Dales & District

Dales & District is a bus operator based in North Yorkshire, England. Owned by Procters Coaches it has its main depot at Leeming Bar by the side of the A1(M) motorway.

The company's original network included services up Wensleydale and around Northallerton. Following Arriva North East closing their depot in Richmond and ceasing many rural services in the area, Dales & District agreed to take on the operation of most of the North Yorkshire County Council funded rural services. This saw a huge expansion in Dales & District's operations with a large increase in the number of vehicles causing local disagreement due to the overnight storage of buses outside their Leeming Bar depot until it could be expanded. Dales & District became the main bus operator for the north-west of North Yorkshire, including services to Darlington.

It operates the 73 service which provides a bus link for passengers on the Wensleydale Railway between their terminus at Leeming Bar railway station and mainline services at Northallerton railway station. Service 73 operates Every 30 minutes, Monday to Saturday. 

The company also operates Service 70 which runs between Northallerton and Ripon via Thirsk five times a day in each direction, Monday to Saturday. The three journeys off Northallerton at 10:15,12:30 and 16:30 are done commercially but the journey from Ripon at 7:25 towards Northallerton and the one from Northallerton at 17:35 are both subsidised by North Yorkshire County Council.

In 2016, two of the bus services that Dales & District ran were deemed commercially unviable, which led to NYCC operating the services themselves. The two routes are both circular services that cover Northallerton and Richmond.

See also
List of bus operators of the United Kingdom

References

External links

Company website

Category:Transport in North Yorkshire
Category:Bus operators in North Yorkshire
Category:Companies based in Hambleton District