The weekend of Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th July saw the return of the Tramlines festival to Sheffield. Having been cancelled in 2020 for pretty obvious reasons the festival took place again in 2021 and with it taking place at Hillsborough what better way to get to it than tram? A normal service operated throughout all three days until the evening when staff shortages meant that no trams went beyond Shalesmoor with festival goers instead advised to find alternative means to get home. As we reported at the end of last week this was a late change to the plan as originally it has been planned for extra trams to leave from Leppings Lane after the event each night but the driver shortages meant this wasn’t possible. Stuart Cooke with the photos.
Crowds alight from 124 at Hillsborough to make their way to Tramlines.
Another busy scene at Hillsborough with 108 stopping to let passengers off.
108 then heads off to Middlewood.
More passengers get off a tram at Hillsborough on what must have been one of Supertram’s busiest weekends since the start of the pandemic. (All Photographs by Stuart Cooke, 25th July 2021)