K8 kiosk at Chalfont and Latimer Station

K8 telephone kiosk, produced to designs by Bruce Martin for the General Post Office from 1968. This example post-dates 1976.

MATERIALS: cast iron, aluminium and glass.

DESCRIPTION: the kiosk is painted maroon to match the station colours and the colour of the Metropolitan Line which it serves. It is square in plan and has six cast iron parts: a floor plate, a roof dome and four side panels. The panel to the rear is solid cast iron, the two adjoining panels each hold a large pane of toughened glass in a rectangular frame with rounded corners, and the fourth holds an aluminium door, glazed to match the side panels.

The roof dome is a Mk 2 design, having a continuous cast lip. It is flat on top and has softly squared corners. Each face carries round-cornered rectangular panes of toughened glass, the one over the door bearing the word ‘Telephone’.

The kiosk contains a station-to-station telephone and an in-station autophone.

The kiosk stands on platform 2 for southbound services.