The Minitram would have been a driverless, automated network, involving the use of small cars each carrying around 15 passengers.
In Sheffield, the monorail would have connected the city’s shopping areas, operating on two-and-a-half kilometres of track with nine stations.
Thousands went to look at the blueprints in a public exhibition at Cole Brothers, which is now John Lewis – but the scheme was abandoned in 1975.
Parts of the Minitram route re-emerged in Sheffield’s modern tramway. However, these artist’s impressions and photos show how the revolutionary Government-backed monorail would have looked.
Thousands went to look at the blueprints in a public exhibition at Cole Brothers, which is now John Lewis – but the scheme was abandoned in 1975.