BUSES will be running from York into the Yorkshire Dales every Sunday and bank holiday throughout the summer months.
These services, which started at the weekend, provide direct links into the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Yorkshire Dales National Park, providing useful facilities for walkers and sightseers alike.
Nidderdale Rambler service 26, operated by Stephenson's Coaches, leaves York Theatre Royal at 9.20am every Sunday and bank holiday, running to Grassington via Harrogate, Pateley Bridge and Stump Cross Caverns. At Pateley Bridge connections are available onto the Nidderdale Rambler bus 25 to Lofthouse, How Stean Gorge and Middlesmoor in Upper Nidderdale.
Reliance Motor Services service 812 leaves York Theatre Royal at 9.40am every Sunday and Bank Holiday, and runs to Ripon, Lightwater Valley and Fountains Abbey.
This bus complements the weekday buses to Ripon on services 142 and 146 run by Arriva Yorkshire and Harrogate Coach Travel. Discounted entry to Lightwater Valley and Fountains Abbey is available
to passengers on service 812, ask the driver for a voucher.
A full-colour guide to buses in the Nidderdale area is available from tourist information centres and the bus information office on George Hudson Street in York.
Updated: 09:39 Tuesday, May 27, 2003
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