Former Stations
The first Shepherd's Bush station was opened in 1864 by the Metropolitan Railway on the Hammersmith branch (now part of the Hammersmith and City line), adjacent to Shepherd's Bush Market. It was closed in 1914 and replaced by two new stations: one to the north, also called Shepherd's Bush (now named Shepherd's Bush Market, and one to the south named Goldhawk Road.
The Metropolitan Railway also opened another station called Uxbridge Road on its Middle Circle route which ran from Latimer Road through Shepherd's Bush to Earl's Court (now part of the West London Line). Uxbridge Road station was located at the eastern end of Shepherd's Bush Green, close to the start of Holland Park Avenue. It closed in 1940.
The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) opened its Shepherd's Bush station in 1869 on a loop line that connected the West London Line to the Hammersmith and City line and the L&SWR's tracks to Richmond (now the District Line). The station was located on the west side of Shepherd's Bush Road (A219) at the junction with Sulgrave Road. It closed in 1916.
The Central London Railway (CLR) opened its subterranean Shepherd's Bush station in 1900, with its entrance overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, next to the MR's Uxbridge Road station.
The Franco-British Exhibition and the 1908 Summer Olympics brought about the development of the exhibition and events area known as the "White City", and two new Underground stations opened to serve these major international events, both named Wood Lane: the CLR Wood Lane station was a sub-surface station located on the eponymous lane, while the Wood Lane Metropolitan station was situated on a viaduct on its Hammersmith branch nearby. The CLR station closed in 1947 and lay derelict until 2008 when it was demolished to make way for the Westfield bus station. The Metropolitan station was renamed White City in 1947 and finally closed in 1959.
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