Service Changes in Tees Valley and North Yorkshire

From Sunday 30 August 2026, a number of timetable changes will be introduced across Tees Valley and North Yorkshire.

Most changes are minor and are designed to improve punctuality and reliability, while a range of significant enhancements will also be introduced on the popular X4/X4A services, providing additional early morning and evening journeys.

Service 62 – Middlesbrough to Redcar

• Early Monday to Friday afternoon journeys will depart up to 5 minutes later to improve punctuality.

Service 63 – Middlesbrough to Redcar

• A revised Monday to Friday afternoon timetable will be introduced to improve reliability and help reduce delays caused by increasing traffic congestion.

Service 64 – Middlesbrough to Grangetown

• Early Monday to Friday afternoon journeys will depart up to 5 minutes later to improve punctuality.

Service 65 – Middlesbrough to Lingdale

• Early Monday to Friday afternoon journeys will depart up to 5 minutes later.
• These changes will provide pupils at Laurence Jackson School with additional time to reach the bus stop for the 15:00 journey towards Middlesbrough.

Services X4/X4A – Middlesbrough, Loftus and Whitby

A number of improvements will be introduced to provide more travel opportunities and better connectivity:

• Additional early morning journeys from Whitby will operate Monday to Saturday.
• A new 19:10 journey from Middlesbrough to Loftus and Whitby will operate Monday to Saturday.
• The current 21:40 Monday to Saturday journey from Middlesbrough to Easington will be extended to Whitby.
• The current 22:19 Monday to Saturday journey from Loftus (departing Whitby at 21:43) will be extended to Middlesbrough.
• On Sundays, a new later evening journey will depart Whitby at 20:43, arrive in Loftus at 21:18, and continue to Middlesbrough, arriving at 22:35.