Remaking Barnsley

Barnsley Transport Interchange

The Barnsley Interchange opened on 20 May 2009, a flagship development in the Remaking Barnsley programme - the town's 30 year masterplan – providing an engaging passenger environment, complete with cafés and retail areas.

The high quality, contemporary, fully enclosed passenger environment comprises a bus concourse, retail facilities, offices and bridge link over to the existing rail station.
Bright and inviting, the design marks a real departure from the colourless, characterless architecture it replaces. 

The new bridge, a covered extension to the interchange building itself, gives a seamless transition between rail and road transport.

Sustainability has been maximised through the use of sustainable source and recyclable materials, and design features that use natural daylight and ventilation.

The bus concourse is a ‘glazed street' which uses EFTE (the material used in the Eden Projects bubbly biospheres). It's clear, allowing light to flood in, recyclable, tough and lightweight.  The EFTE roof is supported by a series of warm, heavy timber columns, sustainably grown. The solid areas of the roofing use sheet copper, easy to shape to the complex layout of the building and attractive when seen from above in part of the new town centre development.

Brand new retail units are accessible from the Interchange and street level - colour and design produces a lively Tuscan feel street frontage.