{"id":5386,"date":"2013-10-11T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2013-10-11T20:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:14:36","slug":"lost-trams-8-glasgow-1274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5386","title":{"rendered":"Lost Trams 8: Glasgow 1274"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the \u201cforgotten\u201d three trams at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine, USA is the latest vehicle to feature as a \u201cLost Tram\u201d \u2013 Glasgow Coronation <strong>1274<\/strong>. Like the Leeds and Liverpool cars already featured in this series this tram is also stored in a derelict condition in the car sheds at the Museum waiting for its turn to be restored having been touched since arriving 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Built in 1940, <strong>1274<\/strong> was the first of that year\u2019s batch of Coronation trams to enter service and was used in service up until the end in 1962. Upon withdrawal the tram was donated to the Seashore Trolley Museum directly by Glasgow Corporation Transport. The tram left the UK aboard the SS American Scientist and arrived at Seashore in September 1963.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1274<\/strong> is another tram never to have operated at Seashore but has remained undercover in the large \u201ccar barns\u201d there along with the Leeds Feltham and Liverpool Baby Grand already mentioned in this series. Its future remains secure in the USA although the chances of it being returned to operational condition are incredibly remote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5387\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=5387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5387\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5387\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5387\" title=\"DSCF2462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCF2462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of 1274 at Seashore on 14th September 2013 in the cramped conditions of the big car barns at the Museum. (Photo: Stephen Cobb)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the \u201cforgotten\u201d three trams at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine, USA is the latest vehicle to feature as a \u201cLost Tram\u201d \u2013 Glasgow Coronation 1274. Like the Leeds and Liverpool cars already featured in this series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}