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Viewed from a Heathrow bound flight from Glasgow.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:0.2km<br/>The path, across the field to the left, goes to Chesham town centre. You are quickly in countryside though, here on the western side of the Tyler's Hill plateau near Dungrove Farm.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of those tractors that will not be going anywhere, or doing an more useful work, is parked at the farm entrance.
©Graham Horn
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©Stacey Harris
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©Oxyman
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©Oxyman
Dist:0.4km<br/>A space between the signal box and the existing track can been seen where previously another track ran past the station to a sizeable goods yard which is now the site of Waitrose's car park.
©Oxyman
Dist:0.4km<br/>Chesham station the end of the line, the driver will be change the destination board
©Shaun Ferguson
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from the adjacent public footpath, looking through the fence towards the platform. This is the north-western extremity of the Metropolitan line, a rural outpost of the London Underground network.
©Graham Horn
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bird box is situated on the left at the top of the stairs.
©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.4km<br/>Chesham station, the furthest west and north station on the London Underground, and where Metroland ends. this single line branch runs from Chalfont & Latimer. To the left of the platform you can just make out another track bed where the rails & sleepers have been removed. At the other end of this shorter platform, part of it has been filled in to become a flowerbed and small garden.
©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ballast is still in place where once the track serving the bay platform once stood
©Oxyman
Dist:0.4km<br/>In 1957, some of the furthest-flung reaches of the London Underground system were still worked by steam. Here, a 4-4-2T locomotive of class C13 waits at Chesham with a train for Chalfont.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A London Transport Metropolitan Line train awaits departure from the outer terminus of the line in rural Buckinghamshire. This section of track was not electrified until 1960.
©Dr Neil Clifton

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