Meadowhall has its own public transport interchange, Meadowhall Interchange, making it the only shopping centre in the UK that combines a bus, rail and tram interchange as well as making the centre easily accessible to both the local region and the rest of the country.

There is a multi-platform railway station at Meadowhall which has several routes including the Trans Pennine route to Manchester Piccadilly station.

As of 2010, the section of the walk between Sheffield and Meadowhall has been linked with the parallel Sheffield and Tinsley Canal towpath as an 8 mile circular walk known as The Blue Loop.

Platform 2 is served by Barnsley, Meadowhall, Sheffield and Nottingham trains, Huddersfield trains at 1838 and 1938 call at platform 2, and platform 3 has services towards Streethouse, Featherstone, Pontefract Tanshelf, Pontefract Monkhill and Knottingley.

It has local transport connections to Meadowhall, Hillsborough, Stannington and Chapeltown.

This development has been done to compete effectively with Meadowhall and Sheffield city centre.

Currently the station has a half-hourly service on weekdays to Doncaster ( with most trains continuing on to either or Adwick ) and hourly to Wakefield and Leeds, along with three trains per hour to Meadowhall and Sheffield ( one of which continues to Retford and Lincoln ).

With over 280 stores, Meadowhall was widely blamed for the closure of many shops in Sheffield City Centre and in Rotherham.

From Lady's Bridge in Sheffield City Centre, it heads downstream, northeast, over the Cobweb Bridge, through Attercliffe to Meadowhall.

Crystal Peaks was one of the most popular Shopping Centres in the country, but over time popularity and investment was falling due to the construction of Meadowhall in the north of the city. In 1998 Crystal Peaks underwent an extension called " Crystal Peaks 2 " covering the west Atrium from the market downwards, where the original Playground was right down to the bus station. The Playground was moved to the east atrium near the petrol station.

Top fashion labels have their own stores in Meadowhall including Hugo Boss, French Connection, Bench, G-Star Raw, Super Dry, River Island, Jane Norman, Timberland, Ted Baker, Fire Trap, AllSaints, Hollister and more.

In addition to Regent Street, Bluewater and Meadowhall stores, GIVe is opening in Liverpool, Cribbs Causeway, Kingston, Glasgow and Harrogate in October and November.

In September 1990, two new department stores were opened, a House of Fraser in the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, and Schofields in Leeds.

Northern Rail operate a semi fast service along the line, with most continuing on to Bridlington / Scarborough, calling at Sheffield, Meadowhall, Doncaster, Goole, Brough, Hull, most of these services also continue fast to Bridlington calling only at Cottingham, Beverley, Driffield and Bridlington.

However most of the new developments, such as Meadowhall, are in the service industry.

Southbound there are four trains per hour to Meadowhall and Sheffield, two of which are local stopping services and two of which are express.

It is similar in concept to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre at Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, which was completed just before Meadowhall.

There are numerous stations in Sheffield's suburbs, of which Meadowhall Interchange is the busiest.

The town is well-served by many frequent bus services, mainly the 1 and 10 which run to Rotherham, along with services to Doncaster, Meadowhall and Sheffield.

Leaving Rotherham Central we take the " Holmes Chord ", a single line to Holmes Junction where we take to the rails of the Sheffield & Rotherham company, which opened its line in 1838 and which once served Holmes ( closed in 1955 ), Meadowhall ( a new station opened in 1991 ), Wincobank ( closed 1956 ), Brightside ( closed 1994 ) and Attercliffe Road ( closed 1994 ), before arriving at Sheffield.

The Northern Rail services, which currently make just two round trips daily, call at Sheffield, Meadowhall, Rotherham Central, Swinton, Moorthorpe, Pontefract Baghill, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Church Fenton, Ulleskelf ( except on Sundays ) and York.

Construction and the procurement of machinery began in mid-1865, and Meadowhall Works was virtually complete in May 1867, by which time all of the 2, 000 shares had been taken up.

The rail links in the area are also good, Worksop lies on the Sheffield-Lincoln line, this takes travellers to places such as Sheffield, Doncaster, Meadowhall, Lincoln, Retford, Gainsborough and Shireoaks.

The crowning point of Attercliffe however are the Olympic standard leisure facilities including the Don Valley Stadium, Ice stadium and nearby Meadowhall Retail Park, facilities to be proud of.

Also, both Wombwell and Goldthorpe railway stations are within easy reach of Darfield where connections can be made to Sheffield, Meadowhall, Wakefield and Leeds.

The Middlewood line runs mainly on the street up to the City Centre ; the Meadowhall line runs totally on reserved track – from Attercliffe to Meadowhall it runs on former railway line alongside a freight line to Tinsley Yard and the main line at Rotherham Central.

Located just from Meadowhall Shopping Centre and the M1 junction 34, and from the city centre, the area runs from Addison Road in the south of postal district S5 to the top of Bellhouse Road bordering Sheffield Lane Top and Shiregreen.

* Sheffield, Meadowhall ( former C & A ; premises divided since closure and subsequently occupied by Boots and W H Smith )

In December 2005, Meadowhall became home to the fifth Apple Store in the UK, and in late 2007, it became home to the third Puma Store in the UK after London and Glasgow.

There is generally a half hourly service in both directions from Conisbrough railway station between: Doncaster, Conisbrough, Mexborough, Swinton, Rotherham Central, Meadowhall and Sheffield.

In addition to the inner city shopping centres, large UK conurbations will also have large out-of-town " regional malls " such as Meadowhall, Sheffield serving South Yorkshire, the Trafford Centre in Greater Manchester and Bluewater in Kent.

Meadowhall is an indoor shopping centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

Note that Meadowhall Retail Park is a separate development, also owned by British Land, lying to the south of Meadowhall shopping centre in the Carbrook area of the city.

Meadowhall is owned by British Land, a property developer.

Meadowhall can be very busy in the run-up to Christmas, and the January sales.

Meadowhall was inundated by the River Don during the June 2007 floods, with water peaking at.

retail extension to Meadowhall on adjacent land.

Meadowhall is linked to the Sheffield Supertram network and is the terminus on the Yellow Line.

The stop is 15 minutes from the city centre and Meadowhall is used as a Park and Ride.

The tram route from Meadowhall also passes close by to the Motorpoint Arena, Don Valley Stadium, Ice Sheffield, the Institute Of Sport and the Valley Centertainment entertainment complex.

Meadowhall was the first UK shopping centre to develop an on-site recycling facility.

Meadowhall began to harvest rainwater in 2006.

In 2008 Meadowhall installed a bore hole.