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.
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 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.
Due to the area's poor Underground links, it is the station used locally by many residents of the western part of neighbouring Chelsea.
On the night of 21 May 2008, the station was the scene of riots following Chelsea's defeat by Manchester United in the Champions League Final.
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