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Bus changes on Sunday due to Ilkley Half Marathon

Wednesday, 9 July 2025 07:00

Buses will be effected by road closures for the Ilkley Half Marathon on Sunday

Buses will be unable to run to or from Ilkley on Sunday morning [13th July] due to road closures for the Ilkley Half Marathon, so services will be diverted or truncated accordingly.

Service 62 to/from Keighley will only run between Addingham, Moor Park Way and Keighley until 1330 when the normal service will start. Service 862 will however run normally at 0835 from Keighley to Ilkley.

On Cravenlink service 864 the 0920 journey from Ilkley to Skipton will run normally, but the 0925 journey from Bradford to Skipton and Malham (usually due from Ilkley at 1020) will divert from Shipley non-stop to Skipton Bus Station. Menston, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley and Addingham will not be served on this journey.

Cravenlink service 873 will not serve Addingham and Ilkley until 1245. The 1030 journey from Skipton will terminate at Bolton Bridge Devonshire Arms. The 1120 journey from Ilkley will start opposite Bolton Bridge Devonshire Arms at 1133.

The morning journeys on DalesBus services 874, 875 and 876 will all be diverted, and will not call at Menston, Burley in Wharfedale, Ilkley or Addingham. The afternoon journey at 1420 on DalesBus 874 from Ilkley to Grassington and Buckden will run normally.

Buses on service X84 will only run between Leeds and Burley in Wharfedale, West Terrace from 0830 until 1330 when the normal service will resume. Ilkley will not be served between those times.

After the Cravenlink 864 departure to Skipton at 0920 the next bus from Ilkley is expected to be on service 864 to Skipton at 1340.

For further details about road closures for the event, which includes the A65 through Ilkley and the A59 at Bolton Bridge, tap HERE.

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