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7 July 2009 flash flooding closed both the mainline and underground stations causing major disruption to commuters. Water overflowed from the roof drainage system causing flooding on the main concourse, flooding several retail outlets.
Victoria station,[3] also known as London Victoria,[4] is a major central London railway terminus, London Underground and coach station in the City of Westminster. It is the second busiest railway terminus in London (and the UK) after Waterloo. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. It is named after the British monarch Queen Victoria.
Straightforward as this investment seemed, it proved otherwise. There was another claim to the land: the Hampden family had a lease that they refused to relinquish. Downing fought this claim, but failed and consequently had to wait thirty years before he could build his houses.[6]
Little Ben was manufactured, according to Pevsner, by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon, and was erected in 1892; removed from the site in 1964, and restored and re-erected in 1981 by Westminster City Council with sponsorship from Elf Aquitaine Ltd "offered as a gesture of Franco-British friendship".
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