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Shepherd's Bush Market
Shepherd's Bush MarketLocation of Shepherd's Bush Market in Greater London
Location	Shepherd's Bush
Local authority	London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Managed by	London Underground
Station code(s)	SBM
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	3.38 million
2020	1.50 million
2021	1.66 million
2022	2.89 million
2023	3.22 million
Railway companies
Original company	Hammersmith and City Railway
Pre-grouping	Hammersmith and City Railway
Post-grouping	Hammersmith and City Railway
Key dates
13 June 1864	Station opened as Shepherds Bush
1 April 1914	Relocated and renamed Shepherd's Bush
12 October 2008	Renamed Shepherd's Bush Market
Other information
External links	TfL station info page [1] Departures [1] Facilities
Coordinates	51°30′21″N 0°13′35″W / 51.50583°N 0.22639°W / 51.50583; -0.22639
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Shepherd's Bush Market is a London Underground station in the district of Shepherd's Bush in west London, England. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines, between Goldhawk Road and Wood Lane stations, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2. Shepherd's Bush Market, from which the station takes its name, is an open-air market which runs parallel to the railway line.

History

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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 Shepherd's Bush Goldhawk Road Central line to Holland Park H&C and Circle lines to Hammersmith West London Line to Kensington (Olympia)

The Metropolitan Railway (MR) opened the original station on 13 June 1864 as Shepherd's Bush on its new extension to Hammersmith. It was in the Shepherd's Bush Market area just south of Uxbridge Road. From 1 October 1877 until 31 December 1906 the MR also ran direct services along this line to Richmond via Hammersmith (Grove Road).

The original Shepherd's Bush station closed in 1914 to be replaced by two new stations which opened on 1 April 1914: the new Shepherd's Bush station resited a short distance north across the Uxbridge Road, and Goldhawk Road about half a kilometre to the south. Those stations remain in those locations but nothing exists of the former station buildings in the marketplace.

In 1900 the Central London Railway (CLR) opened its Shepherd's Bush station, now the Central line station, at the other end of Shepherd's Bush Green. For 108 years there were two Tube stations of the same name 0.3 miles (480 m) apart.

In 2008 the new London Overground Shepherd's Bush railway station was opened on the West London Line. To avoid the confusion of three stations named Shepherd's Bush, the Hammersmith & City line station was renamed Shepherd's Bush Market on 12 October 2008. The other two on the Central line and the West London line are close to each other and interchange is allowed, but not with Shepherd's Bush Market tube station.

Locale

The station is at the western end of Shepherd's Bush Green, and stands just across the road from the marketplace which gives it its name. Stallholders have traded on the strip of land beside the Hammersmith & City line since 1914, when the market took over the station's first site. The other end of the market is served by Goldhawk Road Underground station.

Shepherd's Bush Market station is near to various entertainment venues including the Bush Theatre and the Shepherd's Bush Empire. It is also one of the Underground stations which serve Loftus Road Football Stadium, the home of Queens Park Rangers football club. Westfield and West12 shopping centres are near the station.

Connections

London Buses routes 207, 260 and 283, Superloop express route SL8 and night route N207 serve the station.

See also

• Shepherd's Bush Market
• Shepherd's Bush stations

References

1. "Station Codes" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
2. "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.
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
7. Sheppard, Francis Henry Wollaston (1971). London, 1808-1870: the infernal wen. University of California Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-520-01847-1.
8. ^ Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground: a Diagrammatic History (7th ed.). Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
9. Panton, Kenneth (2003). "Shepherd's Bush". London: a Historical Companion. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2577-3.
10. "Buses from Shepherd's Bush" (PDF). TfL. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Shepherd's Bush station platform, 1934, note Metropolitan line style diamond "roundel".
  • Shepherd's Bush booking hall, 1934
• "Shepherd's Bush and White City development". Always Touch Out. Archived from the original on 13 July 2004.

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Goldhawk Roadtowards Hammersmith		Circle line		Wood Lanetowards Edgware Road via Aldgate
		Hammersmith & City line		Wood Lanetowards Barking
Former service
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
HammersmithTerminus		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1864-1908)		Latimer Roadtowards Paddington
		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1908-1914)		Wood Lanetowards Paddington
Goldhawk Roadtowards Hammersmith		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1914-1914)
		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1914-1920)		Latimer Roadtowards Paddington
		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1920-1959)		Wood Lanetowards Paddington
		Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1959-1990)		Latimer Roadtowards Paddington
Hammersmith (Grove Road)towards Richmond		Metropolitan line1877-1906

• Rail transport stations in London fare zone 2
• Circle line (London Underground) stations
• Hammersmith & City line stations
• Tube stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
• Former Hammersmith and City Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1914
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1914
• Shepherd's Bush