I walked along the moor today after watching the diving in the Peace Gardens. I *thought* there were some exposed tram tracks at the top of the moor. Where have the gone? How LONG have they been gone.

What is going ON??????

I'd expect its the council vandals at work again, they already ripped the heart out of the city, and seem bent on destroying anything connected with the history of Sheffield.

in the tram museum?

Shame we're slowly losing all our links with the past isn't it?

The last of the old tram lines to be seen are at Firth Park, the trams used to go right through the traffic island, and the lines have been exposed in the middle of the island as a feature.

In that case, little malc, they've probably disappeared from Firth Park too.

Those sewer repairs up there have flattened the roundabout.

re "I walked along the moor today after watching the diving in the Peace Gardens."

Have they built a deep pond in the middle of Town now! Isn't Millhouses Park good enough?

Does anyone know if the lines which went through Firth Park island have been destroyed? as an ex-pat, I don't get chance to visit there very often, it would be a great shame if yet another piece of our heritage has gone.

I was talking to a workman thats working on the sewers at Firth Park and he say's the tramlines will be back as they were after the work is completed.

There is an exposed tramline on South Rd at Walkley near to the bus stop on the bend as your drivining towards town...but dont run over it cos its sat in a nasty pot hole.

Originally posted by little malc
Does anyone know if the lines which went through Firth Park island have been destroyed? as an ex-pat, I don't get chance to visit there very often, it would be a great shame if yet another piece of our heritage has gone.

Can't say that I know if they are gone. As you say, a great shame. I left Sheff over 20 years ago, but... here's a nice pic of them in the late 40's

http://www.hpac.org.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=5071

I reckon the bus was a 150. Came off Sicey Avenue on it's way to Bridge Street.

It would be a shame if they have been destroyed. Other cities have managed to keep short sections of early 20th century tram lines intact. If they are have dug up (or are going to be) the tram lines at Firth Park, I would pay some decent money to acquire some of the metal that I travelled over as a small boy. Has anybody got info on where the rails may have gone and how I can get my hands on a section?

It's OK to warn about the tram lines on South Rd and the potholebut you should have tried it fifty years ago on a bike or motor bike. If I remeber rightly South Rd was cobbled in parts and when they and the tram lines were wet then you did have to be careful.

Originally posted by Abdul

Those sewer repairs up there have flattened the roundabout.

Are these works still ongoing? It's bad enough trying to negotiate the one way system without these roadworks causing additional chaos. I bet the local businesses are loving it. :(

Originally posted by Lickszz
Are these works still ongoing? :(

I'm afraid they are...and I'm sitting in the Firth Park library as I type!

If I see a workman on the way out, I'll have a word with him to find out how long they'll take. But I must say, I feel it's an ongoing thing - in the past couple of months, the works have moved down Hucklow Road to the Firth Park roundabout, and there are similar works upon Sicey Avenue after the bowling alley

I can see this is an old topic but - I'm doing a bit of research into the tram lines on Firth Park roundabout. In particular I'm hoping to discover if they were lifted as part of the 2004 sewer works and then put back, or if they worked round them (difficult?).

By the time trams stopped running through the roundabout the old cobbles had been tarmacked over, the current stone setts are too 'clean' to have been buried then rediscovered, so I'm thinking they were relaid to give the effect you can see today.

Can anyone confirm this for me please?

Not all the lines are gone - most are simply buried like on Division Street

It's not the fact that anything is buried, just that this little section through the roundabout is perhaps not as authentic as we're led to believe.

If the lines currently laid in that section have been made to look genuine, by being relaid as part of a cosmetic reworking of the roundabout, then I win a bet ;-)

I think the sewer works resulted in them being dug up and put back afterwards, that's the bit I'm trying to verify.

When they were laying the new tram tracks from Hillsboro corner along Middlewood Rd, I saw them lifting the old ones and burning them into managable pieces for removal.

Not all the lines are gone - most are simply buried like on Division StreetSorry but there were never trams on Division street.

Sorry but there were never trams on Division street.

hiya too true i was working at the time of the old trams being stopped and was working on the road on the crookes route, and i know at the time the tracks were just covered over with tarmac ,these and the lampholes too, the other grates were all lifted to the new tarmac level.

There was two sets of tram tracks and two flower tubs inthe shape of a tram front on the moor this was removed around 5 years ago and the tracks recovered . Some where I have photos of them.

Gnerally speaking all the old tram tracks as still insitu odd bits have been removed for road works and the some of the points were taken up but generaly its all there