South Yorkshire

A number of major changes are taking place from 3rd September. A summary of the major ones below:

Stagecoach
Service 265 (Barnsley to Sheffield) is being renumbered 2 and extended to the Moor Markets in Sheffield.
Service 57 (Sheffield to Stockbridge) is reduced from half hourly to hourly and will interwork with the 201 (Chapeltown to Stocksbridge). The Commerically Operated Sunday Daytime journeys are withdrawn, with a new tendered circular 57 service to be operated by TM Travel between Hillsborough and Oughtibridge, running via Middlewood outwards returning via Worrall and Wadsley as now.
The SL2 (Hillsborough to Stannington) is withdrawn

First
A huge recast in the Rotherham Area:
Certain journeys on the 22a/22c are extended to Sheffield via the Parkway (to save on dead running from Olive Grove)
The 70/71 (Rotherham to Meadowhall or Sheffield via Tinsley) are withdrawn and replaced by other revisions as followed:
The 72 (Sheffield to Rotherham via Waverley) is revised to run between Sheffield and Meadowhall via Parkway Industrial Estate, Handsworth, Waverley, Tinsley Park, Brinsworth and Tinsley.
The 73 (Rotherham to Treeton) is revised to run from Sheffield to Rotherham via Manor Top, Intake, Richmond, Handsworth, Waverley, Catcliffe, Treeton, Brinsworth and Canklow. Service 73a is retimed, and slightly replaced by new service 23 between Rotherham and Brinsworth every two hours.
The 74 (Sheffield to Harthill) is revised to run from Sheffield to Rotherham via Granville Road, Manor Top, Richmond, Handsworth, Waverley, Catcliffe, Treeton, Brinsworth and Canklow. The Treeton to Harthill section will be replaced by service X54.
NEW 74a (via the same route as the 74) replaces service 40

Service 66 (Rotherham to High Green) is revised as followed:
66 will run between Rotherham and Thorpe Hesley - also replacing the sole 67 journey - allowing smaller vehicles to be used on this and interworking service 34
Journeys between Rotherham and High Green will operate as service 136, which will also replaced one journey on the 138 hourly. The 136 will interwork at High Green with service 85 (see below)

In Sheffield:
Service 35 (Sheffield to Hillsborough via Meadowhall) is revised to operate from Sheffield to Meadowhall via Hillsborough, Wadsley Bridge, Fox Hill, Grenoside, Parson Cross, Sheffield Lane Top, Firth Park, Grimesthorpe and Brightside partly replacing some buses on service 85. The 85 will be hourly.
To replace it, the 43 (Meadowhall to Kimberworth Park) is extended to Sheffield and renumbered 36. Between Meadowhall and Blackburn most buses will run via Wincobank to serve Standon Road.
To serve Jenkin Road and Sandstone Road in Wincobank, certain journeys on the 3 (Meadowhall to Nether Edge) are diverted and will operate as the 3a.

The X5 is revised. During the daytime on Mondays to Saturdays buses will run every 30 minutes. journeys that run to/from Thurcroft will now operate from Monks Bridge Road via Outgang Lane, Hangsman Lane, School Road to Laughton Village serving Laughton Common. Buses will no longer serve Breck Lane or St. Johns Rd in Laughton Village.
The NEW X54 replaced the 74 between Sheffield and Harthill. Buses will run between Sheffield and Harthill via Catcliffe, Treeton, Aughton, Swallownest, Aston, Todwick and Kiveton Park.
The X55 is revised to run hourly during the daytime on Mondays to Saturdays. Some buses will also serve Todwick.
Services X5, X54 and X55 will provide a bus every 15 minutes between Sheffield and Swallownest/Aston. Certain X5 journeys will call into Wales High Schools

TM Travel
The Sunday journeys on the 85 between 0835 and 1735 from High Green will terminate at Hillsborough and interwork with the new 57. From Sheffield, there will be no 85s between 0820 and 1920.
Due to First's changes in Rotherham, TM Travel's journeys on the 138 are withdrawn.