Out and about for another edition of “Lockdown Walks” today as we find ourselves at Hillsborough in Sheffield.
The seven Citylink tram-trains built for Supertram in 2015-6 were ordered from Vossloh although after a takeover of that company by Stadler construction was completed under that banner. Mainly ordered for the proposed tram-train pilot an additional order was made to help enhance capacity on the remainder of the network. As of now four of the trams are allocated to tram-train services with the other three used on the conventional network, owing to the different wheel profiles needed for each service the first four are currently dedicated to the tram-train service although it is possible for these to be swapped if the wheelsets are changed.