View the new Stagecoach Summer 2026 timetable here

508 bus service Penrith to Windermere, via Pooley Bridge, Glenridding & Patterdale

• After a major landslide on the Windermere side of Kirkstone Pass buses and other traffic is unable to go along the road to Windermere.
• The Struggle between Ambleside and the summit of Kirkstone Pass is open but is definitely not recommended for buses (although a bus once went down that way, by mistake, and crashed near the bottom with some somewhat alarmed passengers).
• This service is just operating between Penrith and Patterdale until the road over Kirkstone Pass is reopened.

509 bus service Keswick to Penrith, via Dockray, Patterdale & Pooley Bridge

• In 2025 this went via Lowther Castle and just operated on Saturdays and Sundays and Bank Holiday.
• In 2026 it will operate Daily but instead of going via Lowther Castle it will go to Penrith via Dalemain and Rheged. The link to Lowther Castle is covered by the bus service UB2.

Ullswater Hopper bus service

This continues to be developed starting and finishing each day at the Basecamp North Lakes Farmshop, next to the A66.

• UB1 This goes between Aira Force and the Cattle Grid at the bottom of Martindale Hause at Howtown, via Pooley Bridge.
• UB2 This goes between Aira Force and Lowther Castle via Pooley Bridge and Askham.

553 bus service Carlisle to Keswick via Caldbeck and Uldale

• In 2025 this service was just on weekends and bank holidays but in 2026 will be daily between March and November.

X4 bus service Penrith to Workington via Keswick & Bassenthwaite

• Goes along on the east side of Bassenthwaite Lake.
• In 2026 it goes through Penruddock but not Stainton.

X5 bus service Penrith to Workington via Keswick, Braithwaite & Thornthwaite.

• Goes along on the west side of Bassenthwaite Lake
• In 2026 it goes through Stainton but not Penrudock

Generally no changes in relation to the following –

Services throughout the year

• 6 bus service Barrow, via Ulverston and Windermere to Kendal
• X6 bus service Barrow, via Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands, to Kendal
• 78 bus service Keswick to Seatoller (Borrowdale Valley)
• 30 bus service Whitehaven to Frizington, via Cleator Moor
• 505 bus service Windermere to Coniston via Ambleside & Hawkshead
• 516 bus service Windermere to Dungeon Ghyll (Great Langdale) via Ambleside
• 553 bus service Carlisle to Keswick via Wigton & Bothel
• 555 bus service Keswick to Lancaster via Grasmere, Ambleside, Windermere & Kendal
• 599 bus service Bowness-on-Windermere to Grasmere via Ambleside
• 755 bus service Bowness-on-Windermere to Morecambe via Kendal, Carnforth & Lancaster

Services between March and November

• 77 bus service Keswick to Buttermere, via Whinlatter and Honister Pass and back, by Catbells, to Keswick
• 77A bus service As 77 but in reverse
• 77C bus service Cockermouth to Buttermere