Shepherd's Bush railway station (1869-1916)

Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush station, 1894
Shepherd's Bush Location of Shepherd's Bush in Greater London
Location	Shepherd's Bush
Owner	London and South Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
Key dates
1874 (1874)	Opened
1916 (1916)	Closed
Replaced by	none
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°30′08″N 0°13′27″W / 51.5022°N 0.2241°W / 51.5022; -0.2241Coordinates: 51°30′08″N 0°13′27″W / 51.5022°N 0.2241°W / 51.5022; -0.2241

Shepherd's Bush is a closed London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) station in Shepherd's Bush, west London. The station was situated on the L&SWR's line between Richmond (now the District line) and the West London Joint Railway (WLJR). It was between Hammersmith (Grove Road) station and Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia) station.

The L&SWR opened the line through the station on 1 January 1869. The line ran in an arc with the station near its apex, located in a shallow cutting on the west side of Shepherd's Bush Road (A219) adjacent to Sulgrave Road. The station opened on 1 May 1874

Services to central London ran via a circuitous route to Waterloo and the station was, from its beginning, subject to competition for passengers from the more direct routes available from nearby Metropolitan Railway (MR) stations at Shepherd's Bush Market (then called simply Shepherd's Bush), and Uxbridge Road. On the section of the Richmond line to the west through Ravenscourt Park and Turnham Green the L&SWR service competed, from 1877, with the District Railway's (DR's, now the District line) more direct service via Earl's Court.

Competition became stronger when the Central London Railway (CLR, now the Central line) opened its own station just to the north of Shepherd's Bush Green in 1900 and the MR opened a new station at Goldhawk Road in 1914. The L&SWR station and line closed on 5 June 1916.