Meadowhall Interchange

This article is about the modern station near to and serving Meadowhall Shopping Centre. For other uses, see Meadowhall station (disambiguation).

Meadowhall Interchange
First TransPennine Express 185149 at Meadowhall; June 2011
Location
Place	Sheffield
Local authority	City of Sheffield
Coordinates
Grid reference	SK390912
Operations
Station code	MHS
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	National Rail - 4 Sheffield Supertram - 2 Bus station - 16
DfT category	C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2007/08	1.221 million
2008/09	1.695 million
2009/10	1.812 million
2010/11	1.934 million
2011/12	2.057 million
2012/13	2.125 million
2013/14	2.063 million
2014/15	2.225 million
- Interchange	47,041
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Travel South Yorkshire
Zone	Sheffield & Rotherham
History
1990	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* 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 and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Meadowhall Interchange is a transport interchange in north-east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which consists of a railway station, tram stop and combined bus and coach station. The interchange was opened by British Rail under the Regional Railways sector in 1990 along with the adjacent Meadowhall Shopping Centre, which can be accessed by a covered suspension footbridge over the River Don. It is served by the majority of rail services heading north from Sheffield, a large range of bus and coach services and the Yellow, and at peak times Purple, Supertram lines.

Layout and services

Rail

The railway station has four platforms on two separate lines, which split just south of the station. Platforms 1 and 2 are located on the main line to Doncaster, Cleethorpes and Hull, while Platforms 3 and 4 are on both the Penistone Line and the Hallam Line.

Side Platform
⇒	Platform 4	- Northern services towards Barnsley, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield Kirkgate
⇐	Platform 3	- Northern services towards Sheffield, Chesterfield and Nottingham
Side Platform
Side Platform
⇒	Platform 2	- TransPennine and Northern services towards Rotherham, Doncaster and Cleethorpes
⇐	Platform 1	- TransPennine and Northern services towards Sheffield, Manchester and Manchester Airport
Side Platform

Trains per hour at peak times:

Northern Rail

• 6 to Sheffield
• 4 to Leeds
• 1 to Doncaster
• 1 to Huddersfield
• 1 to Hull
• 1 to Lincoln Central
• 1 to Nottingham
• 1 to Scarborough

First TransPennine Express

• 1 to Cleethorpes
• 1 to Manchester Airport

At other times of the day, there are also Northern Rail services that terminate at Adwick, Barnsley, Beverley, Bridlington, Goole, Manchester Piccadilly, Retford, Scunthorpe, Worksop and York.

High Speed 2

High Speed 2, upon opening, will serve Meadowhall on a high-level viaduct station parallel to the existing M1 motorway Tinsley Viaduct. As a result of the new viaduct, the platforms on the Sheffield to Hull Line (1 and 2) and Supertram platforms will be relocated. A new Supertram line from Dore to Meadowhall will be built to improve connectivity to HS2.

Tram

Sheffield Supertram platforms at the interchange

Meadowhall Interchange tram stop, stop code MEI, consists of two platforms in an island platform layout, one of only two island platforms on the Supertram network (the other being at Netherthorpe Road). Both of the platforms are terminating platforms. Meadowhall is the only Supertram terminus station with two platforms; this is because, at off-peak times, two services terminate here rather than one.

The two platforms at Meadowhall Interchange and numbered MEI1 and MEI2, with the prefix avoiding any confusion with the National Rail platforms. Meadowhall is the terminus for the Yellow Route and, at off-peak times only, the Purple Route. Services are not allocated a platform and simply use whichever is free when they arrive, however yellow route services generally use the platform which does not involve using the pointwork at the entry to the stop.

The current peak time frequency, in trams per hour, is as follows:

• 6 to Middlewood (Yellow Route)
• 2 to Herdings Park via Cathedral (Purple Route)Off-peak only

Future tram-train

From 2017, Meadowhall Interchange is scheduled to be the terminus for the Sheffield to Rotherham tram-train pilot, which will run on to Parkgate Shopping Centre in Rotherham via Rotherham Central railway station using dedicated vehicles.

Bus and coach

Bus interchange and footbridge

Meadowhall bus and coach station is located a short distance from Junction 34 of the M1 motorway, meaning it is more conveniently located for intercity coach services than Sheffield's main city centre Interchange. As a result, many coach services for Sheffield call at Meadowhall instead of the central Sheffield Interchange. To link passengers with Sheffield city centre, there are many bus services between Sheffield Interchange and Meadowhall Interchange, including the express X78 every ten minutes.

The bus station at Meadowhall Interchange is divided into four main rows - A row, closest to the shopping centre; B row; C row; and D row, closest to the rail platforms. The rows are divided into individual 'stands'; effectively bus stops integrated into the bus station. There are sixteen stands - A1 to A5; B1 and B2; C1 to C5; and D1 to D4.

Intercity coach services, operated by Megabus and National Express, usually depart from stands A1 and A2, the two stands closest to the shopping centre. Coach service destinations include London, Leeds, Newcastle, Scotland and various airports. All other scheduled bus services, to locations across South Yorkshire, have their own dedicated 'stand' which they will always depart from; there are passenger information screens throughout the bus station to help passengers find their stand.

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

References

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Sheffield		First TransPennine Express South TransPennine		Doncaster
		Northern Rail Hallam Line		Barnsley
				Chapeltown
		Northern Rail Leeds-Nottingham		Barnsley
		Northern Rail Penistone Line		Chapeltown
		Northern Rail Dearne Valley Line		Rotherham Central
		Northern Rail Sheffield-Hull Line
		Northern Rail Wakefield Line
Stagecoach Supertram
Terminus		Yellow Line		Meadowhall South/Tinsley towards Middlewood or Herdings Park
		Purple Line (Peak Hours Only)
	Future services
East Midlands Hub		TBA High Speed 2		Leeds