Fulham Broadway tube station

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Fulham Broadway
Location
Place	Walham Green
Local authority	Hammersmith and Fulham

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	2
2005 annual usage	8.715 million †
2007 annual usage	10.291 million †
History
1880	Opened (MDR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

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.

1 History
2 Cultural references
3 Image gallery
4 External links

[edit] History

The station was opened as Walham Green on 1 March 1880 when the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line) extended its line south from West Brompton to Putney Bridge. Walham Green is the historic name of the area south of Fulham Broadway, north east of Eel Brook Common and north of Kings Road. The modern name of Walham Green is the Moore Park Estate.

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 2 March 1952 after representations from Fulham Chamber of Commerce.

In 2003 the street-level station building 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 old station building was refurbished and has been occupied since 2005 by a T.G.I. Friday's restaurant. It retains many of the original station signs and architectural features.

[edit] Cultural references

In 1998 the station was featured in the film "Sliding Doors" where Gwyneth Paltrow met John Hannah after successfully catching her tube. When they leave the tube, you see them walk up the old steps towards the exit. These steps no longer lead to that exit, having been superseded by the new ticket hall described previously; they do remain as a bridge between platforms however.