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The '''Dimco Buildings''' are a pair of 19th-century structures in White City, London, just north of Shepherd's Bush. Originally built in 1898 as an electric railway power station, they are now in use as a bus station.
==History== The Dimco Buildings were constructed in 1898 to house an engine house and boiler house for the Wood Lane electricity generating station serving the Wood Lane depot of the Central London Railway (CLR), the precursor of present-day Central line on the London Underground network. The architect was Harry Bell Measures, who was also responsible for a number of station buildings on the original CLR.<ref name=NHLE>{{NHLE |num=1079757 |desc=Dimco Machine Tools |grade=II |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> The power station closed on 18 March 1928 when power for the line began to be supplied from Lots Road Power Station.<ref name="day">{{cite book|last1=Day|first1=John R|last2=Reed|first2=John|orig-year=1963|year=2010|page=98|edition=11th|title=The Story of London's Underground|publisher=Capital Transport|isbn=978-1-85414-341-9}}</ref> After closure, the buildings were taken over by Dimco, an Italian machine tools company.<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book |last1=Cherry |first1=Bridget |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |title=London 3: North West |date=1 January 2002 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-09652-1 |page=225 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuvCfuvUy-0C&pg=PA225 |access-date=30 December 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
After falling derelict for a number of years, the Dimco Buildings were refurbished in 2007-8 and now house the White City bus station, located next to the Westfield London shopping centre, one of the largest in Europe.<ref name=NHLE/>
Since 1988, the Dimco Buildings have been Grade II listed for their historic significance as the earliest surviving example of an electricity generating station built for the London Underground.<ref name=NHLE/>
==In popular culture== The Dimco buildings were used as a filming location for the Acme Factory in the 1988 film ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', and later served as the interior of the British Museum in ''The Mummy Returns'' (2001).<ref name="dimco3">{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/whoframed.html|title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit filming locations|author=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations|access-date=2007-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326214824/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/whoframed.html|archive-date=26 March 2006}}</ref> British girl group Girls Aloud also filmed the music video for their debut single "Sound of the Underground" in the Dimco Building on 2 December 2002, just two days after they had been formed on ''Popstars: The Rivals''.
==See also== {{Portal|London|Energy|London transport}} *History of Shepherd's Bush
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==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://www.londonarchitecture.co.uk/Building/1320795850/The-Dimco-Buildings.php The Dimco Buildings - London Architecture].
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Category:Coal-fired power stations in England Category:Former power stations in London Category:Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:White City, London Category:Transport design in London Category:History of the London Underground