Uxbridge Road tube station

Uxbridge Road

Location
Place	Shepherd's Bush
History
Opened by	Metropolitan Line (Middle Circle route)
Platforms	2
Key dates	Opened 1869 Closed 1940
Replaced by	Shepherd's Bush

Uxbridge Road was a London Underground station on a branch of the Metropolitan Line. It was located at the eastern end of the Uxbridge Road in Shepherd's Bush, west London, UK, just before the start of Holland Park Avenue, a short distance from Shepherd's Bush station on the Central Line. The station entrance was situated on the site of the present-day Holland Park Roundabout.

Uxbridge Road station – and the branch line – closed on 21 October 1940 during World War II, when the West London Line was put out of service by German bombs.

History

This branch of the Metropolitan Line opened in 1864 and ran north from Addison Road (now Kensington (Olympia)) station following the mainline tracks of the West London Railway northwards and joined the Metropolitan Line branch from Hammersmith (today's Hammersmith & City Line) just south of Latimer Road station.

Southbound Metropolitan Line services from Uxbridge Road usually terminated at Addison Road as did northbound District Line services from Earl's Court station; however, some services ran through from Latimer Road to Earl's Court, thus forming the so-called Middle Circle.

Although Uxbridge Road station and its branch were closed in 1940, they continued to appear on the Underground map until 1947. The track formation towards Latimer Road was obliterated by the construction of the M41 motorway in the late 1960s.

Resurrection of station

As part of the redevelopment of the White City site, a new mainline and London Overground station named Shepherd's Bush opened in 2008, on part of the site of the original Uxbridge Road station site as an interchange with Shepherd's Bush Central Line station.

See also

• Shepherd's Bush stations

Looking north along the platforms of the new London Overground station to the site of the former Uxbridge Road station; the site of the station house is now covered by the Westfield shopping centre.

Underground stations in Shepherd's Bush area

External links

• Uxbridge Road, SubBrit disused stations project
• Shepherd's Bush 1st site and 2nd site. Sites of predecessor stations, 1844 and 1864-9. SubBrit disused stations project.
• Details of new transport infrastructure

		Disused railways
Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Willesden Junction towards Clapham Junction		West London Line		Kensington (Olympia) towards Stratford
Kensington (Olympia)		West London Line		St. Quintin Park
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Kensington (Olympia) Terminus		Metropolitan line Middle Circle branch		Latimer Road towards Barking

References

Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground: a Diagrammatic History (7th ed.). Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 1854142194.