Fire Engines Photos

GX 51 UBL has now been replaced by Volvo FLL 15 280 GX 57 EUL Ex Battle

Added by John on 21 June 2011.

Do you know where GX 51 UBL is now?

Added by Bill Edwards on 04 October 2011.

GX 51 UBL is now running as a spare.

Added by Shaun R. on 05 October 2011.

Can anyone explian to me please why Bohemia Road is now defunct of appliances to what it was and the Ridge have two pumps? When I first went there in 1990 they had G reg MAN TL, two Volvo pumps and the GMC RT.

Added by Andrew Middleton on 05 October 2011.

I saw a Volvo FL6H machine with a very similar index passing through Bristol this morning. It certainly started GX51 had a very similar livery but with Pinewood Studios on the door.

Added by Paul Pickford on 05 October 2011.

GX51 UBL is parked up at Stn 07 Seaford been seen for the past week doing driver training along with T186 WFG

Added by Harveydan on 05 October 2011.

The appliance which Paul Pickford saw is probably GX 51 UBK which was based at Eastbourne, but was taken out of service in 2004 after being damaged in accident.

Added by Bill Edwards on 28 October 2011.

GX51 UBL is now the water tender based at station 20 Rye. Andrew your comments about Bohemia road are quite misleading. When Bohemia opened in 1971 the station ran a Bedford pump escape, Bedford pump emergency salvage tender, AEC turntable ladder a landrover 89 run about and an ex AFS Bedford 2x4 painted red and used every now and then. When the Borough brigade past to the new East Sussex the AFS Bedford and Landrover were taken away and the 3 appliance line up stayed through the 70's, 80's up until the early 90's.During this time Bedfords, Jeeps M.A.N'S, G.M.C'S and Volvo came and went. With a new chief in 94 the G.M.C went and the Rescue pump concept was adopted reducing the station to just the Turntable ladder and Rescue pump.I can only think that the station was storing the extra pumps ect as there is the space 5 bays with only 2 operational vehicles.
Hope this helps.

Added by Shaun R. on 21 March 2013.

Many thanks Shaun.

Added by Andrew Middleton on 21 March 2013.

Paul, the truck you saw must have been the Volvo Volumax that DDA fire run reg no GN51 TEY it used to be a Saxon demonstrator but was bought by DDA and is used on film and television sets.

Cheers Matt

Added by Matt Brown on 25 March 2013.

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