Imperial Wharf railway station
Imperial Wharf  
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Western (northbound) entrance, 27 September 2009
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 Imperial Wharf
Location of Imperial Wharf in Greater London
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| Location | Sands End |
| Local authority | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | Transport for London |
| Station code | IMW |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 1.232 million |
| 2012–13 |
1.580 million |
| 2013–14 |
1.818 million |
| 2014–15 |
1.983 million |
| 2015–16 |
3.290 million |
| Key dates | |
| 27 September 2009 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°28′31″N 0°10′58″W / 51.47517°N 0.18281°WCoordinates: 51°28′31″N 0°10′58″W / 51.47517°N 0.18281°W |
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Imperial Wharf is a railway station in Fulham within 500 metres of Chelsea in south-west London on the West London Line and in common with many stations has given rise to its own sub-district name Imperial Wharf, which is to some minds synonymous with Chelsea Harbour. 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 managed by London Overground.
The station is in the sub-district of Sands End where the railway passes over 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 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 Chelsea Harbour, and was known by this name during early stages of development; indeed its TIPLOC code is "CseaH" in computerised timetable systems.
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, 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.
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