Glasgow Standard Tram

Preserving Glasgow Tram No.488

It's history and restoration progress in the UK

Horse tram services started 19 August 1872
Electric traction from 13 October 1898 until 4 September 1962
Tramway abandonment's started in 1926, with major route closures from 1956 onwards
Trolleybuses introduced 3 April 1949 - Abandoned 27 May 1967
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* Report Number 6 *
14th August 2013

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Preparing to shift 488 into the workshops

Dateline: 14th August 2013


181 198 218 225
181 - Norman Bond in No.2 end clearing debris
198 - Inside of No.2 end cab after debris removal
218 - The sad state of the lower saloon ceiling
225 - Upper deck floor, minus seats
321 401 411 415
321 - The general state of disarray after transportation
401 - Inside the top deck
411 - The top deck now leaving Minffordd yard
415 - Lower deck of 488 showing the droop of the No.2 end vestibule
429 441 465 487
429 - 488's truck unladen
441 - Upper deck arrives at Boston Lodge
465 - Lower deck craned onto it's accommodation trucks
487 - The lower deck temporarily stored in the paint shop at Boston Lodge. Picture by Glenn Williams.

Box Top Left: Destinations from the past.
A map of the Glasgow Tram System to
find where the termini points were, can
be viewed by clicking on the icon below:
Access Point


Right: The top deck, in the woodwork shop
at Boston Lodge. Picture by Norman Bond.		 Top deck of 488 in the woodwork shop at Boston Lodge
Box Bottom

The destination box presentation is provided for your pleasure only and may differ from the actual blinds fitted on trams in service. The software used is an adoption of a JavaScript routine by David Bradley, overlaid onto a picture of 488s destination box.
All pictures in this panel were taken by Ray Maidstone unless otherwise stated.
The copyright holders of the pictures on this page are shown. Please ask if you wish to use these pictures elsewhere.

Tram Controller


Ray Maidstone
488 Technical Consultant

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