Sheffield Trams

[illuminati]

I'm sure these may have been posted before but I stumbled across them on YouTube, I have never seen them and any thread on Sheffield Trams was 10 years old.

 

 

 

[PeterR]

I'm sure these may have been posted before but I stumbled across them on YouTube, I have never seen them and any thread on Sheffield Trams was 10 years old.

 

 

 

 

Yes they have been on before illuminati, however it's lovely to look at them again.

 

Thanks, Peter.

Edited September 9, 2017 by PeterR

[cat631]

Thanks for posting the tram pictures.

I've been searching for a picture/photo of the tram shed that was on the corner of Weedon St

and Brightside Lane in early 1900s. I can't find anything on Picture Sheffield or Sheffield History. Can anyone help. Thanks.

[trastrick]

I'm sure these may have been posted before but I stumbled across them on YouTube, I have never seen them and any thread on Sheffield Trams was 10 years old.

 

 

 

 

Never saw these before. Didn't know they even existed.

 

That was my ride to work!

 

Thanks!

[Boginspro]

Thanks for posting the tram pictures.

I've been searching for a picture/photo of the tram shed that was on the corner of Weedon St

and Brightside Lane in early 1900s. I can't find anything on Picture Sheffield or Sheffield History. Can anyone help. Thanks.

 

I don't think there was ever a tram depot at that end of Weedon Street, Tinsley depot was at the other end of Weedon Street, the Attercliffe Common end and was the first depot built for the Sheffield Tramways Company in 1874.

 

Here is a list of all Sheffield depots ---------

Tinsley depot - Heeley depot - Nether Edge depot - Queens Road works - Shoreham Street depot - Crookes depot - Tenter Street depot - Holme Lane depot.

[Annie Bynnol]

Weedon Street/Brightside Lane

There was a horse tram depot there, next door to the Bridge Inn

Did the electric trams terminate there for a time because of the low bridge?

Edited September 10, 2017 by Annie Bynnol

[Voldy]

Weedon Street/Brightside Lane

There was a horse tram depot there, next door to the Bridge Inn

Did the electric trams terminate there for a time because of the low bridge?

 

A 1950's photo by H B Priestley in "Sheffield Corporation Tramways" (page 23) by Kenneth Gandy shows two Bridge obstructions for double-deck electric cars. An intention to complete a loop round to Tinsley shed was abandoned in 1905. Apparently a new Brightside Bridge over the River Don would have been needed.

[Annie Bynnol]

Map of the tram depot at Brightside Lane/Weedon Street

Tram depot does not appear in the 1905 map and the tram track has been shortened to be south of the railway track

Edited September 10, 2017 by Annie Bynnol

[Boginspro]

Map of the tram depot at Brightside Lane/Weedon Street

Tram depot does not appear in the 1905 map and the tram track has been shortened to be south of the railway track

 

Well found, thank you, though I use NLS a lot I have never seen that on a map. This information needs adding to a lot of sites dealing with Sheffield Tramways.

This is probably why its not on the 1905 map, newly constructed bridge ----------- http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s20351&pos=5&action=zoom&id=22861

Edited September 10, 2017 by Boginspro

[Voldy]

http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s16296&pos=1&action=zoom&id=19025