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    Sheffield Supertram & Tram Train news

    Sheffield has been a hole for decades, and that's solely down to the mendacious incompetence of SCC.
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    Light rail or tram proposals that never happened!

    I need to look it up - I did a project at school about transit systems in Sheffield (pre-Supertram, this was 30 years ago!) and I remember reading about it then.
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    Light rail or tram proposals that never happened!

    Sheffield had light rail/monorail schemes proposed such as the "minitram" in the 70's (as well as a heavy rail underground loop line). https://www.sheffieldguide.blog/2020/05/22/sheffield-monorail-aborted-plans-what-happened/ More recently (late 80's/early 90's) there was a proposal to buy a...
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    Cars Under The Channel

    How many vehicles do Ford manufacture in the UK? The answer is none. The last complete vehicles made by them were Transit vans in Southampton. That factory was replaced by one in Turkey which was funded (partly) by a grant from the EU. Great, isn't it?
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