This latest “Lockdown Walk” again heads to South Yorkshire as we take a look at the street section of Supertram in the Hillsborough area.
When Stagecoach Supertram – or plain old South Yorkshire Supertram back then – opened in the mid-1990s it was the first modern tram system in the UK to have large sections of on-street running with little segregation from other modes of transport (while Manchester Metrolink pre-dated it by a couple of years the vast majority of the initial Metrolink system was converted railway lines save for sections in the city centre). Both the Blue route out to Halfway and the Yellow route out to Middlewood enjoy on-street running which does, at times, cause congestion and delays with the amount of other road traffic that gets in the way.
In this view we see 117 on one of those shared sections of line at Catch Bar Lane in Hillsborough. Passing the Flex Pilates building the tram is running on the Yellow route bound for Meadowhall when caught on camera. (Photograph by Stuart Cooke, 17th January 2021)