Extra Summer Bus Services in the Yorkshire Dales

Regular all-year round bus services in the Yorkshire Dales are enhanced with additional routes in the Summer months (mainly between Easter or mid-May and September/October), most of these running on Sundays and Bank Holidays only, with a few extra buses on other days.

Visit our timetable booklet page to download the current timetable booklet including all the summer bus services, as well as the many other services which operate all-year round.  Download the network map here (PDF file):

The following seasonal services are still running for the 2019 season:
 
Saturdays until 19th October 2019:

• DalesBus 74: Wakefield - Bradford - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Burnsall - Grassington

Sundays & Bank Holidays until 20th October 2019:

• Craven Connection 580 581 582: Skipton - Settle - Ingleton - Kirkby Lonsdale - Lancaster  (runs on Monday to Saturday all year)
• World of James Herriot DalesBus 830: Middlesbrough - Darlington - Richmond - Reeth - Hawes
• Northern DalesBus 830: Preston - Lancaster - Ingleton - Ribblehead - Hawes - Reeth - Richmond (not Bank Holidays)
• Ribblehead DalesBus 831: Hawes - Ribblehead - Settle
• World of James Herriot DalesBus 857: Hawes - Bainbridge - Askrigg - Castle Bolton - Leyburn - Richmond
• DalesBus 859: Richmond - Leyburn - Middleham - Jervaulx Abbey - Masham (not Bank Holidays)​
• DalesBus 875: Wakefield - Leeds - Ilkley - Grassington - Kettlewell - Aysgarth - Hawes
• Coast & Cove DalesBus 881: Morecambe - Lancaster - Slaidburn - Settle - Malham Tarn - Malham
• Cravenlink 873 884: Dewsbury - Bradford - Shipley - Ilkley - Skipton - Malham  (runs between Ilkley and Skipton all year)

​Tuesdays until 29th October 2019:

• Cumbria Classic Coaches service 569 from Ravenstonedale and Kirkby Stephen to Hawes 

In addition, a Free Shuttle Bus links Ripon and Fountains Abbey every day until 22nd September 2019.


The following services have however now finished for the 2019 summer season:

• Nidderdale DalesBus 821: Keighley - Shipley - Otley - Washburn Valley - Pateley Bridge - Ramsgill - Lofthouse - Scar House 
• DalesBus 822: Selby - York - Ripon - Fountains Abbey - Pateley Bridge - Grassington 
• Eastern DalesBus 825: Selby - Tadcaster - Wetherby - Harrogate - Ripley - Brimham Rocks - Fountains Abbey - Kirkby Malzeard - Masham