Bill Purdue’s traffic news - 4th October 2013

If you are planning a train trip in the near future, you might like to know that East Midlands Trains (who operate the Robin Hood Line and run trains to London from Nottingham) are now offering self print e-tickets on some routes from Nottingham. They are only available on Advance tickets between Nottingham and Liverpool Lime Street, Luton Airport Parkway, Manchester Piccadilly, Norwich, Peterborough, Sheffield and London St. Pancras International.
By News Reporter
Published 4th Oct 2013, 10:10 BST

If you’d like an all-inclusive day out in London on a Saturday, try the EM Trains London Day Out Ticket. This includes first class day return, breakfast (on selected Saturday morning trains), a one-day travelcard for the underground & 24 hour parking. Prices start at £70.

Sheffield for shopping and more…

Sheffield city centre is a great place for shopping. There also two theatres, a concert hall, museums, the Winter Gardens, the Sheffield Botanical Garden and several parks all in or within easy reach of the city centre. It’s easy to get there by bus, train or by park and ride.

Here are the three best ways from Mansfield and Sutton

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By car and tram: drive to Halfway park and ride tram terminus (about 40-45 mins from either Mansfield or Sutton), then take the blue route Supertram (every 10 mins) to the city centre. Car park charges apply: purchase your car park ticket before boarding the tram. Journey time into the city is about 35 mins. Concessionary travel passes from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire are accepted on the Supertram.

By bus: Service 53 (Stagecoach) Mansfield to Bolsover and Sheffield. Journey time is about 1hr 35 mins. or ‘pronto’ (Stagecoach/trent barton) from Mansfield to Chesterfield, then change in Chesterfield to the X17 (Stagecoach) to Sheffield Pond Street. Journey time : pronto to Chesterfield 50 mins.,X17 to Sheffield 40 mins. plus waiting time at Chesterfield. From Sutton, take the spira (TM Travel) to Chesterfield (55mins.) then the X17. Waiting time at Chesterfield could be up to 25 mins.

By train: drive to Alfreton station (£2 parking charge for the day)or take ‘the nines’ (trent barton) from either Mansfield or Sutton and alight at the station. Trains from Alfreton to Sheffield take about 40 mins. You could also take the train from Mansfield Woodhouse (free parking) to Worksop and then change for Sheffield, but this takes at least 1hr 45 mins and on some trains about 2 hours.

Bus Timetable change

Revised timetables will be introduced on these routes from 27th or 28th October: 18 Mansfield to Berry Hill and Crown Farm (Doyles), 23 and 23B Mansfield to Langwith (Stagecoach) and 53 and 53A Mansfield to Sheffield (Stagecoach)

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Doyles will withdraw their Eastwood local services 101, 102, and 103 as from 27th October. Services 101,102, and 103 operated by yourbus in Eastwood will continue. From 28th October the Doyles 331 service from Alfreton to Nottingham will be reduced to early morning and late afternoon only and journeys in between will be numbered 332 and run between Alfreton and Eastwood following the 331 route as far as Moorgreen

Finally a new service from Sutton to Hilcote, Tibshelf, Higham and Alfreton numbered 149 (G & J Holmes) will start on October 28th. The 149 will replace the ‘Hilcote Connect’ and ‘Higham Connect’ so called ‘demand-responsive’ services.

For more details phone the traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or go to www.travelineeastmidlands.co.uk

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