“What are you taking photos of trams for?” “Because they’re cool!” AMAZING (and correct) answer, Geoff!

My Sheffield friend Bliss would like to point out that your pronunciation of Rotherham was... fun

I stumbled on this channel last Christmas and absolutely loved it despite no interest in trains. It's that time of year again so time for my transport video fix

Holbrook was a mining village whose name was changed to Halfway (after the Halfway House pub) to avoid confusion with Holbrook near Derby

PA: "This is the purple route service to Herdings Park." Geoff: "So the PA there, did it say purple train or purple line?" 😶

It's so weird watching this living in London after being in Sheffield for about 15 years. I always liked how it was "The next stop *by request*"; somehow that felt somehow friendly. The same with "Haffway" - the PA never seemed to have the L in it.

It is halfway between Rotherham and chesterfield and named after the old pub the halfway house which was a stagecoach stopping point.

Our tram train started a month ago in Hungary, also served by Stadler Citylink (Class 399) trains. 😁

Brings back memories of being a student. The tram is way better than the bus.

Im a native Sheffielder who has just moved to London for Uni, I always nerd out to your videos about the tube when in London, and I’ve just returned home for Christmas, and seen this video about home!!!! The Supertram may be the one thing I love more than the tube….👀

Hey Geoff, if you are confused about the Sheffield tram-train, then you got to see Karlsruhe in Germany. We have normal low-floor-trams, as well as low-floor tram-trains that run on DC like normal trams on older railway routes that have been reconfigured to accomodate the trams. For this purpose, we also use the Class 399 Citylink vehicles, although they are know as "NET 2012" here. And then, we have high-floor tram-trains, that actually run on proper main lines after leaving the towns centre and work with DC (tram network) and AC (railway network).

Phil is one of the most fun traveling companions I’ve seen! 👏🏽

This is probably one of my favorite 2nd gen. tram networks in the UK, especially with the tram train :)

You'll have to go down the road and do all the stops at the Crich Tramway Museum (and find the last of the original Sheffield trams)

Can't beat a good bit of Phil content! He's a walking fountain of knowledge.

My dad's worked on Supertram since October 1994 and still does. I did my year 11 work experience with them too. I'd have been a great person to be involved in this video. Also Herdings / Leighton road or Westfield are the two stops the are generally the least used stops. Halfway used to be called something like Holway but it changed its name many years ago.

I've just finished university at UoS and this was so fun to watch my old city. Thanks Geoff! :)

Merry Christmas Geoff and Phil! Love these tram videos! 😀 Stay safe, can't wait to use Soham station in the new year, my new local station! And watch your great content here on KZfaq 😄👌🚄🚈

Been waiting for this for months. Hope you enjoyed Sheff

I live in Sheffield and get these trams almost every single day, it's really nice to see people coming here just to visit and experience the trams. Which, by the way, are 100% eco-friendly!

Merry Xmas Matey. Thank you for the pure quality you've provided this year. Cheers. Love from Liverpool. X

Great video Geoff.(I guess it was fun, fun, fun on the tram, tram, trams). Joking aside this was a great video and it's great to see visuals of all the different tram routes in the UK.

Thanks geoff for your wonderful videos over the last 12 months merry xmas to you and all of your family cheer's bob from down under.

Before the pandemic my nephew and I tried in several years to make all the stations during the Snooker World Championchip. Hope it will be again possible in 2022!

Geoff I glad you managed to go on the Tram Train and Sheffield Supertram network after long time you ticked it off! Congratulations WELL DONE

Can't believe the key fact that the Sheffield Supertram has to contend with gradients of 10% and the trams were designed specifically for that. No other tramway in the UK has gradients that steep. Top fact. Only Brazil (Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão), the US (Cass Scenic Railway, West Virginia, Austria (Pöstlingbergbahn) and Portugal (Lisbon Tramways) have a railway or tram system operating on such steep inclines or steeper.

Awesome to see you doing the Supertram - been waiting for this for a while. The Supertram is an awesome resource in Sheffield but it so desperately needs expanding into a circle route following the ring road of the city, as well as more connections to the North and South of Sheffield. Very cool to see my office and my local stop in a video though!

Nice, I'm glad u uploaded this video Geoff as I love the tram videos and I was hoping u were gonna make another one soon. U gotta make more bro!

The Sheffield trams are also unique in the UK in being considered as bus routes, whereas the tram networks of other cities are separate networks from the buses. The Sheffield tram routes are in the bus databases!

Love border anomalies (and similar nerd stuff) thanks for pointing that out. Stay safe - though times.

Happy New Year @Geoff Marshall looking forward to the next informative video! All the best for 2022.

Seeing you ride my local tram network is incredible! I regularly use the Yellow route as Middlewood is the nearest stop to me that I can get to by bus from my house

Best video I have seen on the Sheffield trams and a good look at the tram trains. Same model Stadlers due down here in Wales.

Got news I bought both of the books and they're fab. In the tube book there were lots of things I didnt know. You guys are incredible and I hope you had a good Christmas!

50 years ago as a youngster in Sheffield the question to parents always was 'Halfway to where?'. Even my grandparents who were all born in sheffield and all lived to almost 100 never knew!

I went to a talk about the tram trains. They have special wheels to allow them to run both through National Network points and along street running rails. They also had to fit special check-rails to the points. These stick up more than usual; I think everything except a class 33 is still gauge cleared to run over them.

Such enthusiasm Geoff. Great.

Holbrook was a mining village whose name was changed to Halfway (after the Halfway House pub) to avoid confusion with Holbrook near Derby. And the Halfway pub was the halfway point for the stagecoaches. This is what I been always told

Ah Geoff, wish I’d know you were there! I’m originally from Sheffield and know all the stops on the Supertram system. It would’ve been great to travel with you. 😊 I was born and spent my formative years in Hackenthorpe, long before the current trams were around. I even remember Sheffield’s original trams and my earliest memory is travelling to Millhouses Park with my mother. It must’ve been during the summer of 1960, when I was 3 years old. I intended to go in the children’s paddling pool, but it rained, so I sat in a shelter in the park with mum, and watched the trams terminating at the loop on Abbeydale Road.

Excellent video as always Geoff. I've done all the Tram stops in Sheffield myself. It's absolutely brilliant however I have not done the new extension yet or went on the Class 399 train trams. Keep up the amazing content tho, looking forward to seeing what more new videos you have for 2022! 👍

Thanks for the video. Nice to know that trams are making a comeback. It gives me a lot satisfaction to see cities adopt sustainable mass transit.

Phil is brilliant at comedy with that deliberately late entrance 😆

Geoff I love it so much THANK YOU FOR FINALLY DO IT 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

By far my favourite video, me visiting Sheffield often this is great

Nice one Geoff!!!

Yes Geoff! What a guy, been waiting for this!

Never been to Sheffield but this was great fun, thanks both :)

One of my favourite tram networks, especially the Yellow Route that I'd regularly take from Middlewood to Meadowhall, when visiting my late grandparents! 😃

Great video Geoff, amazing tram network 👍👌😃

Hi Geoff, Whata paira nutta's, 😄 quite enjoyed that, those trams are awsome vehicles, I've ridden those myself in recent years when I was trade plating. I've also ridden the Manchester, Rotherham, Nottingham, and Croydon systems. When I rode the Croydon system, shortly after it opened, I did what you've just done, rode the whole system it covered, did it in just over half a day. As you probably know, some of their routes are on former BR track beds. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2022. 😀👍👏

Brilliant vlog Geoff. The comedy timing was....................perfect.👍

Fun fact, Sheffield Cathedral was never finished. It's missing a spire. We always made the joke that if the tram only goes to Halfway, where would it end up if it went all the way? Great video. Brought back some great memories.

I'm always happy to see interesting, well-researched, educational channels do well on KZfaq.

Brilliant Video, this is the only tram network that you can used a disable bus pass on from a different county. Tried it once with a Staffordshire bus pass and let you use it.

Been to Sheffield before during the end of the first lockdown and it was amazing to ride the trams in Sheffield

Really interesting Geoff. Keep up the great videos.

Nice one Geoff 👍🏻 Happy Christmas 🎄

Love your vids Geoff, nice to see you somewhere local to me 👍

Great video Geoff, been wondering when you’d come and complete the Supertram network! You’ll have to get up early next time and tick off the ‘wrong’ (back) side of the triangle with the few trams that avoid the city centre ;)

This would have been brilliant a couple of months ago, my son had an open day at Uni of Sheffield & it was a right PIA getting the tram/park and ride info off t'internet. Great video as always.

Great video and nice to see you up in my city for a change! Only fun tidbit I think you could have added is that the tram changes voltage when swapping from the Tram Network on to the National Rail Network.

I love this channel carry on the good work

I love the look of the super trams I wish I lived in Sheffield but I live in London and my favourite ones are the Stagecoach ones

Phil is the one fun travelling I have ever seen

Can't believe I missed Geoff in my hometown! Brilliant video, I didn't know about the 200m worth of track that goes into Derbyshire!

Went up there from Kent a few weeks ago for the football, very much enjoyed riding it!

FYI, "Rotherham" is pronounced "Rovrum." It also sounds like they will be adding another station between Meadowhall South and Rotherham Central at the Magna Science Adventure Centre. So you may need to visit again in a few years.

He looks happier than ever!

Spent the last year living in Sheffield. It's nice to see it again. I didn't use the trams much though so it's interesting.

the amsterdam lighttrain network was really something to behold before the North-Southline was built, it would've been extremely challanging but cheap, all trams amsterdam, it had a rail-train service as well then. Metro/Underground/SpeedTram Service 51 from Amsterdam central station on the bussy east line underground, and lead you down all the way down through amstelveen, just a few KM short of UITHOORN, that's like the amsterdam version of LUTON, but closer, as the netherlands is too cozy for comfort everywhere. but in Amsterdam South/WTC it changed it electric system, and used pantographs 2 on each set, so 4 or 6. sharing it with a regular tram, thats been modified to run on higher voltage and higher speed. nowadays the new CAF trams only use it with allot of underpasses or overpasses extra built and shorted the line. Now the norh south line is built, EVERYTHIGN changed on how trams and busses are run as the bus or ferry isn't the only way anymore to go north. of ' 't Ei. but YOU WILL DO ALL LINES OF THE AMSTERDAM RAIL and R/NET Rail all the way to rotterdam, using the Dutch national rail (NS) to get on to discover the real SUPERTRAM, known as RANDSTAD RAIL, it shares rail WITH Actual intercity tracks. I double dot dare you

I've seen a few of David Frankal's videos on the Sheffield Supertram. Cool to see it from your perspective.

The pronunciation of some of these is amazingly southern 😂

Geoff, your videos are fun and informative as always.

Fantastic video one thing I always do in Sheffield is have a ride on the TramTrain

Good old Sheffield. I miss it a lot, taking the tram to Meadowhall on the weekend.

Stumbled across this video because my kids were watching it to see if they could spot me, I should also mention I'm a supertram driver 😂 Great video mate 👍

I left Sheffield 25 years ago. What a joy!

I always watch your videos and end up wanting to plan a crazy pub crawl.

Merry Christmas Geoff

Have a great Xmas and New Year..

Just gotta love a well integrated tram train. Love the systems in Germany and this as well!

These tram vids are my favourites

Only just subscribed but been watching for a while. Commented on the Metrolink video asking when Sheffield was coming but never saw it pop up in recommend.

Awesome video!

brilliant! i would love to see all the tyne and wear metro. mabye even with new train!

Never thought id be so invested in a video about trams in a city ive never been to 😂

brilliant im loving the Sheffield trams

Been waiting ages for a video on the Sheffield Supertram, thank you so much for visiting my former hometown (spent my childhood in Sheffield before moving to Staffordshire). Haven't ridden this for many years since my early childhood (when I used to sometimes take it from the Cathedral to Meadowhall) but would very much like to ride it again some time later if I visit Sheffield again. And Btw, Rotherham is actually pronounced as "Rotherum", not "Rother-ham", the "ham" bit pretty much rhymes with places like Birmingham, Nottingham etc & the "h" is silent.

Worth pointing out that Sheffield & Rotherham PlusBus are valid on Supertram.

Did this myself ages ago. I live in Manchester, and discovered that the return rail fare MCO-SHF was entitled to a free excess fare to Rotheram central by Northern Rail. So unlike you when I did the Superman (sorry Supertram) day out I travelled out to Rotheram by train and started my traverse of the tram routes there. After covering the entire tram network and passing through or changing at every stop, left the network at Meadowhall, then two Northern trains back to Bamford, evening meal in the Anglers Rest, and Northern back to MCO. That meant that I also did all the tram & NR stops by both modes. I also did the entire Manchester tram network when it opened and repeated the traverse each time they opened another terminus. Manchester tip: start at 6:30 pm on a Friday and there is a cheap ticket covering the entire network valid till last tram Sunday -- and it is about the same cost as a day ticket on a weekday. I guess it is possible to traverse the network in a day, but it's a lot more enjoyable to do so on an evening and two days. Gives you a chance to get off and look at interesting track & signal configs -- level crossings and the two places where trams are single line working next to a Network Rail single. They can't let the trams and trains share the same track in Manc because normal trams blow a fuse under Network Rail overhead lines. That, of course, is what makes the experimental Supertrams in Sheffield Super. At present only the tram to Rotheram uses the 25kV: NR claim they will extend the overhead lines for their trains, but no sign yet of it happening for any regular services :( For now at least then the expense of the Supertram and the OLE are really just a proof of concept. Just to be clear: I am not a train enthusiast as such: I am the ultimate anorak, being a track and signalling enthusiast. The purpose of trains and trams is to make the T&S meaningful: what else?

Aaaah cool thanks Geoff! All this is in my back garden (not literally haha)

Curiously enough I was in Sheffield that same week and rode the tram out to Halfway. Didn't have time to do Herdings Park because it's only an hourly service at present, or the tram-train because darkness fell. The Halfway route has interesting hilly scenery with great views over Sheffield. Halfway looks roughly halfway from Sheffield to Chesterfield, and is quite close to Eckington and Killamarsh on the original North Midland Railway which left Sheffield on a branch to keep to flatter country.

What a marvellous throwback, to my days at Sheffield Hallam! However - knowing how far out Stocksbridge is to the final stop on the yellow line at Middlewood; I DON'T miss such waits in the reyt cold... ;)

Very Nice video, I do like the Sheffield supertrams :)

The stop at Netherthorpe Road my late Dad parents lived close to here, and I remember before the trams we could walk under the passageway to get to the nursery I went to

Love to see the supertram rep!!

I've actually done this one about 12 years ago, that was before the Rotherham extension. Didn't time it, just did it for fun when my cousin was visiting.

I think Malin Bridge is the only tramstop sharing its name with a tune for a Christmas carol - Bright and Joyful is the Morn. You probably have never heard of it because it is one of many that are local to that part of the city (and parts of north east Derbyshire). Pubs in quite a few of the villages on the bus toutes past this stop sing them.

Great Video Geoff, you should also try the Edinburgh Trams. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Visit all West Midland Metro Stops, Merry Xmas and happy new year :)