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City Road, SHEFFIELD, S2 1GH

The Travellers Rest, seen on the left, was a long established pub at 525 City Road. It was acquired by the former Punch Taverns, but had some problems in its last years, and eventually it closed around 2006. The signs outside indicate it sold Tetley's beers. The building still exists, but is now a shop. The pub's car park, on the right of the pub, has been acquired by Sheffield City Council, to provide a new entrance to a rejuvenated public park at the rear. The two yellow and red buses belonged to Sheffield Mainline, who were for a few years the major bus operator in Sheffield. The Mainline Group were purchased by First in 1998, and the livery then disappeared, to be replaced by the corporate one of First. In the roadway can be seen recently laid tram lines. These were for South Yorkshire (now Sheffield) Supertram. This part of the system was not open when this photograph was taken, the main missing element being the overhead power lines. In the meantime, trams had to terminate around the corner at the Spring Lane stop.

When trams returned to Sheffield after an absence of some 34 years, the initial service was from Meadowhall to a temporary terminus at the junction of City Road with Park Grange Road. It was officially referred to as Spring Lane. Here car 17 is seen at this point about to return to Meadowhall.

The temporary terminus of Sheffield's initial tram service was at the junction of Park Grange Road and City Road, referred to on the cars as 'Spring Lane'. Here car 17 has just arrived.

A pub becomes a local store, a far better prospect than it sitting derelict.City Road, Manor.

The road works were in connection with a further stage of the Supertram system along City Road, which was awaiting its overhead power lines. The pub on City Road is The Travellers Rest, which closed around 2006, and is now a shop. Image

A community park recently opened up, off City Road, Manor. A notice is asking for support from local people to become Friends of Manor Fields Park.

The tram, (since numbered 116 and in a different livery), was stopped at the temporary terminus at Spring Lane tram stop. In the distance is City Road. Once the line was extended, the trams continued by turning right into this road. Image

The tramway was opened as far as this stop on the 22nd August 1994. It was several months before the whole of this line was open. Since Stagecoach took over the system, this tram has been renumbered 117. It has also had two more different liveries since this photograph was taken in 1994.