Shepherd’s Bush is a London Underground station in the district of Shepherd’s Bush, which is located in west London, England, United Kingdom. The station is on the Central line, between White City and Holland Park stations, and it lies in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station originally opened in 1900, but was closed for eight months in 2008 while the surface station building was replaced with a completely new structure and the underground station refurbished.

A number of stations in the area both past and present have borne the name Shepherd’s Bush; today the Central line station shares its name with the adjacent London Overground Shepherd’s Bush station, with which it shares a surface-level interchange.

An entirely separate London Underground station, Shepherd’s Bush Market on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines is located approximately 1⁄3-mile (500 m) away. Until 2008, it too was called Shepherd’s Bush until it was renamed to avoid confusion.

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After Thameslink, and Crossrail, and the extension of the Northern line to Battersea, London is now looking at the Bakerloo line as its next major rail project.

The cost of the extension is estimated at up to £3 billion. Public consultation has just commenced and the findings will be presented in Spring 2015. If the go-ahead is given, and funding secured, construction could commence by 2023.

With the capital’s population expected to reach ten million by 2030, the extension will help support anticipated growth in south London by providing improved transport infrastructure and enabling regeneration in a number of the Mayor’s key Opportunity Areas.

As well as providing quicker, more direct journeys into central London, extending the Bakerloo line would also release capacity on the national rail network, enabling more services to operate from other destinations and helping to reduce overcrowding on National Rail services into London Bridge.

The proposed extension would run in a tunnel from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham. Two routes for this have been identified – one via the Old Kent Road and another via Camberwell and Peckham. Beyond Lewisham, the line could then link onto the existing Network Rail line using the South Eastern rail line to Beckenham Junction and Hayes via Ladywell and Catford. Finally, there is also an option to extend the line further on to Bromley town centre.

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