COVID-19 Virus Outbreak

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.

There are a number of changes to bus and train services in the area due to the global coronavirus outbreak.

• From Sunday 29th March Harrogate Bus Company, Keighley Bus Company and Burnley Bus Company will introduce amended reduced timetables for key workers, ​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.
• From Monday 30th March First West Yorkshire will run a 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 will only operate between Leeds, Otley and Ilkley (no service Ilkley - Skipton).
• From Monday 30th March Kirkby Lonsdale Coach Hire will operate a reduced Craven Connection timetable on services 580/581/582 between Skipton, Settle, Ingleton, Kirkby Lonsdale and Lancaster. Saturday service 75 to Malham will be suspended.
• 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 is suspended until further notice
• From Monday 30th March Stagecoach North Lancashire will operate a reduced timetable - this includes services 80/81 to/from Lancaster.
• 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.
• Dales & District service 159 between Richmond, Leyburn, Masham and Ripon is operating a reduced timetable.
• Dales & District service 73 between Bedale and Northallerton is reduced to operate mainly hourly - departing Bedale at 0727, 0830, 0930, 1030, 1230, 1330, 1430, 1530, 1630, 1800 and Northallerton at 0800, 0905, 1005, 1105, 1305, 1405, 1505, 1605, 1705 and 1835.
• 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.
• Stagecoach South Lancashire is operating a Saturday service on route 280 between Preston, Clitheroe and Skipton.
• 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. The timetables on some routes will change again from Monday 30th March.
• 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.