We are back with another edition of “Picture in Time” today as we return to Sheffield for another photo taken in 1995 in the early days of the Supertram system.
Taken on 9th March 1995 this photo shows 18 on the delta junction at Park Square with a service for Gleadless Townend (which as we’ve seen earlier in this series of photos was the limit of operations in this direction at this point in time). The driver checks to his left as the tram will turn towards us with the next stop being at Sheffield Station before it continues on its way to Gleadless Townend.
18 – now numbered 118 in the current Stagecoach fleet but formed partly of 120 after a collision between the two in 2015 – was delivered to Sheffield on 6th April 1994. Like all other trams of its fleet it was built by Siemens-Duewag in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1993-4.
Photograph by Tony Sullivan, 9th March 1995