Imagine how bad it'd be if they'd stuck with the Huddersfield via Barnsley and Penistone idea... a bi-mode tram-train that'd fit through Cumberworth tunnel; all those platforms to lower... it's a scandal that such a proposal even made it onto the drawing-board!...and they still need another YEAR (or thereabouts) to get this up and running.
"Easier", yes... but since when have we ever done things the easy way!One assumes it would have been easier to raise the trackbed up in the stations rather than lower all the platforms.....
No, they'd have had to drag a diesel engine around Sheffield! If anyone feels the diesel engines on the SET sets is an undesirable weight burden, on a lightweight tram-train they'd be even more so!Ah yes, but that wasn't going to be electric (or was it?)
One assumes it would have been easier to raise the trackbed up in the stations rather than lower all the platforms.....
399203 scored.
Believe 201 204 haven't worked yet
I was on one of the new vehicles this morning (first time I've seen one in service from Hillsborough), is it just me or do the announcements sound a bit odd compared to the old trams (aside from not having the route-specific voices to match)? On stopping at each stop it says "this is the service for <name of the place we just stopped>, this is the blue route service for Halfway" - a useful piece of info but wouldn't it make more sense to say "this is <place where we stopped>" rather than implying that <place we just stopped> is somewhere you can get to if you stay on board.
...and they still need another YEAR (or thereabouts) to get this up and running.
OHLE now fully installed at Rotherham Central;
https://www.facebook.com/British.Tramway/posts/866850886805877
When I click on the link in the quote I get a facebook login page pop up saying "See more of British Tramway News on Facebook", with a photo of two trams passing each other. Where in Britain was this photo taken? Looks like somewhere close to me.
When I click on the link in the quote I get a facebook login page pop up saying "See more of British Tramway News on Facebook", with a photo of two trams passing each other. Where in Britain was this photo taken? Looks like somewhere close to me.
Sandyford Station in Ireland?