Chesham tube station
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Chesham lies at the end of the Chesham branch of the Metropolitan line, and opened 8 July 1889 as the original terminus of the Metropolitan Railway from Baker Street. Chesham is the Underground station most distant from any other. There is no station starter signal at Chesham. The branch is short, with no intermediate stops.
There are occasional 8-car trains through to Aldgate (mainly in the rush hour), but for most of the day a 4-car train operates as a shuttle service to and from Chalfont & Latimer station, on the main line to Amersham and Aylesbury.
The station is in Travelcard Zone D.
History
There had been an intention to extend the branch onwards to Tring and make a connection to the LNWR Euston–Birmingham line. Land for the purpose was bought along the proposed line of route, but no further progress was made, and with the extension of the main line onwards from Chalfont and Latimer towards Amersham the idea was abandoned.