Journey Planners and Timetables

The Dalesbus website contains timetables for many local buses, but there are also many other sources of information available to help you plan your journey.

There are now several on-line journey planners, including full timetables for all bus and rail services in their respective areas:
Map of Yorkshire Journey Planner for City of York, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire
and West Yorkshire

Transport Direct, the first complete transport journey planner for Great Britain
Traveline North East    The traveline north east Journey Planner will allow you to plan any bus, coach, rail, metro and ferry journey anywhere in north east England. It also covers all buses and ferries in North Yorkshire and Cumbria, and travel anywhere in the UK on the national rail and coach networks.
Traveline North West Journey Planner for the North West of England , including Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

A good way to find out train times is to use the National Rail journey planner, which includes details of all train operators services:              

Traveline provide a one-call phone number for all public transport timetable information in North Yorkshire.  The number is 0870 608 2 608, and lines are open daily between 8am and 8pm. If you are calling from outside the area, press 885 as soon as the greeting message starts, this will divert you to a Traveline call centre in North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire County Council now produce annual area timetable booklets for the following areas:

A series of NYCC transport maps is also available, including one covering Harrogate and the Dales area. 

A guide to bus services in the Nidderdale area is included in the "Explore Nidderdale" booklet produced by the YDPTUG, and available from information centres and other outlets in the area.

For bus and train services within or to/from West Yorkshire, METRO will send up to 10 timetables post-free, simply phone them on 0113 245 7676. Metro also 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: 

Dales Bus Winter 2005/6 Timetable (approx 1.0 Mb)  Please note that the timetables for service 805 and weekday journeys on service 24 do not apply until 31st October 2005.

(note - may take some time to download - requires Acrobat Reader). 

Further information is available on the METRO website.

The Yorkshire Dales Public Transport Users Group, providers of this website, provide details of public transport changes in the Yorkshire Dales to their members by post. If you have found this website useful, please consider joining the Group. Click here for further details and a membership form.

For details of an individual service you can also contact the operator for the latest details.

For further travel related links relevant to the Yorkshire Dales area see Dales Links - Travel Links.

For further information on the Yorkshire Dales, including places to visit, accommodation, guided walks, local websites and much more visit the Dales Links index.

 

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