Coronation Street’s killer tram is being preserved for history in a city centre museum.

The Museum Of Science And Industry will be the new home for a section of the specially-built tram early next year.

The Liverpool Road museum has almost completed a £7m revamp and hopes to have the piece of soap history in place in time for its full reopening.

Director Tony Hill said: “We were approached a couple of weeks back as to whether we would like to have the tram from the crash.

“As the icon of the 50th anniversary programming we felt it appropriate to have it. At this stage we understand that it will be the section that smashed into Rita’s shop.

“As yet we have not finalised a delivery date but I would hope that we can link in with the full re-opening of MOSI towards the end of January 2011.”

Soap fans were gripped as the tram plummeted from the Coronation Street viaduct, claiming the lives of soap favourites Ashley Peacock and Molly Dobbs.

The spectacular stunt, which cost more than £1m to film, was the highlight of an anniversary week which included an hour-long live episode watched by 15m viewers.

The M.E.N. revealed last week that the museum is also in talks with Granada about the possibility of getting hold of the soap’s original cobbled street for its new-look communications gallery.

ITV is quitting its current Granada Studios base, next to the museum, for MediaCity, at Salford Quays, in 2012.

A new set and production centre will be built on the Trafford side of the development, next to Imperial War Museum North while the rest of Granada’s staff will be based on the Salford side.

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