Sheffield Transport Department at its best
First added to website 11 August 2010
Dennis Basford writes:
Following the success of my suggested 'Tribute to Duple' page,
(HERE)
being born and brought up in Sheffield, I think the old Sheffield livery of
cream and dark blue was one of the most attractive liveries ever to grace a bus.
My suggestion then is,
'Sheffield Transport Department at its best'.
So here it is! Please send in your contributions.
Ian Moorcroft writes (17 August 2010):
Just been searching my photos of Sheffield buses and have found these specimens, mostly at Chatsworth Rallies over the years.
Webmaster health warning: one is NOT in cream and blue!
Neville Whitmore asks (12 August 2010):
A very interesting picture of the Sheffield Transport Leyland Titan under the trolleybus wires at Conisborough (below),
presumably on the service which is the predessor of the present day X78. I have two questions:
1. Why did some Sheffield buses have a grey roof? (In my opinion this spoils their appearance)
2. Why is this an "A" fleet bus? This was hardly a "local" service and I thought that longer distance services such as the 77 were
operated by "B" or "C" fleet buses. (I may know the answer to this already but would like confirmation, was it to even up mileage
between buses owned by the three fleets?)
Richard Lomas replies (12 August 2010):
I have looked up service 77 in my 1960 timetable. It ran from Sheffield (Pond Street) to Doncaster (Glasgow Paddocks) via Meadow Hall,
Rotherham (Frederick Street), Dalton (Cross Street), Hooton Roberts and Connisboro' (Star Hotel). The running time was 1 hour 3 mins to
Doncaster and 1 hour 5mins towards Sheffield and the frequency was every 20 mins or every 30 mins. The through single fare was 2 shillings.
It was operated jointly with Doncaster and Rotherham Corporation Transport Departments.
Richard Lomas writes (11 August 2010):
Sheffield was unusual as both country and city services were operated by Sheffield Transport Department although the ownership of the buses
was quite complex being divided between Sheffield Corporation and the railways. This 1961 picture shows a Leyland PD2 under the Mexborough &
Swinton trolleybus wires on service 77 from Doncaster to Sheffield. The 'W' on the front indicates that it is 8 feet wide and 'A' that the bus
belongs to Sheffield Corporation.
Dennis Basford writes (11 August 2010):
I will start off the page with this shot taken at Chatsworth.
