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, 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. 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 London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. ==Locale==

The new station provides an important link for the Sands End area to station in the south of London 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 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==

Imperial Wharf station is located on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, with services operated using EMUs. Additional National Rail services are provided by Southern using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: • 4 tph to via • 1 tph to • 4 tph to • 1 tph to Additional services call at the station during the peak hours. During the late evenings, Mildmay line services at the station run between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction only. ==Connections==

• London Bus routes 306, 424 and C3 serve the station. • Chelsea Harbour Pier, which is approximately 250 metres away provides river buses services. ==Abandoned future proposal==

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. However, as of 2025, it is unlikely that Crossrail 2 can proceed 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. ==References==