A technical issue with the tram location system on Wednesday 14th October 2026 meant that a reduced service operated on the South Yorkshire Supertram system from mid-morning through until the afternoon of the following day.
The tram location system is used, probably not that surprisingly, by the control room to monitor tram movements across the network and make real-time operational decisions. With it suffering from technical issues it wasn’t possible to run a full service on the network with trams running up to every 24 minutes whilst it was fixed.
The Tram-Train route was running a normal service whilst both the Blue and Yellow routes were running a reduced service.
The issue was resolved from the afternoon of Thursday 15th October 2026, after which services started to be restored to the normal timetable. In a statement South Yorkshire Supertram said: “We’re very sorry for the recent disruption and thank passengers for their patience. We’ll continue to monitor our systems closely while a permanent repair is put in place.”