Fire Engines Photos

What a fantastic photo Graham, thankyou so much for sharing this, i remember seeing PAJ and this side bt sise at York and thinking how old but nice this looked !

Added by John Johnstone on 24 June 2009.

Hi Graham. thanks for sharing this photo, my favorite TL what a pity it was not preserved. Paul.

Added by Paul Warnock on 25 June 2009.

I am searching for anything historically connected with the York City Fire Brigade any information gratefully received



Added by Mike Smith on 19 December 2012.

That was the first Merryweather TL of its type,

Added by Barrie Green on 19 December 2012.

This old ladder was remounted by G&T of Kent - see here



Added by Petros on 31 May 2021.

After the Minster fire this was joined by the since preserved ERF Metz ladder, which also appears on this site. I am not sure how long York ran two TTLs, but this was certainly rather unusual for a city this size. The rationale was presumably to avoid a repeat of the Minster fire situation, where the second responding TTL came from either Harrogate or Scarborough, and that took quite some time.

Some time later, the re-think brought the York station back to having a single unit.

Added by Rob Johnson on 01 June 2021.

And now in 2021 the former Yorks rarely tipped out, tend to use Harrogates as the (Huntington) York one never has a crew and often of late North Yorks is down to 1 ariel appliance to cover the county out of 3.

Added by John Johnstone on 05 June 2021.

John

It seems that if there is another Minster fire then prayer will be a principal consideration next time!

Added by Rob Johnson on 07 June 2021.

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