Regular bus services in the dales are enhanced with additional routes in the Summer months (mainly between Easter and mid-October), most of these running on Sundays and Bank Holidays only, with a few extra buses on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Details of the following summer 2012 seasonal services are now available:
Wensleydale Vintage Tour Bus from Ripon to Leyburn, Redmire, Hawes and Garsdale (Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays)
Cumbria Classic Coaches service 569 from Ravenstonedale to Hawes (Tuesdays)
Cumbria Classic Coaches service 469 Hawes Circular via Hardraw (Tuesdays)
DalesBus 872: Burnley - Colne - Skipton - Grassington - Buckden (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
In the meantime, please see below for details of seasonal services which operated during summer 2011. It is hoped that most services will operate to similar times in 2012.
Cravenlink 883: York - Harrogate - Otley - Ilkley, for connecting DalesBus services (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates on 19th February and 18th March 2012 only]
Cravenlink 883/884: Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Skipton (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
Cravenlink 883/884: Ilkley - Skipton - Malham (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
Malham Tarn Shuttle 881 from Skipton and Malham to Malham Tarn, Settle and Ingleton (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
DalesBus 870: Wakefield - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley, for connecting DalesBus services (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
DalesBus 874: Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
Yorkshire Dalesman 800: York - Leeds - Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden - Hawes (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
the Ingleborough Pony 832/833 linking Kirkby Lonsdale, Settle, Clapham, Ingleton, Ribblehead and Hawes (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
the Northern Dalesman 831 linking Hawes with Keld, Muker, Reeth and Richmond (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
DalesBus 830 from Richmond to Reeth and Leyburn (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
Wensleydale Flyer 856: Northallerton - Bedale - Leyburn - Aysgarth - Hawes (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates until 1st April 2012]
Fountains Abbey Shuttle Bus 139 from Ripon (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
Fountains Flyer 812: York and Ripon to Fountains Abbey, Nidderdale and Wharfedale (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
Eastern Dalesman 820: Dewsbury, Bradford and Otley to Pateley Bridge, Fountains Abbey, Ripon and Leyburn (Sundays and Bank Holidays)
Nidderdale Rambler 825: Harrogate to Brimham Rocks, Pateley Bridge and Upper Nidderdale (Sundays and Bank Holidays) [Winter timetable operates from 23rd October 2011]
Upper Nidderdale Bus 25 linking Pateley Bridge with How Stean Gorge, Middlesmoor and Scar House Reservoir (Tuesdays and Saturdays during summer school holidays)
Dales Experience Bus 898/899 from Bradford to Malham/Bolton Abbey/Grassington/Kettlewell (Wednesdays and Fridays during summer school holidays)
Metro produce a handy pocket size timetable of most leisure bus routes in the Dales, including all buses from West Yorkshire to the Dales. The Summer 2011 edition can be downloaded here. (410 KB PDF file). There are also many all-year bus services in the Dales.
A diagrammatic map and a list of places in the Yorkshire Dales served by bus on Summer Sundays and Bank Holidays in 2011 are also available, together with an overall network map which also includes weekday services.
See separate pages for all-year services and winter leisure services.
This webpage is part of the Dalesbus Website,
provided by the Yorkshire Dales Public Transport Users Group
All information is provided in good faith, but we cannot be held responsible for any errors or inaccuracies. Please check details before travelling. This site also contains a number of external links the inclusion of which does not signify any endorsement. The YDPTUG is not responsible for the contents of such sites, or any links contained within them.