Dales & District

Dales & District is a bus company operating services across North Yorkshire. It is a subsidiary of Procters Coaches.[1]

Dales & District
A Dales & District Optare Solo, seen in Thirsk in May 2007.
ParentProcters Coaches
Founded1998 (23 years ago)
HeadquartersTutin Road
Leeming Bar Industrial Estate
Northallerton
DL7 9UJ
Service areaCounty Durham
North Yorkshire
Service typeBus and coach
Managing DirectorKevin John Procter
Websitehttps://procterscoaches.com/dales-district-timetable/

The company's original network included services in and around Wensleydale and the town of Northallerton. Following the closure of Arriva's Richmond depot in March 2006, Dales & District agreed to take on the operation of most of the North Yorkshire County Council funded rural services.

This saw significant expansion in 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, with regular buses serving Catterick, Darlington, Northallerton, Richmond and Ripon.

As of March 2020, Dales & District operate nine services, predominantly serving the areas in and around Richmond, Ripon and Northallerton.

Service 73 provides a half-hourly service, linking the heritage Wensleydale Railway at Leeming Bar with rail services at Northallerton.

In April 2016, two of the bus services (31 & 74) operated by Dales & District were deemed commercially unviable, which led to North Yorkshire County Council taking over the routes.[2]

Fleet and operations

The Dales & District fleet consists mainly of vehicles manufactured by Alexander Dennis and Optare.

As of March 2020, Dales & District operates most services from a single depot at Leeming Bar Industrial Estate, near Northallerton.

See also

References
  1. "Procters Coaches (North Yorkshire) Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. Flanagan, Emily (31 March 2016). "Council steps in to save buses in North Yorkshire towns". Darlington & Stockton Times. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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