00 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

congokid wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 9 Apr 2005:

Another guess is that it might have hit an overhanging tree branch that
was lower than usual. I've seen roadside notices along some bus routes
warning drivers of low branches.

My daughter, as a schoolgirl, used to comment on the "Bus-shaped trees"
in King's Avenue!

Time was when the bus companies lopped the trees along their routes:-)

A good use for time-expired double-deckers.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org

Terry Harper wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:37:00 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

congokid wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 9 Apr 2005:

Another guess is that it might have hit an overhanging tree
branch that was lower than usual. I've seen roadside notices
along some bus routes warning drivers of low branches.

My daughter, as a schoolgirl, used to comment on the "Bus-shaped
trees" in King's Avenue!

Time was when the bus companies lopped the trees along their
routes:-)

A good use for time-expired double-deckers.

True, but most of the ones I've seen with warning signs have the main
trunk leaning into the road. The only cure for that is to remove the
tree and plant another one. Indeed I'm surprised that that action
hasn't been taken. After TA3 had its roof sliced off on Millbank in
December 2002*, the signs started appearing, and I thought they were
just a temporary measure, but more than two years later they're still
there and so are the trees.

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2537989.stm

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Terry Harper wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:37:00 +0100, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

congokid wrote to uk.transport.london on Sat, 9 Apr 2005:

Another guess is that it might have hit an overhanging tree
branch that was lower than usual. I've seen roadside notices
along some bus routes warning drivers of low branches.

My daughter, as a schoolgirl, used to comment on the "Bus-shaped
trees" in King's Avenue!

Time was when the bus companies lopped the trees along their
routes:-)

A good use for time-expired double-deckers.

True, but most of the ones I've seen with warning signs have the main
trunk leaning into the road. The only cure for that is to remove the
tree and plant another one. Indeed I'm surprised that that action
hasn't been taken. After TA3 had its roof sliced off on Millbank in
December 2002*, the signs started appearing, and I thought they were
just a temporary measure, but more than two years later they're still
there and so are the trees.

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2537989.stm

Not the one in Millbank. It got removed at the time with extreme
prejudice. Rather unfair, I thought then.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Richard J. ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

After TA3 had its roof sliced off on Millbank in December 2002*

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2537989.stm

Do we presume that bus was sold on to one of the sight-seeing companies as
an open-topper?

Adrian wrote:
Richard J. ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like
they were saying :

After TA3 had its roof sliced off on Millbank in December 2002*

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2537989.stm

Do we presume that bus was sold on to one of the sight-seeing
companies as
an open-topper?


I'm pretty sure TA3 is still in service and that I've been on it
recently. Given C*nnex's standards of maintenance on their erstwhile
bus fleet, I'm surprised they bothered to reattach the roof at all...