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FYI - Thursday sees the start of the new tram train service to Rotherham

(21 Oct 2018, 8:25 pm)8222 wrote [ -> ]Hello.

FYI - Thursday sees the start of the new tram train service to Rotherham

It hasn't got off to the most fantastic of starts
https://twitter.com/BreakingCoDotUK/stat...43296?s=19

(25 Oct 2018, 5:54 pm)S813 FVK wrote [ -> ]It hasn't got off to the most fantastic of starts
https://twitter.com/BreakingCoDotUK/stat...43296?s=19

Happened on the existing network - just so happened it was one of the Citylink Trams that was involved.

The vehicle involved was 399204 - seen here in happier times earlier in the year
Stagecoach Supertram 399204 by Tony Kuy, on Flickr

Photos of the damage
Sheffield tram-train crash, 25/10/18 by George Griffiths, on Flickr

Indeed, but it was operating a Tram-Train service at the time of the incident.

More trouble on the Supertram network.

Another Tram-Train crash this evening, 399202 is reported as being the tram involved:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so...e-46407052

It happened on the regular Supertram network at the exact same location as the incident that 399204 was involved in on the first day of the service to Rotherham last month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so...e-45976460

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/loca...e-25296354

Stagecoach contract coming to an end

Is the SuperTram (awful name) profitable? Also they are in desperate need for new trams

Whatever the state of the fleet, I suppose it saves passengers from having to take the long way home.

I'll get my coat.