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46441 - Lodge Lane, Chalfont 23-05-1993 R1928bw
Olympus OM4Ti (film)
Fujichrome colour slide scanned to digital
Metropolitan Line Steam on the Met event.
This 1937 Austin 'Eighteen Chalfont' limousine could accommodate seven people and was a luxury car intended for chauffeur driving. This vehicle, DTU 795, is on display at the British Motor Museum.
A sad but very worthy celebration of D-Day 6th June 2024 - the lighting of the beacon on the hill at Gold Common, Chalfont St Peter. Quite emotive with singers, and flag bearers etc. on a lovely clear evening. We own so much to the many who went through the wars and also those lost.
Image info:- for a change I can advise that my iPhone was quite hopeless at capturing the flames, but fortunately the trusty Nikon D750 with a 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom was excellent.
Aperture f/2.8, ISO 200, shutter 1/500th, focal length 116mm. Processed in Lightroom Classic.
This was my entry into the Chalfont & Gerrards Cross Landscape competition and resulted in a "Highly Commended" score.
It is around the North Cape area of Norway taken on board the Hurtigruten ship Spitsbergen. A bit of a mare trying to do long exposures on a moving ship even in calm waters !! Hence the high ISO to give a short shutter speed.
Image info:- Nikon D750 with Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 5000, shutter 1 second. Processed in LightRoom Classic CC.
The LT Museums preserved 1938 Tube stock comes into Chalfont & Latimer on the Metropolitan Line running weekend between Watford and Amersham, Sept 2022. The line far right is the now short disused bay platform line into the station here. This was used by the Chesham Branch shuttle between Chalfont and Latimer and Chesham back in the days of 4 Car A Stock trains. When the 8 Car S Stock replaced the A Stock they ran direct to Chesham from London over a junction behind the '38 stock.
This shot was only possible by the kindness of a Met Line S Stock driver. Her train was scheduled to arrive/depart pretty much at the same time that the '38 stock was due to pass through on it's way to Watford on the up line. But opening her cab door next to me and another photographer at the end of the platform she asked what was occurring. We pointed to the '38 stock that had just come into view in the distance! We asked if she was going to be gone in time and saying probably not she said she'd wait instead and very kindly held her train for another 30 seconds. Enough time for us to get some shots in before she closed the doors and pulled away!
Annoyingly just come off a National Express 460, and had literally just changed the destination display whilst I was taking the picture. I do already have a picture of this one on National Express work, but it would of been nice to get a higher quality one.
A Volvo B12B with the Van Hool Acron Bodywork.
Chalfont`s BV67 JZC a National Express liveried Caetano Levante, is photographed in Cattle Market Road, Northampton, on a 455 service to London on the 21st of April 2018. Note the friendly wave from the driver. I am sure the gesture changed radically when he noticed the person I was stood next too!
BV19 XPT is a Scania K360EB4/Caetano Levante new to Chalfont, Southall in June 2019. it is seen here on bullied Way, London in between duties for National Express.
On Friday 20th October 2017 one of the Chalfonts U3A (University of the Third Age) walking groups had a pleasant morning at the National Trust property Cliveden.
The walk wasn’t a very long one, about four and half miles, but the weather was better than we expected. A little windy but certainly not cold.
This is probably my favourite photo of the day. Because we were on a walk and I had to keep up with my friends I didn't pause very long to take it. I saw the view and felt the fence and the trees offered a nice framework. The autumnal colours looked so fresh and splendid I simply composed the shot and pressed the shutter. In the software I use I had to lighten the shadows in the darkest areas and I was done. No further enhancement was needed.
Ex-LMS Stanier 4MT 2-6-4T 42618 at Chalfont and Latimer station on a train of Metropolitan Line 'Dreadnought' carriages, on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1961.
Steam services ended on September 10th, and trains to Amersham and Chesham were taken over by the new 'A Stock' units, although by this time some services - including the Chesham Shuttle - had already been taken over by T Stock units.
A rake of six 'Dreadnought' carriages were stored for use during the Metropolitan 100th Anniversary celebrations in 1963, and three examples were preserved.
42618 was withdrawn in July 1965, and scrapped in November. None of the class were preserved.
Restored from a grainy magenta/cyan-colour-shifted (Agfa) original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
DSC_1192 - BX65 WCJ - Volvo B8R/Caetano Levante (Facelift) - Chalfont Coaches (National Express) - Victoria, Elizabeth Street 10/09/16
Chalfont, PA This was shot at a retaining basin at a shopping center. There have been Canada Geese, Mallards, and Great Blue Herons hanging out there. I'm always surprised by what I see.
Chalfont Coaches, Southall
VanHool TX16 Alicron
WJ66 KCE
SHOWBUS 2016 - Donington Park
Sunday 25th September 2016
In recent years we have held a Fun Night in our village. We close off our main street and invite various stall holders to come along and provide entertainment, food, drinks, candy-floss and lot of other goodies.
We get a good turnout of families and the night is a great success.
The photographs will give an idea of what happens. The organisers work hard to make the evening a night to remember and the participation is usually excellent.
Chalfont Coaches Volvo B8R/Caetano Levante BV67 JZD and Belle Vue Yutong GT12 YE73 JGV are seen here in Newcastle-upon-Tyne awaiting their next duties to London and Manchester respectively.
In recent years we have held a Fun Night in our village. We close off our main street and invite various stall holders to come along and provide entertainment, food, drinks, candy-floss and lot of other goodies.
We get a good turnout of families and the night is a great success.
The photographs will give an idea of what happens. The organisers work hard to make the evening a night to remember and the participation is usually excellent.
66 019 passes through Chalfont & Latimer station, on the Metropolitan Line, working the afternoon Aylesbury - Marylebone Chiltern RHTT (Rail Head Treatment Train) turn.
Chalfont Coaches WA10 ENM, a Volvo B12B/Van Hool Alizee coach,, photogrpahed in Horseshoe Street, Northampton, working a National Express 707 to London Gatwick.
3rd October 2017
WF68FEK, a VDL Futura 2 FHD129.370 from the Southall based fleet of Chalfont Coaches is seen heading Northbound on the M5 at Burlescombe.
Friday 27th May 2022