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Summerlee Heritage Park 2009


Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, formerly known as Summerlee Heritage Park, is an industrial museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was built on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and incorporated the main workshop of the former Hydrocon Crane factory. The museum is managed by CultureNL Ltd.


It temporarily closed in 2006, but reopened on 26 September 2008 following a £10m refurbishment (pictured right).


The former main hall was completely redesigned by North Lanarkshire Council's in-house Design Team and now includes a stainless steel café pod and futuristic viewing pavilion. The museum aims to show Lanarkshire's contribution to engineering, mining, steel working, weaving & farming and also show the lives of the people of the area. It incorporates interactive displays and a temporary exhibition space.


The museum also incorporates several railway steam locomotives, preserved carriages from a 1960s era Glasgow Class 311 and has a short working tram line.




Contents





  • 1 The Miners’ Row


  • 2 Tramway


  • 3 Railway Rolling Stock


  • 4 Other transportation


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




The Miners’ Row[edit]


Built in 1991-2, the miners’ row, or ‘raw’ shows typical workers’ homes from the 1880s to the 1980s. In the row there is also a sweet shop selling old fashioned sweets and some of modern houses have gardens such as the 1940s house which has a wartime ‘dig for victory’ garden with Anderson shelter. The row is used frequently as a location for filming.



Tramway[edit]


In the late 1980s, the Summerlee Transport Group (STG) was formed, in order to support the maintenance and operation of the tramway.[1] The original tramway used to terminate only 300 yards from the entrance at the timber shed, before the extension of the Gartsherrie Branch canal bridge and thence towards the Miners' Cottages. As continued tradition, the cars still halt at the timber shed before continuing over the bridge and around the bend.


The tramway opened in 1988 and was the first operational tramway in Scotland for over a quarter of a century, following the closure of the Glasgow Corporation Tramway in 1962, and continued to be the only tramway in Scotland for twenty-six years until Edinburgh reopened its tramway in 2014, save from the Glasgow Garden Festival Tramway, which opened six weeks after the Summerlee Line.


Whilst the first two operational trams at Summerlee were continental cars, it has always been the intention to use traditional British cars, preferably with local connections, which is now being realized.

































































Original SystemCar NumberBuiltDate AcquiredSeatsLiveryStatusNotesImage
Lanarkshire Tramways Company531908199559Green and whiteOperationalOpen-top double-decker

Coatbridge. - geograph.org.uk - 80756.jpg
Düsseldorf3921951199910CreamOperationalWheelchair access tram from Germany
Summerlee - Scotland's Noisiest Industrial Museum - geograph.org.uk - 436893.jpg

Glasgow Corporation Tramways (Ex. Paisley and District Tramways)
1017 (Ex. Paisley 17)1904?20Orange and creamOperationalSingle Decker (ex. Double Decker) - Glasgow "School" Car with raised floor. The raised floor promoted better visibility for trainee drivers receiving instruction from the motorman
Cumoan, Gerraff! - geograph.org.uk - 1471801.jpg
Glasgow Corporation Tramways12451939200264Orange, green and creamCurrently undergoing long-term restorationCoronation Class Tram

1245 at summerlee museum.jpg


Brussels Tramway Network906219591988unknownCreamScrapped in 2004 after act of vandalismFirst operation tram at Summerlee, and first operational tram in Scotland for 26 years.
Summerlee - Scotland's Noisiest Industrial Museum - geograph.org.uk - 436898.jpg
Graz Tramway Network22519491988unknownPurpleSold to the Brighton Tram 53 Society in 2010Restored to its former glory whilst at Summerlee, but later deemed surplus to requirements. It has since fallen into disrepair again.
A Long Way from Graz - geograph.org.uk - 1471792.jpg


Railway Rolling Stock[edit]
























































Name
Number
Builder
Type
Date
Works number
Livery
Notes
Image

11
Gibb and Hogg, Airdrie
0-4-0ST
1898
16
Dark Green
Worked for Fife coal company and later N.C.B. Fife area. Later displayed in Pittencrief Park, Dunfermline. Only surviving locomotive from this builder. On display in exhibition hall.

Old Tank Engine, Summerlee - geograph.org.uk - 1471973.jpg

9

Hudswell Clarke
0-6-0T
1909
895
Light Green
Worked for Fife Coal company and later N.C.B. Fife area. Open air display alongside mainline railway.


Springbok
4112

North British Locomotive Co.
4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt
1956
27770
Black

3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge South African Railways GMAM Class. Repatriated c.1988. Open air display outside exhibition hall. Owned by Springburn Museum.

Summerlee Industrial museum - geograph.org.uk - 1017521.jpg
Robin


Sentinel
4wVB
1957
9628
Blue
Worked at R.B. Tennants, Whifflet Foundry, Coatbridge. Open air display alongside mainline railway.


5

Barclay
0-4-0DH
1966
472
Red
Open air display alongside mainline railway.





























Unit
Number
Builder
Type
Date
Livery
Notes
936103 (311103)
977844 (76433)

Cravens
BDTCOL
1967
Blue
Designated "historically important" by the Railway Heritage Committee.
936103 (311103)
977845 (62174)

Cravens
MBSO
1967
Blue
This vehicle contained the sandite tank
936103 (311103)
977846 (76414)

Cravens
DTSO
1967
Blue
Scrapped August 2006 by CF Booth, Rotherham. Bogies sold to VSOE for use under pullman coaches.


Other transportation[edit]


  • A replica of the 1819 barge Vulcan (barge), the first all-iron hulled vessel, built for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. The replica is probably the last hand riveted boat built on the Clyde and was Summerlee Museum and Monklands District Council's entry into the Festival.

In 2016, it was re-sited on the Monkland Canal, the Gartsherrie Cut runs through the site, following refurbishment with the aid of Scottish Waterways, Scottish Canals and the Heritage Lottery Fund. It rests on a cradle, slightly proud of the water and is fully accessible for visitors.



See also[edit]



  • Beamish Museum - an industrial museum in the North East of England


  • Black Country Living Museum - an industrial museum in the West Midlands conurbation


  • East Anglia Transport Museum - a transport museum in Suffolk


  • Riverside Museum (Glasgow Museum of Transport)

  • Titan Clydebank

  • Scottish Maritime Museum


  • National Tramway Museum, - located in Crich, Derbyshire

  • The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft


  • St Fagans National History Museum - Museum of Welsh Life, Cardiff, Wales.


References[edit]




  1. ^ "The Summerlee Transport Group". The Summerlee Transport Group. 




External links[edit]





  • Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life - North Lanarkshire Council's "Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life" official website

  • Details from Visit Lanarkshire



Coordinates: 55°51′59″N 4°01′51″W / 55.86639°N 4.03083°W / 55.86639; -4.03083







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