264 ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Scene’ at Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire 2
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
I live only a few miles away from Crich.
A direct bus service to Crich runs past the end of the road where I live.
Yet I have never before posted a blog from there.
It was only when I received these images from friend Peter Rose that I realised what a gem on my doorstep I have been missing.
Posted with Peter’s consent and my thanks to him, there will be more from Crich in future.
For some years, the trams in Sheffield were a big part of my life.
As a child, I lived a five minute walk away from the Queens Road depot where the body of this tram was built.
I went to school by tram, I visited my grandparents by tram, I went to work by tram.
They were a part of Sheffield’s urban scene that were just taken for granted.
Then in October 1960, 63 years ago almost to the day at the time of writing, they were gone.
Sheffield was a smoky, dirty city in those days but the cream and azure blue trams and buses were always kept clean.
In 1953 an attempt was made to reduce the cost of cleaning by painting buses and trams a dark green.
There was uproar in the city.
The citizens of Sheffield were proud of ‘their’ buses and trams.
The few vehicles that were green were rapidly repainted.
Today, Sheffield has a modern tramway system where one of the new trams was painted in an approximation of the traditional livery.
They are efficient, smart and do a good job but to Sheffielders of my and earlier generations they are merely a substitute for what went before.
The livery lived on with the buses until. ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’ became part of ‘South Yorkshire Passenger Transport’ in 1974.
It is still much missed.
New in 1937.
264 ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘Scene’ at Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire 2
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
I live only a few miles away from Crich.
A direct bus service to Crich runs past the end of the road where I live.
Yet I have never before posted a blog from there.
It was only when I received these images from friend Peter Rose that I realised what a gem on my doorstep I have been missing.
Posted with Peter’s consent and my thanks to him, there will be more from Crich in future.
For some years, the trams in Sheffield were a big part of my life.
As a child, I lived a five minute walk away from the Queens Road depot where the body of this tram was built.
I went to school by tram, I visited my grandparents by tram, I went to work by tram.
They were a part of Sheffield’s urban scene that were just taken for granted.
Then in October 1960, 63 years ago almost to the day at the time of writing, they were gone.
Sheffield was a smoky, dirty city in those days but the cream and azure blue trams and buses were always kept clean.
In 1953 an attempt was made to reduce the cost of cleaning by painting buses and trams a dark green.
There was uproar in the city.
The citizens of Sheffield were proud of ‘their’ buses and trams.
The few vehicles that were green were rapidly repainted.
Today, Sheffield has a modern tramway system where one of the new trams was painted in an approximation of the traditional livery.
They are efficient, smart and do a good job but to Sheffielders of my and earlier generations they are merely a substitute for what went before.
The livery lived on with the buses until. ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’ became part of ‘South Yorkshire Passenger Transport’ in 1974.
It is still much missed.
New in 1937.