South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is the passenger transport executive for South Yorkshire in England. It is supervised by the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority, which consists of representatives from the metropolitan boroughs of Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Barnsley.

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

Type	Passenger Transport Executive
Industry	Public transport
Founded	1 April 1974 (Local Government Act 1972)
Headquarters	Broad Street West Sheffield England
Area served	South Yorkshire
Parent	Sheffield City Region Combined Authority
Website	www.sypte.co.uk www.travelsouthyorkshire.com

SYPTE Daimler CVG6 in Sheffield in September 1976

History

Between 1974 and 1994 it ran virtually all bus services in the county. From 1986 until 1993, buses were operated by an arms length company, South Yorkshire Transport, until a management buyout created the bus operating company Mainline Group.[1] Shortly after Stagecoach purchased a 20% stake in the company, however this was sold in 1995 to FirstBus.

Operations

SYPTE is responsible for all the bus stops, shelters and bus interchanges in the county, along with park & ride sites. It provides comprehensive public transport information at stops, in the form of timetable leaflets, information on the web and a telephone enquiry service called Traveline.

SYPTE has a network of Information Centres providing information and ticketing. SYPTE administers the concessionary travel schemes for children and students, senior citizens and the mobility impaired and the countywide multi-modal ticket Travelmaster.

It is responsible for various public transport services in the county, particularly the Sheffield Supertram and various subsidised bus services.

Travel South Yorkshire

Logo for Travel South Yorkshire, in 2006.

The South Yorkshire public transport network, of which SYPTE is a key deliverer of passenger services, was re-branded as Travel South Yorkshire in 2006. Changes include the introduction of the YourNextBus scheme on all stops as well as LED departure boards on the towns most often run routes at certain stops.

Timetable information

Travel South Yorkshire provides timetable information for all bus and train services within South Yorkshire. Some leaflets are available from Interchanges.

Travel information centres

Sheffield Interchange

Travel South Yorkshire's interchanges at Sheffield, Arundel Gate in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster, Hillsborough and Dinnington provide information and advice about public transport in South Yorkshire. From these interchanges, information can be obtained and a range of multi-modal (TravelMaster) tickets can be bought from self-serve vending machines. Other travel passes which were previously available at 'Information Centre' desks at these interchanges are now only available from the Travel South Yorkshire website or over the phone from Traveline.

Multi-modal ticketing

Travel South Yorkshire sells a range of multi-modal tickets on behalf of the public transport operators of South Yorkshire. These are generally in the form of smart card tickets and are commercial products which do not receive a subsidy.

Bus

Bus interchanges

Travel South Yorkshire operate thirteen bus interchanges, many of which have been newly built or refurbished in the early 2000s. These bus interchanges provide a hub for local, regional and sometimes national bus and coach services, and in some locations also provide an interchange facility onto light rail and heavy rail services.

• Adwick Interchange
• Arundel Gate Interchange ( Castle Square, 150m)
• Barnsley Interchange
• Crystal Peaks bus station
• Dinnington Interchange
• Doncaster Frenchgate Interchange
• Grimethorpe Interchange
• Hillsborough Interchange
• Manor Top Interchange
• Meadowhall Interchange
• Mexborough Interchange ( Mexborough, 300m)
• Rotherham Interchange ( Rotherham Central, 200m)
• Sheffield Interchange ( Sheffield, 150m)

Trolleybus

In 1985, the SYPTE purchased an Alexander RH bodied Dennis Dominator trolleybus with a view to reintroducing a trolleybus network. A one mile section on Sandall Beat Road alongside Doncaster Racecourse was wired.[2] However with deregulation in 1986, the project was shelved.

Rail

Routes

Stations in italics are located outside of the South Yorkshire PTE area.

Hallam Line	Wakefield Line	Dearne Valley Line	Penistone Line	Sheffield–Leeds via Castleford Line
Operators: Northern, East Midlands Railway Leeds Wakefield Kirkgate Barnsley Interchange Meadowhall Interchange Sheffield Dronfield Chesterfield Alfreton Langley Mill Ilkeston Nottingham	Operators: Northern, CrossCountry Sheffield Meadowhall Interchange Rotherham Central Swinton Bolton-upon-Dearne Goldthorpe Thurnscoe Moorthorpe ^[A] Fitzwilliam Sandal and Agbrigg Wakefield Westgate Outwood Leeds	Operators: Northern Sheffield Meadowhall Interchange Rotherham Central Swinton Moorthorpe ^[A] Pontefract Baghill Sherburn-in-Elmet Church Fenton Ulleskelf York	Operators: Northern Sheffield Meadowhall Interchange Chapeltown Elsecar Wombwell Barnsley Interchange Dodworth Silkstone Common Penistone Denby Dale ^[A] Shepley Stocksmoor Brockholes Honley Berry Brow Lockwood Huddersfield	Operators: Northern Sheffield Meadowhall Interchange Chapeltown Elsecar Wombwell Barnsley Interchange Darton Wakefield Kirkgate Normanton Castleford Woodlesford Leeds

Hope Valley Line	Sheffield–Hull Line	Adwick–Lincoln Line	Doncaster–Leeds Line	Doncaster–Scunthorpe Line	Sheffield–Rotherham tram-train
Operators: Northern, East Midlands Railway, TransPennine Express Sheffield Dore and Totley Grindleford Hathersage Bamford Hope Edale Chinley New Mills Central Marple Romiley Manchester Piccadilly	Operators: Northern, CrossCountry, TransPennine Express Sheffield Meadowhall Interchange Rotherham Central Swinton Mexborough Conisbrough Doncaster Kirk Sandall Hatfield and Stainforth Thorne North Goole Saltmarshe Gilberdyke Brough Ferriby Hessle Hull Paragon Interchange	Operators: Northern, CrossCountry, TransPennine Express Adwick Bentley Doncaster Conisbrough Mexborough Swinton Rotherham Central Meadowhall Interchange Sheffield Darnall Woodhouse Kiveton Bridge Kiveton Park Shireoaks Worksop Retford Gainsborough Lea Road Saxilby Lincoln Central	Operators: Northern, Grand Central, London North Eastern Railway Doncaster Bentley Adwick South Elmsall ^[A] Fitzwilliam Sandal and Agbrigg Wakefield Westgate Outwood Leeds	Operators: Northern, TransPennine Express Doncaster Kirk Sandall Hatfield and Stainforth Thorne South Crowle Althorpe Scunthorpe	Operators: Sheffield Supertram Cathedral Castle Square Fitzalan Square Ponds Forge Hyde Park Cricket Inn Road Nunnery Square Park & Ride Woodbourn Road Attercliffe Arena for Olympic Legacy Park Valley Centertainment Carbrook for IKEA Tinsley Meadowhall South Rotherham Central Rotherham Parkgate

Notes:

^A – Station is located in West Yorkshire, but SYPTE multi-modal TravelMaster tickets are valid to and from these railway stations.

Opened and re-opened stations

Eleven new stations were opened by SYPTE between 1983 and 1993. Many of these were re-opened former stations previously closed in the 1960s under the Beeching cuts, but not all; Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe were entirely new stations, Rotherham Central was built to replace the closing Rotherham Masborough which was further away from Rotherham town centre, and Meadowhall Interchange was built to serve the new Meadowhall Shopping Centre. Rotherham Parkgate, the terminus of the Sheffield Supertram tram-train pilot scheme from Sheffield city centre, opened in October 2018.

• 1983 – Silkstone Common
• 1984 – Chapeltown (station re-sited)
• 1987 – Rotherham Central
• 1988 – Goldthorpe; Thurnscoe
• 1989 – Dodworth
• 1990 – Meadowhall Interchange; Swinton
• 1991 – Kirk Sandall
• 1992 – Bentley
• 1993 – Adwick
• 2018 – Rotherham Parkgate

Awards

National Transport Awards

• Integrated Transport Authority of the Year (2013).[3]
• Technology Award for the GetThereSooner project.
• Rail Station of the Year.
• Joe Clarke Passenger Transport Authority of the Year.

Institution of Highways and Transportation Awards

• IHT/Mouchel Parkman Accessibility Award for Sheffield Station.

Yorkshire Renaissance Awards

• Rail Project Award for Sheffield Station.

UK Bus Awards

• Local Authority Bus Project of the Year Award for Sheffield Bus Partnership (2013).
• Making Buses a Better Choice Award for Sheffield Bus Partnership (2013).

Secure Stations Scheme

• Crime Prevention charity Crime Concern’s Award for Meadowhall Interchange, Swinton and Adwick.

TravelWise Awards

• Best Travel Awareness Event Award for Carbon Quids campaign.[4]

Institution of Civil Engineers’ Yorkshire & Humber Awards

• Award for Excellence for Barnsley Interchange.

Light Rail Awards

• Project of the Year Award for the £3m Supertram revamp.

Rail Business Awards

• Station Excellence Award for Rotherham Central station.

Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards

• Most Innovative Service Delivery Model Award for Sheffield Bus Partnership.

References

1. South Yorkshire Transport Authority Sells Off Bus Company to Staff Local Government Chronicle 18 November 1993
2. Trolleybus starts days at races Commercial Motor 20 July 1985
3. "Transport Times Events | News/Blog | NATIONAL TRANSPORT AWARDS 2013 - Winners Announced". www.transporttimes.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
4. Industry, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and. "Sheffield city council pull out of carbon saving plan". www.scci.org.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.

External links

• Media related to South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive at Wikimedia Commons
• South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
• Travel South Yorkshire Public transport information for South Yorkshire
• South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority
• Passenger Transport Executive Group