While trying to find the telephone details for Sheffield Interchange (which I haven't yet found so if you know them - please post them :thumbsup: ) I found this page.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/caroline.mathews/sheffjuly.htm

Aint it strange the things you can find when you google for something.

Obviously a bus person, I found it interesting to see this page on the web.

Anyone else found anything Sheffield Related when googling for something else?

Taken from "Up My Street":

Sheffield (9.3 miles) Map
Sheffield Travel Interchange,
S1 2BD
Opening Hours:
0800 - 1730 Mon - Sat
1000-17.15 Sun
Facilities:
Luggage Assistance
Lounge/Seating Area
Public Telephones
Restaurant 0700-1800
Left Luggage
Connection Assistance
Opening Hours: 0800 - 1730 Mon - Sat
1000-17.15 Sun

08705 808080

Cheers alex but that telephone number sends me through to National Express mate :(

Found this:

http://www.sypte.co.uk/welcome.html

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, P O Box 801, Exchange Street, Sheffield S2 5YT.

Tel: 0114 276 7575
enquiries@sypte.co.uk


Is that the same place?

Also - Traveline team Tel: 01709 515151 (local rate call from within South Yorkshire)

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
Sheffield Interchange
0114 272 2878 (7am - 10pm)

Cheers folks :thumbsup:

Not at all, I always like to help fellow forummers. :)

Alex

Originally posted by designbunny traveline is based in the interchange in sheffield,but has the rotherham code because it is cable,if you contact them they wll be able to transfer your call to whoever you want to speak to in the bus station.
Found this:

http://www.sypte.co.uk/welcome.html

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, P O Box 801, Exchange Street, Sheffield S2 5YT.

Tel: 0114 276 7575
enquiries@sypte.co.uk


Is that the same place?

Also - Traveline team Tel: 01709 515151 (local rate call from within South Yorkshire)

The reason why travelline has a Rotherham, number is that when it was originally set up Rotherham could be reached as a 'local' call rate from anywhere in S. Yorkshire. Sheffield couldn't.

I was working with the IT people at SYPTE at the time and the comms guy had great fun getting that sorted out!

Also, best to go through the main switch - Travelline is configured as a travel information helpline and they're not best positioned for transferring calls.

Joe

Originally posted by JoePritchard
The reason why travelline has a Rotherham, number is that when it was originally set up Rotherham could be reached as a 'local' call rate from anywhere in S. Yorkshire. Sheffield couldn't.

I was working with the IT people at SYPTE at the time and the comms guy had great fun getting that sorted out!

Also, best to go through the main switch - Travelline is configured as a travel information helpline and they're not best positioned for transferring calls.

Joe

I always thought that the majority of the county of South Yorkshire was 0114...
...If 0114 2xxxxxxxx is Sheffield, where is 0114 3 or 0114 4 etc.

Like with us here: 01322 3 is my area, 01322 4 is Belvedere; etc, etc.

Rather interestingly, most of South Yorkshire has the "S" prefixed postode...

I'll get my coat:D :rolleyes:

Alex

Originally posted by JoePritchard
Sheffield couldn't.
Joe

Wasn't that because alot of the city of Sheffield was in the county of Derbyshire?

Alex

Originally posted by JoePritchard
The reason why travelline has a Rotherham, number is that when it was originally set up Rotherham could be reached as a 'local' call rate from anywhere in S. Yorkshire. Sheffield couldn't.

I was working with the IT people at SYPTE at the time and the comms guy had great fun getting that sorted out!

Also, best to go through the main switch - Travelline is configured as a travel information helpline and they're not best positioned for transferring calls.

Joe

I was working at Yorkshire Cable at the time Joe and was involved in setting that up. We weren't allowed to sell what were then 0345 numbers for local rate calls so by setting up 01709 all of South Yorkshire would be charged local rate. If a Sheffield number had been set up Doncaster would have been charged national rate. I remember the negotiations and the to-ing and fro-ing well!

The original poster asked if anyone had found a Sheffield related websiite whilst googling. I was googling for a ski centre in Snowdonia and came across a link to a host of photos of milestones. I got hooked. Sheffield isn't mentioned by name, but you can find some interesting Sheffield milestone photos by looking up Yorkshire under the list of counties.

My computer skills don't stretch to posting a website address, but if you google milestonesweb - you will find this fascinating website.

Originally posted by amhudson119
I always thought that the majority of the county of South Yorkshire was 0114...
...If 0114 2xxxxxxxx is Sheffield, where is 0114 3 or 0114 4 etc.
No, 0114 is Sheffield, not 0114 2. It just so happens that so far they haven't started issuing numbers starting 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 yet.

Hey, tell me about it. I'm from High Point, North Carolina, USA, and I "googled" to see if I could find "humane ways" to deter cats from catching birds...and I get a link to this forum, and I'm not sure where I am now...lol...somewhere in the UK, lol. Interesting people and topics though, "yawl".

Originally posted by chippychat
...and I get a link to this forum, and I'm not sure where I am now...lol...somewhere in the UK, lol. Interesting people and topics though, "yawl".

*welcome* to the Sheffield Forum ... you ARE in the UK ... in the North ... an area called Yorkshire ... This is Sheffield, South Yorkshire. the Steel City ... and we're a chatty, opinionated lot as you can see :D ... I think we're twinned with Pittsburgh, USA ...

come back soon!