The same spot in Oct 2015. This scene has now disappeared under the Westfield extension! Source: Google maps.
Wood lane station in 2002 with its Maida Vale style of LT roundel, painted over of course.
The old station in 2002 with the Hammersmith & City line bridge in the background.
From photos taken in the 80s I can see the old station at Wood Lane was run as a business unit and numbered 32-36 Wood Lane. The station once had the type of mosaic roundel as seen at Maida Vale station and the larger example of this unique roundel can be seen at the new Wood Lane (Hammersmith line) station.
The different levels of track now in an overgrown state (2004) with the old Wood Lane station hidden in the foliage. The Hammersmith & City line bridge across Wood Lane can be seen in the distance.
The old Wood lane entrance is now just a wide pavement on the corner of Ariel Way/Wood Lane. The old platforms are filled in and the original Westfield centre bus station was built on top of these, with the new tube sidings underneath.
The Wood Lane platforms barely discernible in 2004. This is where the moving platform was.
At this very spot (middle of picture) was a moveable platform. This accommodated longer trains in use from 1928, plus it could be moved to allow trains to access the depot.
Wood Lane (from my archives.) 18 Feb 1939. The train has terminated here rather than continue to Ealing.
The above picture shows the moving platform section at Wood Lane. My 2004 photo would have been taken from a point just behind the rear of this Central London Railway carriage.
Peering over a wall trains could be seen heading south. The loop joined at left. Compare with that below.
The wall has gone and the southbound Central Line trains now run beneath this pavement.
The Wood Lane station scene today with the Dimco buildings at extreme left. The advert and green foliage straight ahead hides a ventilation shaft – once the site of Wood Lane’s station buildings.
The White City approach tracks in 2004. The centre tracks once led to the old depot and have now been removed.
Compare the above view with that below taken in April 2017. The old depot tracks are replaced by a direct connection to the new depot underneath the Westfield bus station.
2017 view of the Central Line just south of White City station.
This article was been compiled because its clear any remaining clues regarding the track layouts and depots at Wood Lane (including Ariel Way) are now being eradicated to make way for the Westfield shopping centre’s extension.
Update January 2019: The area has changed all beyond recognition. There are two new bridges over the Central Line and a new park on its east side – with a new, as yet incomplete, residential development rising billed as ‘White City Living.’