Today “Picture in Time” is again in South Yorkshire as we take a look at a couple of images taken in 1995 of one of the original trams built by Siemens-Duewag.
By the time of Tony Sullivan’s visit to Sheffield on 9th March 1995, 17 had been in South Yorkshire for very nearly a year having been delivered to Nunnery Depot on 21st March 1994. It was the seventeenth trams to arrive (by this stage they were coming in number order) and as with all others it entered service in the original fleet livery.
In this first image we see 17 running down Ridgeway Road (corrected since publication) to what was then the terminus at Shalesmoor. Shalesmoor had only been reached on 27th February 1995 and it would be until 23rd October 1995 that trams would get any further along what are now the Blue and Yellow routes to Malin Bridge and Middlewood – the final sections of the original system.
The other way trams were only going as far as Gleadless Town End and that’s where we see 17 again in this shot. It wouldn’t be quite as long before Supertram would go further along this route with Halfway reached on 27th March 1995 and Herdings Park 3rd April 1995.
Both Photographs by Tony Sullivan, 9th March 1995
The first image is Ridgeway Road not Netherthorpe Road.