Most services are now running full timetables again, although all buses and trains are operating with a reduced capacity in order to facilitate social distancing.

If you are using the bus or train you should, where possible, wear a face covering, follow social distancing and wash your hands before and after travel. The wearing of a face covering over mouth and nose is now compulsory on all public transport in England, other than for young children, disabled people and those with breathing difficulties. Click here for details.

Full timetables are running on most bus routes (for details see all-year services page), except as noted below:

The following bus services are currently still suspended:​

• Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire Saturday service 75 between Skipton and Malham (expected to restart on 15th May 2021)
• Woofs of Sedbergh services W2 and W3

Many train services are however still reduced:

• Northern is running a reduced lockdown timetable on many routes, including the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Leeds-Lancaster/Morecambe lines, until 15th May 2021.
• All services on the Wensleydale Railway are currently suspended but it is hoped to start running trains between Scruton and Bedale from the last bank holiday in May 2021.  

Several bus services will be increased during April 2021, in line with the easing of coronavirus restrictions.

• Harrogate Bus Company will resume full timetables on most routes from 11th April, including service 36 between Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon.
• Burnley Bus Company will resume full timetables on most routes from 11th April, including the Pendle Wizz service between Burnley and Skipton.
• Connexions will resume full timetables on some routes from 12th April, including service X52 between Harrogate and Ilkley.
• Woofs of Sedbergh will resume service W1 between Sedbergh and Kendal from 12th April.
• ​Western Dales Bus will restart services from 13th April.
• Little White Bus Richmondshire Rover services from Richmond to Northallerton, Barnard Castle and Ripon will resume from 14th April 2021, running to Northallerton every Wednesday, and alternating between Barnard Castle and Ripon on Thursdays.
• The summer timetable will be introduced on Saturday DalesBus service 74, running between Bradford, Ilkley, Bolton Bridge, Embsay, Burnsall and Grassington from 17th April.
• The summer timetable will be introduced on Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus service 822, running between York, Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Pateley Bridge and Grassington from 18th April.
• The summer timetable will be introduced on Sunday and Bank Holiday Cravenlink services 873 and 884, running between Bradford, Ilkley, Skipton and Malham from 18th April.
• The summer timetable will be introduced on Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services 874 and 875, running between Leeds, Ilkley, Grassington, Buckden and Hawes from 18th April.

Cumbria Classic Coaches service 572 between Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle will restart from Wednesday 31st March 2021, running every Wednesday.

Some bus services will be increased from 8th March 2021, as students return to school, including:

• Pendle Wizz service between Burnley and Skipton - on Monday to Friday times will return to the full pre-lockdown timetable - download the new times here.
• service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge - times will go back to their pre-lockdown timetables – which means schoolday journeys to and from St Aidan’s and St John Fisher Schools will be added back in. Download the new times here.
  An S24 coach will be provided by North Yorkshire County Council too as before, to provide more capacity for students travelling from Nidderdale. Please use this coach instead of the morning service 24 journey into Harrogate if you're a student - check the S24 times here.
  
• Stagecoach services 80 and 81 between Lancaster, Bentham, Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton will resume full schoolday timetables.

Northern Trains will continue a reduced lockdown timetable until 15th May 2021.

On the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle line there will be four trains per day in each direction, plus a train each way between Leeds and Ribblehead; and on the Bentham Line there will be four services in each direction between Skipton and Lancaster only.

​The new Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Bentham Line timetable for Monday to Saturday can be downloaded here (PDF file).

Sunday services will continue unchanged.

​All Northern Trains timetables are available here. 

Several changes are being made to bus services in the Kirkby Stephen area:

• all services operated by Western Dales Bus will resume from 13th April 2021.
• bus service 106 between Kendal, Tebay, Shap and Penrith is now run by Cumbria Classic Coaches (replacing Stagecoach), with an improved timetable running on Tuesdays and Fridays .
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Tuesday service 574 between Kirkby Stephen, Brough, Appleby and Penrith has been withdrawn, but is replaced by new Western Dales Bus Tuesday service S6 from 13th April 2021.
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Summer Tuesday service 569 between Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen and Hawes is permanently withdrawn.
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Monday service 571 between Brough, Kirkby Stephen and Kendal, and Thursday service 570 between Ravenstonedale, Shap, Tebay and Kendal both continue unchanged.

Minor changes will be made to the Sunday Cravenlink service 873 and 884 timetables from 13th December to connect with the train from Carlisle to Nottingham due to arrive in Skipton at 1720:

• the service 873 bus at 1620 from Ilkley to Skipton Bus Station will continue to Skipton Railway Station, arriving at 1708
• the service 884 bus at 1730 from Skipton Bus Station to Ilkley will start from Skipton Railway Station at 1724.

The new timetable is available here.

New train timetables will be introduced nationwide from Sunday 13th December 2020.

The new timetables will include an increased service on the Leeds - Skipton - Settle - Carlisle and Leeds - Skipton - Lancaster - Morecambe lines.

The new timetables are available on the National Rail Enquiries website and via these links:

• Northern
• Cross Country
• Grand Central
• LNER
• TransPennine Express

We are sorry to advise that Sunday DalesBus 875 (Wetherby - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Kettlewell - Buckden) 
is suspended until further notice due to Tier 3 Covid restrictions being in place in West Yorkshire.