Hillsborough Interchange

Hillsborough Interchange is a bus and tram interchange in Hillsborough, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

Hillsborough Interchange
LocationHillsborough, South Yorkshire
Sheffield
Coordinates53.4017°N 1.4989°W / 53.4017; -1.4989
Operated byTravel South Yorkshire
Bus stands6
Bus operatorsFirst South Yorkshire, Sheffield Community Transport, Sheffield Supertram, Stagecoach Sheffield, TM Travel

It serves a variety of operators including First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Sheffield, Sheffield Supertram and Sheffield Community Transport. It is staffed between 07:00 and 19:00 Monday to Saturday[1] and has 6 bus stands.

History

The area currently occupied by the bus station used to be a Total Garage. Services that used to terminate at Malin Bridge and Forbes Road were diverted into the Interchange, and services that used to stop farther up the road by Hillsborough Barracks near the old Officer Mess building (now the headquarters for Sheffield Insulations Ltd) were also changed to stop at the Interchange.

Layout

Tram stop
Bus stands

Hillsborough Interchange is located near the Hillsborough Barracks.

The tram stop is located to the north of the interchange, and comprises two platforms. The platform which serves trams heading towards Malin Bridge and Middlewood is located in front of The Rawson Spring public house, with the platform serving trams towards Halfway and Meadowhall Interchange being located opposite.

The bus station is located adjacent to the travel centre. Stand H1 is adjacent to, but set back from, Langsett Road, with stands H2 and H3 line with this. Stands H4 and H5 have the same continuous shelter and run at 45 degrees from the travel centre to the cycle parking at rear of the bus station. Stand H6 is located opposite stands H4 and H5.

Service pattern

Hillsborough is served by buses of four operators. First South Yorkshire operate through services 52a, 81 and 82 through the Interchange, with services 97 and 98 using the bus station as the northern terminus of their respective routes.

Stagecoach Sheffield operates service 57 throughout the week, which continues through to Stocksbridge, whilst on evenings and Sundays, service 52 terminates at the interchange. Outside of these times, service 52 terminates at Crookes.

Sheffield Supertram operates two routes through Hillsborough. The blue route continues north to Malin Bridge, and south to Halfway via the city centre, whilst the yellow route runs between Middlewood in the north and Meadowhall in the south. Both services run every 12 minutes Monday to Saturday, with additional peak services running in the morning and evening peaks, and every 20 minutes on evenings and Sundays.

Preceding station   Sheffield Supertram   Following station
Bamforth Street
towards Meadowhall
  Yellow Line   Hillsborough Park
towards Middlewood
Bamforth Street
towards Halfway
  Blue Line   Malin Bridge
Terminus

References

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