Wood Lane (Metropolitan Line) Tube Station
Wood Lane (known as White City from 1947) was a station in west London on the Hammersmith branch of the Metropolitan Railway (now London Underground's Hammersmith & City line). It was located on the Hammersmith & City line viaduct adjacent to the bridge over Wood Lane and close to a similarly named station on the Central London Railway. The stations each side were Shepherd's Bush (now Shepherd's Bush Market) and Latimer Road.
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