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Imperial Wharf railway station:
Imperial Wharf is a railway station in Fulham, near to the boundary with Chelsea in west London on the West London Line. The station is between West Brompton and Clapham Junction stations and services are provided by London Overground and Southern.
The station opened on Sunday 27 September 2009 and is operated by London Overground.
The station is located in Sands End where the line crosses Townmead Road. It takes its name from the adjacent redevelopment of a brownfield, former industrial, site, which has been developed into a luxury 1,800 apartment river-side complex by property developers St George over the last five years[when?]. As the Imperial Wharf development continued to grow, so did the business case for the Imperial Wharf station. A further application for 1,500 residential units including a 37 storey tower was submitted to Hammersmith & Fulham Council in early 2009.[citation needed]
The station is also adjacent to Chelsea Harbour, and was known by this name during early stages of development; indeed its TIPLOC code is "CseaH" in computerised timetable systems.
History of Imperial Wharf railway station:
There have been calls for over 15 years by residents for a station to be opened at this site, to be funded by Transport for London and the local council.[citation needed]
In 2005 the estimated cost was £3 million, of which £1.7 million had already been provided by St George,[4] the developer of the Imperial Wharf site, leaving a funding shortfall of £1.3 million.[5]
In October 2007, Hammersmith and Fulham Council announced that St George had agreed to provide another £1.2 million, roughly enough to complete the project. It is also reported that the planning permission for the all of Imperial Wharf was only given to St George on the basis that a station was built.
