Old Tramway Enthusiasts

Yesterday, on the bottom of the Moor, a digger driver was stripping the road surface. I watched as he uncovered some old tramlines. The width between the lines seemed very narrow and I thought they were much wider in the 30's So did tram-tracks vary in width at all?. Thanks.

I don't know, but I thought they might be dug up. I also do rememember the last tram in 1960. From Wadsley Bridge to town I think.

And I remember a pub somewhere around Oughtibridge that had part of a tram in the garden that I used to sit in as a kid.

Tram tracks did not vary in Sheffield. They were standard gauge (4' 8 and a half"). You could have been looking at a set of points perhaps where tracks diverge. Just a guess.

And they are intact under many road surfaces in Sheffield.

I'm wondering if I was looking at the gap betwween 2 pairs of lines and mistakenly believing the left of one pair and the right of the other pair were a pair in themselves. This confusion was caused by only 2 lines being uncovered and somewhat out of line.

Tram tracks did not vary in Sheffield. They were standard gauge (4' 8 and a half"). You could have been looking at a set of points perhaps where tracks diverge. Just a guess.

 

And they are intact under many road surfaces in Sheffield.

When they were preparing the base for the Supertram tracks around the bottom of Dykes Hall Rd, I saw them lifting the old ones, to put the new ones in the same place!