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Where is GHAs depot in Macclesfield? Cheshire fire incidents page reports a Bus Fire in Heapy Street in Macclesfield, and the road rings a bell for their depot?

(15/06/2014 17:21)R311 WVR Wrote: [ -> ]Where is GHAs depot in Macclesfield? Cheshire fire incidents page reports a Bus Fire in Heapy Street in Macclesfield, and the road rings a bell for their depot?

Yes - you are correct - their depot is in Heapy Street

(15/06/2014 17:21)R311 WVR Wrote: [ -> ]Where is GHAs depot in Macclesfield? Cheshire fire incidents page reports a Bus Fire in Heapy Street in Macclesfield, and the road rings a bell for their depot?

Do you know what bus was on fire??

There have been so many bus fires over the last week: five Stagecoach buses (arson in the case of two of these), a National Express bus and it sounds like a GHA bus too. Perhaps there have been others too -- these are just the ones I have come across.

(15/06/2014 21:14)Dentonian Wrote: [ -> ]5x Stagecoach ?
I know of the arson attack in Devon last night; the London ALX on the M11 & the Uni-bus Olympian in Coventry (neither suspicous), but not a fifth. The BBC reported the NX in Sparkbrook as suspicious.

I think the other one was a fire of a less serious nature around Barnsley ... at least it was close to the scrapheap!

(15/06/2014 21:14)Dentonian Wrote: [ -> ]5x Stagecoach ?
I know of the arson attack in Devon last night; the London ALX on the M11 & the Uni-bus Olympian in Coventry (neither suspicous), but not a fifth. The BBC reported the NX in Sparkbrook as suspicious.

(15/06/2014 22:03)Valandil Wrote: [ -> ]I think the other one was a fire of a less serious nature around Barnsley ... at least it was close to the scrapheap!

A second Trident/ALX400 that had been travelling with the example that went up on the M11 later caught fire after arriving at Kettering depot from Peterborough Depot where it and a third example had been towed to after they overheated. In addition, a Dart caught fire heading to Eastbourne from Rugby during transfer.

(15/06/2014 22:03)Valandil Wrote: [ -> ]I think the other one was a fire of a less serious nature around Barnsley ... at least it was close to the scrapheap!

are you meaning the Enviro300 what breaks overheated just outside Royston on Thursday? it was a very minor fire,simple extinguisher put it out & it was back out in service by Saturday

There is a picture of the bus on Cheshire Fire's Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/CheshireFire/status/...7549520896
http://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-even...58VFChyRI0
No idea which vehicle it is, but looks like a Plaxton Pointer.

EDIT: I would say its S878 SNB

(16/06/2014 16:15)Garsty Wrote: [ -> ]There is a picture of the bus on Cheshire Fire's Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/CheshireFire/status/...7549520896
http://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-even...58VFChyRI0
No idea which vehicle it is, but looks like a Plaxton Pointer.

EDIT: I would say its S878 SNB

Im afraid to say it is S878 SNB, after only returning to the road not so long ago with a new engine, the dashboard destroys the whole bus

(16/06/2014 17:13)fordsonmajor2012 Wrote: [ -> ]Im afraid to say it is S878 SNB, after only returning to the road not so long ago with a new engine, the dashboard destroys the whole bus

I cannot see them repairing it either, did the engine survive? The pictures don't make it clear how bad it was at the back of the bus.