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I agree it is a handy interchange for National Express but when the current bus station was built there was a nice warm waiting room next to the coach stops. There was also downstairs toilets there and a café next to them. All these are long gone now. These days if you are waiting for National Express and need to use the toilet you have to go (with your luggage) all the way up to the toilets near WH Smith. Then you have to somehow get your luggage through the toilet barrier and pay 20p for the privilege of it.

Regarding the bus station being near the train station, its a pity that the old subway under Sheaf Street wasn't nearer the bus station and kept open. At least that way it would be a fully covered, traffic and weather-free link between the two.

Boginspro, you have been good enough just by posting on Sheffield History and on here! Sounds promising now Darra. Thanks for the help there.

I often experience this at lunchtimes at Crystal Peaks. Worst are the 'sleepwalkers' who still haven't woken up but they are strolling around not looking where they are going.

Before 7:30am - if you are catching an early coach or if you arrive back on a Sunday say 5pm.

I agree, its too far out of the main shopping areas. Sheffield interchange is actually an embarrassment for the city with few facilities, toilets which aren't clean enough sometimes and you pay to go in, information desk doesn't open all day etc. WH Smith only opens a few hours each day. The best bus station by far around here is Doncaster. It is connected to the train station properly and the Frenchgate shopping centre, clean toilets and waiting areas. It was also the last of the 4 South Yorkshire stations to charge for the toilets.

I keep getting reminder emails to validate my email address but no further forward. It sounds like Im half there though as I wouldn't keep getting reminder emails.

Not a bad idea actually. Might work well if operated by Stagecoach to Gleadless for the tram as Megariders (tram&bus) can be used. Also, it would give Coal Aston their link to Crystal Peaks back since the 253 was withdrawn. Didn't there used to be minibus routes in Coal Aston to Dronfield Station some years ago? C1/D1/2 or something similar?

Biggest part now is waiting for the 'yes you have been approved' email! I have just read your post on Sheffield History about the site problems with joining actually. I think I found the site a good few years ago but never got around to joining. Didn't you have to be a member at first before you could view the photos?

Moore and Wright ended up as part of/linked to Bowers Metrology I think. Regarding the Neill Tools group, Eclipse Magnetics are still around in Sheffield with Neill Tools. I'm sure anyone will correct me if I'm wrong about the above details!

It still doesn't work as I have just tried it as of 1:35pm 7/3/2016. ---------- Post added 07-03-2016 at 21:06 ---------- Update... Ive just tried logging into Sheffield History via Facebook and I'm a step further. Received the validation email now and clicked on the verify button. Then I got the message that I must wait to be approved.

Those were the days! Does anyone else remember the flecked trousers from the 80s? Wish they would come back in the shops as I loved them.

We had these years ago and back then there was no requirement for wheelchairs and pushchair/buggy spaces. However, it still reduced the seating capacity quite a lot though. I agree with Andy below as I wasn't a fan of them either. Anything to speed up boarding buses would be welcome by me so I wouldn't mind the London system. Even the ticket machines are slower these days on the buses. I still prefer the old Wayfarer ticket machines.

From my own experience, here are possible problem areas: High frequency routes. Once a bus gets delayed then the next one soon catches up and so the bunching up starts. Too many buses on the same route when other areas of Sheffield need more buses. City centre bus stops and routes. Given the large amount of buses using the West Street, Leopold Street, Pinstone Street, Arundel Gate area to get out of the city, this means more delays are likely due to the number of buses all in the same areas. Haymarket is even worse as there are also buses coming up from the Wicker area e.g the X78.

I knew the 'monitor performance' line would be in the Facebook statement somewhere! Its ok monitoring performance but this doesn't solve the problems with delayed/missing/regular bunching up of buses etc.

Maybe its time to go back to half-fare passes for pensioners like it used to be in Derbyshire or reduce the free pass period by a good few hours. What was the pensioners fares in Sheffield before the free passes came in? To think when I was a lad and it was 5p from Halfway to Sheffield. Cheap fares, limited stop routes...that's when Sheffield had a real bus service.

Hmmm buses on time...that will be a first for Sheffield.

I totally agree with you there.

Even with cuts on information and bus stops, Sheffield is far in front of Derbyshire. For example, the only stops in Eckington which have timetables are the bus station and possibly Birkhill Estate yet once you get into Halfway and Westfield, every stop (I think!) shows the times of buses. Chesterfield Coach Station enquiry office doesn't even open on a Sunday yet although Sheffield Interchange enquiries are closed on Sundays, at least there are staff around to assist with enquiries etc.

As most of the contracted services listed are operated by Stagecoach Chesterfield depot and TM Travel, they should look at their current commercial timetables for reductions on over-frequent routes. If frequencies were reduced on services that can handle fewer buses then these buses and drivers could be used for commercial operation of the contracted services.

Sort of substation-related but has anyone else noticed the substations that are part of big buildings in the city centre? For example, when you go down King Street (behind Primark) there is a substation-type door marked 'C & A Modes'. Those of us on here who are old enough to remember that C&A were there long before Primark!

I think the one near the small Tesco is Mad Harry's. Not sure if it's still there though as not been around that area for a while.

I was thinking about this club the other day and wondered how much info there was online about it! Couldn't remember it being called Eclipse though. The club was still there in the summer of 1994 but I can't remember if it looked still in use. As the next few years went on the club closed and was demolished to make way for the School Trends building - late 1990's? I seem to think the club was near the corner of the plot where the tarmac path runs down the 2 sides of the School Trends car park, near the footbridge over Owlthorpe Greenway. I also seem to remember that the club looked a bit portakabin/pre-fabish. Seemed a strange location to build a club-type place as back in the late 1980's there was only the John Barnett Youth Club on Carley Drive apart from the Eclipse club in the corner. Perhaps it was a last-minute addition to the Westfield township project but was the only bit of land available? Anyone else know any more or have any photos?

Bet those bottles would be collectable now - full or empty. Why was the strength reduced from over 10% to the current (7.5%?)?

I could never manage more than 2!