Most bus services in the Yorkshire Dales operate all-year round, but some Sunday DalesBus services only run during the summer months, and will shortly be finishing for the 2024 season.

The last days of operation of summer-only Sunday DalesBus services will be as follows:

Sunday 6th October:

• Eastern DalesBus 825: York - Harrogate - Brimham Rocks - Fountains Abbey - Masham - Leyburn - Richmond

Sunday 20th October:

• Nidderdale DalesBus 820: Keighley - Shipley - Otley - Washburn Valley 
• Nidderdale DalesBus 821: Keighley - Shipley - Otley - Washburn Valley - Pateley Bridge - Ramsgill - Lofthouse - Scar House 
• ​DalesBus 822: Pocklington - York - Ripon - Fountains Abbey - Pateley Bridge - Grassington
• Northern DalesBus 830: Ribblehead - Hawes - Reeth - Richmond
• Northern DalesBus 831: Middlesbrough - Darlington - Richmond - Reeth - Hawes 
• Northern DalesBus 832: Hawes - Ingleton - Kirkby Lonsdale
• Wensleydale Explorer Bus 857: Garsdale Station - Hawes - Castle Bolton​
• Northern DalesBus 858: Darlington - Richmond - Catterick - Hawes - Ribblehead
• Eastern DalesBus 859: Richmond - Leyburn
• Cravenlink 866:  Keighley - Skipton - Malham
• Wharfedale DalesBus 875:  York - Leeds - Horsforth - Ilkley - Cracoe - Grassington - Kettlewell - Buckden - Aysgarth - Hawes
• Wharfedale DalesBus 876:  Leeds - Horsforth - Ilkley - Cracoe - Grassington - Kettlewell - Buckden - Aysgarth - Hawes

Revised timetables for the winter period will start on Sunday 27th October on these Sunday DalesBus services:

• Cravenlink 864: Bradford - Ilkley - Skipton - Malham
• Cravenlink 873: Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Skipton   
• Wharfedale DalesBus 874: Wetherby - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington - Buckden

The following services will continue unchanged on Sundays for the winter period:

• Nidderdale DalesBus 24: Harrogate - Pateley Bridge​​
• DalesBus 72: Skipton - Grassington​
• Wensleydale Flyer 856: Northallerton - Bedale - Leyburn - Aysgarth - Hawes - Gayle​

From Sunday 27th October 2024 service X84 between Leeds, Otley and Ilkley will be replaced by two new services, numbered 25 and 26. to improve coordination with other services along Headingley Road.​

Both routes will operate between Leeds, Otley and Ilkley, with service 25 running through Pool-in-Wharfedale.​
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Timetables will be adjusted across all days, with some earlier and later journeys to enhance connectivity.

Services 25 and 26 will stop at all bus stops - the current limited stop conditions between Leeds and Lawnswood Roundabout will no longer apply.

The new timetables can be downloaded from the First website.

Changes will be made to several Harrogate Bus Company services, including:

• revised timetable on service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge from Sunday 27th October, with most buses towards Pateley Bridge on Monday to Saturday running five minutes earlier.
• revised timetable on service 36 between Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon from Sunday 27th October, including a new journey from Leeds to Ripon at 0840 on Sunday mornings.
• revised timetable on Saturday DalesBus service 59 between Harrogate and Skipton from Saturday 26th October, with the 0945 journey from Harrogate running ten minutes earlier.

Richmond Market Place is expected to be closed until around 18th October 2024 for resurfacing work.

During this time all local bus services will run from Friary Gardens lay-by (opposite Wetherspoons) instead.

This includes Sunday DalesBus services 825, 830, 831. 858 and 859.

The A6131 road in Skipton between The Bailey and Skipton by-pass has reopened - so buses 59, 64 and 864 are now following their normal routes via Overdale Park.

A further road closure is however expected from mid-October, when these services will again be diverted.

From 2nd September 2024 the first return journey on service 73 between Bedale and Northallerton will run 15 minutes earlier.  The first buses will leave Bedale Fitzalan Road at 0712 and Northallerton Buck Inn at 0745.

Some changes will be made to bus services in the Craven area from the beginning of September 2024:

• Bowland Bus 11 between Clitheroe, Settle and Horton-in-Ribblesdale will be operated by North Yorkshire Council in place of 21 Transport.  There will be no changes to the route or timetable.
• A revised timetable will be introduced on Stagecoach service 567, including the following new journeys on college days only:
  - 0605 Kendal to Ingleton
  - 0700 from Ingleton to Kirkby Lonsdale via High Bentham  
  - 1752 Kirkby Lonsdale to Ingleton via High Bentham  
  - 1835 Ingleton to Kendal
  The 1755 journey from Kirkby Lonsdale to Kendal will now run during college holidays only, and will leave at 1748.
• Wednesday service 582 between Bentham and Hornby will be operated by North Yorkshire Council in place of Lonsdale Buses.
• There will be minor changes to timings on Mainline service M6 between Burnley, Barnoldswick and Skipton to improve reliability.

From 22nd July 2024 the North Craven Village Bus (service DR06) and South Craven Village Bus (service DR07) will again be operated by North Yorkshire County Council.  The booking telephone number will be 01609 533877.

The only journey on service 80 from Kirkby Lonsdale to Ingleton and Lancaster, departing Kirkby Lonsdale at 1650, no longer operates.

DalesBus 59 between Harrogate, Blubberhouses, Bolton Bridge and Skipton is now running every Saturday, following the reopening of the A59 at Kex Gill.