Coastliner Boosts Buses from Leeds & York to Scarborough & Whitby

Grab your bucket and spade! Coastliner, Yorkshire’s award-winning bus network linking Leeds and York with the North Yorkshire Coast, is to add extra journeys delivering more seats, more often this summer.

Tom Harrison (Bus Ambassador)

In anticipation of more people choosing its buses to leave the big city and reach seaside attractions in Scarborough and Whitby for just £3 a trip, Coastliner is planning extra journeys on both its key routes to the coast.

The extra journeys will run during the school summer holidays from this Sunday, 20th July until Saturday 30th August, providing hundreds of additional seats across Coastliner route 840 from Leeds, York and Malton to Whitby, and route 843 between Leeds, York, Malton and Scarborough.

Coastliner General Manager Adam Emmott said:

“We want to help make sure our customers can reach the coast as easily as possible, and with the Government’s announcement that the £3 fare cap is to continue until March 2027, we’re looking forward to welcoming more customers onto our buses this summer.

“Adding extra buses and drivers into the network will help us to deliver a more reliable service along our routes to the coast, while making sure we can carry our customers in comfort at this busiest time of the year.”

The additional Coastliner journeys will run as follows:

Monday to Friday, route 843 Leeds-York-Scarborough:

• 8:35 am Leeds to York will be extended to Scarborough
• Additional service, 4:55 pm Scarborough to York and Leeds

Saturday, Route 843 Leeds-York-Scarborough:

• 8:40 am Leeds to York will be extended to Scarborough
• Additional service, 4:55 pm Scarborough to York and Leeds

Sunday, Route 840 Leeds-York-Whitby:

• 9:23 am York to Whitby will be extended to start from Leeds at 8:10 am, offering summer Sunday day trips from Leeds to Whitby.
• Leeds customers can return on the 5:36 pm Coastliner 840 bus from Whitby to York Station and change to a connecting Coastliner 843 bus for Leeds.

All the additional buses will serve all regular Coastliner bus stops on their way to and from the Coast.

A new ‘Scenic Explorer’ ticket deal is also now available from Coastliner bus drivers or on the Transdev Go mobile app, giving three consecutive days’ unlimited travel anywhere on Coastliner and on other bus routes along the coast from Bridlington and Filey to Saltburn, Redcar and on to Middlesbrough for just £19 for an adult, or £38 for up to five people travelling together.

The three day ticket joins the already popular one-day Scenic Explorer ticket at £10 for an adult or £19 for a group of up to five people, also available on the Transdev Go app or from Coastliner bus drivers.

Full details of all Coastliner’s bus routes, times and tickets are available online at transdevbus.co.uk/coastliner and on the free Transdev Go mobile app.