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Rosebank Way, LONDON, W3 6TX

This is taken from the end of the road where it joins Western Avenue

A sign of the times at New Year 2021. A year ago few were aware of PPE, now during the coronavirus pandemic its supply is important to all of us. This is along side a main road out of London, A40 Western Avenue. Photo taken on bridge over railway.

A loaded stone train for the East heads slowly up the bank which connects the Western Region main line with the North London line. This provides access to the North, East and South across London. Straight on is the route to Paddington behind the photographer. An HST is seen heading west having left Paddington station about 4 minutes before. Electrification and the Heathrow Express link with the provision of overhead wires has meant this view is not possible now.

On the site of Leamington Park Hospital, road named after the Crimean War nurse

View north-east. The main line railway is behind the terrace of houses. The A40 Western Avenue is on the right of the photo, at the end of Friary Road.

The existing bridge taking the dual carriageway A40 over the main railway from Paddington to Reading and the West is 75 years old and needs replacing. The section in the photograph has been built north of the existing bridge, and will be used while the present bridge is replaced. View from pavement on the Northern side of the A40 near Wales Farm Road. See Image for the nearby Perryn Road bridge, also being replaced.

Two adjacent railway bridges are being rebuilt. This is a section of the old bridge. Traffic has been diverted onto a temporary new bridge, and this section of bridge can now be demolished and rebuilt. Because the A40 is a main road into London two lanes of traffic each way have to be maintained while the bridge is rebuilt.

The replacement of the bridges on the A40 Western Avenue continues.

Park Royal Vehicles built Leyland Titan T51 (WYV51T) turns out of Wales Farm Road onto the A40. Captured in June 1979 it was out on a test drive. It was delivered to London Transport's Aldenham Works the following month and was sent to Chiswick for experimental work in October the same year. It finally entered service in December 1979 at North Street Garage, Romford. This bus was one of the last built at Park Royal - the factory closed in 1980 after over 90 years of building London's buses. Behind the bus is Leamington Park Hospital which opened in 1905 and would close in 1983. The corner site is currently (2013) open land awaiting development with a housing estate behind.