Regular bus services in the dales have traditionally been enhanced with additional routes in the Summer months (mainly between Easter and the end of September), most of these running on Sundays and Bank Holidays only, with a few extra buses on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Most of the seasonal bus services into the Dales will, this year, continue operating throughout September, with some routes continuing into October.
The last dates of operation on the summer timetables are as follows:
Sunday 14th September:
Dales Experience Bus service 814 from Bradford and Skipton to Malham (but click here for details of Winter service)
Sunday 28th September:
Nidderdale Rambler 25: Pateley Bridge to Upper Nidderdale (but click here for details of Winter service)
Nidderdale Rambler 26: Pateley Bridge to Brimham Rocks (but click here for details of Winter service)
Fountains Flyer 802: Seacroft, Leeds and Otley to Pateley Bridge, Fountains Abbey, Leyburn and Richmond
Wensleydale Explorer Bus 807: Ribblehead – Hawes – Aysgarth – Leyburn
Wensleydale Explorer Bus 808: Ribblehead/Gayle – Hawes – Aysgarth – Buckden
Malham Tarn Shuttle service 809 from Ilkley and Skipton to Settle and Malham (this service will however also run on 25th/26th October and 1st/2nd November)
the Ingleborough Pony 888 linking Settle, Clapham, Ingleton, Ribblehead and Austwick
Sunday 26th October:
Fountains Abbey Shuttle Bus from Ripon
Tuesday 28th October:
the Wensleydale Vintage Tour Bus from Ripon to Leyburn, Redmire and Hawes
Cumbria Classic Coaches services 569/570 from Ravenstonedale to Hawes and Ribblehead
DalesBus 874: Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden now operates all-year round, as do all other bus services in the Dales.
Metro produce a handy pocket size timetable of most leisure bus routes in the Dales, including all buses from West Yorkshire to the Dales. You can download a copy in PDF format by clicking below:
DalesBus Summer 2008 Timetable - (approx 800KB PDF file)
DalesBus Winter 2008-9 Timetable - (approx 800KB PDF file)
There are also many all-year bus services in the Dales.
A diagrammatic map and a list of places in the Yorkshire Dales served by bus on Summer Sundays and Bank Holidays are also available.
If you live in the Keighley or Skipton area you can catch service 66A. This service from Keighley and Skipton to Grassington continues to run hourly throughout the day on Sundays, leaving Keighley at 0945 and every hour until 1545, returning from Grassington at 1055 and hourly until 1655.
The Cravenlink service between Ilkley, Bolton Abbey, Embsay and Skipton continues every Sunday throughout the Winter, and now has an improved route serving Barden Scale and The Strid.
The Sunday bus services in Nidderdale (route 24 from Harrogate to Pateley Bridge) and Wensleydale (routes 156/157 from Northallerton and Bedale to Leyburn and Hawes) are now well-established year-round routes so will continue running throughout the Winter.
Service X80 from Preston and Clitheroe to Skipton continues to operate on Sundays throughout the year, connecting with service 66A at Skipton.
See separate pages for all-year services and winter leisure services.
This webpage is part of the Dalesbus Website,
provided by the Yorkshire Dales Public Transport Users Group
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