Sheffield Station Waiting Rooms

[Haydn1971]

Were there any proposals in the EMR franchise to upgrade the waiting rooms at Sheffield Station, currently sat freezing my nuts off, doors permanently open, steel seats, smell of diesel from a 222 idling in platform 9, it’s an awful environment

 

[CaptainHaddock]

If there's a 222 idling in platform 9 I'd be quite concerned - Sheffield only has 8 platforms!

 

[ohgoditsjames]

If there's a 222 idling in platform 9 I'd be quite concerned - Sheffield only has 8 platforms!

Technically it has 9 platforms but numerically it only goes up to 8

 

[Iskra]

Sheffield Tap is the best waiting room.

Other than that establishment and the ticket office, the place is unfit for purpose as a major station.

 

[Skymonster]

Sheffield Tap is the best waiting room.

Not sure the Tap is the most appropriate place at 08:13

 

[Iskra]

Not sure the Tap is the most appropriate place at 08:13

Fair point

 

[Trainfan2019]

Sheffield waiting rooms have been cold for years. I complained in EMT days but can't remember the outcome.

I've found the waiting room on platform 6/8 Does usually have heating on.

 

[cheese]

Not sure the Tap is the most appropriate place at 08:13

I've been in the Tap early before and had a soft drink while waiting for a train. Better than awful train station coffee

 

[Dr Hoo]

Sheffield waiting rooms have been cold for years. I complained in EMT days but can't remember the outcome.

I've found the waiting room on platform 6/8 Does usually have heating on.

The heating is only of the ‘door curtain’ variety. The Platform 8 side sliding door has tended to stick open for weeks and the Platform 6 side door is usually open because of people walking past the sensor along the platform.
The pigeons are the only winners as the winter wind whips through.

 

[Killingworth]

Funny thing, or not, all the stations on the Hope Valley line have Friend of groups. Does any city centre station ever form such a thing? They'd be lobbying for better if they were in place. Hope Valley users of Sheffield Platform 2C (the 9th Platform) feel it is particularly unloved, out in the open between the ends of Platforms 2 and 5. At least the track was relaid and the decrepid buffer stops were refurbished over Christmas.

 

[Killingworth]

Were there any proposals in the EMR franchise to upgrade the waiting rooms at Sheffield Station, currently sat freezing my nuts off, doors permanently open, steel seats, smell of diesel from a 222 idling in platform 9, it’s an awful environment

Sheffield redevelopment and remodelling is on hold pending decisions on HS2, and had been previously for MML electrification. EMR and all the other TOCs must be ..... very frustrated at the delays, not least their inability to be able to gate the operating platforms to prevent revenue from escaping. It may be another 10-20 years yet!

 

[cheese]

Sheffield redevelopment and remodelling is on hold pending decisions on HS2, and had been previously for MML electrification. EMR and all the other TOCs must be ..... very frustrated at the delays, not least their inability to be able to gate the operating platforms to prevent revenue from escaping. It may be another 10-20 years yet!

"There will never be ticket gates at Sheffield" (not least because it's effectively a public route between town and the tram stop/Park Hill)

 

[Killingworth]

"There will never be ticket gates at Sheffield" (not least because it's effectively a public route between town and the tram stop/Park Hill)

Quite, that's why I said 10-20 years, not never, but it will happen, and a segregated bridge will cross the station for non rail users.

 

[cheese]

That sounds like the best solution.

 

[Starmill]

Sheffield did get a new doorway onto platform 1 not long ago, I think. It has also had recently refurbished toilets. Some other cosmetic work has been done here and there by the looks of it. The indoor waiting areas are quite small, but it sounds primarily like fixing a door is the main issue here. A covered walkway connecting the main station and the shelter by platform 2A would improve things.

 

[xotGD]

Waiting rooms? Luxury! At Leeds they've just ripped out the waiting room on P16.

These South Yorkshire softies don't know they're born!

 

[yorksrob]

I'm sure that some of those solid looking Victorian platform buildings must have the odd fireplace that could be unblocked.

 

[Roose]

Good idea. Could burn bits of Pacers.

EDIT: Oh, no. Perhaps not yet in Sheffield.