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Train services will be disrupted by engineering works as follows:
Temporary timetables will apply on many bus services through Harrogate due to the temporary closure of Ripon Road until Sunday 23rd March 2025.
The usual timetables and routes will restart from Monday 24th March following the reopening of the road. For details of all the amended routes and timetables please see the Harrogate Bus Company website. Major changes will be made to bus services in the Westmorland Dales area from 31st March 2025:
- buses between Kendal, Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen on Tuesdays and Thursdays, run by Western Dales Bus - buses between Kendal, Sedbergh and Dent on Wednesdays, run by Western Dales Bus - buses between Kendal, Sedbergh, Dent and Dent Station on Saturdays, run by Western Dales Bus
Richmond Market Place will be closed to all traffic between 10th and 31st March 2025
During this time all local bus services will instead will start and terminate at Friary Gardens. Stagecoach service 567 between Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale will be extended to Ingleton on Saturdays from 5th April 2025, with a revised timetable.
Click here for timetable details. Service X84 between Leeds, Otley and Ilkley was replaced by two new services, numbered 25 and 26 from Sunday 27th October 2024, in an attempt to improve coordination with other services along Headingley Road in Leeds.
This change did not prove successful, so limited-stop service X84 will be reinstated from 23rd February 2025, with a revised timetable. The limited stop service from Leeds to Ilkley will be reinstated, replacing services 25 and 26. It will not drop off passengers before Weetwood Police Station on journeys towards Ilkley, and not pick up passengers after Weetwood Police Station on journeys towards Leeds. It will run approximately every 40 minutes on Monday to Saturday daytimes, and approximately hourly on evenings and Sundays. The new timetable is available here. Appleby - Orton - Kendal minibus service 561 has been reinstated, running every Wednesday from 15th January 2025. The timetable allows for three hours in Kendal, before returning to Appleby - click here for details.
ENCTS elderly and disabled passes are valid, however the £3 fare cap does not apply, and normal ticket prices apply. This service is funded and operated by Westmorland & Furness Council using funding made available through UK Government’s Bus Service Improvement Plan. A revised cap of £3 on single bus fares applies in England throughout 2025. This applies to all bus services in the Yorkshire Dales area and elsewhere in North Yorkshire/York, including cross-boundary journeys to/from surrounding areas such as West Yorkshire.
Different arrangements apply in some local areas, including West Yorkshire, where the maximum fare for journeys entirely within West Yorkshire will remain at £2 until 29th March 2025. From 30th March 2025 the maximum fare in West Yorkshire will rise to £2.50. The special £1 fare for under 19s in North Yorkshire also remains in place. This is generally only for journeys entirely within North Yorkshire/City of York, but the £1 fare is also available throughout Saturday DalesBus 74 and Sunday DalesBus 864, 873 and 874. From Saturday 25th January 2025 DalesBus 74 between York, Harrogate, Otley, Ilkley, Bolton Abbey and Grassington will be operated by York & Country, instead of Reliance. The service will start from York Theatre Royal, and will no longer call at Wigginton or Clifton, but there will be no other timetable changes.
The Dales Railcard Winter Offer is back from 4th November 2024 until 13th April 2025.
It offers holders of Dales Railcards a 50% saving off the usual price of Off-Peak Day Return tickets on the Leeds to Carlisle via Settle, and Leeds – Lancaster/Morecambe via Bentham routes. Tickets can be purchased on Northern website*, on the Northern app*, at ticket vending machines*, ticket offices, or from conductors on trains when boarding at unstaffed stations. * = select "Dales Railcard Winter CDR’ as the railcard option when purchasing your ticket online, on the Northern app or at ticket vending machines. The offer is not available on local journeys Skipton – Bradford Forster Square / Leeds inclusive or Carnforth – Morecambe / Heysham Port inclusive, as per conditions of the Dales Railcard. The usual Dales Railcard terms and conditions apply. Click here for further information on Dales Railcards, which are available to residents in the postcode areas adjacent to the Skipton-Settle-Carlisle and Skipton-Lancaster railway lines and also to members of the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line (FoSCL) or LASRUG. |