Victoria Station - Chatham side

I have taken this remarkable facade before as a blip - but then it was uncleaned and unrestored.

This is the front of the London Chatham and Dover Railway station at Victoria, the present building was opened in 1906 and was designed by A. W. Bloomfield architect of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, which was the working union of the LC&DR with its arch rival in Kent, the South Eastern Railway.

Until 1923 and Railway Grouping, the Brighton side - the London Brighton and South Coast Railway station at Victoria and its Grosvenor Hotel in grand renaissance style were completely separate.

This little remarked building looks magnificent in the late evening sloping sun.