please empty your brain below
Slip of the keyboard. I think you meant Brentwood Sainsburys, but you've typed Brentford...

dg writes: Sorry, I'm always doing that. Fixed.

IslandDweller | 15.11.15 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Isn't there a TfL bus stop in Wiltshire, for the Imber service?

http://www.route-one.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Imber.jpg

timbo | 15.11.15 - 8:05 a.m. | #

Beware the pedants out there - as some smartalec at work pointed out, in an attmept to correct a discussion about the most westerly - Sir Peter's annual foray to Imber with its TfL 'offical' bus stop plate....

Moquette | 15.11.15 - 8:06 a.m. | #

My analysis is based on the TfL database provided in the Freedom of Information request which, not surprisingly, is Imber-less.

(and Warminster is further west than Imber)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.11.15 - 8:16 a.m. | #

I went to Home Farm Cottage bus stop the other day on the 370. I was on my way to Stubbers Outdoor Centre, but there is no eastbound bus stop at Stubbers, so you have to go to Home Farm and then get the 370 bus back or walk. Just thought you would like to know.

Running_Correspondent | 15.11.15 - 8:35 a.m. | #

Which begs the question, which one is the centremost?

dg writes: I'm ahead of you there ;)

| 15.11.15 - 8:40 a.m. | #

Ah, but how have you defined centremost? I trust you have taken the co-ordinates of each bus stop and "weighted them" so that the centre of gravity of the total gives you the centre.

And how many bus stops are there in the vicinity of Bow Church?

Pedantic of Purley | 15.11.15 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Surprised Dorking isn`t the southernmost. Still, stats is stats.

Roehamster | 15.11.15 - 9:25 a.m. | #

The places you visit to bring us fascinating posts!
Had it correctly identified bus stop M though!

Cornish Cockney | 15.11.15 - 10:39 a.m. | #

I think Dorking isn't a TfL bus stop. Possibly a Surrey CC bus stop. DG probably has a photo somewhere when he took the 465.

JQ | 15.11.15 - 11:10 a.m. | #

Pedantic suggest that, to find the centre, you should have weighted the bus stops. Avoiding digressions about "weighting for a bus (stop)", I wonder what weighting he has in mind. Number of routes (or buses, or passengers) calling, or something else? Doubtless all will be revealed in an upcoming post.

Malcolm | 15.11.15 - 12:06 p.m. | #

Why did it take an FoI request for someone to get this data? It's been available on the TfL developer area for years...

Kirk | 15.11.15 - 2:32 p.m. | #

Centre-most? You'll want the centroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centroid

Andrew | 15.11.15 - 4:10 p.m. | #

Andrew,

That's what I meant. Thanks.

Pedantic of Purley | 15.11.15 - 4:25 p.m. | #

DG, Surely bus stops in Slough are more west than Harefield West / Belfry Avenue? If not that, then Heathrow terminal 5 is a top candidate?

Ali | 15.11.15 - 4:55 p.m. | #

See the smallprint in today's post.

The westernmost bus stop in London can't be in Slough, which is outside London.

Meanwhile, 13 London bus stops lie further west than Heathrow Terminal 5.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.11.15 - 5:17 p.m. | #

@Roehamster
As DG says, the southernmost TfL stop* is near Dorking station, and the southernmost stop where TfL buses call is in the town centre.

But Dorking is not in Greater London, so no bus stop (or anything else) in Dorking can be the southernmost one in Greater London.

*Unless you count Warminster, which is about 2 miles further south!

timbo | 15.11.15 - 10:30 p.m. | #

Those bus stops look like they could do with a heater or two...must get chilly waiting for bus there on cold days!

OnTheBus | 15.11.15 - 10:46 p.m. | #

Perhaps your next project could be to track down the northernmost, easternmost, southernmost, westernmost and centremost bus stops in each London Borough?

dg writes: I'll pass on that, thanks.

Rotherhithe | 16.11.15 - 1:24 a.m. | #

Goodness. I do hope that the "Coy Carp" spelling is intentional (no, I really don't have anything better to do at work this afternoon).

Simon | 16.11.15 - 5:47 p.m. | #











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