Leeds - Settle - Carlisle Railway 

The world-famous Leeds - Settle - Carlisle line travels through some of the most spectacular scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Click here for timetables of Northern train services (the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle and Leeds - Lancaster - Morecambe lines are Route 7).
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The Yorkshire Dales Explorer train runs on Saturdays from Rochdale via Manchester Victoria, Bolton, Blackburn and Clitheroe to Settle, Horton-in-Ribblesdale and Ribblehead. Timetable details are available here.

Bus-links from the Leeds - Settle - Carlisle line provide easy access to places in the National Park and neighbouring Forest of Bowland National Landscape.  Single fares on any of these buses are no more than £3: 

• Bus 72 from Skipton to Grassington  (Daily)
• Buses from Skipton Station to Malham  (Daily)
• Bus 11 from Settle to Tosside, Slaidburn, Dunsop Bridge and Clitheroe   (Monday to Saturday) 
• DalesBus 80 from Ribblehead Station, connecting with Yorkshire Dales Explorer train, to Hawes  (Summer Saturdays from 3rd May 2025)
  
• Northern DalesBus 830 from Ribblehead Station to Hawes, Upper Swaledale and Richmond   (Summer Sundays from 20th April 2025)
• Western Dales Bus S1 from Dent Station to Dent, Sedbergh and Kendal   (Saturdays)
• Garsdale Station Shuttle 113 from Garsdale Station to Hardraw and Hawes   (Monday to Saturday)
• Wensleydale Explorer Bus 857 from Garsdale Station to Hawes, Askrigg and Castle Bolton    (Summer Sundays from 20th April 2025)
• Bus 563 from Kirkby Stephen Station to Kirkby Stephen, Appleby and Penrith   (Monday to Saturday)

​For further information about the line visit the Settle Railway Railway website.