Nottingham Victoria railway station

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Nottingham Victoria Station prior to 1926. On the right of the picture is the Victoria Hotel, now a Hilton hotel.

Nottingham Victoria railway station was a Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway railway station in Nottingham, England. It was opened by the Nottingham Joint Station Committee in 24 May 1900 and closed on 3 July 1967 by British Railways, London Midland Region.

The station was large, with 12 platforms, and situated in the city centre. It was demolished after much opposition, and the site is now occupied by the Victoria Shopping Centre and housing in the form of Victoria Flats — Nottingham's tallest building (256 feet / 72m tall).^[1]The new structure incorporates the original station's clock tower. From the bottom level of the shopping centre's car park, in the former station's deep cutting, the site of the entrance of Mansfield Road railway tunnel remains visible.

Upon the closure of the Great Central railway and the Great Northern line to Melton Mowbray, Nottingham also lost smaller stations: Nottingham, London Road High Level & Nottingham, London Road Low Level.

Nottingham's other mainline station, Nottingham Midland, remains in service.