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Bus services in mid-Wharfedale will be diverted until 5th February 2026, due to the closure of the B6160 road at The Scale near Strid Wood Tearooms for bridge repair work by North Yorkshire Council.
• Minibus service 74A between Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, Grassington and Hebden on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will be diverted between Bolton Abbey and Barden Tower, and will not call at Strid Wood. • DalesBus 74 between York, Ilkley, Bolton Abbey and Grassington on Saturdays will be diverted between Bolton Abbey and Threshfield, and will not call at Strid Wood, Barden Tower or Burnsall. The bus will call additionally at Cracoe. • DalesBus 873 between Ilkley, Bolton Abbey and Skipton on Sundays will be diverted between Bolton Abbey and Embsay, and will not call at Strid Wood, Barden Moor or Eastby. • DalesBus 874 between Wetherby, Leeds, Ilkley, Grassington and Buckden will be diverted between Bolton Abbey and Threshfield, and will not call at Strid Wood, Barden Tower or Burnsall. The bus will call additionally at Cracoe. A new national rail timetable will be introduced from Sunday 14th December 2025.
There will be major changes on some routes, including the East Coast Mainline, with changes to trains stopping at Northallerton. There will be minor changes to some train times on the Bentham Line and Leeds-Settle-Carlisle Line, and:
Sadly, 30th September 2025 was the last day of operation of Cumbria Classic Coaches scheduled services.
Service 106 has been retendered by the 106 Partnership, and a replacement service between Kendal and Penrith is provided by Lonsdale Buses on Tuesdays and Fridays. From 4th December 2025 this service will also run on Thursdays. Service 571 will resume on Mondays from 1st December 2025 running between Kendal, Kirkby Stephen and Brough, operated by Lonsdale Buses - click here for details. Service 572 will resume on Wednesdays from 3rd December 2025 running between Kendal, Kirkby Stephen, Brough and Barnard Castle, operated by Lonsdale Buses - click here for details. Service 106 between Kendal, Shap and Penrith on Tuesdays and Fridays is now run by Lonsdale Buses. This service will also run on Thursdays from 4th December 2025.
The Monday to Saturday journeys between Penrith and Shap continues to be run by Stagecoach. A revised timetable was introduced from Monday 17th November 2025, including an extra early morning and late afternoon service between Penrith and Shap. The A684 will be closed at Constable Burton from Monday 24th November 2025 for a period of 11 weeks excluding the period Saturday 20th December 2025 until Sunday 4th January 2026 when the road will be open to traffic.
On Monday to Saturday service 155 will run as normal (it has now been decided that the planned diversion is not needed). On Sundays service 856 will not be able to call at Constable Burton and will be diverted via Finghall and Spennithorne. This may cause some minor delays to the service. The Dales Railcard Winter Offer is back from 3rd November 2025, and continues until Sunday 29th March 2026.
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. 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. To buy the offer tickets simply select ‘Dales Railcard Winter CDR’ as the railcard option when purchasing your ticket online or at ticket vending machine). Alternatively, show your Dales Railcard when purchasing at ticket offices or show to the conductor on board the train (when boarding at unstaffed stations where no ticket facilities are available) 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. We're now into the winter season. Most bus services in the Yorkshire Dales area run all-year round, but many Sunday DalesBus services only operate during the Summer months.
However these Sunday DalesBus services continue all-year round:
The following Summer Sunday DalesBus services have now finished for the winter:
On Saturdays:
DalesBus is urgently looking for new volunteers to help us to provide, promote and develop DalesBus services into and around the Yorkshire Dales.
Weekend DalesBus services into and around the Yorkshire Dales.are managed by Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company, a volunteer-run company owned by charity Friends of the Dales. The public are showing that they need our services more than ever and we urgently need more help to rise to the challenge of maintaining and developing our services. We are particularly keen to find people with interest/knowledge/skills/ideas in:
If you share our passion for improving lives within and around the Yorkshire Dales by bus and think you may be able to help, we’d love to hear from you. We will offer support to help you settle into any specific roles you take on. We would really appreciate offers of help at all levels. The Board of Directors meets around four times a year at mutually convenient times and locations, in person or online, with directors and other volunteers carrying out various tasks throughout the year, depending on the responsibilities they agree to take on. We actively welcome expressions of interest from people from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everyone volunteering with us should be willing to commit to the values set out on our website. Please email [email protected] as soon as possible to express interest, providing information about the interest/knowledge/skills/ideas and time you might be able to share. Feel free to ask any questions, and please don’t hesitate to promote this opportunity to anyone else you know who might be interested. We will respond to questions and expressions of interest as quickly as we can on a rolling basis, and look forward to hearing from you shortly. From Sunday 31st August DalesBus 820 to Pateley Bridge and DalesBus 864 to Malham will depart from stand E at Bradford Interchange.
New evening buses will be introduced on service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge from 31st August 2025.
The new journeys will run from Harrogate at 1825 (Monday to Saturday) and 2055 (Fridays & Saturdays only). Buses will run from Pateley Bridge to Harrogate at 1925 (Monday to Saturday) and 2155 (Fridays & Saturdays only). Minor changes will also be made to be timings of other journeys to improve reliability. Click here for timetable details (PDF file). |