 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Little Chalfont. I've just come out for an evening drive in my larder We're going over to Chalfont and Latimer station. The reason we're going here is because Today some London some signboxes on the London Underground have just been given a grade 2 listed status I thought it'd be quite nice to go and see them on the day They've just been listed but as I walk to the station, which is not far from here I have something else I want to quickly talk about and that is I want to say thank you to all of you who watch my videos Today I reach 7,000 subscribers, which I'm really pleased about. I'm really happy You know to have got to another milestone. It always it's always nice when you reach a round number Like 7,000 it also it really helps with the videos the more subscribers I get the more places You know, I get asking me to come and make a video for them Earlier this year. I was invited to the Chinor and Princess Rishbara Railway So have a look in the Princess Rishbara signbox. We want to see that. Have a look at Lincoln's screen now So it always helps With those kind of things the more subscribers I get so, you know, please do like and share and subscribe and As I said, thank you very much for helping me get there. Of course in the meantime I will continue to travel around the rail network or go out for drives in my larder visit miniature railways narrow gauge railways Railways of all shapes and sizes in various different Countries around Europe at the time of filming. I've recently just been to Austria and I made it. I've published one video So far, I've got a few more videos from Austria to come including a trip on a paddle steamer Where I'm going to go down and have a look in the engine rooms the steam engine rooms on the paddle steamer So all of that is to come and like I say all of these videos help with the more subscribers, I guess so Thank you very much. It's very very much appreciated now as we approach Chavok Lassimil station just walking past the appropriately named Metropolitan pub Let's talk about these phone boxes. The phone boxes we're going to have a look at So four have been listed today one here at Chavok Latimer One at next station Chorleywood, so we'll get the train down to Chorleywood and have a look at that one There's also one at Norfolk Park and one at Kellington. So we're going to have a look at these two today They're called the K8 design and they're designed by an architect called Bruce Martin They were installed around Britain between 1968 and 1983 and there's now less than 50 of them. Here we are There's the underground and the BR sign stations just down here, of course I have done other videos here at Chavok Latimer in the past. So they were installed between 1968 and 1983 They're quite different to you know your typical phone boxes You see the ones that appeared all over London and Great Britain in the 1920s the ones designed by Gilbert Scott Which have you know little windows And that kind of thing they're not they're not quite like that They they have one big window and I think they might be made out of fiberglass But we'll have a look when we get to one. So as we approach the back Entrance of the station Which doesn't have ticket barriers We can see the phone box. We've just come to look at there. It is funny. It says ticket holders only I mean I will we're going to catch the train. I'm going to use the contact list So there we are. I've touched in even though that's the password barrier and um, there is the The phone box that we've come to see so we're going to walk down And under so that way is looking back towards London That way looking directly to Amersham And then of course the Chesson branch goes off there as the old bay platform for Chesson Which when they used to run the eight a stock trains They were in two halves two four car units They used to get a four car unit running down the branch to Chesson. No great fun You also used to get the four car units on the east London line Such a shame. They didn't preserve an a stop train in working order There is at least one carries preserved at the um, what's it called the London Transport Museum depth I don't think we'll ever see an a-stop train pass through here again So that's the Chesson bay over there. Um, is that a train coming now? There's a train coming out of London an s-stop train It is actually strike this day. So there's not expecting to see any children railways trains today. Anyway Here is this phone box Look at that Telephone so as you can see very different from the ones we used to look one huge window On the door the window each side going side and um It's more cramped As the train pulls in it's more cramped than um your typical phone box This is railway automatic phone If it works, have a look at that I'm glad it's just me making this video I don't think if you ever played that game when you're younger You try and see how anything would fit into a phone box. You wouldn't get more than maybe three Um, how does this work? I can't. Oh, there we go. I've got it. There's a dining tone There's no dining tone. So I think although the single box might be listed. I don't actually Know if it works Um, there we are. That's that If I open the door you can see a bit better So yeah, there's no dining tone, which is a bit of a shame I was going to try and ring someone up. Maybe there will be it surely would so what I'm going to do now as That s-stop train departs towards um Not sure it's going to answer. It's going to answer. We're going to wait for a train up towards London. We're going to go to Chorleywood This is the what's at Chorleywood. What a shuffle. Latimer was planted maroon. This one's planted blue now. Unfortunately, we can't go Inside this one. It's locked. You need a t-key to get inside. What's really interesting though It's a bit um, what's like this was he got the phone in the middle the yellow phone which Open the box and got the phone says phone box in a phone box miniature phone box in a big phone Yeah, what's really really fascinating and it's going to be hard to shut on camera. See see this here This has a list of all the other stations and all the numbers like it says platform ticket office, etc so from here I Get the impression that I'm not sure if they were for public. Maybe someone watching can tell me I don't actually know if these were there certainly aren't now for the public to use me everyone as a mobile these days But it seems that staff could ring any of these stations I mean say if somebody had an elderly person and they had a lot of luggage and they were dropped off by their grandchildren here They might be being met by their son or daughter at the other end In theory remember staff could ring a head to the station. They're going to and You know say that they're coming like a bit like today you can book assisted travel when quite often elderly people who are traveling Sort of long distance journeys, especially with luggage on the national network do book travel and get better look actually here that It actually says private. So yeah, I don't think I'm allowed in there But we can have a look at it from here and as I said, there's a list on this side of All the phone numbers. I did notice after filming the last bit shuffle. That's my while waiting for the train It said station to station phone box But it's really quite fascinating a different form of iconic design We're so used to the like say the Giles Gilbert Scott ones. I think it's really nice Something from the 1960s has been listed because I do think sadly a lot of iconic structures from the 1960s Have been lost. I mean on a completely Different scale and that imports with the tricon centre was a 1960s building that was demolished Which I'm really sad about because I thought it was a fantastic building. We can't go in the single box Let's go in the waiting room. We can go in here and look at this. This feels very much of a different era As opposed to in the face coverings Means that if you're watching this video in a hundred years time and I'd forgotten to put the date or something You'll know it's after 2020 because but normally west-west coverings anymore one of the mazes which They've been around for at least 10 years. They started appearing on London Underground And the other nice thing Is they still have a timetable So this is Charlie word southbound trains. Some of them cause children railways trains So from shortly word all the way to all gates. It takes exactly 60 minutes. I'm not going to train in time But um, yeah, so it's about a 60 minute journey to all gates. I think it's really nice They have the timetable just because out here they're not so frequent that they come along every few minutes I've got Five minutes till my train goes back. I think probably of all the stations on the metropolis line Charlie would My favorite if they're ever running anything unusual like casually steam on the met It's great seeing steam engines coming up this bank because it's really up quite hills today They look fantastic going from here down there is the old signal box Last time I came here was to make a video have a look at the screen now about a book written About the coming of the railway to Charlie wood. So again, that's the kind of thing when you get lots of subscribers Helps you to get um projects like that and come along. So from Charlie wood. Like I said, I think it is probably my favorite station on the Certainly on metropolis line probably on the whole of the london underground It's you know, just so nice and quiet as a few people about but it's not like a typical bustling tube station So I hope you enjoyed this video and once again, thank you very much for getting me to seven thousand subscribers I do really appreciate it and um, please do like share comment And if you haven't subscribed, please do and maybe soon i'll be making one same Thank you very much all for eight thousand subscribers. Maybe if they do london underground will have to find something else to list I don't know, but it's um, i'm really happy to see Piece of our heritage list. So thank you very much from Charlie wood station. Goodbye