We’re sorry to advise that DalesBus 59 is now suspended during the closure of the A59 at Kex Gill for emergency repairs.
Very few people have been using the service during the long diversion via Ilkley,and the diversionary route will be subject to additional roadworks and delays at Manor Park from 18th March. Click here for details (PDF file). We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused. The full normal timetable will restart as soon as the road reopens. An alternative bus from Harrogate to Bolton Bridge is available on Saturdays on DalesBus 74, departing at 0925. Cravenlink service 873 runs from Skipton to Bolton Abbey on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays. There will be several changes to bus services in the Yorkshire Dales area from 8th April 2024 following retendering of services by North Yorkshire Council.
No further strike action affecting Northern services is currently planned..
For further information please see Northern's website. Bus services in the Yorkshire Dales area will, as usual, be amended over the Easter weekend.
Good Friday 29th March
Saturday 30th March
Easter Sunday 31st March
Easter Monday 1st April
These Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services will restart for the 2024 season on Easter Sunday 31st March:
Also from Easter weekend revised summer timetables will be introduced on these Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services:
These Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services will restart for the 2024 season on Sunday 5th May:
Details of other Summer Sunday and Bank Holiday services restarting in May will be available shortly. The Lancashire Dalesrail service will resume in a revised format as the Yorkshire Dales Explorer train on 8th June 2024, running on Saturdays from Rochdale via Manchester Victoria, Bolton, Blackburn and Clitheroe to Settle, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Ribblehead.
Trains will leave Rochdale at 0752 and 1452 every Saturday, returning from Ribblehead at 1108 and 1805. There will be good connections with the Leeds to Carlisle service for those wanting to travel along Mallerstang to Kirkby Stephen as well as to the Eden Valley, Appleby and Carlisle. Full timetable details are available here. From 25th March 2024 Stagecoach service 563 from Penrith to Appleby will be extended to Kirkby Stephen, Sedbergh and Kendal on Monday to Friday with a revised timetable.
On Saturdays service 563 will continue to run between Penrith, Appleby, Kirkby Stephen and Kirkby Stephen Station. Services operated by Western Dales Bus in the area will continue unchanged. The bus station at Bradford Interchange is temporarily closed - click here for further information.
DalesBus 864 to Ilkley, Skipton and Malham will start from stop S4 on Sunbridge Road until further notice. Minor changes will be made to the timetable of Dales & District service 159 from 8th January 2024 to improve reliability:
A new national rail timetable starts on 10th December 2023. There are only minor changes to times on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe lines. The new timetable is available here (PDF file)
On Sundays the 0859 train from Leeds to Carlisle is retimed to depart at 0909 and run around ten minutes later throughout the journey. Connecting trains to Shipley run from Ilkley at 0853 and Bradford Forster Square at 0913. In order to maintain connections at Skipton, the following Sunday buses are retimed:
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