This is a film made by South Yorkshire's Transport, with commentary, marking the end of tram services in Sheffield in 1960. It follows the route of one of the services from Meadowhead to Firth Park through the city centre, showing various places along the way. Opening Statement - On April 2nd 1960, this tramway was disconnected; the following day electric tramcars were replaced by a fleet of oil-engine double deck motor buses. The film opens with a group of students from Rowlinson...

This is a film made by South Yorkshire's Transport, with commentary, marking the end of tram services in Sheffield in 1960. It follows the route of one of the services from Meadowhead to Firth Park through the city centre, showing various places along the way. Opening Statement - On April 2nd 1960, this tramway was disconnected; the following day electric tramcars were replaced by a fleet of oil-engine double deck motor buses. The film opens with a group of students from Rowlinson Technical School and commuters at Meadowhead boarding a cream coloured tram (number 533) as a coal lorry passes along with another diesel bus and other traffic. The film then follows the route of the bus, down Meadowhead, from the front of the top deck. As it does so it passes through areas of Sheffield, with shops and other buses and trams. It passes by Cobnar Road where a new Atlantean bus comes into view. It continues along Chesterfield Road and under Healey Railway Bridge onto Heely Bottom. Passengers board opposite Lowfield School. It passes Highfield Library where it meets Abbeydale Road. It goes over the busy island at St Mary's Gate heading towards the city centre with a number 97 bus in front of it. Along the High Street there are building works at Chapel Walk. Ahead are the Telegraph buildings. To the right can be seen the Cartoon Cinema (becoming the Classic in 1962) on Fitzalan Square. Further on large new offices and shops are being built, covered in scaffolding, on the site of the blitzed Co-operative Stores. Then the tram is travelling along the Wicker towards the Wicker Arches, with the passenger shelter in the middle of the road. It carries along Ellesmere Road, passing Wicker Congregational Church (since demolished). In the distance can be seen the steeple of All Saint's Church (since demolished). It then goes up Burngreave Road, passing another large church, possibly Burngreave Road Wesleyan Chapel (since demolished), on the left on a corner. It then passes the old Pitsmoor Toll Bar, at the junction with Pitsmoor Road and continuing down Barnsley Road passing a tram coming in the other direction. It approaches Fir Vale passing a lorry piled high with sacks, and on to Page Hall Road, one of the city's early tram termini. Then it approaches Firth Park and over another traffic island passing a tram coming in the opposite direction. It is now at the end of the line where a photographer is taking pictures of one of the last trams on the route. The passengers disembark, and the destination changes as the trams returns to Woodseats. End credit South Yorkshire's Transport