Shepherd's Bush is an area of west

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, England, which has been served by a number of

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and

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stations over the past 150 years, many of which have had similar names. The names ''Shepherd's Bush'', ''Wood Lane'' and ''White City'' have each been used by several separate stations around the

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district, following a number of station renamings and closures.

Former stations

The first Shepherd's Bush station was opened in 1864 by the

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and

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(GWR) on the Hammersmith & City Railway (now part of the

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), adjacent to

Shepherd's Bush Market Shepherd's Bush Market is a street market in Shepherd's Bush, London. The market is located on the east side of the railway viaduct for the Hammersmith and City Tube line, and is bordered on the north side by the Uxbridge Road, and on the south ...

. It was closed in 1914 and replaced by two new stations: one to the north, also called Shepherd's Bush (now named

), and one to the south named . A station called opened on the

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in 1869. This was on the GWR

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route that ran from

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through Shepherd's Bush to . In about 1905 this route became a branch of the Metropolitan Railway, terminating at Kensington (Addison Road) (now

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). It was also served by

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Outer Circle trains from to Mansion House, but by 1914 this became an

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shuttle. Uxbridge Road station was located at the eastern end of Shepherd's Bush Green, close to the start of

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. It closed in 1940. The

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(L&SWR) opened its

station in 1869 on a loop line that connected the West London Line to the Hammersmith & City line and the L&SWR's tracks to (now the

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). 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

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, next to the MR's Uxbridge Road station. The

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and the

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brought about the development of the exhibition and events area known as the

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, 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

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. The Metropolitan station was renamed White City in 1947 and finally closed in 1959.

Current stations

In 2008 the arrangement of Shepherd's Bush stations changed when two new stations were opened, on the West London Line (close to the location of the former Uxbridge Road Metropolitan line station) and station on the Hammersmith & City line (situated near the former Wood Lane/White City Metropolitan line station). Today, two stations bear the name ''Shepherd's Bush'': station, on the Central line, and the West London Line Shepherd's Bush station. The two present-day Shepherd's Bush stations are in close proximity and form an interchange between

and

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. With the addition of another station bearing the name ''Shepherd's Bush'', it was decided to rename the Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith & City line (the old 1914 Metropolitan line Shepherd's Bush station) to

to avoid confusion with the Overground and Central line stations. None of the 1908 White City exhibition stations now survive and all the stations in the Wood Lane area are newer constructions: the present Central line White City Underground station (opened in 1947 to replace the former Wood Lane station) and the 2008 Wood Lane Hammersmith & City line station.

List of stations

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References

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Shepherd's Bush and White City development
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Former stations

Current stations

List of stations

See also

References

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