Editing Shepherd's Bush tube station (section)

==History==
[[File:Underground Stations in Shepherd's Bush.svg|thumb|left|Map showing layout of current and former railways and [[stations around Shepherd's Bush]]]]
The station opened on 30 July 1900 and was the original western terminus of the [[Central London Railway]] (CLR).<ref name=CULG>{{cite web
|url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/central.html#dates
|title=Central Line, Dates
|work=Clive's Underground Lines Guide
|access-date=2008-01-10
}}</ref> The original surface-level station building was a [[terracotta]]-clad ticket hall with its entrance on the [[Uxbridge Road]] facing Shepherd's Bush Green. Like all CLR stations, the station building was designed by [[Harry Bell Measures]].

To the north of the station was located the CLR's [[power station]] and [[Wood Lane tube station (Central line)#Wood Lane depot|Wood Lane depot]] which was originally accessed by a single track tunnel. The eastbound tunnel ended to the west of the station in a dead-end reversing siding with a cross-over junction connecting it to the westbound tunnel.<ref name=TubePrune>{{cite web
|url=http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Woodlane%20whitecity.htm#The%20Central%20London%20Railway
|title=The Central Line at White City
|work=Tube Prune (The Tube Professionals' Rumour Network)
|access-date=2008-01-10
}}</ref> When the now disused [[Wood Lane (Central line) tube station|Wood Lane]] station was opened on 14 May 1908 to the north, a loop tunnel was created connecting to the eastbound tunnel.<ref name=CULG/>

An [[Central London Railway#Richmond, 1913 and 1920|extension to Richmond]] planned in 1920 would have started here with the next stop at the closed [[London and South Western Railway]] station at [[Hammersmith (Grove Road) railway station|Hammersmith (Grove Road)]]; the work was never carried out. As part of London Transport's [[New Works Programme|New Works Programme, 1935 - 1940]], escalators were installed to replace the original lifts and in 1938, the platforms were lengthened along with those of the other existing Central line stations to accommodate eight cars instead of the previous seven.

Some of the original 1900 features of the station were preserved in areas that are not open to the public.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shepherd’s Bush added to London Transport Museum’s Hidden London tours |url=https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/07/shepherds-bush-added-to-london-transport-museums-hidden-london-tours.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=RailAdvent |language=en-GB}}</ref> Since 2022, [[London Transport Museum]] has been running guided historical tours of the station through its "Hidden London" programme, which take visitors to the disused original station corridors and lift shafts to look at the history of the site.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shepherd's Bush: Suburbs to the City |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hidden-london/shepherds-bush |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=London Transport Museum |language=en}}</ref>