The latest government advice is to stay at home and avoid non-essential travel. 
If you still need to travel, you should visit gov.uk/coronavirus for the latest advice.

Many bus and train services in the area are operating reduced timetables due to the global coronavirus outbreak.​

• From Wednesday 1st April Stagecoach North Lancashire​ will add additional shopping journeys to the emergency timetables currently running on services 80/81 between Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale and Lancaster.
• From Wednesday 1st April Little White Bus Swaledale Shuttle service 30 is running a revised timetable on Monday to Saturday to provide better shopping opportunities in Richmond and Tesco Catterick.
• Harrogate Bus Company, Keighley Bus Company and Burnley Bus Company are running reduced timetables for essential journeys, ​this includes service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge*, service 36 between Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon, service X43 between Skipton, Burnley and Manchester* and service 72 between Skipton and Grassington*. 
  * = Note that the temporary timetable on services 24 and 72 runs only on Monday to Saturday, there is no Sunday service on these routes until further notice. On Sundays service X43 buses will only run between Manchester and Burnley - there is no Sunday service from Skipton until further notice.
• First West Yorkshire are running bespoke key worker timetable with normal Mon-Fri start times then frequency based on current peak demand until a Sunday timetable begins during the off peak period - service X84 is only running between Leeds, Otley and Ilkley (no service Ilkley - Skipton).
• Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire are running a reduced Craven Connection timetable for essential journeys on services 580/581/582 between Skipton, Settle, Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale and Lancaster. Saturday service 75 to Malham is suspended until further notice.
• Connexions are operating reduced services; service X52 is only running between Harrogate and Otley, approx. every two hours.
• Upper Wharfedale Venturer service 72B between Hebden, Grassington and Buckden and all Wharfedale Packhorse services are suspended until further notice
• Cumbria Classic Coaches are operating revised timetables on services 570, 571 and 574, but Wednesday service 572 to Barnard Castle is suspended until the end of May 2020.
• All services (S1, S3, S4, S5) run by Western Dales Bus are suspended until further notice.
• The Little White Bus Garsdale Station Shuttle service is running a revised timetable on Monday to Saturday to meet the trains at Garsdale Station at 0921, 0933, 1727 and 1821. The Sunday service remains the same.
• The Little White Bus Richmondshire Rover service is amended to operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only providing links to Catterick Tesco and Richmond - click here for revised timetable.
• Little White Bus services 30 in Swaledale and 156 in Wensleydale are running a normal service.
• Dales & District service 159 between Richmond, Leyburn, Masham and Ripon is running a reduced timetable.
• Dales & District service 73 between Bedale and Northallerton is running a reduced timetable, running mainly hourly.
• The following journeys on Dales & District service 139 between Ripon and Fountains Abbey will not run until further notice, as Fountains Abbey is closed: From Ripon at 1115 and 1625;  From Fountains Abbey at 1130 and 1640.
• Other Dales & District services are running a normal service, except the 0900 journey from Ripon to Northallerton on service 70 will not operate.
• Journeys to/from Skipton on Stagecoach South Lancashire route 280 between Skipton, Clitheroe and Preston are operating a Saturday timetable on Monday to Saturday.
• No changes to North Yorkshire County Council Fleet services have been advised
• Sunday Cravenlink services 873 and 884 between Ilkley and Skipton, and Sunday DalesBus 874 between Wakefield, Leeds, Ilkley, Grassington and Buckden are suspended until further notice.
  
  
• Train services are reduced across the national rail network, Northern are operating a reduced timetable for key workers. Buses replace trains between Skipton and Lancaster on the Bentham Line, and a reduced timetable is running on the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle Line. 
• All services on the Wensleydale Railway and Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway are suspended until further notice.

A summary of changes to bus and train services in West Yorkshire is available on the Metro website.

A summary of changes to bus services in Cumbria is available on the Cumbria County Council website.

North Yorkshire County Council, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Lancashire County Council have made arrangements for most bus companies to accept concessionary bus passes for free travel at all times, helping older people and those with disabilities to access shops and supermarkets earlier in the day.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak the start date of the summer seasonal DalesBus network has been delayed until further notice.

UPDATE FROM DALES & BOWLAND COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY:

Many summer seasonal DalesBus services into and around the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty usually start at Easter weekend.

We are sorry to advise however that this year, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have reluctantly decided to delay the introduction of these services until further notice. We will aim to introduce them as soon as possible following the easing of government guidance on social distancing and non-essential travel, whenever that happens.

In the meantime we will endeavour to continue operating our all-year Sunday DalesBus services 855 and 856 to facilitate essential journeys for local residents for as long as appropriate. However we are sorry that DalesBus Sunday services 873, 874 and 884 are now suspended until further notice.

The latest updates on bus and train services in the Yorkshire Dales area will continue to be available on our news page and on Twitter @dalesbus

Minor changes will be made to the timetable on service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge from 24th February 2020.

On Monday to Friday:

• the 0825 bus from Harrogate to Pateley Bridge will change and instead leave at 0755 to better serve the Army Foundation College, arriving there at 0810. 
• the 0930 bus from Pateley Bridge to Harrogate will change and instead leave at 0900.
  
  

Click here for timetable details.

Minor timetable changes were made to service 147 (Thirsk - Ripon) and service 155 (Bedale - Leyburn) from 13th January 2020.

Service 147 now operates via ​ Holme on Swale junction.

Minor changes will be made to the timetable of Stagecoach bus 280 between Preston, Clitheroe, Barnoldswick and Skipton from 6th January 2020 to improve reliability - click here for timetable details.

A revised timetable will be introduced on Cumbria Classic Coaches Wednesday service 572 between Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen, Brough and Barnard Castle from 8th January 2020.

The outward journey will call at Kirkby Stephen Station at 0938, connecting with the 0748 train from Leeds. 

A revised timetable will be introduced on Wharfedale Packhorse services from January 2020 - click here for details of new times and fares.

Revised timetables will be introduced on the following Western Dales Bus services from 16th December 2019 - click on the links for details:

• Western Dales Bus S1 from Dent Station to Dent, Sedbergh and Kendal (Saturdays)
• Western Dales Bus S3 from Dent and Sedbergh to Garsdale and Hawes (Tuesdays)
• Western Dales Bus S4 from Dent and Sedbergh to Kirkby Stephen and Brough (Fridays)

​There are no changes to Western Dales Bus S5 from Kirkby Stephen to Kendal (Thursdays).

A new national rail timetable will be introduced on Sunday 15th December 2019 - click here to download the new timetable for the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe lines (PDF file).

There are generally only minor changes to services in the Yorkshire Dales area, but trains will now run through between Leeds and Morecambe seven days a week, including Sundays.

On the East Coast mainline on Sundays a new Transpennine Express train will leave Newcastle at 0847, Durham at 0859 and Darlington at 0917, arriving Northallerton at 0927 - connecting with Wensleydale Flyer Bus 856 to Leyburn, Aysgarth and Hawes from opposite the station at 0933.