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Shepherd's Bush railway station (1869–1916)

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The route was finally abandoned around 1930 to enable the extension of the Piccadilly line to take over the track between Ravenscourt Park and Turnham Green. The tracks between Ravenscourt Park and Kensington Olympia were removed in 1932 and the land was sold for redevelopment. The derelict platforms
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The L&SWR opened the line through the station on 1 January 1869. The line ran in an arc with the station near its apex, located in a shallow cutting on the west side of Shepherd's Bush Road (
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In 1919, the CLR published plans to build a tunneled link to the disused L&SWR tracks south-west of the station so that it might run trains to
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and parts of the buildings remained into the late 1950s/early 60s, when the site was cleared for redevelopment for construction of a block of
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and the station was, from its beginning, subject to competition for passengers from the more direct routes available from nearby
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just to the north of Shepherd's Bush Green in 1900 and the MR opened a new station at
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Central London and Metropolitan District Railway Companies (Works) Act, 1920
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Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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Shepherds Bush Station looking east, July 1916, shortly after closure
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in 1914. The L&SWR station and line closed on 5 June 1916.
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Services to central London ran via a circuitous route to
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Shepherd's Bush station on an Ordnance Survey map, 1894
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the L&SWR service competed, from 1877, with the
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Shepherd's Bush station (disambiguation)

Shepherd's Bush is located in Greater London
Shepherd's Bush
London and South Western Railway
Coordinates
51°30′08″N 0°13′27″W / 51.5022°N 0.2241°W / 51.5022; -0.2241
London transport portal
London and South Western Railway
Shepherd's Bush
London
Richmond
District line
West London Joint Railway
Hammersmith (Grove Road) station
Addison Road

Stations around Shepherd's Bush

A219
Waterloo
Metropolitan Railway
Shepherd's Bush Market
Uxbridge Road
Ravenscourt Park
Turnham Green
District Railway
District line
Earl's Court
Central London Railway

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