Is this the most beautiful bus route in Britain?

830 service across North Yorkshire is a promising prospect

As bus journeys go, my trip on the small green 830 Frequenta service across North Yorkshire seems a promising prospect as we rumble over the cobbled streets of Richmond and head out towards open country.

For this is the Northern Dalesman, the only way of crossing the Yorkshire Dales National Park by public transport, which makes its 40-mile, once-weekly journey from Richmond in the north-east to Ingleton on the western boundary.