Meadowhall Interchange

Meadowhall Interchange
First TransPennine Express 185 149 at Meadowhall; June 2011
Location
Place Sheffield
Local authority City of Sheffield
Grid reference SK390912
Operations
Station code MHS
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms National Rail - 4
Sheffield Supertram - 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *   1.289 million
2005/06 * 1.305 million
2006/07 * 1.233 million
2007/08 * 1.221 million
2008/09 * 1.695 million
2009/10 * 1.812 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Travel South Yorkshire
Zone Sheffield & Rotherham
History
1990 Opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Meadowhall Interchange from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Meadowhall Interchange to the north of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England is a railway station on the Midland Main Line, a Sheffield Supertram stop, and bus station. It is close to junction 34 on the M1, and serves Meadowhall Shopping Centre. There is direct access to the shopping centre via a covered footbridge over the River Don.

The railway station has four platforms: Platforms 3 and 4 for the Penistone and Hallam Lines, from Sheffield to Huddersfield and Leeds respectively via Barnsley, and platforms 1 and 2 for the lines towards Rotherham Central and Doncaster:

  1. to Sheffield, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport and Lincoln Central
  2. to Doncaster, Leeds via Wakefield Westgate, Cleethorpes, Scunthorpe, York, Goole, Hull, Bridlington and Scarborough
  3. to Sheffield, Chesterfield and Nottingham;
  4. to Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield Kirkgate and Barnsley.

The station is in the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving. Meadowhall is in the same zone as Sheffield station.

The bus station is served by buses from all over South Yorkshire and beyond.

The Supertram stop is the north eastern terminus of the yellow route, and is served by trams from the city centre, Middlewood, and Herdings Park (limited purple route service).

The station allows onward commuting to Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster with free parking.

The station is covered by a Ditra Systems Public Address System (PA), voiced by Phil Sayer.

Contents

Layout

Side Platform
Platform 4 Northern towards Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield Kirkgate and Barnsley
Platform 3 Northern towards Chesterfield, Sheffield and Nottingham
Side Platform
Side Platform
Platform 2 TP/Northern towards Cleethorpes
Platform 1 TP/Northern towards Manchester Airport
Side Platform

Sheffield Supertram services

Meadowhall is the eastern terminus of the yellow route on the Sheffield Supertram. During the daytime trams operate to Sheffield city centre and Hillsborough with some additional services on the purple route to Herdings Park via the city centre.

Bus and coach services

Coach services operated by National Express Coaches and Megabus serve the bus station, offering services to destinations including London, Leeds, Newcastle, and various airports. Megabus use Stand M1 at the interchange for the following routes:[1]

Other stations named Meadowhall

Other stations in the area have had the name Meadowhall.

Services

TransPennine Express services between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport call hourly each way, as do the Sheffield to Hull and Nottingham to Leeds trains operated by Northern Rail. There is an additional Sheffield to Leeds via Barnsley fast service each way every hour during the day on weekdays and Saturdays. The station used to be served a single train to and from London St Pancras each weekday, but this was withdrawn in September 2008.

Northern also provide a half-hourly local service to Doncaster (and beyond) via Rotherham Central and hourly local links with Leeds via Barnsley and via Wakefield Westgate, to Huddersfield and to Lincoln Central via Sheffield and Retford. There are also two daily trains to York via Moorthorpe. These all combine to provide a frequent service to Sheffield (up to eight trains per hour for much of the day), which is further augmented by the Yellow line tram route and First South Yorkshire bus service X78.

Most of the listed routes run every two hours on Sundays, although there is a more frequent service to Doncaster (hourly local and half-hourly express), Cleethorpes and Hull (both hourly) and only a limited service to and from Lincoln. There are also two trains to York - one in the afternoon and a second in the evening.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
First TransPennine Express
Northern Rail
Northern Rail
Leeds-Nottingham
Northern Rail
Northern Rail
Northern Rail
Northern Rail
Sheffield Supertram
Terminus   Yellow Line   Meadowhall South/Tinsley
towards Middlewood or Herdings Park
  Purple Line (peak service)  

References

  1. ^ "National Express Coach Timetables for Sheffield". Travel Search/National Express Coaches. Carl Berry. March 2009. http://www.carlberry.co.uk/rfnlistr.asp?L1=SHE014&op=C. Retrieved 2009-08-016.