Fulham Broadway
Description
Fulham Broadway is a London Underground station on the branch of the District line. It is between and 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.HistoryThe 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.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.
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