were used by railway maintenance staff, although the footbridge and southbound platform building were removed. In the mid-1950s the main station building was demolished. The derelict station is described in some detail by the author James Kelso in his reminiscences of wartime Fulham, in which he refers to the H-shaped building consisting of "two wings... joined in the middle by a set-back booking hall with a canopied forecourt", the enclosure of the disused premises in corrugated iron and barbed wire after the air raids, and the passage of troop trains hauled by 2-6-0 locomotives. The site today Today the site of the former station is occupied by a block of flats. Parts of the northbound platform riser walls and some platform nosings remain. The West London Line continued in use mainly as a freight route until its reopening as a passenger line under British Rail. Since the revival of the line as part of the London Overground network, service frequencies on the line have increased, and although Chelsea & Fulham station was never re-opened, a new station called was opened in 2009 approximately to the south, close to Chelsea Harbour. Chelsea FC had proposed reopening the station to serve the stadium during Match Days but this was rejected on grounds that it would be too overcrowded on match days. The local MP, Greg Hands, suggested reopening a station at the site in 2016. References External links London's Abandoned Stations - Chelsea & Fulham Chelsea & Fulham, SubBrit disused stations projects The parish of Chelsea: Communications: Railways, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 2–13. (Victoria County History series). Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Former West London Extension Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1940 1863 establishments in England 1940 disestablishments in England