Fulham Broadway tube station

Fulham Broadway
Fulham Broadway Location of Fulham Broadway in Greater London
Location	Walham Green
Local authority	Hammersmith and Fulham
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	9.50 million
2013	9.94 million
2014	10.77 million
2015	10.71 million
Railway companies
Original company	District Railway
Key dates
1 March 1880	Opened as Walham Green
1 March 1952	Renamed Fulham Broadway
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°28′50″N 0°11′41″W / 51.4806°N 0.1947°W / 51.4806; -0.1947Coordinates: 51°28′50″N 0°11′41″W / 51.4806°N 0.1947°W / 51.4806; -0.1947

Fulham Broadway is a London Underground station on the Wimbledon branch of the District line. It is between West Brompton and Parsons Green stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is located on Fulham Broadway (A304). It is notable as the nearest station to Stamford Bridge stadium, the home of Chelsea Football Club. The London Oratory School is also nearby.

The station was opened as Walham Green on 1 March 1880 when the District Railway (DR, now the District line) extended its line south from West Brompton to Putney Bridge.

The original station building was replaced in 1905 with a new entrance designed by Harry W Ford to accommodate crowds for the newly built Stamford Bridge stadium. It is now a Grade II listed building.

The name was changed to its current form on 1 March 1952 after representations from Fulham Chamber of Commerce.

In 2003 the street-level station building at the southern end of the platform was closed and a new entrance was opened within the adjacent Fulham Broadway shopping centre. The shopping centre has the motto "Life Begins At Fulham Broadway". The centre was partly built above what were the previously open-air sections of the platforms and the station facilities were improved to provide full wheelchair accessibility and to again improve the management of football crowds. (The station exit towards the shopping centre is closed on Chelsea F.C. matchdays; fans are directed towards a different exit at the northern end of the station.) The old station building was refurbished and occupied between 2005 and April 2010 by a T.G.I. Friday's restaurant. From July 2010 to February 2012 the site was home to Union Market which described itself as a farmers market with the convenience of a supermarket. It retains many of the original station signs and architectural features, including the historic terracotta block facade. The original footbridge remains in situ.