London Victoria station LBSCR trainshed 14th March 1976

            The sun streams through the glass roof of the 1862 London, Brighton & South Coast Railway trainshed at London Victoria station. Not too many people or trains about but it was Sunday morning.

What I hadn't realised until this morning (when I took a Chichester train) was that this magnificent Victorian structure is no more. Sometime in the 80s or 90s it turned into Birmingham New Street! A hideous, dingy, low roofed warren of modern tiled pillars & claustrophobic platforms. I had missed this transformation until now & it's a travesty. I thought I was uploading an almost mundane commuter scene but instead it has become a historic image. I'm in shock!

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Victoria (show map)

Taken on: January 23, 2007

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