Meadowhall Interchange

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.

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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]

• M12 - Newcastle upon Tyne - London (Victoria)
• M20 - Inverness - London (Victoria)
• M20 - Newcastle upon Tyne - London (Victoria)

Other stations named Meadowhall

Other stations in the area have had the name Meadowhall.

• Wincobank and Meadowhall station of the Sheffield & Rotherham Railway and later Midland Railway
• Meadow Hall and Wincobank station of the South Yorkshire Railway, later M.S.& L.R. and Great Central Railway

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.

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