What's the most remote bus stop on the TFL network? I reckon it's Pilgrims Way served by the 246, as the nearest bit of civilization is about 30 mins walk away.
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Trivia: Transport for London's most remote bus stop
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Kite159
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Useful if you needed to visit Badger Bathrooms mind 
(or The Velo Barn)
That stop probably sees some use by walkers doing the North Downs Way
(or The Velo Barn)That stop probably sees some use by walkers doing the North Downs Way
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Walkers and dogwalkers (or doggers for short.)Useful if you needed to visit Badger Bathrooms mind
That stop probably sees some use by walkers doing the North Downs Way
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Isn't there a TfL-branded bus stop in the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Plain?
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Only for the special running days (it is removed at other times)
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True. Though isn’t the one at Warminster Station permanent?
I'm sure a listing of TfL bus stops, and their locations (co-ordinates) is available for download somehere, if someone wants to find it and play around with the data to come up with a definitive answer.
I think the furthest LPTB/LT (Country) buses regularly got was Royston (the Board was allowed 'restricted outward runnings' to there), where presumably there was an LPTB stop...
I think the furthest LPTB/LT (Country) buses regularly got was Royston (the Board was allowed 'restricted outward runnings' to there), where presumably there was an LPTB stop...
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The furthest measured from Charing Cross?
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That is correct.
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I have a permanent stop for the London 160 route here in Penzance.
A quick visual comparison off a (small scale) map. Other possible furthest looks to be Aylesbury (Tunbridge Wells, Horsham and West Wycombe are not quite as far methinks)... I will leave it those with more detailed knowledge of LT's country routes to come up with a more definitive answer...
But there's probably a bus museum in a far off country (New Zealand ?) which has put one up somewhere.
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There used to be a London Transport bus stop, together with old London RTL bus, at Long Beach, California next to the Queen Mary ship.
Within Greater London (but only just), probably Home Farm Cottage, North Ockendon, on the 347, unless there is a more remote spot I'm forgetting in the Downe/Biggin Hill area on the right side of the border.
Found it: see https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transp.../foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-0950-2324 , or, for more options/discussion, https://techforum.tfl.gov.uk/t/complete-list-of-bus-stops/2358/26 .
And then you have to consider what you mean by 'remote'...
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When you say "remote" do you mean remote (i.e. furthest) from London, or remote from anything else?
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Yes, you might well have done, I certainly did, and the route still exists but isn't a TfL one. The history of it is probably more complex than almost any other and, for once, the word unique fully deserves to be applied to it.
So is Westhumble Street
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Following the OP's link goes to a stop that isn't at the extremity of its route, so apparently the latter was intended. It's in open countryside north of Westerham, which is the route's destination.