Grant helps fund 1245 restoration
Glazing and painting are among jobs to complete on Glasgow tram.
A GRANT of £22,500 from North Lanarkshire Council will help fund work required to complete the restoration of Glasgow Corporation No. 1245.
Steady progress is being made with the tram at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, where it has been undergoing work since 2011, having arrived at the visitor attraction in Coatbridge nine years earlier.
Built by the Corporation at its works at Coplawhill in 1939, the double deck ‘Coronation’ tram, one of four of the type to survive into preservation, was withdrawn from service in 1962. It spent 35 years at what was to become the East Anglia Transport Museum and then four years at Rigby Road depot in Blackpool, before arriving at its current home.
Early phases of work concentrated on the refurbishment of the trucks and motors, but the knockon effects of attention being required to Glasgow No. 1017 and later the Covid-19 pandemic put work well behind the originally-anticipated schedule.
Recent work
Work has continued on building new controls for No. 1245. The upstairs interior is also largely complete.
New body panels have been fabricated and pinned onto the tram prior to permanent fitting, a task which is expected to take five to six weeks to complete. After this, the cutting and fitting of window glazing and painting of the tram will take place.