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 May Day bank holiday weekend and mid-October), most of these running on Sundays and Bank Holidays only, with a few extra buses on other days.

A map showing the full Summer Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus network is available here (PDF file).  Visit our timetable booklet page to download the current timetable for all services, or follow the links below for details of individual services.

All the seasonal DalesBus services are now running for the 2018 summer season, including:

SATURDAYS

• DalesBus 874: Wakefield - Leeds - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Burnsall - Grassington

SUNDAYS & BANK HOLIDAY MONDAYS

• Nidderdale Rambler 821: Keighley - Shipley - Otley - Washburn - Pateley Bridge - Lofthouse - Scar House
• Fountains Flyer 822: Selby - York - Ripon - Fountains Abbey - Pateley Bridge - Grassington
• Brimham Explorer 825: Ripon - Fountains Abbey - Brimham Rocks - Harrogate
• Northern Powergrid Country Bus 830: Middlesbrough - Darlington - Richmond - Reeth - Hawes  
• Northern Dalesman 830: Preston - Lancaster - Ingleton - Ribblehead - Hawes - Reeth - Richmond  (Sundays only)
• Ribblehead Ranger 831: Hawes - Settle
• Bowland Explorer 833: Lancaster - Bentham - Ingleton - Gisburn Forest - Slaidburn - Clitheroe
• Wensleydale Wanderer 857: Hawes - Bainbridge - Askrigg - Castle Bolton - Leyburn - Middleham - Jervaulx Abbey - Masham
• DalesBus 859: Richmond - Leyburn  (Sundays only)
• The Dalesman 874: Wakefield - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Kettlewell - Buckden
• The Dalesman 875: Wakefield - Leeds - Ilkley - Kettlewell - Aysgarth - Hawes
• Malham Tarn Shuttle 881: Morecambe - Lancaster - Kirkby Lonsdale - Ingleton - Clapham - Settle - Malham Tarn - Malham
• Cravenlink 884: Dewsbury - Bradford - Yeadon - Otley - Ilkley - Skipton - Malham

TUESDAYS

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

DAILY

• Red Squirrel Trail Bus from Hawes to Snaizeholme

SELECTED DAYS IN SUMMER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

• Pre-bookable VAMOOZ day trips from Bradford, Shipley & Keighley to the Yorkshire Dales National Park