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Cazoo World Snooker Championship 2024 20th April - 6 May

Snooker returns to Sheffield, which is the city's biggest sporting events, with 32 of snookers best players competing in a knockout style at the Crucible.

Find out more, here: Cazoo World Snooker Championship 2023 (welcometosheffield.co.uk)

Accessible via all city centre services.

Bank Holiday fun day at Sandall Park, 4 May - 6th May

This May Bank Holiday, Tuby's mini funfair and Stacey's entertainment will be providing music games, inflatables, and zorb balls.

Find out more here: Bank Holiday Fun | Visit Doncaster

Accessible via 384, 387 and 388

Sheffield International Market 2nd May - 6th May

Market Place Europe returns to the city centre hosting a range of food, drink, crafts, plants and goods from across the world to coincide with the World Snooker Championship

Find out more here: Sheffield International Market: Spring 2024 (welcometosheffield.co.uk)

Accessible via all city centre service.

FREE Graves Park Country Show, 6th May, 10:30am - 5pm

Head on down to Graves Park on Bank Holiday Monday for a great family day out. There'll be an artisan craft fayre, pet dog show, Owls and Birds of Prey, ferret racing, food stalls, fun fair and so much more.

Find out more here: Graves Park Country Show (welcometosheffield.co.uk)

Accessible via 24 and 75

Sheffield Castle Excavation FREE Experience, until 5th June

Grab a ticket to take part in the dig for one, two or three consecutive days. Opportunities to participate in the dig will take place from Monday 8th April to Wednesday 5th June. This is a unique opportunity to experience a real live archaeological site, and get your hands on some of Sheffield's hidden history.

Find out more here: Sheffield Castle Excavation Experience Opportunities (welcometosheffield.co.uk)

Accessible via City Centre services

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Service changes from 13 May

From 13 May we’re making some changes to our service to improve punctuality and connect isolated areas. Please read below for more information. For timetables, please click >> here.

Service	Route	Changes
120 / 120K	Fulwood – City – Crystal Peaks - Killamarsh	From May 13th, we will extend one bus per hour on service 120 to Killamarsh, which will be numbered 120k. From Crystal Peaks, this bus will operate via Hartland Ave in Sothall and will terminate at Norwood.
208	Sheffield - Whiston	Following customer feedback from our community days, we are adding an additional journey Monday – Friday on service 208 departing Sheffield at 1830
376	Doncaster – Clay Lane	Following customer feedback from our community days, we are adding an additional journey Monday – Friday on service 376 departing Doncaster at 0535
381 382	Doncaster - Armthorpe	We will be changing the 382 to operate at 0915 to make the departures more evenly spaced.
384 / 384a	Doncaster – Hatfield - Thorne	New timetables introduce to maintain co-ordination with services 387 and 388. Additional running time at certain times of the day to help buses run on time.
387 / 387a and 388	Doncaster – Thorne - Moorends	Following customer feedback, we are adding an additional journey Monday – Friday on service 387a from Moorends to Doncaster. We will also be adding additional running times to improve punctuality.
481 481a	McAuley School - Stainforth	The 1430 departure on service 481 will depart at 1422
798 798a	City – Totley Brook	The PM journey from Totley Brook will have amended terminating points in Sheffield City centre. The 798 will operate from Eyre Street via Paternoster Row to terminate at Sheffield Interchange. The 798a will terminate at Moor Markets, however any customer wishing to travel to Arundel Gate will be allowed to stay on the bus on the following journey.

May Bank Holiday services

See below our operating times for the Early May Bank Holiday across South Yorkshire.

Saturday 4th May	Normal service
Sunday 5th May	Sunday service
Monday 6th May	Sunday service

South Yorkshire changes from 7th April

We will be making some timetable changes and renumbering some of our services across South Yorkshire to improve punctuality, bringing more links and buses for the community. All Doncaster buses will start with the number 3 to differentiate our cross services and simplify them.

Please read below of all the changes. See information booklet here >> here

See timetables >> here

Sheffield/Rotherham changes

Service Number

Route

Changes

10/X10 - becomes X2

Sheffield – Rotherham – Maltby – Doncaster

Service 10 will be replaced by service X2 and run between Sheffield and Doncaster, serving Brightside, Meadowhall, Masbrough, Rotherham, Wickersley, Maltby, Braithwell, Edlington, Warmsworth and Balby. This is following customer feedback to reinstate a through service between Rotherham, Wickersley, Flanderwell, Bramley, Hellaby, Maltby, Braithwell, Edlington, Balby and Doncaster.

X1/X10 - X10 becomes X2

Sheffield – Rotherham – Maltby – Doncaster

X10 to be renumbered as X2. Between Sheffield and Rotherham, both services will run through Bright side and Masbrough (switching over routes with X1/X10) with changes to the times.

X78 - becomes X3

Sheffield – Rotherham – Doncaster

Service X78 will be re-numbered X3. Between Sheffield and Rotherham buses will run Attercliffe (switching over routes with X1/X10) with changes to the times.

Sheffield – Dinnington – Maltby

Service X5 will extend beyond Dinnington to run through to Maltby, serving Thurcroft, Bramley and Hellaby on an hourly basis. This will provide access to employment at Hellaby/Maltby and also provide a direct link to Sheffield from Thurcroft and Laughton Common.

Woodhouse - Sheffield-Lowedges

A new timetable will be introduced to improve coordination with service 25.

52a

Woodhouse - Hillsborough

Service 52A will be extended to serve Wisewood and Loxley following a demand in service. Buses will run more frequent at every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday daytimes. Between Hillsborough and Woodhouse, buses will remain every 15 minutes, but the times will be amended to provide better co-ordination with Stagecoach.

Hillsborough - Totley

Service 97 - 0540 from Totley cancelled, 0546 from Totley Brook runs 6 minutes earlier to maintain a similar arrival time in the city.

Rotherham - Treeton - Sheffield

A revised evening and Sunday timetable will be introduced with buses running a 2 hourly service instead of 130 minutes. Following customer requests, an additional departure will be added from AMRC to Rotherham at 16:25

115/ 116

Rotherham - East Herringthorpe/Ravenfield Common

Will see a minor change to the evening timetable, the frequency will remain the same.

139/142

Rotherham - Kimberworth Park

More buses will run on Sundays with an increased frequency of every hour.

208

Sheffield - Whiston

New times introduced to help with punctuality.

Doncaster changes:

Service Number	Route	Changes
14 - becomes service 314	Doncaster - Edlington	Service 14 will be re-numbered 314. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time.
15 - becomes service 315	Doncaster - Edlington	Service 15 will be re-numbered 315 and will operate between Doncaster and Edlington only. An improved frequency will be introduced with buses running up to every 12 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytime and every 30 minutes in the evening and on Sundays. Service 376 will be reintroduced to serve Clay Lane.
16 - becomes services 316	Doncaster - Balby	Service 16 will be re-numbered 316.
41/41a - becomes service 341	Doncaster - Scawsby	Service 41 will be re-numbered 341. Revised timetable to improve punctuality/coordination. Reintroduction of 41a (341a) journeys will give a combined hourly service.
50/50a/50b - becomes service 350, 351 and 352	Doncaster - Skellow	Services 50, 50A & 50B will be re-numbered to 350, 351 & 352 with a revised timetable to improve punctuality.
52 - becomes service 353	Doncaster - Red House direct	Service 52 will be re-numbered 353 to match the York Road services.
54 - becomes service 354	Doncaster - Woodlands	Service 54 will be re-numbered 354. The frequency will increase from every 30 minutes to every 20 minutes which will provide more buses to Scawthorpe and Woodlands.
55/56 - becomes 355 and 356	Doncaster - Rossington	Services 55 & 56 will be re-numbered 355 & 356. The frequency will increase from every 15 minutes to every 12 minutes which will provide more buses to iPort, Lakeside and Rossington (Please note, service i4 is unchanged).
57/57a - becomes 357 and 357a	Doncaster - Cantley- Finningley	Service 57 & 57A will be re-numbered 357 & 357A. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time, and following customer feedback will serve Warning Tongue Lane (Cantley) hourly. A teatime journey will extend to serve Epworth providing an evening journey to Westwood side, Haxey and Epwroth under contract to North Lincs Council. This will return in service to give an evening bus into Doncaster that arrives just after 8pm.
58 - becomes service 358	Doncaster - West Bessacarr	Service 58 will be re-numbered 358. Following customer feedback this service will now operate in both directions along Stoops Lane , buses towards the city will use the shelters previously provided. Buses will operate every 30-40 minutes.
59 - becomes service 359	Doncaster-Finningley	Service 59 will be re-numbered 359.
64 - becomes service 364 & 364a	Doncaster - Bentley - Arksey	Service 64 will be re-numbered 364 & 364A. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time.
65 - becomes service 365	Doncaster - Intake	Service 65 will be re-numbered 365. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time.
66	Intake - Bentley	Service 66 will be re-numbered 366 A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time.
71/72/73 - becomes 371, 372 & 373	Doncaster - Balby - Laekeside circular	Services 71, 72 & 73 will be re-numbered 371, 372 & 373. A new timetable will be introduced to help keep buses on time.
15 - becomes service 376	Doncaster - Clay Lane	A new service 376 will be introduced to replace service 15 between Doncaster and Clay Lane. Splitting this service will help keep buses on time because they will not get held up if Balby Road is congested.
81/82 - becomes service 381 & 382	Doncaster - Armthorpe	Services 81 & 82 will be re-numbered 381 & 382. A new timetable will be introduced with an increased frequency of every 12 minutes on Saturday to meet demand. To reflect falling passenger numbers on Sunday the frequency will be every 20 minutes.
84 - becomes service 384 & 384a	Doncaster - Thorne	Service 84 will be re-numbered 384 & 384A. Following customer feedback we are introducing a revised network of services that will serve more communities in the North East Doncaster area. During the day journeys will be extended from Barnby Dun to Stainforth and Hatfield/Westfield Green. A new timetable will be introduced with an increased frequency of every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday during the day. Service 384A will operate in the evenings and on Sundays. A revised timetable will be introduced to co-ordinate with service 387.
84a - becomes service 385	Barnby Dun-Moorlands Prison	Service 84A will be re-numbered 385
87/87a - becomes 387 & 387a	Doncaster – Thorne – Moorends	Service 87 will be re-numbered 387 & 387A. Service 87A will be replaced by service 388. Following customer feedback, we are introducing a revised network of services that will serve more communities in the North East Doncaster area. Service 388 will run between Doncaster and Thorne, providing a direct service to Hatfield Woodhouse to/from Doncaster. During the late afternoon buses will extend through to Moorends providing more links and better coordination. A new timetable will be introduced with buses running every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday during the day on service 387. Service 387A will operate in the evenings and on Sundays and coordinate with service 384A.
205 - becomes service 305	Doncaster - Tickhill	Service 205 will be re-numbered 305
456	Woodfield - Rossington - McAuley School - Doncaster	Morning journey to reflect the afternoon journey (455) currently provided. This has been as a result of public demand.

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