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Due to road closures for the Leeds Pride Parade on Sunday 19th July DalesBus services 874 to Buckden and 875/876 to Hawes will be diverted and will not stop at their usual stop on Boar Lane. All other stops, including Leeds Bus Station, will be served as normal.
Due to planned engineering works train services on the Wharfedale Line will be amended on the weekends of 18-19, 25-26 July and 1-3 August.
On both weekends in July the works are taking place between Ilkley and Shipley, closing all lines with no trains running to/from Ilkley. Buses will be provided between Ilkley and Shipley via Baildon. Trains will run between Shipley and Leeds. On Saturday 1, Sunday 2 and Monday 3 August trains will not run between Bradford Forster Square and Shipley, with buses provided instead. For full details please see Northern website. Following the announcement that York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority (Y&NYCA) has been awarded funding from the Department for Transport to explore how to deliver better rural and coastal bus services, the Combined Authority wants to hear from communities.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is one of five areas that are included in the study. Rocket Science, an independent research company, are doing the some of the research for Y&NYCA and would like to know about the views, experiences and needs of people around bus services. They are keen to hear the voices of people who are often not heard or involved in decisions on transport, whether they use buses or not. This will help to shape the approach to future provision. The survey is open until the end of July, and can be accessed here. A varied programme of events has been organised between 13th and 19th July to officially launch the fully refurbished tearooms at Ribblehead Station, and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the station re-opening in 1986.
Details are available here. Due to an ongoing programme of roadworks on the A684 between Garsdale and Sedbergh there will be major changes to DalesBus 832 between Hawes and Kirkby Lonsdale from 28th June:
Little White Bus is trialling a new Dales Jumper minibus service between Hawes, Buttertubs Pass, Swaledale, Tan Hill, Arkengarthdale and Reeth.
This new service will run every Friday throughout the summer until 25th September 2026. The bus leaves Hawes Board Inn at 0900/1300 and arrives at Reeth for 1030/1430. The return journeys from Reeth are 1045/1445 from Reeth Bus Shelter, arriving in Hawes at 1215/1615. Six seats can be pre-booked for each journey here, with the other 10 seats available on a first come first served basis. The £3 fare cap does not apply to this service (except for Arkengarthdale local journeys), and concessionary passes are not valid. Click here for further details. From 20th July until 5th September, North Riding bus services 82, 83 and 84 from York will be extended from Ripon to Fountains Abbey, providing a bus up to every hour during the daytime, Monday to Saturday.
This extension creates convenient direct links from York, Boroughbridge and Ripon, allowing visitors to enjoy a single-journey trip to one of Yorkshire's most spectacular attractions without the need to change buses. Also, from 18th July until 6th September 2026, children and young people (under 18) who arrive at Fountains Abbey by bus will be eligible for £1 entry. Under 5s go in free. Visitors can also take part in the National Trust's Summer of Play programme, featuring games, soft archery, balance bikes, space hopper races and Pokémon-themed activities, alongside the site's abbey ruins, water gardens and adventure playground. Details of all buses to Fountains Abbey, including Summer Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services from Pocklington, York, Ripon, Harrogate, Bradford, Otley, Grassington and Pateley Bridge are available here. At the same time, revised timetables will be introduced on North Riding services 82, 83 and 84 from 20th July to help improve punctuality and reliability. Additional running time has been built into the schedules to reflect increasing traffic levels and congestion experienced across the route in recent years. As part of Better Transport Week (15-21 June), DalesBus is celebrating the people and communities we connect across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond. We would love to hear your DalesBus story. Perhaps DalesBus helped you: • Enjoy a memorable day out in the Dales • Reach a favourite walking route or beauty spot • Visit friends or family • Travel sustainably without a car • Discover somewhere new • Support local businesses and attractions Whether your story is recent or goes back many years, we'd love to hear how DalesBus has made a difference to you. We'll be sharing selected stories during Better Transport Week to showcase the importance of public transport in supporting rural communities, tourism, accessibility and sustainable travel. Please share your story with us by email. Thank you for supporting DalesBus and helping us keep the Dales connected.  A Sunday service will be introduced on service 563 between Kirkby Stephen, Appleby and Penrith from 19th July 2026, with financial support from Westmorland and Furness Council. Click here for timetable details.
This will be the first time for many years that a Sunday service has been provided on this route and follows the success of the Saturday service commissioned a number of years ago by Kirkby Stephen Town Council. The first day of operation will be Sunday 19th July and the service will initially run on Sundays until November. It will also run on August Bank Holiday Monday. Depending on usage it may be extended further, or may be suspended for the Winter and return again at Easter 2027. The service will not serve Kirkby Stephen Rail Station but otherwise will cover all villages on the weekday route and offer improved access to attractions along the route, such as the Eden Valley Railway at Warcop, which regularly operates on a Sunday, when no public transport link is otherwise available. The Monday to Friday and Saturday service will also continue, with just a minor change to the times of the last journey on weekdays from Kirkby Stephen to Penrith. Nidderdale DalesBus services 820 and 821 will restart for the summer season on Sunday 3rd May, with Nidderdale DalesBus 820 extending to Fountains Abbey and Ripon this year, running every Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday through until 18th October.
Nidderdale DalesBus 820 will run from Bradford and Shipley, via Otley, Lindley Wood Reservoir, The Sun Inn, Darley and Summerbridge to Pateley Bridge, continuing via Fellbeck to Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre and Ripon. Buses will leave Bradford Interchange at 0910, Shipley Market Place at 0925 and Otley Bus Station at 0955 and 1505, returning from Ripon at 1145 to Otley and 1635 to Bradford. Nidderdale DalesBus 821 will run from Keighley, Bingley and Shipley via Otley, Swinsty Reservoir, Fewston village, The Sun Inn, Darley and Summerbridge to Pateley Bridge, continuing past Wath and Gouthwaite Reservoir to Ramsgill, Lofthouse and Scar House Reservoir in Upper Nidderdale. Buses will leave Keighley Bus Station at 0925, Shipley Market Place at 0950 and Otley Bus Station at 1020 and 1415, returning from Scar House Reservoir at 1240 to Otley and 1550 to Keighley. Return buses to Otley leave from Pateley Bridge at 1230, 1320, 1630 and 1720. Due to planned roadworks in the Blubberhouses area these buses will not run via Blubberhouses or Greenhow Hill this year, but DalesBus 821 will connect in Pateley Bridge with DalesBus 822 to Coldstones Cut, Greenhow, Hebden and Grassington. |