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Ride A Sheffield Supertram (Carson Home Video, 2002)

Picked up this VHS from Ebay recently for the b-roll, to discover that this transport nerd video of a tram trip on the Yellow Route (Middlewood - City Centre - Meadowhall) was produced and made, for some reason, by CARSON HOME VIDEO, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19114 USA at the dying days of the videotape age as DVD loomed.

As the liner notes read - ‘This is truly a ‘tram’ in the old sense of a street running tram line, or streetcar in North American parlance. While it’s new, much of it is in the street!!!!’

Madness.

Its 48 minute runtime takes us from out in Middlewood to town and beyond. The stuff of dreams. It’s proper slow telly (VHS) with no voiceover, no music, just some graphics.

That the USA transport nerd video market was astounded by the Sheffield tram system is bittersweet. One the one hand it is a great enterprise, on the other hand it’s half finished, and public transport round these parts is a shitshow. Fuck The Tories. Buses back in public control and all that.