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Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail. [3] Named after the nearby Victoria Street , [ 4 ] the mainline station is a terminus of the Brighton Main Line to Gatwick Airport and Brighton and the ...
The Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (VS&PR) was an early British railway company which was incorporated by act of Parliament, the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. cxviii), on 23 July to build a railway line connecting the existing London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) terminus in Battersea to a new terminal at London Victoria station in Westminster.
A new company, called Victoria Station Acquisition Corporation and was controlled by Lowell Farkas, purchased the Victoria Station trademark and 11 of the restaurants for $6.5 million and the assumption of a $1 million tax liability. [6] There was a similar chain called "Twickenham Station" in Alabama and Florida during the same time span.
Opposite the Victoria Street entrance to Victoria Station is the site of the former Metropole Kinema, built in 1929 and in operation until 1977. It reopened in 1978 as The Venue , a live music club owned by Virgin Records , which ran until 1984.
As a result, The Victoria station bomb, which was hidden in a rubbish bin inside the station, went off at 7:40am whilst passengers were still present on crowded platforms. [8] Despite a 45-minute warning and the Paddington bomb three hours before, which was much smaller than that at Victoria, the security services were slow to act.
Port Victoria railway station is a disused station in Kent, United Kingdom, which opened on 11 September 1882 and closed in 1951. It was located at the head of a 400-foot (120 m) long timber pier reaching in the River Medway estuary .
Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England, is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral , it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s.
Victoria Dock railway station, also known as Victoria station, in Hull, England; Victoria Station (British Columbia), in Victoria, Canada; Other uses.