This week our modern tram version of “Picture in Time” moves on to the year 2002 as we feature a couple of images of a tram sitting at Halfway.
Halfway is the terminus of the Blue route with this route being the longest of all the routes on Supertram, running as it does, in normal service, through to Malin Bridge – a branch off the route to Middlewood near to Hillsborough. Trams first reach Halfway in passenger service on 27th March 1995 when it became the sixth section to be officially opened. It would be another seven months though before the complete route to Malin Bridge was opened though.
In both of the below images – taken on 25th February 2002 – we see 107 standing at Halfway on a wet day. The tram is in the second of Stagecoach fleet liveries with the dark blue band at the bottom added to the previous orange, red and blue stripes on the white base. It also has some adverts applied to the bodysides both above and below the windows. At this time it also still had the roller destination blind with the electronic displays still a few years away.
Both Photographs by Bob Hodges