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Due to a road closure at Morton-on-Swale on Sunday 30th September Acorn Wensleydale Flyer service 856 will be unable to run between Northallerton and Leeming Bar - on that day the service will therefore start at Leeming Bar at 0947, running to Gayle. During the day buses will run as scheduled between Gayle, Hawes, Leyburn, Bedale and Leeming Bar only, finishing at Leeming Bar at 1830.
Train services operated by Northern Trains will again be disrupted by strike action by members of the RMT trade union every Saturday until 20th October 2018 inclusive.
Services affected will include the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle and Leeds - Lancaster - Morecambe lines. On these routes a reduced train service together with replacement bus services is likely to operate on the affected days. Details will be available at www.northernrailway.co.uk/strike In Wharfedale slightly revised timetables will be introduced on Monday to Saturday on service 72 between Skipton and
Grassington from 29th October 2018 to improve reliability, with small changes to Upper Wharfedale Venturer service 72B to maintain connections and also provide new afternoon links to/from Hebden. Witch Way X43 from Manchester and Burnley to Skipton will no longer extend to Grassington on Sundays, but the 72 will instead operate between Skipton and Grassington at similar times. Also on Sundays, DalesBus service 875 to Hawes will continue for the summer season until 21st October, whilst service 874 to Buckden continues all year, with slightly revised times from 28th October. The service 72 timetable can be downloaded here (PDF file). The road between Bolton Bridge and Bolton Abbey is expected to be closed for drainage works until the end of September 2018,
so DalesBus services 873, 874 and 875 will be unable to call at the bus stops at Bolton Bridge, Bolton Abbey, Strid Wood and Barden Scale. A full timetable for services 873, 874, 875 and 884 showing the amended route and times in red is available here (PDF file). Services will be diverted in both directions as follows: SERVICE 873 All journeys will operate between Addingham and Embsay via the A59, with a temporary bus stop near Bolton Abbey Station. The bus stops at Bolton Bridge, Bolton Abbey, Strid Wood, Barden Scale, Barden Moor and Eastby will not be served. SERVICES 874 & 875 The following journeys will operate non-stop between Threshfield and Addingham, and will not serve Burnsall to Bolton Bridge: Saturday 874 – 1135 from Grassington to Ilkley Sunday 874 – 1220 from Buckden/1255 from Grassington to Ilkley. The Sunday 875 morning service will operate as normal. All other 874 and 875 journeys will operate between Addingham and Barden Tower via the A59 (with a bus stop near Bolton Abbey Station), Embsay and Barden Moor. Bus stops at Bolton Bridge, Bolton Abbey, Strid Wood and Barden Scale will not be served. The bus stops near Bolton Abbey station are approx. 1 mile walk from Bolton Abbey village along a well-surfaced path - to reach the stops from Bolton Abbey walk down the road to the Devonshire Arms Hotel, then turn right along the old road/footpath to reach the A59. The bus stop for journeys towards Ilkley is directly at the end of the footpath, the bus stop for journeys towards Grassington and Skipton is further on on the opposite side of the road (underpass available) past the houses, at the entrance to Bolton Abbey Station. Buses will leave the temporary stops on the A59 near Bolton Abbey Station at these times: Saturdays: 1048, 1238 & 1538 to Grassington; 1505 & 1735 to Ilkley Sundays: 1025 & 1410 to Grassington/Buckden; 1150, 1450 & 1630 to Skipton; 1044, 1244, 1544, 1735, 1744 & 1835 to Ilkley and beyond This will cause some delays to service 874, so on Sundays the usual connections with service 875 in the morning at Kettlewell, and with services 821 & 884 in the afternoon at Otley will not be possible. The diversion to service 874 will however give passengers from Wakefield, Leeds and Otley a unique opportunity to travel direct to Embsay and Barden Moor. A full timetable for services 873, 874, 875 and 884 showing the amended route and times in red is available here (PDF file). Minibus service 74A on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will operate as normal, except for a short diversion between Bolton Bridge and Bolton Abbey. When the road reopens, all services will revert to the usual route. Engineering work will take place between Settle and Garsdale on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th October 2018, closing all lines.
Train services between Leeds, Skipton, Settle and Carlisle will run between Appleby and Carlisle only. Replacement buses will run between Skipton, Settle and Appleby. Further details will be available on the National Rail website. Note that strike action is planned by the RMT union on Saturday 6th October, which will cause further disruption and amendment to Northern services, including the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle line. Minor changes will be made to the Craven Connection bus service between Skipton, Settle, Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale and Lancaster from 3rd September 2018:
- an additional journey will run from Lancaster to Kirkby Lonsdale at 1700 - on schooldays the 0820 arrival into Lancaster and the 1545 departure from Lancaster will extend to/from Ripley St Thomas School - on schooldays the 0745 journey from Lancaster will operate via Kirkby Lonsdale QES - the last journey towards Skipton will depart Kirkby Lonsdale at 1700 and Settle at 1745, arriving in Skipton at 1825, with buses running at the same time from Monday to Saturday. The new timetable is available here. Planning for the weekend DalesBus network is now underway for the Summer 2019 season, with a new Fundraising Working Group having recently been set up by the Dales & Bowland Community Interest Company.
The Working Group will look at the suggestions made in the DalesBus passenger survey which was conducted on the buses during July and August. D&BCIC would like to thank everyone who completed a survey form for their feedback. If you weren't offered the opportunity to fill in a survey form, or now have other suggestions to offer, please get in touch now at feedback@dalesandbowland.com. We are particularly keen for feedback on how DalesBus services could be improved to make them more popular, and also for ideas of new sources of funding and help with fundraising. You can preview the journey from Morecambe to Malham on the Malham Tarn Shuttle Bus in just nine minutes on a new video showing the highlights of this picturesque bus route into the Yorkshire Dales National Park. If you prefer to relax and enjoy the journey, there's also an extended 38 minute version, including a full driver's eye view of the route on the section from Settle, through Langcliffe and over the tops to Malham Tarn and Malham village. Click here for links to both videos and the bus timetable. The Malham Tarn Shuttle Bus runs every Sunday and Bank Holiday until 21st October 2018 with financial support from Northern, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and the Friends of the Dales.  From Sunday 22nd July 2018 bus service 24 to Pateley Bridge (daily) and Brimham Explorer bus service 825 to Brimham Rocks and Fountains Abbey (Sundays) will depart from Stand 2 in Harrogate Bus Station.
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