{"id":6433,"date":"2014-02-01T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T12:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2014-02-01T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T12:36:46","slug":"picture-in-time-13-glasgow-1245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6433","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time 13: Glasgow 1245"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <strong>Glasgow 1245<\/strong> in the news recently following progress on its restoration at Summerlee our latest \u201cPicture in Time\u201d takes us back to a time shortly after the tram arrived at the East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Glasgow 1245<\/strong> had spent some time on display at the short-lived Midland Motor Museum at Measham in Leicestershire \u2013 an outpost of the National Motor Museum \u2013 alongside London trolleybus 1521 and a Leicester AEC Renown bus before in the late 1960s it made the trip to East Anglia alongside the other two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving at Carlton Colville some work was undertaken on <strong>1245<\/strong> and our first photos shows the tram shortly after removal of the trucks in order to facilitate the regauging of the wheelsets. Once the trucks were reassembled and the body re-instated works then progressed to get <strong>1245<\/strong> operational. It was not possible for the tram to operate with its bow collector and so an exchange was made with the Scottish Railway Preservation Society for trolley poles and bases. The trolley base and pole was installed on <strong>1245<\/strong> to allow testing of the electrical systems could commence and the car did operate \u2013 on test periodically \u2013 although there was no seating on the lower deck and the air pressure was provided by a trolleybus compressor.<\/p>\n<p>Our second photo also includes <strong>1245<\/strong> in front of the depot alongside <strong>Blackpool Marton VAMBAC 11<\/strong> and <strong>Lowestoft 14<\/strong> with <strong>Blackpool Standard 159<\/strong> seen in the distance in operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=6434\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6434\" title=\"Glasgow-1245-with-trucks-re\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Glasgow-1245-with-trucks-re-550x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Glasgow-1245-with-trucks-re-550x398.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Glasgow-1245-with-trucks-re-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Glasgow-1245-with-trucks-re.jpg 1398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6435\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=6435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6435\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6435\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6435\" title=\"159-out-on-the-running-line\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/159-out-on-the-running-line-550x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/159-out-on-the-running-line-550x362.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/159-out-on-the-running-line-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/159-out-on-the-running-line.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both photos courtesy of the East Anglia Transport Museum Archive<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Glasgow 1245 in the news recently following progress on its restoration at Summerlee our latest \u201cPicture in Time\u201d takes us back to a time shortly after the tram arrived at the East Anglia Transport Museum in Carlton Colville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433"}],"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=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}