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Old November 27th 15, 10:49 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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In message , at 09:45:57 on Fri, 27 Nov
2015, d remarked:
Victoria Station was on top of the hill, in a deep cutting with a tunnel
mouth at either end. As far as I know the tunnels in both directions are
intact. The massive shopping centre car park is built from track level
upwards, and the shops themselves are at ground and first flooe level
beneath the flats and the grey-roofed 'shed'. The northern part of the
cutting has a separate car park with an adjacent bus station at ground
level.

http://www.perry.co.uk/images/nottingham-victoria.jpg

You can see the cutting best between A (the northern portal) and D
(where a fraction of the old grey-brick retaining wall is viable.

The southern portal is at C, and has a small building on the much
smaller cutting.


Thats a shame. Those tunnels would have been a useful link whether for tram
or road. Seems a bit idiotic to have destroyed them. Oh well.


Do keep up! The tunnels are still there. It's the cutting which has been
built upon.
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Roland Perry