Imperial Wharf railway station

Calls for a station here were met in 2005 with a fully costed station and signalling at £3 million, of which £1.7 million had already been provided by Berkeley Homes Plc through its St George upmarket London-focused subsidiary,^[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 Homes had agreed to provide another £1.2 million, roughly enough to complete the project. It is also reported that the planning permission for the whole of the Imperial Wharf development was only given on the basis that a station was built.^{[citation needed]}

The station secured full funding on 28 April 2008.^[6][7] The total cost of the station was £7.8 million with the following contributions: £4.8 million from St George, £1 million from Transport for London, £650,000 from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and £1.35 million from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.^[8] The first services from the station ran on Sunday 27 September 2009, with a formal opening ceremony by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on 29 September.^[8]

The new station provides an important link for the Sands End area to Clapham Junction station in the south of London and northwards towards Willesden Junction station. This will be particularly important as the area is further developed by both private and public organisations. This investment includes a new residential development called "The Gallery" which has been started on recently cleared land next to the Laura Ashley offices, between Bagleys Lane and Elbe Street.

There are also plans by another developer to redevelop the Lots Road Power Station into 395 residential units. The semi-derelict building, on Chelsea Creek close to the River Thames, is a large, disused, coal-fired power station. It was designed in 1902 and completed in 1905 and until 2003 was used to provide power for London Underground. The developers had hoped to complete the redevelopment by 2013.

 

Services at Imperial Wharf are operated by Southern and London Overground using Class 377 and 378 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[9][10]

• 4 tph to Stratford via Willesden Junction
• 1 tph to Watford Junction
• 4 tph to Clapham Junction
• 1 tph to East Croydon

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

During the late evenings, London Overground services at the station run between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction only.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
West Brompton		Southern West London Line		Clapham Junction
Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
West Brompton towards Stratford		West London Line		Clapham Junction Terminus

• London Bus routes 306, 424 and C3 serve the station.^[11]
• Chelsea Harbour Pier, which is approximately 250 metres away provides river buses services.^[12]

There were proposals, supported by RBK&C, to include a stop at this location, on the proposed Crossrail 2 line (known for a time as the 'Chelsea-Hackney Line'). If these plans were carried forward, then it would provide an interchange between London Overground services and either London Underground or main line commuter rail services, depending on which standards the new line is built to.^[13]

However, as of 2014, it is unlikely that Crossrail 2 will route via this location due to the engineering complexities of a kink in the route between the proposed Chelsea station and Clapham Junction. The nearest London Underground stations will remain Fulham Broadway, West Brompton and Sloane Square. Fulham Broadway was also once planned for the Crossrail 2 route but aborted.^[14]

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Imperial Wharf railway station.

• "Imperial Wharf station". Always Touch Out. 28 October 2007. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2008.
• Imperial Wharf station work begins.
• Imperial Wharf, SubBrit stations project
• London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham – Chuffed by new train station.
• BBC News Website – A new station opens in South London.