Sheffield Supertram

The Sheffield Tram is called Supertram and is ran by Stagecoach Group PLC, who are a major public transport company operating light rail, train, bus & coach services in the UK, Europe & North America. It's ran in co-operation with South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE). Supertram is a tram network in Sheffield which first came to light in 1985 when SYPTE started to build the system at a cost of £240m but it wasn't until 1994 when it started opening up in stages right through to 1995. It was originally ran by SYPTE subsidiary South Yorkshire Supertram Ltd and changed over to Stagecoach's hands in 1997. The train livery was ...  Read the complete review

Historically the city of Sheffield had an extensive tram system that served the city from the late 1880's until 1960 when it was abolished. It had been perceived by the late 1950's that the future of travel in the city would be with cars. Twenty five years later and there were so many cars on the roads that the city's transport infrastructure was on the verge of complete collapse. Clearly something radical had to be done and a Government funded study concluded that the future of travel in Sheffield would once again lie in the hands of the trams. These new trams would however be a far cry from the old Victorian trams that had once graced our ...  Read the complete review

I feel that South Yorkshire's Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) got a bit carried away when they named their tram system Stagecoach Supertram. There seems to be very little about it that could be described as 'super' but then again I guess simply Tram would have been a pretty rubbish name. Names aside, let me tell you all about it. My poor Clio isn't very well. From that statement you have probably determined that I don't use public transport, and you would be right. I think it's expensive, inconvenient and on the whole unreliable. Particularly as I need to travel from Sheffield to Rotherham every day for my job, which would mean me ...  Read the complete review

In 1994 a new method of transport was opened in Sheffield. This was the Supertram system. Costing over £200 million of government money this system was to revolutionise the public transport system in Sheffield. For the people of Sheffield I am sure the system has provided a fast and reliable service in and out of the City centre. On our many visits to Sheffield we have always been dismayed at the expensive cost of the car parks in the City so on our latest visit we decided to use the Park and Ride system using the trams. After leaving the M1 motorway we followed the signs for the Park and Ride site and were surprised to be within sight of the City centre before ...  Read the complete review