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I was also at Shepherds Bush Central line station about 2pm on Sunday, the down escalator was out of service, (with a station staff member at the top trying to telephone engineering repairs) so I trundled down the stairs. (The escalator was back in service when I returned in the evening).
I was surprised, after having being closed for a few months, that apart from the new larger booking hall, and new tiles below ground, not much has changed. If they expect a large volume of passengers when the shopping mall opens, why still only 2 escalators?
The replacement buses you saw may have been for the adjacent overground service, which as you said, had a new station but no trains that day!
John | 06.10.08 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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Any builder will tell you that it's refurb not demolition and rebuilding that takes the time.
Glad to see they've not lost the apostrophe in the rebuilding.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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Looks like someone's been through the entire Central line fleet overnight sticking in updated line maps, now featuring Shepherd's Bush and White City as interchange stations. Which is impressive. They've also been through updating the tube maps to the new Ugly.1 version. Which is less impressive.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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A symphony orchestra might not be too bad a thing. They've been doing soothing classical music at some stations (or at least Vauxhall) for ages - whether to calm the savage breast of the average commuter or to scare away the teenagers, I don't know. It was rather pleasant, but a few live performances wouldn't go amiss...
disgruntled | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 11:52 a.m. | #
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The whole design of the new building is dictated by the original plan to build it without closing the old building, allowing the station to stay open continuously. That's why there's a big empty space where the original building was (between the escalators and the main road), and the ticket gates and so on are all in the eastern half (which would have been built and opened before the original building closed).
Mr Thant | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 2:16 p.m. | #
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As for the tiling, I'd say that, from your photos, the new white and blue tiling looks a lot better than the 1980s red and green. The white in particular seems to brighten up the platform area.
What is it though with TfL and glass boxes nowadays? Surely they can afford a little bit of architectural excellence in their stations, particularly with the tube fares we all have to pay.
Andrewh | 06.10.08 - 3:32 p.m. | #
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Shepherd's Bush (x2) and Wood Lane were funded, designed and built by Westfield. The last TfL-funded stations were Langdon Park and the new Stratford DLR, both of which are pretty damn fancy.
Mr Thant | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 4:47 p.m. | #
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Hurray hurray! My station is back!! This calls for a celebration - something along the lines of a lie-in tomorrow morning as I don't have to deal with an extra 20 min of bus time 
Meaghan Fitzgerald | Homepage | 06.10.08 - 5:21 p.m. | #
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Wot no link to your complete Flickr set?
Geofftech | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 4:06 a.m. | #
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Who is responsible for the large expanses of vandalism prone, terrorist bomb shrapnel enhancing, plate glass ?
Watching Them, Watching Us | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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This sort of arrangement has a history. IIRC the heavy sprucing up of Bank/Monument in the early 90s wouldn't have happened at any sort of speed if the Corporation of London hadn't ploughed a large amount of money into the project to get things moving. Of course, back then LT was skint and we were in the middle of a recession...
The West London line was already at breaking point in the rush hours, I wonder how it's managing with the extra Shepherds Bush passengers (and what's going to happen when Westfield opens). All this infrastucture is great, but it needs enough trains to deal with it. You describe it as a 'branch line halt', but it has to be one of the swankiest stations on the whole London Overground network - and that's not saying much!
Nico | Homepage | 07.10.08 - 2:47 p.m. | #
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