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Visited Go Bus Hamilton depot on Sunday and took these photos of Number 72 a 1995 Fairfax bodied MAN 10.150 ex TS7250 and only recently re registered GKE410. This bus caught fire last week in the suburb of Claudelands.as can be seen from the photos the rear of the bus was badly damaged in the fire and will probably not return to service. This bus is powered by CNG and the CNG cylinders are clearly visible above the engine bay.
It would of been a nice fireworks display if those CNG tanks had gone KABOOM .But the fire certainly made a mess of rear end of 72.Did they say what caused fire to start.
The staff at GoBus did not say what caused the fire nor did they confirm when I asked them if 72 would be scrapped, but looking at the damage and age of bus I think its highly likely that it will.
Bedford-29 wrote:It would of been a nice fireworks display if those CNG tanks had gone KABOOM .But the fire certainly made a mess of rear end of 72.Did they say what caused fire to start.
If the CNG tank was fitted properly, I doubt that would've happened... They're normally pretty protected in the scenario that an infrequent event like this may occur.
It is highly unlikely that the cause of the fire can be determined immediately. Give it time for some investigating and hopefully there is a conclusion as to what happened. Considering the damage is only isolated to the rear, it is quite possible it could return to service because it is still relatively intact and wouldn't require overly too much work (I've seen far worse gas bus fires where the whole body is literally "melted"), but at its age, they may consider it not worth it. Give it time and we'll hear the end result I guess.
Does anyone know how the fire started? I can see that the fire started somewhere in the engine bay.
Cheers!
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