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.
Summer timetables are still running on all these routes, with most services continuing until late-October:
Yorkshire Dalesman 800: York - Leeds - Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden - Hawes
DalesBus 870: Leeds - Otley - Ilkley, for connecting DalesBus services
DalesBus 874: Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden
Cravenlink 883/884: Ilkley - Skipton - Malham
Cravenlink 883/884: Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Skipton
Daleslink X52: Harrogate - Otley - Ilkley, for connecting DalesBus services
Nidderdale Rambler 825: Harrogate to Brimham Rocks, Pateley Bridge and Upper Nidderdale
Eastern Dalesman 820: Seacroft, Leeds and Otley to Pateley Bridge, Fountains Abbey, Leyburn and Richmond
Dalesbus 812: York and Ripon to Fountains Abbey, Nidderdale and Wharfedale
Fountains Abbey Shuttle Bus from Ripon
the Ingleborough Pony linking Settle, Clapham, Ingleton and Ribblehead
the Northern Dalesman linking Ribblehead with Hawes, Swaledale and Leyburn
Wensleydale Vintage Tour Bus from Ripon to Leyburn, Redmire, Hawes and Garsdale
Cumbria Classic Coaches service 569 from Ravenstonedale to Hawes (Tuesdays)
Cumbria Classic Coaches service 570 from Hawes to Ribblehead (Tuesdays)
Dentdale Explorer: Dent Station to Dent and Sedbergh (Saturdays)
Red Squirrel Bus from Hawes to Snaizeholme (Wednesdays and Saturdays)
The following services have however now finished for the 2010 summer season:
Malham Tarn Shuttle service 890 from Ilkley and Skipton to Settle and Malham (Saturdays and Sundays)
Upper Nidderdale Rambler linking Pateley Bridge with How Stean Gorge, Middlesmoor and Scar House Reservoir (Tuesdays and Saturdays)
Dales Experience Bus from Bradford to Malham/Bolton Abbey/Grassington/Kettlewell (Wednesdays and Fridays during 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. You can download a copy in PDF format by clicking below:
DalesBus Summer 2010 Timetable - (approx 870KB PDF file). Click here for updates.
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 are also available.
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
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