The station was to have been built on the CLR's planned underground extension from Shepherd's Bush to Gunnersbury proposed to parliament in November 1912.The station would have been between Rylett Road to the west and The Grove to the east.[2] The CLR received permission for the extension on 15 August 1913 in the Central London Railway Act, 1913.[3] World War I prevented the works from commencing and the permission expired.In 1919, the CLR revived the plan for an extension to Richmond using a different route via the existing L&SWR/DR tracks to the south.