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Engineering works will again be taking place at Leeds Station on Sunday 30th January, with many trains running a revised timetable. See Northern website for details.
Trains on the Settle Carlisle and Bentham lines will run between Skipton and Morecambe/Carlisle only, with a separate hourly service running between Leeds and Skipton. Click here for the revised timetable. Leeds Station Interchange will also be closed, so DalesBus 874 to Buckden will pick up at stop D on Bishopgate Street instead. Barden Moor Road will be closed between 4th January and 25th February 2022, so Cravenlink bus 873 will be diverted between Embsay and Bolton Abbey. The stops at Strid Wood, Barden Scale, Barden Moor and Eastby will not be served.
The usual winter offers for holders of Dales Railcards and Metro ENCTS bus passes are back, offering discounted travel on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe (Bentham) lines.
Holders of Dales Railcards can buy Day Ranger tickets for £7 (Bentham Line) and £9 ( Leeds - Carlisle line) every day until 2nd April 2022. Up to four accompanied children can travel for £3.50/child on the Bentham Line and £4.50/child on the Leeds - Carlisle line. Metro ENCTS pass holders (Senior, Disabled and Blind) can purchase a flat fare Day Ranger ticket (valid on both the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe (Bentham) lines) for £14 and take up to four children with them for a flat fare of £7 per child. This offer is available every day until 26th March 2022. Click here for full details. Day Ranger tickets are valid on all trains, except the 0549 Carlisle to Leeds and 0648 Lancaster to Leeds services on Monday to Friday. As a result of traincrew shortages Northern Trains will introduce amended reduced timetables on several routes from 4th January 2022.
The changes will affect the Airedale, Wharfedale and Harrogate lines amongst others, but no changes are expected on the Leeds - Settle Carlisle or Leeds - Lancaster - Morecambe lines. The new timetables will be available shortly at: www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timetables A revised timetable will be introduced on Saturdays on Craven Connection services 75 and 580 from 4th December 2021 for the winter season.
Train operator LNER is currently providing a subsidy for the popular Northallerton-Bedale-Leyburn-Aysgarth-Bainbridge-Hawes Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus 856 service from its Customer and Community Investment Fund. This is because the company recognises the great value of the service to local people and visitors to the area, with connections provided at Northallerton station for passengers boarding and alighting from trains.
In recent years, a number of local and regional businesses, local councillors and other donors have also generously provided funding for this service. The 'Wensleydale Flyer' 856 runs all year round, through wonderful scenery and into the National Park.. Valid passes for free travel are accepted - but unfortunately the service doesn't qualify for support from NYCC's transport budget. Although there is much talk of possible government funding for future bus services, at present no reassurance can be given about the continuation of the DalesBus 856 beyond Easter 2022 when the LNER funding ends. A written approach is therefore being made to all the 19 town and parish councils along the 40 mile route between Northallerton and Hawes (and other parish councils close enough to it for their residents and visitors to use the service). The aim of the volunteers making this appeal is to raise a substantial proportion of the subsidy required for the financial year 2022-2023 for formal approaches to be made to external bodies for match-funding. Today's motorists may feel that bus services have nothing to do with them (except during snowy conditions or when the car is being serviced or repaired!). However the pressures and impact of rising fuel prices and climate change may bring a dependency on public transport that most people can barely imagine as yet, Donations or sponsorship from individuals, local businesses and organisations, would also be very welcome. Donations can be made online via Local Giving, and if you would like to discuss sponsorship opportunities or payment via bank transfer please get in touch with us here. We hope local support will help secure the future of this remarkable through service, which connects four market towns and all the villages between them with three return services every Sunday and Bank Holiday. A new national rail timetable will start on 12th December 2021.
Most services will continue unchanged, but a full service will resume on the Bentham Line between Leeds, Skipton, Lancaster and Morecambe. Timetables for all services operated by Northern, including the Bentham Line and Leeds - Settle - Carlisle line (route 7) can be downloaded in PDF format from the Northern website. Temporary reduced timetables are still operating on the following services as a result of a nationwide shortage of drivers:
Most bus services in the Yorkshire Dales operate the same timetables all-year round, but many weekend DalesBus services only operate during the summer months.
The last days of operation of summer-only services for the 2021 season are as follows:
Winter timetables will be introduced on Sunday DalesBus services 873, 874 and 884 from Sunday 24th October. DalesBus services 24, 59, 72 and 856 will continue unchanged for the winter period. Minor changes will be made to some morning journeys on the Pendle Wizz service between Burnley, Colne, Barnoldswick and Skipton on Mondays to Fridays from 4th October 2021:
The new timetable can be downloaded here (PDF file). |