COMMUNITY SPIRIT IN DENTDALE

JOHN CAREY and JOHN DISNEY report on a group of enterprising locals who formed their own bus company after the removal of council subsidies and the withdrawal of their conventional bus service

Western Dales Bus RX65 YRD, the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter bought new, descending the Coal Road from Dent station on Saturday service S1.
PICTURES BY JOHN CAREY
The original hired-in Peugeot Boxer, MX13 CHF, ascending Dent Head in May 2014 on service 564C to Hawes. The Dentdale viaduct on the Settle-Carlisle railway is behind.

The picturesque valley of Dentdale is one of the most remote corners of the Yorkshire Dales. Until county boundaries were redrawn in 1974, it formed part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and now is in Cumbria.

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