Imperial Wharf is a

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and

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station located in

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in west

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on the West London line, and is next to

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. The station is between and stations and services are provided by

and Southern. The station opened on Sunday 27 September 2009 and is managed by

. The station is in the sub-district of

where the railway passes over Townmead Road. It takes its name from the adjacent redevelopment of a

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former industrial site, which has been developed into a luxury 1,800 apartment river-side complex by property developers St George since 2004. 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. The station is also adjacent to

, and was known by this name during early stages of development.

History

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, the developer of the Imperial Wharf site, leaving a funding shortfall of £1.3 million. In October 2007,

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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. The station secured full funding on 28 April 2008. 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

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. The first services from the station ran on Sunday 27 September 2009, with a formal opening ceremony by the

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, on 29 September.

Locale

The new station provides an important link for the

area to station in the south of

and northwards towards 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

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offices, between Bagleys Lane and Elbe Street. There are also plans by another developer to redevelop the

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, 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

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. The developers had hoped to complete the redevelopment by 2013.

Services

The typical off-peak services in trains per hour (tph) are: *4tph northbound to (London Overground) *1tph northbound to (Southern) *4tph southbound to (London Overground) *1tph southbound to

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(Southern) Some additional Southern services also operate between Shepherd's Bush and

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. Late evening London Overground services only run between and

Connections

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routes

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, 424 and C3 serve the station. * Chelsea Harbour Pier, which is approximately 250 metres away for river buses services.

Abandoned future proposal

There were proposals, supported by RBK&C, to include a stop at this location, on the proposed

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line (known for a time as the 'Chelsea-Hackney Line'). If these plans were carried forward, then it would provide an interchange between

services and either

or main line commuter rail services, depending on which standards the new line is built to. 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

stations will remain Fulham Broadway, West Brompton and Sloane Square. Fulham Broadway was also once planned for the Crossrail 2 route but aborted.

References

External links

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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.
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