Plans for New Neighbourhood by Sheffield Station

[stillf]

With the new bridge that is planned to be built I wonder if Network Rail will get it's long desired plan to close off the bridge in the station with ticket barriers as, if I remember correctly, one of the reasons for previous refusals to allow this was the lack of alternative routes from Park Hill to the city centre for pedestrians

[SheffieldForum]

42 minutes ago, stillf said:

With the new bridge that is planned to be built I wonder if Network Rail will get it's long desired plan to close off the bridge in the station with ticket barriers as, if I remember correctly, one of the reasons for previous refusals to allow this was the lack of alternative routes from Park Hill to the city centre for pedestrians

Yes.

 

This has always been the plan.

 

The current permissive route through the station is only there because the actual pedestrian bridge that bypasses going through the station is unsafe and closed off.

 

It has long been a promise to replace the current permissive route with a new station bypassing bridge.

[RollingJ]

9 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said:

It has long been a promise to replace the current permissive route with a new station bypassing bridge.

How long? And why have they not done something about it?

[SheffieldForum]

21 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

How long? And why have they not done something about it?

I think the pedestrian bridge was closed in the late-80s/early-90s?

 

So, that long.

 

Funding has long been an issue, as has the fact that you’d have to literally close parts of the station for some time to remove the old bridge and build a new one, so there wasn’t any impetus to do that.

 

Network Rail and the train operators have always wanted to put ticket barriers in the station, but can’t do so until alternative pedestrian routes are sorted.

 

This is the first serious attempt at getting the funding, but the closing parts of the station element might remain (it’ll be interesting to see how they overcome that, but hopefully technology and methods — and will — has evolved since the 90s)

[SheffieldForum]

This is the old pedestrian bridge, by the way — a little south of the main station entrance. It is still there but in a state of severe disrepair and fenced off (the photo was taken through a gap in the fence):

 

[RollingJ]

1 minute ago, SheffieldForum said:

This is the old pedestrian bridge, by the way — a little south of the main station entrance. It is still there but in a state of severe disrepair and fenced off (the photo was taken through a gap in the fence):

 

I thought that was the bridge you were talking about, but it is one I don't think I've ever used - I'm going down there, maybe tomorrow/Monday, so I'll have a look.

[horribleblob]

1 hour ago, SheffieldForum said:

I think the pedestrian bridge was closed in the late-80s/early-90s?

 

So, that long.

Yes, early 90s I recall. It used to be on my main walking route into the city centre. The city end of it was particularly disgusting, being used as a toilet – and I don’t just mean as a urinal. Also, as it wasn’t lit, some people would avoid it at night, detouring via Suffolk Road and Shrewsbury Road.

[HeHasRisen]

I've used that pedestrian bridge as recently as a few years ago, it must have reopened for a while.

[horribleblob]

26 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

I've used that pedestrian bridge as recently as a few years ago, it must have reopened for a while.

I could well be wrong about the time of its final closure. When I last used the bridge it certainly wasn't painted that bright green.

Edited December 13, 2024 by horribleblob

[Andy_terrier]

I used it a couple of years ago before they reboarded it up.  The floor in places was rotten and "spongy" so no surprise they closed it off