Uxbridge Road tube station
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1900 Map showing location of Uxbridge Road station close to Shepherd's Bush Green
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 Uxbridge Road
Location of Uxbridge Road in Greater London
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| Location | Shepherd's Bush |
| Local authority | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Grid reference | TQ238799 |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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| Original company | West London Railway |
| Pre-grouping | West London Railway |
| Post-grouping | West London Railway |
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| 1 November 1869 | Station opened |
| 21 October 1940 | Station closed |
| Replaced by | Shepherd's Bush |
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| WGS84 | 51°30′19″N 0°13′01″W / 51.5054°N 0.2169°WCoordinates: 51°30′19″N 0°13′01″W / 51.5054°N 0.2169°W |
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Uxbridge Road was a railway station on the West London Railway from 1869 to 1940. It was initially served by London & North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway. In 1905 the station became a branch of the Metropolitan Railway, and later London Underground's Metropolitan line. Uxbridge Road station closed on 21 October 1940 during World War II, when the West London Line was put out of service during the Blitz.
The station 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.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened the Hammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) on 13 June 1864, and from 1 July 1864 carriages from Kensington (Addison Road) (now Kensington [Olympia]) were attached and detached from trains at Notting Hill; through services between Kensington and the City of London beginning in April 1865. A station had been built on the chord linking the H&CR and West London Railway, but this never opened due to GWR objections. Following an agreement between the Metropolitan Railway and GWR in August 1868, Uxbridge Road station, designed by the London & North Western Railway (L&NWR), opened on the West London Railway on 1 November 1869. A GWR service from Great Western Main Line suburban stations to Victoria station passing through the station also stopped, with up to eleven services a day, initially from Southall and Reading.
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