The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened their side of the station in 1860. Another part of the station, The London Chatham and Dover Railway (later South East and Chatham Railway, or SECR) was opened on 25 August 1862.
The 1860 building was replaced in 1906 with the one in our picture. This has some in two of the entrance passageways.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Victoria Station
According to Wikipedia the State of Victoria was founded in 1851 so this plaq...
Railway administrator. Born in Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, In 1872 he joined the London and South Western Railway as a clerk, and rose to become the last General Manager of the Great Central Railway...
This is, approximately, the area where the Greenway crosses the River Lea, E3. Â In Roman times the ford was the most down-stream place where the River Lea could be crossed so it was an important po...
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
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