Trains into Victoria + Victoria line chat

[Puddy_Tat]

August 1929 photo of the original Victoria Coach Station posted today on Tweeter by robnitm

had to do a bit of digging - this isn't where the current (1932) coach station is - as far as I can gather, this is roughly where the Tachbrook Estate is now (south of Lupus Street, east of Aylesford Street) which was opened in 1928.

This was the former Pimlico Gasworks site (1897 map here), and the Grosvenor Canal is at the left of the picture.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

another one on tweeter today - also courtesy of robnitm

c. 1880?

This was the original London Chatham & Dover building, where the 'South Eastern' side is now - the current building dates from 1906 (after the LCDR and its rival South Eastern Railway stopped throwing money at competing with each other and formed a joint management committee)

 

[ska invita]

August 1929 photo of the original Victoria Coach Station posted today on Tweeter by robnitm

had to do a bit of digging - this isn't where the current (1932) coach station is - as far as I can gather, this is roughly where the Tachbrook Estate is now (south of Lupus Street, east of Aylesford Street) which was opened in 1928.

This was the former Pimlico Gasworks site (1897 map here), and the Grosvenor Canal is at the left of the picture.

love the charabang action
an open topped ride to Littlehampton wouldve been a great trip, though a bit chilly

 

[ska invita]

Got stuck on broken down train on Vicky line tonight... Whole line now suspended... Currently on a bus... Will have taken me 2.5hrs to get home tonight.... Not happy

 

[ska invita]

and in other front page news today

 

[Mation]

Got stuck on broken down train on Vicky line tonight... Whole line now suspended... Currently on a bus... Will have taken me 2.5hrs to get home tonight.... Not happy

Yep. It just took me 2.5 hours to get from Euston back to Camberwell. As the last leg of a round-trip journey that started at 5:10 this morning. Hooray.

 

[Treacle Toes]

August 1929 photo of the original Victoria Coach Station posted today on Tweeter by robnitm

had to do a bit of digging - this isn't where the current (1932) coach station is - as far as I can gather, this is roughly where the Tachbrook Estate is now (south of Lupus Street, east of Aylesford Street) which was opened in 1928.

This was the former Pimlico Gasworks site (1897 map here), and the Grosvenor Canal is at the left of the picture.

Love this pic!

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Yep. It just took me 2.5 hours to get from Euston back to Camberwell. As the last leg of a round-trip journey that started at 5:10 this morning. Hooray.

Me too but without the 5am start

 

[MrSki]

Yep. It just took me 2.5 hours to get from Euston back to Camberwell. As the last leg of a round-trip journey that started at 5:10 this morning. Hooray.

Were you stuck on the tube a long time? You can walk Euston to Brixton in less than two hours. Mind you if you started at 5:10 doubt you were up for a long stroll!

 

[Mation]

Were you stuck on the tube a long time? You can walk Euston to Brixton in less than two hours. Mind you if you started at 5:10 doubt you were up for a long stroll!

I was stuck in tube tunnels for about an hour and a half. Would have got off about halfway through that when we finally got to a station but I'd picked up and old man who needed help to get to Victoria, so we stayed on. Then the train in front broke down again when we were in the next bit of tunnel. Then the Victoria Line was suspended when we got to Green Park. So then we got a cab to Victoria. Then I got the bus home

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Love this pic!

Every single person is wearing a hat

 

[MrSki]

I was stuck in tube tunnels for about an hour and a half. Would have got off about halfway through that when we finally got to a station but I'd picked up and old man who needed help to get to Victoria, so we stayed on. Then the train in front broke down again when we were in the next bit of tunnel. Then the Victoria Line was suspended when we got to Green Park. So then we got a cab to Victoria. Then I got the bus home

Sounds a bloody nightmare!

 

[trabuquera]

Sorry to contaminate this gleaming light-blue thread with the filth and soot of the black Northern Line, but yesterday night's debacle reminded me again just how much I hate having to join the lemmings racing over from one platform to another when forced to change at poxy Kennington.

W1 ->SW9 last night: close on 50 minutes including pacing it from Oxford Circus to Green Park, nightmare interludes on the Piccadilly and Northern lines (see above) and then a healthy skip from Stockwell to Brixton.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

picture recently posted on flickr



date uncertain - postcard dated 1924 but probably taken a while before that - possibly even just before the 1914 war

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the aforementioned robnitm on tweeter has put a longer set together on flashbak

Victoria Station – A History in 33 Photos

includes some of the photos already posted above.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Different Victoria station, but Manchester's Victoria Station is being re-named Victoria Wood Station

 

[Puddy_Tat]

one on Flickr today - c. 1959 / 60

 

[ska invita]

Union jacks up in Victoria today ... Felt like wartime

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm a regular on the Victoria train from Croydon. I used to change at clapham then go to Waterloo, then get the Waterloo East to charring cross and walk to Soho from there. Then one day I discovered it took just as long to walk from Waterloo over the bridge to charring cross as it did to walk to the platform at Waterloo East and take a train. Then I discovered it was even quicker if I didn't swap trains at clapham and just walked to Soho from Victoria.
It also means can always get a seat on the way home.

I have recently been discovering the world around the sides of Victoria as I have been looking into more extravagant skateboarding routes.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

also seems as good a place as any to mention the cat that went exploring on the victoria line last week - SLP story about kitteh rescue here

I used to change at clapham then go to Waterloo

 

[Treacle Toes]

one on Flickr today - c. 1959 / 60

Smoggy.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Different Victoria station, but Manchester's Victoria Station is being re-named Victoria Wood Station

How lovely

 

[Artaxerxes]

Different Victoria station, but Manchester's Victoria Station is being re-named Victoria Wood Station

Permanently? Stories I've seen have it only renamed for an hour

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Permanently? Stories I've seen have it only renamed for an hour

Oh, that's pants

 

[Artaxerxes]

Oh, that's pants

Aye it is.

Heres the story: Victoria Wood remembered as station renamed in her honour - BBC News

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Boo!!!!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

August 1929 photo of the original Victoria Coach Station posted today on Tweeter by robnitm

had to do a bit of digging - this isn't where the current (1932) coach station is - as far as I can gather, this is roughly where the Tachbrook Estate is now (south of Lupus Street, east of Aylesford Street) which was opened in 1928.

This was the former Pimlico Gasworks site (1897 map here), and the Grosvenor Canal is at the left of the picture.

This picture has surfaced elsewhere, and realise I got the location right but the bit of waterway wrong - what's visible in this picture was the river Tyburn (or what was, by then, left of it...)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

another one from robnitm on tweeter today -

looks like the bus station was under construction. Photo dated as 1926 - station signs still refer to the 'London, Brighton & South Coast Railway' and the 'Elevated Electric' - the Southern Railway (formed 1923) standardised on the 'third rail' system instead and converted all lines by 1929

 

[hash tag]

It still looks like a chaotic building site even now

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It still looks like a chaotic building site even now

yes- the 'temporary' roadworks that have been going on for about 3 years...