page_title: Nottingham Victoria railway station
section_title: Station building
hierarchical_section_title: Nottingham Victoria railway station / Station building
caption_attribution_description: English: Nottingham Victoria Station and Tunnel, with train. View southward, towards Leicester and London, also Grantham etc.; ex-Great Central main line, Sheffield Victoria - London Marylebone, also ex-Great Northern Derby - Grantham line. Note the elaborate footbridge, which linked the two main islands at this south end, then the South Signalbox virtually underneath the massive Parliament Street Bridge and the Tunnel bore, immediately beyond which the Grantham line bore off left. The train, heading south behind Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 44912, is a Sheffield Victoria to Poole express, which will leave the London line at Woodford Halse for Banbury, thence Oxford, Didcot, Reading West, Basingstoke, Southampton and Bournemouth.
context_page_description: Nottingham Victoria railway station was a Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway railway station in Nottingham, England. It was designed by the architect Albert Edward Lambert, who also designed the rebuild of the Nottingham Midland station.
  It was opened by the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on 24 May 1900 and closed on 4 September 1967 by the London Midland Region of British Railways. The station building was entirely demolished, and the Victoria Centre shopping centre was built on the site, incorporating the old station clock tower into the main entrance on Milton Street.
context_section_description: The main station building was in true Victorian splendour. It was constructed in a Renaissance style using the best-quality red-faced bricks and Darley Dale stone, with space at the front for Hackney carriages, which was covered by a canopy. It faced onto the confluence of Mansfield Road and Milton Street for some 250 feet (76 m).
  The three-storey building was dominated by a 100-foot (30 m) clock tower topped with a cupola and weather vane. At the north end of the building, access could be gained to the parcels office via two large metal gates. Once inside the building on the ground floor level, one reached the large and lofty booking hall. It was over 100 feet (30 m) long and 66 feet (20 m) wide, and contained the best-quality pine and a hard-wearing oak floor, along with a gallery on each side to gain access to spacious offices on the first floor. The booking hall contained seven ticket-issuing windows, three each for the Great Central and Great Northern and one for excursion traffic; a clock-type train indicator served all platforms. An iron overbridge led from the booking hall and spanned the platforms, to which it was connected by four broad staircases. A small footbridge at the end provided access to the island platforms at the south end, themselves connected to a side exit leading onto Parliament Street.
  The station itself comprised two large island platforms, each between 1,250 feet (380 m) and 1,270 feet (390 m) long, with two bays at each end for local traffic, giving a total of 12 platform faces. On each island platform were dining and tea rooms together with kitchens, sleeping facilities for staff, waiting rooms, and lavatories. All these buildings were, like the rest of the station, lined with glazed tiles, which were generally buff in colour and embellished with a chocolate dado.  Large 42 feet 6 inches (12.95 m) steel pillars held up an enormous three-part glazed canopy measuring 450 feet (140 m) in length, with a centre span of 83 feet 3 inches (25.37 m) and a pair of flanking spans each of 63 feet 9 inches (19.43 m). There were additional glass roofs over the double-bay platforms, each carried on central pillars. An electrically lit subway system, below track level and covering the breadth of the station, could be used for transporting luggage, thereby avoiding the need to carry it over the footbridges. The subway was linked to the main station by four lifts serving respectively the booking hall, cloakroom, and two island platforms. The refreshment rooms had their own underground subway and lifts.
  The station had passing loops round all platforms (for freight), two signal boxes, and two turntables. The two signal boxes were positioned at the north and south ends of the station and controlled entry and exit to the tunnels that allowed entry to the complex.
caption: The station in 1959
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