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Wood Lane (Metropolitan Line) Tube StationWood Lane or White City was a station of the Metropolitan Railway and then the London Underground, on part of the Metropolitan Line is now the Hammersmith & City Line. It is now closed. When the Franco-British Exhibition was built on what was to become White City in 1908, two stations were built to serve it: one on the Central London Railway forming a terminus and one on the Metropolitan Railway between Shepherd's Bush (which was then situated further south than today) and Latimer Road. Both were called "Wood Lane" and were almost face to face on two sides of one road. They were meant to be closed after the exhibition but then stayed open further to serve other events on the site. Wood Lane (Met) (having been renamed "White City") did not close until 1959, when one of the wooden platforms was destroyed in a fire. The station then was demolished completely and not much is left of it today. It was situated on the viaduct just behind the BBC Television Centre car park. The original ticket office still remains in situ today, although it has been repainted. The other Wood Lane tube station, on the Central Line, closed in 1947, and was replaced by the current White City tube station.
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