The site measured about 650 yards (590 m) in length from north to south and had an average width of 110 yards (100 m), with a tunnel at each end for access. Stephen's Church, Bunker's Hill, following which about 600,000 cubic yards (460,000 m 3) of sandstone was excavated from the site. The construction called for the demolition of whole streets of some 1,300 houses, 24 public houses, and St. The station's construction was on a grand scale: a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site was acquired at a cost of £473,000 (£56.1 million) in the heart of Nottingham's city centre negotiations for the land acquisition had taken three years. The line passed through Nottingham, where a new station was to be built.Ĭonstruction and opening Station interior in the years after opening. This new line was opened on 15 March 1899 (by which time the railway company was known as the Great Central Railway) and became known as the London Extension, stretching from Annesley to a new station at Marylebone in London. In 1893 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway obtained authorisation to extend its North Midlands railway network into London. The station building was entirely demolished (except the clock tower), and the Victoria Centre shopping centre was built on the site, incorporating the old station clock tower into the main entrance on Milton Street (the continuation of Mansfield Road). It was opened by the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on and closed on 4 September 1967 by the London Midland Region of British Railways. It was designed by the architect Albert Edward Lambert, who also designed the rebuild of the Nottingham Midland station (now known simply as Nottingham station). Nottingham Victoria railway station was a Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway railway station in Nottingham, England. Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway
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