Nottingham Victoria remains?

[trebor79]

I saw on a Facebook post (sorry no link as I can never find anything I see on there ever again) that there are apparently substantial remains of Victoria station aside formt he clock tower and hotel. The post claimed that there are rooms including an old ticket office beneath the shopping centre, and the person claimed to have been on a tour of these areas.
Obviously I'm aware of the tunnel mouths and retaining walls, but I thought they, the clock tower and hotel were all that was left. I've always assumed the hole in the ground which the station occupied would have been completely cleared before construction started on the shopping centre. But then I guess at least the structure beneath the clock tower must still be extant...
Anyone able to shed any light on this, or better still share some photographs?

 

[NER1621]

From the disused stations website at

Disused Stations: Nottingham Victoria Station

Present state:

The station has been completely demolished with the exception of the clock tower which has been retained within the Victoria Shopping Centre which now stands on the site of the station. Much of the brick retaining wall surrounding the station survives. The south portal of the Mansfield Road Tunnel at the north end of the station survives, the tunnel is now securely gated. The north portal of the tunnel was buried when the Carrington Station cutting was infilled but access has been maintained buy building a shaft with a locked manhole cover. The north portal of the Victoria Street Tunnel is behind a brick wall in the Victoria Centre underground car park. The tunnel now carries heating pipes into the shopping centre. The south portal of the tunnel is extant.

County:

Nottinghamshire

 

[MadMarsupial]

There is a video underneath. The commentary suggests tours were done officially until quite recently. Video link is https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/video-released-showing-inside-former-7024477

 

[MCR247]

There is a video underneath. The commentary suggests tours were done officially until quite recently. Video link is https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/video-released-showing-inside-former-7024477

This is the Thurland Street tunnel which is well known to still exist behind a locked gate in the underground car park. I imagine the OP is aware of this.

Any ticket office or waiting rooms left over wouldn’t be located in, or particularly close to, the mouth of Thurland Street tunnel. They would likely be on the side, near the hotel and the clock tower.

 

[edwin_m]

From "The Rise and Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network Volume 1", Hayden J Reed. The author was an engineer in the city council's structures department and had a lot to do with many of the surviving railway relics around the city.

• Glazed brick parcel tunnel still exists, carrying service pipes. I assume this was east to west below track level.
• The bridge carrying Parliament Street bridge still exists. This would be under the road just outside Boots.
• Car park apparently extends underneath Parliament Street to the cutting to the south, the detached part of Victoria Centre connected by a disused footbridge over Parliament street. I've been in that car park many times and never seen any of this - must take a look next time.
• A void beyond the end of the above, containing the original tunnel portal.
• Thurland Street tunnel as mentioned. The southern portal was intact and visible until Nottingham Contemporary was built.
• Allegedly some ghosts...