Bradford Railway Hotels
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Great Victoria Hotel, Bridge Street, BD1 1JN
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Visit websiteThe Midland Hotel was part of a complex consisting of passenger and goods stations and the hotel, built in 1890. It is a four storey building with attics and a Mansard roof. A five sided turret over the main entrance rises to a dome which complemented that over the station. It was designed by Charles Trubshaw, the Midland's architect. It is listed Grade II.
The Great Victoria Hotel was built in 1867 by a local company and bought by the the Great Northern Railway in 1892. It is opposite Exchange Station which it shared with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Also four storeys high it is in sandstone with French style pavilion roofs.
They stand as a monument to railway competition whereby Bradford has inherited two terminal stations within a short walk of one another, facing in opposite directions.
Both are in the centre of Bradford near their respective railway stations.
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