Chesham tube station
Chesham is situated northwest of London an aboveground station London Underground in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire. It is located in the town of Chesham to the Station Road and is one of four western end stations of the Metropolitan Line. The 9 located in the Travelcard Zone Station is one of 14 outside of Greater London and was used in 2011 of 0.62 million passengers. It is thus the least used station of the Metropolitan Line. With a distance of around 40 kilometers to Charing Cross Chesham is the farthest from the center of London underground station. At the same time it forms the northernmost and westernmost point of the Underground network. The distance of 6.26 km to the neighboring station Chalfont & Latimer is also the largest distance between two Underground stations.
History
On 8 July 1889, the Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line ) opened the station, as they extended their regular route over Rickmansworth addition, up to this point. There have been efforts to extend the route by Tring and from there to the West Coast Main Line ( between London - Birmingham London and North Western Railway ) to connect. After buying some for necessary land parcels and some work on a concrete dam the plans were dropped again. The Underground routes northwest of Rickmansworth were electrified as the last of the entire network, on September 12, 1960. The last steam-powered train wrong on September 10, 1961.
Equipment
Originally ordered the station Chesham on the platform track still in use today and one next to it lying east of goods and Umsetzgleis. While the gap immediately behind the passenger station was single track in the direction of travel Chalfont & Latimer, led to the north both tracks in a sprawling loading facility, which until the Hempstead Road (now Whitehill ) dragged on. It consisted of three two times reaching up to the road charging and sidings, a slightly shorter track coal in the east, and a cargo track for dairy cattle in the West. At the far end of the western platform bundle a goods shed was built. The station square stretched at the end of Station Road right between the loading facility to the north and just next to the railway station platform building in the south.
The heart of the passenger station still in use today is the parallel to the platform arranged reception building. The railway station forecourt angled towards the north, a water tower was built at the south end of the building. In an extension of this tower is a few years later added another, blunt -ended passenger train track, which the now equipped with an island platform station had two different length platform tracks and the east of it located goods and Umsetzgleis. The road-side end of the middle platform is also now covered until approximately at the level of the water tower. Diagonally opposite, on the other side of the eastern track area, is the interlocking building.
In July 1966, stopped the freight loading in Chesham what the located in the eastern extension of the two railroad loading facilities and freight tracks made redundant. After the demolition of the freight area both tracks ended blunt at the height of the northern railway Rising to a buffer, the Umsetzgleis was shortly afterwards removed completely. Lack of demand put one in 1970 and the western platform track still, so that today no more alternatives that fill the Chesham - road, which makes the distance to the only single-track Streckenast the Metropolitan Line. The station building stands together with interlocking tower and water conservation (Grade II). On the area of the former loading facility in the area of today's road The Backs several parking spaces for the subway station and a supermarket were created. The unused western railway station in trough area was planted ..
Operation
Since December 12, 2010 run about every 30 minutes, eight- car trains from Chesham to Baker Street, during rush hour even to Aldgate. This represents a significant improvement of the offer dar. Before reversed during the day is usually a single, four- car shuttle train to Chalfont & Latimer existing where passengers had to change trains. Only during the rush hour trains to single drove to Baker Street.