(25 Jan 2019, 11:23 am)Kuyoyo wrote South Yorkshire General
Rotherham Interchange will reopen on Sunday 3rd March following its 11 month refurbishment. This co-insides with the changes to Rotherham's town network the same day, which more-or-less follows exactly what was consulted on back in the autumn.
Some minor changes will take place, including:
- Stagecoach operated Monday to Friday only 107 (Rotherham to Swinton via Parkgate and Rawmarsh) diverted to serve Greasborough and Nether Haugh rather than Parkgate as a partly replacement for the 227 (Rotherham to Hoyland via Greasborough and Wentworth).
- First's replacement for the 227, the 136 (Hoyland to Rothertham via Thorpe Hesley) will be slightly amended - the first inbound departure from Hoyland at 0636 will run as a 236 via the 227 route
- Powells' service 87 (Maltby to Meadowhall/Sheffield) is withdrawn. In its place, Powells are re-introduting daytime journeys on the X7 (Sheffield to Maltby) at a half-hourly frequency
- An additional 'extra' trip is being added to Stagecoach's X17 - this time it's one on the northern section, with a new peak time journey added departing Barnsley at 1630, returning from Sheffield at 1740 (likely to be a Barnsley operated turn). Additionally, the Barnsley-bound stand in Sheffield Interchange changes to Stand C2 for all journeys from March (currently only the Saturday 'extra' journeys use C2, the main service uses C1).
- The X78 appears to be staying at every 15 minutes rather than the planned increase to every 12 minutes.
Timetables for these have now appeared on the PTE website
https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/servicechanges/
A further change being introduced on 6th April sees the Stagecoach-operated 737 (Sheffield to Doncaster Sheffield Airport) replaced by new service X6, which will operate half hourly between Sheffield and Wickersley (following broadly the same route as the 737 except diverting off Sheffield Parkway to serve the Waverley area), continuing hourly to the Airport via iPort. Reports suggest that this will be operated by Barnsley depot (rather than Rawmarsh, who currently operate the 737, or either Sheffield depot) using the 4 Scania E300s which recently returned to the depot from Sheffield Holbrook.