It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines, between Goldhawk Road and Wood Lane stations, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The Metropolitan Railway (MR) opened the original station on 13 June 1864 as Shepherd's Bush on its new extension to Hammersmith.

From 1 October 1877 until 31 December 1906 the MR also ran direct services along this line to Richmond via Hammersmith (Grove Road).

The station is at the western end of Shepherd's Bush Green, and stands just across the road from the marketplace which gives it its name.

Stallholders have traded on the strip of land beside the Hammersmith & City line since 1914, when the market took over the station's first site.