Cumbria Classic Coaches service 572 between Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle will restart from Wednesday 31st March 2021, running every Wednesday.

Some bus services will be increased from 8th March 2021, as students return to school, including:

• Pendle Wizz service between Burnley and Skipton - on Monday to Friday times will return to the full pre-lockdown timetable - download the new times here.
• service 24 between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge - times will go back to their pre-lockdown timetables – which means schoolday journeys to and from St Aidan’s and St John Fisher Schools will be added back in. Download the new times here.
  An S24 coach will be provided by North Yorkshire County Council too as before, to provide more capacity for students travelling from Nidderdale. Please use this coach instead of the morning service 24 journey into Harrogate if you're a student - check the S24 times here.
  
• Stagecoach services 80 and 81 between Lancaster, Bentham, Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton will resume full schoolday timetables.

Northern Trains will continue a reduced lockdown timetable until 15th May 2021.

On the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle line there will be four trains per day in each direction, plus a train each way between Leeds and Ribblehead; and on the Bentham Line there will be four services in each direction between Skipton and Lancaster only.

​The new Leeds-Settle-Carlisle and Bentham Line timetable for Monday to Saturday can be downloaded here (PDF file).

Sunday services will continue unchanged.

​All Northern Trains timetables are available here. 

Several changes are being made to bus services in the Kirkby Stephen area:

• all services operated by Western Dales Bus will resume from 13th April 2021.
• bus service 106 between Kendal, Tebay, Shap and Penrith is now run by Cumbria Classic Coaches (replacing Stagecoach), with an improved timetable running on Tuesdays and Fridays .
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Tuesday service 574 between Kirkby Stephen, Brough, Appleby and Penrith has been withdrawn, but is replaced by new Western Dales Bus Tuesday service S6 from 13th April 2021.
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Summer Tuesday service 569 between Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen and Hawes is permanently withdrawn.
• Cumbria Classic Coaches Monday service 571 between Brough, Kirkby Stephen and Kendal, and Thursday service 570 between Ravenstonedale, Shap, Tebay and Kendal both continue unchanged.

Minor changes will be made to the Sunday Cravenlink service 873 and 884 timetables from 13th December to connect with the train from Carlisle to Nottingham due to arrive in Skipton at 1720:

• the service 873 bus at 1620 from Ilkley to Skipton Bus Station will continue to Skipton Railway Station, arriving at 1708
• the service 884 bus at 1730 from Skipton Bus Station to Ilkley will start from Skipton Railway Station at 1724.

The new timetable is available here.

New train timetables will be introduced nationwide from Sunday 13th December 2020.

The new timetables will include an increased service on the Leeds - Skipton - Settle - Carlisle and Leeds - Skipton - Lancaster - Morecambe lines.

The new timetables are available on the National Rail Enquiries website and via these links:

• Northern
• Cross Country
• Grand Central
• LNER
• TransPennine Express

We are sorry to advise that Sunday DalesBus 875 (Wetherby - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Kettlewell - Buckden) 
is suspended until further notice due to Tier 3 Covid restrictions being in place in West Yorkshire.

The Little White Bus Garsdale Station Shuttle has resumed running a scheduled service between Gayle, Hawes, Hardraw and Garsdale Station seven days a week  - click here for timetable details.

At other times the bus is available to provide a pre-booked demand responsive service throughout the Upper Wensleydale and Upper Swaledale areas.

Bus services between Leeds, Otley, Ilkley and Skipton will be revised from 4th October 2020:

• First service X84 will be increased on Monday to Saturday daytimes to run every 15 minutes between Leeds and Otley, with buses continuing to Ilkley every half-hour. On Sundays buses will run between Leeds and Ilkley every half-hour all day, with an hourly service every evening.
• First service X85 will be replaced by new service 85 running between Leeds and Pool-in-Wharfedale every 90 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytimes.
• Service 784 between Otley, Ilkley and Skipton will be run by The Keighley Bus Company, with no change to the timetable.