27001Ariadne

Noddy Wiseman, to the select few of us who were also tram enthusiasts, had a totally different significance. By the time I joined ABGS 1963 he'd moved to sunny Mansfield - just as Sheffield trams started appearing in books and magazines with masses of photos credited to R.S.Wiseman! He became a leading light in the Tramway Museum Society (Crich) & we were gutted we'd never got to chat to him

Anyone else go on a BR excursion from Victoria to "Ashburys for Belle Vue" & then walk down the lane? The lane's a busy dual carriageway now, the Woodhead line electric trains only come as far as Hadfield & the station's just plain "Ashburys". Don't suppose "Ashburys for the car auctions" would have quite the same ring---- We also arrived a couple of times by 210 trolleybus. I remember The Bobs well. In its later days the track got "threepenny bit" syndrome & you were jerked all over. I'll never forget the pong of the tiger cage either. By the way, don't tell them from Hyde it's in Greater Manchester. 36 years on it may be but there's a lot'll still tell you VERY firmly it's in Cheshire!

Re the Stocksbridge Railway, whereas it now ends on Corus's (formerly Samuel Fox's) yard more or less opposite the Silver Fox pub, it previously continued onto the long forgotten Sheffield Corporation Railways, shown on th reproduction 1903 O/S map. Built to convey workers & materials to the reservoirs, these are the mysterious disused railway embankments that I've heard commented on by passengers on the 20A bus, seen on the righthand side going uphill toward Langsett, before the line dives under the road to the reservoir side. At the Corus end it's now severed by the Stocksbridge byepass.