York Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

The very useful York Travel Bus Info Centre (551400; 20 George Hudson St; 8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri) has complete schedule information and sells local and regional tickets. All local and regional buses stop along Rougier St, off Station Rd inside the city walls on the western side of Lendal Bridge.

National Express coaches also stop here as well as outside the train station. Tickets can be bought at the tourist offices. There are services to London (£24.50, 5¼ hours, four daily), Birmingham (£23, three hours, one daily) and Edinburgh (£30.50, 5½ hours, one daily).

Car & motorcycle

You won’t need a car around the city, but it comes in handy for exploring the surrounding area. Rental options include: Europcar (656161), by platform 1 in the train station, which also rents bicycles and stores luggage (£5); and Hertz (612586) near platform 3 in the train station.

Train

York train station is a stunning masterpiece of Victorian engineering. It also has plenty of arrivals and departures: Birmingham (£35, 2½ hours); Edinburgh (£65, 2½ hours, hourly); Leeds (£8.80, 50 minutes, hourly); London’s King’s Cross (£85, two hours, hourly); Manchester (£16.80, 1½ hours, six daily); and Scarborough (£10.30, 45 minutes).

Trains also go via Peterborough (£44.50, 1¾ hours, every 30 minutes) for Cambridge and East Anglia.

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