Hanger Lane Sign
TfL have been sneaky buggers and gone and snuck in a brand new station on the Central Line without telling anyone!
In fact, it had us confused for a moment, as we thought they’d connected up the Central Line to a Hammersmith & City / Circle Line station – but that’s Shepherd’s Bush Market, but no! This is a brand new station.
What are we talking about? Well the platform signage at Hanger Lane tells the tale, here are the signs on the platform from a distance.
Hanger Lane Signage
Then, when you get up close, you realise something a little odd about one of the station names – that’s right, instead of ‘Shepherd’s Bush’, they’ve indicated that the Central Line stops at ‘Shepherd’s Bush Green‘ which is new to us!
Shepherds Bush Green on the Central Line
It’s not the first time that this has happened – LU have form, for adding in the word ‘Green’, there used to be a sign (see it here) at Mile End station indicating that the District Line stopped at a station called Putney Green. They removed it in 2010. I wonder how long it’ll take them to correct this one at Hanger Lane …
(Thanks to Shrey Puranik for the heads up on this)
Update – We’ve heard on Twitter that there might be a sign like this at Chancery Lane too, we’ll pop down later for a photo…