page_title: Sheffield Tramway
section_title: Remnants
hierarchical_section_title: Sheffield Tramway / Remnants
caption_attribution_description: Sheffield Tramway grate on Abbeydale Road
context_page_description: Sheffield Tramway was an extensive tramway network serving the English city of Sheffield and its suburbs.
  The first tramway line, horse-drawn, opened in 1873 between Lady's Bridge and Attercliffe, subsequently extended to Brightside and Tinsley. Routes were built to Heeley, where a tram depot was built, Nether Edge and Hillsborough. In 1899, the first electric tram ran between Nether Edge and Tinsley, and by 1902 all the routes were electrified. As of 1910 the network covered 39 miles, and as of 1951 48 miles.
  The last trams ran between Leopold Street to Beauchief and Tinsley on 8 October 1960—three Sheffield trams were subsequently preserved at the National Tramway Museum in Crich. 34 years later trams returned to the streets of Sheffield under a new network called Supertram.
context_section_description: There are very few remnants of the once extensive tramway.
  The tram shed at Tinsley survives more or less intact, as do parts of those at Holme Lane and Shoreham Street. Parts of Heeley shed remain but it has been stripped out and substantially altered, turning it in to an approximation of its former self.
  In many places the tram tracks were not removed: the road was resurfaced over the tracks, which survive (albeit covered). An example of tracks covered in this way was uncovered and made a feature of The Moor pedestrian precinct for a time, but this was re-covered when the area was re-modelled a few years back.
  At Firth Park, the short section of reserved track, running through the middle of a roundabout, still exists.
  There were about ten traction poles still standing in 2006, such as the matching pair in Firth Park, and single poles at Manor Top, Woodseats, Abbeydale Road, Angel Street and also the last pole outside Tinsley Depot.
  On the pavement of Howard Road in Walkley, near the junction with Commonside, several manhole covers marked "Sheffield Corporation Tramway" are still in place. A manhole survives on Abbeydale Road between the junction with Sheldon Road and Abbeydale Picture House with the inscription "Sheffield Corporation Electric Tramways".
  In places where the trams ran on a reserved track, such as on Abbeydale Road South and Abbey Lane at Beauchief, the reservation has been converted into a dual carriageway. The former line lives on in the name of Terminus Road, Abbeydale.
  At Kelham Island, the power station that generated the electricity for system still stands and is now the Kelham Island Museum.
  Resurfacing projects across the city in 2019 have uncovered a large amount of old tram rails, which have since been removed.
caption: A grate at 497 Abbeydale Road bearing the markings of the Sheffield Corporation Electric Tramways.
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