Wood Lane station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wood Lane station by Marathon as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Wood Lane station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 Nov 2013
The present-day Hammersmith and City line was opened on 13th June 1864 by the Metropolitan Railway as the Hammersmith branch line. The railway became part of London Underground in 1922. n 1908 the Franco-British Exhibition and the 1908 Summer Olympics came to London. The Metropolitan Railway opened its Wood Lane station on the Hammersmith branch to serve the event area. The station opened and closed intermittently, and was renamed twice, as Wood Lane (White City) in 1920 and White City in 1947, before it finally closed in 1959 following fire damage. When work commenced on the Westfield Shopping Centre in 2005 it was decided to rebuild Shepherd's Bush Central line station, construct a new Shepherd's Bush station on the West London Line, and provide two new bus interchanges to serve the planned shopping complex. It was also decided to build a new station on the Hammersmith & City line, on a site just south-west of the old Metropolitan station on Wood Lane. It was named Wood Lane and was the first time that a brand new station on the Tube had been given the name of a disused station. The station opened on 12 October 2008. This view looks towards Latimer Road station.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.510585
Longitude
-0.222765