Wood Lane (Metropolitan line) tube station

Wood Lane was the name of two now closed stations of the London Underground. They were both close by, but operationally were not interconnected. One was part of the Metropolitan Line (now the Hammersmith & City Line ), the. Different station within a terminal loop of the Central Line The Metropolitan Line station was located between the present stations Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush Market.

The station of the former Metropolitan Railway ( predecessor company of the Metropolitan Line) was opened on May 1, 1908 for the Franco - British Exhibition. The original plan stipulated that the station should be open only for the duration of the exhibition. However, it was closed again until October 31, 1914, when they moved the station Shepherd 's Bush to the north and it was thus only about 300 meters away.

On 5 May 1920, the Metropolitan Railway, the station took on again, but only for the event traffic to the adjacent exhibition center. After a fire the hölzenernen platform it was finally closed on 24 October 1959. A short time later they ripped the system off ( the line runs above ground) and there exist only a few relics, such as the funicular ticket office under the viaduct.

A few hundred meters further north, there is a station that also bears the name Wood Lane, was opened in October 2008 on the same route.