Database: Victoria Station

Here's some train history for you adrenaline junkies:
As railway stations were built around the city, Westminster became a desired location for the competing railways to control. In the end, Victoria station was built in 1862 and made up of two units run by two different companies: the western unit was owned and run by the , while the eastern unit was operated by the . Each had its own entrance and was inaccessible from the other side.
In Oscar Wilde's , Jack claims that he was found as a baby in a handbag in Victoria station, insisting that we was found on the Brighton side, implying a social superiority associated with the Brighton station. This perception of the two stations is supported by the fact that the Brighton Station featured an elaborate 300-room hotel called the Grosvenor while the Chatham station had no adornments or additional buildings attached to it.
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