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The route QUAYCONNECT bus service in Southampton (operated by Go Ahead South Coast) is another very short one taking just 7 minutes total.
Route 389: Barnet The Spires to Western Way
London's shortest bus route
Length of journey: 1.65 miles (<10 minutes)
Courtesy of www.diamondgeezer.blogspot.com, who blogged a very interesting series about London’s ten shortest bus routes over the first week in January.
Stagecoach Newcastle's 68 takes four minutes to go from Four Land Ends to DSS Tyneview Park, a distance of 0.8 miles.
Rosso service 13 between Rawtenstall and New Hall Hey is a 6 minute round trip
http://www.rossobus.com/service.shtml?serviceid=7678
That's almost hilarious given large chucks of many towns have bus services that require passengers to walk further to get to a bus stop.No-one mentioned Keighley's K8?
It's 0.4 miles.
Very likely to have been Orpington. I'd wager that Kelvin Parade, at one end of the High Street, was one of the termini, the other being one of the War Memorial (possibly), the Station or Ramsden Estate, the latter being reached almost non-stop via the By-Pass (I know there was such a journey.) It would almost certainly have been worked by Dunton Green garage (code DG) which for a time in the 1950s and 1960s must have operated almost as many routes as it had buses allocated! The 431 in particular had many suffixed offshoots, and one of those would be my guess for its number.
I wonder if this is the shortest route that requires a fare (i.e. not a free shuttle service to the nearest supermarket/rail station)
I think i may have found a winner (if it is allowed). The Crawley Asda Free Bus service (operated by Go Ahead Metrobus) has a journey time of just 3 minutes from one end to the other. It basically just shuttles back and fourth between the two bus stops of Crawley Bus Station and Crawley Asda all day (which is only a five minute walk). Now i know you said that supermarket free bus services were not allowed however this is a fully registered bus service and the full range of normal Single/Return/Day tickets are sold. Officially it is a paid service but passengers travelling to or from Asda for the purpose of visiting this supermarket travel for free on it. If you are using it but not shopping at Asda then you are meant to pay. Of course this is never enforced (it would be impossible to anyway as how would the driver know if an alighting passenger was going to go in to Asda or if a boarding passenger had just came out of Asda) and everyone just walks on without any questions from the driver. But it is still officially a paid service with the ticket machine fully programmed to issue the full range of Single/Return/Day tickets for passengers who are not using it to visit the Asda supermarket (even though it is not enforced and they have probably never sold a ticket on it in its entire twenty plus years of operation).
I think i may have found a winner (if it is allowed). The Crawley Asda Free Bus service (operated by Go Ahead Metrobus) has a journey time of just 3 minutes from one end to the other.
If being a registered local bus service is going to allow inclusion then there's the A1 Blackwood Interchange - Asda at 5 mins and about a mile.
I'm heading for a day in the hills over the weekend, and stumbled across a bus which I don't think can be beaten for brevity:
https://bustimes.org/services/flx-hebden-bridge-railway-stn-hebden-bridge-hope-s
It's the FLX, which only runs once per night from Hebden Bridge railway station to Hope St, just 2 minutes away.
There's a major caveat in that it will carry on for a few more miles on request, but as none of those stops are timetabled, it looks like this could be our winner. Or, at least it is for now