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Nottingham Victoria railway station

Located in Nottingham, England, Nottingham Victoria was a Great Central and Great Northern Railway railway

station. The architect who created it, Albert Edward Lambert, also redesigned the Nottingham Midland station,

which is now just known as Nottingham station.

The Nottingham Joint Station Committee opened it on May 24, 1900, and the London Midland Region of British

Railways closed it on September 4, 1967. The old station clock tower was incorporated into the main entrance on

Milton Street (the continuation of Mansfield Road) of the Victoria Centre retail centre, which was constructed on the

site after the station building was completely dismantled except for the clock tower.

Background

Authorisation to expand the North Midlands railway network into London was granted to the Manchester, Sheffield,

and Lincolnshire Railway in 1893. The London Extension, a new line that ran from Annesley to a new station at

Marylebone in London, was inaugurated on 15 March 1899 (by which time the railway business was renamed as the

Great Central Railway). A new station was to be constructed in Nottingham, where the route crossed.

The station was being built on a massive scale: three years had been spent in talks to buy a 13-acre (53,000 m2)

property in the middle of Nottingham for £473,000 (£66.6 million)[1]. The project required demolishing the entire

streets of over 1,300 homes, 24 public buildings, and St. Stephen’s Church on Bunker’s Hill. After that, roughly

600,000 cubic yards (460,000 m3) of sandstone were dug out of the site. The site included a tunnel allowing access

at each end and was roughly 650 yards (590 m) long from north to south with an average width of 110 yards (100 m).