Wood Lane tube station

Wood Lane
Wood Lane
	Wood Lane Location of Wood Lane in Greater London
Location	Wood Lane
Local authority	Hammersmith and Fulham
Managed by	London Underground
Station code(s)	WOL
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
OSI	White City
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	4.74 million
2020	1.36 million
2021	2.19 million
2022	4.13 million
2023	4.91 million
Railway companies
Original company	Transport for London
Key dates
13 June 1864	Line opened
12 October 2008	Station opened
13 December 2009	Circle line services started
Other information
External links	TfL station info page ; Departures ; Layout ; Facilities ; Buses ;
Coordinates	51°30′35.27″N0°13′27″W / 51.5097972°N 0.22417°W
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Last updated October 30, 2024

Wood Lane is a London Underground station in the White City area of west London, United Kingdom. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between Latimer Road and Shepherd's Bush Market stations, in Travelcard Zone 2.

History

The Hammersmith and City line was opened on 13 June 1864 by the Metropolitan Railway (MR) as the Hammersmith branch line. The railway became part of London Underground in 1933 and took on a separate identity as the Hammersmith and City line in 1990.

In 1908 the Franco-British Exhibition and the 1908 Summer Olympics came to London, the first of a number of major events in White City that attracted infrastructural investment by railway companies. Among others, the MR opened its Wood Lane station on the Hammersmith branch to serve the event. From 1927 it was used to transport the public to and from the greyhound racing at White City Stadium.^[14] The station opened and closed intermittently, and was renamed twice, to Wood Lane (White City) in 1920 and White City in 1947, before it closed on 24 October 1959 following fire damage. For the next 49 years, the Wood Lane area was served only by White City on the Central line; Hammersmith line trains passed through the area without stopping, the nearest station on that line approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) away at Shepherd's Bush.

In the early 1970s, rebuilding a station on the site was considered as part of the plans for the new White City Channel Tunnel terminal located adjacent, however the plans were abandoned in January 1975.^[15]

In 2005, work commenced on the large-scale Westfield Shopping Centre. As part of the work, £200m of transport improvements were made including rebuilding Shepherd's Bush Central line station, a new Shepherd's Bush railway station and two bus interchanges.^[13] It was decided to build a new station on the Hammersmith & City line, just north-east of the old Metropolitan station on Wood Lane. In 2006 Transport for London decided, after deliberating over various possibilities, on the name Wood Lane, reviving an historical name. This was the first time that a new station on the Tube had been given the name of a former station that had been closed for several years.^[16]

The station opened on 12 October 2008.^[13] On 13 December 2009 Wood Lane was added to the Circle line when the line was extended to Hammersmith.^[17]

Design and construction

Wood Lane Underground Station was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects and it is clad in shot-peened stainless steel, gold anodised aluminium and granite with a 25-metre-high glass screen façade.^[18]

Construction was carried out by Costain. The station building occupies an irregularly-shaped site between Wood Lane and the railway viaduct, and presented particular challenges as it lies across the Central line. The lines remained operational during construction, which mostly took place at night.

The structure encases the railway viaduct and platforms are accessed via stairs and lifts either side of the brick arches. During construction the bridge of the Hammersmith & City line over Wood Lane had to be widened to accommodate a new track on the Central line, providing access to the new depot below the Westfield site. A bridge pier was removed and a new steel bridge structure slid into place over a new pier.^[19] As with all new Underground stations since the 1990s, the station is fully accessible.^[13]

Location

Stations in Shepherd's Bush

Legend

Central line to East Acton

West London Line

to Willesden Junction

right-hand running starts

A40 (Westway)

White City

H&C and Circle lines

to Latimer Road

Wood Lane

Shepherd's Bush Market

Shepherd's Bush (MR)

right-hand running ends

White City Depot

Shepherd's Bush

Goldhawk Road

Central line

to Holland Park

H&C and Circle lines

to Hammersmith

West London Line

to Kensington (Olympia)

The station is on Wood Lane, which runs north from Shepherd's Bush in the White City area. It serves the Westfield shopping centre and Television Centre (formerly occupied by the BBC) and Loftus Road stadium, the home of Queen's Park Rangers FC, is a short distance away.

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External links

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Shepherd's Bush Market towards Hammersmith		Circle line		Latimer Road towards Edgware Road via Aldgate
Shepherd's Bush Market towards Hammersmith		Hammersmith & City line		Latimer Road towards Barking

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[1] "Station Codes" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 25 April 2021.

[2] "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London . April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.

[3] "Out of Station Interchanges" (XLSX). Transport for London. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2019-4] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2020-5] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2021-6] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2022-7] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2023-8] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

[9] "Station Codes" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 25 April 2021.

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[:0-13] 1 2 3 4 "New Wood Lane Underground station opens". Transport for London. October 2008. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

[14] "Sports in Brief". London Times . 25 May 1927 – via Gale Group.

[15] y (26 January 2021). "Unbuilt London: The Eurostar terminus at White City". www.ianvisits.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

[16] "Wood Lane and Shepherds Bush Market to join Tube map". Transport for London. 20 November 2006. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

[circle-17] "Circle Line extended to the west". BBC News. 5 March 2009. Archived from the original on 10 March 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2010.

[ritchie-18] "Wood Lane Station". Ian Ritchie Architects. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2010.

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