Amersham  | |
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 Station entrance | |
  Amersham Location of Amersham in Buckinghamshire | |
| Location | Amersham |
| Local authority | Buckinghamshire |
| Managed by | London Underground[1] |
| Station code | AMR |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| Accessible | Yes[3] |
| Fare zone | 9 |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  0.86 million[4] |
| 2021 |  0.95 million[5] |
| 2022 | 1.66 million[6] |
| 2023 | 1.73 million[7] |
| 2024 | 1.90 million[8] |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 | 2.067 million[9] |
| 2020–21 | 0.451 million[9] |
| 2021–22 | 1.140 million[9] |
| 2022–23 | 1.563 million[9] |
| 2023–24 | 1.767 million[9] |
| Key dates | |
| 1892 | Opened |
| 4 July 1966 | Goods yard closed[2] |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°40′26″N0°36′25″W / 51.674°N 0.607°W /51.674; -0.607 |
 London transport portal | |
Amersham (/ˈæmərʃəm/) is aLondon Underground andNational Rail station in the market town ofAmersham inBuckinghamshire, England.
Amersham station is aterminus of the London Underground'sMetropolitan line.[3] It is 23.7 miles (38.1 km) northwest ofCharing Cross, making it the second furthest Underground station from Central London and the second most westerly station of the whole London Underground system, afterChesham.[10] It is inLondon fare zone 9[3] (previously zone D).
The station has the highest elevation on the entire London Underground network at 147 m (482 ft) abovesea-level, higher thanBig Ben tower.[11]
Amersham station is also served byChiltern Railways of the National Rail, which runs trains betweenLondon Marylebone andAylesbury. From Aylesbury a shuttle service toPrinces Risborough provides access to through services between Marylebone andBirmingham Snow Hill. The journey times between Amersham andCentral London range between 33 and 60 minutes. The journey time between Amersham and Chalfont & Latimer is about three and a half minutes.[12]
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The station was opened on 1 September 1892 as part of theMetropolitan Railway (Met) extension from Chalfont Road (now Chalfont & Latimer) to Aylesbury.[13] On 12 March 1922, its name was changed to "Amersham & Chesham Bois", but the original name was restored during 1937.
From 16 March 1899, theGreat Central Railway served the station through itsextension to Marylebone.[14] Consequently, the station became joint Met/GCR owned. On 1 January 1923, the GCR became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway (LNER)[14] under theRailways Act 1921, and on 1 July 1933 the Met became part of theLondon Passenger Transport Board (LPTB), becoming theMetropolitan line of theLondon Underground. On 1 January 1948, the LNER wasnationalised, its share of the station initially coming under the control of theEastern Region of British Railways, before being transferred to theLondon Midland Region in 1958.[14]
On 12 September 1960, the tracks fromRickmansworth to Amersham wereelectrified,[13] partially fulfilling plans first proposed some thirty years earlier. The rolling stock ordered by London Underground as part of this project, theA60 stock, is named after Amersham.
When thesectorisation of British Rail took place in 1982, services to Aylesbury on what had by now become theLondon to Aylesbury Line came under the operation ofNetwork SouthEast. Following theprivatisation of British Rail in the early 1990s, these services have been provided byChiltern Railways.
From December 2010, off-peak Metropolitan line services to and from Amersham were reduced to two per hour,[13] with a corresponding increase in through services on theChesham branch. This is a return to the historically normal frequency of two Metropolitan trains per hour from the four Metropolitan trains per hour service that had been operating for the previous five years. Including the Chiltern Railways services, Amersham still has four trains an hour to London in total, with extra trains from both operators at peak hours. Metropolitan line services are divided 50:50 between Amersham and Chesham.[13] This is expected to dividepark and ride orkiss and ride motorist users more evenly between the two stations and help spread the load on local roads, though the change was made purely for operational reasons.[15]
The station is located on Station Approach, Amersham.[16]Ticket barriers are in operation at the station.[1]
In 2009, because of financial constraints,Transport for London (TfL) decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Amersham and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.[17][note 1] In 2017, TfL announced that Amersham station would receive funding for step-free access, and that work would begin in 2018.[18] It was opened in February 2021.[19]
Services at Amersham are operated byChiltern Railways of the National Rail andMetropolitan line of the London Underground. The off-peak service at the station is:
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Metropolitan line Amersham branch | Chalfont & Latimer towardsBaker Street orAldgate | ||
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
| Great Missenden | Chiltern Railways London to Aylesbury Line | Chalfont & Latimer orLondon Marylebone | ||
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| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
| Great Missenden towardsAylesbury | Metropolitan line | Chalfont & Latimer towardsBaker Street orAldgate | ||
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