Victoria Coach Station
The Victoria Coach Station is the central bus station in London , that of intercity buses and long-distance bus is approached. It is located in the Belgravia neighborhood on Buckingham Palace Road, just south of Victoria Station .
The bus station is managed by Victoria Coach Station Ltd. , a division of Transport for London . It consists of separate arrival and departure terminals, which are located on both sides of Elizabeth Street. The main departure building includes grocery and retail stores, luggage storage and a ticket hall.
There are 21 departure platforms, with an area of 13,000 m². In the 12 months to March 2014, 14 million passengers made 240,000 journeys to and from the train station.
The Victoria Coach Station was opened at its current location in 1932 by the London Coastal Coaches Limited , an association of various private bus companies. On their behalf, the architecture firm Wallis, Gilbert and Partners built a striking building in the Art Deco style. In 1968 the bus station became a subsidiary of the state-run National Bus Company (NBC). After the privatization of NBC in 1988, London Transport took over the management and passed it on to the successor organization Transport for London in 2000.
Bus connections are operated by:
- Airport Bus Express
- Brigit's Afternoon Tea
- David Urquhart
- DB IC bus
- Ecolines
- Evan Evans
- Eurolines
- Flixbus
- Interbus Kosice
- Megabus
- National Express
- OUIBUS
- Premium Tours
- Sindbad
Web links
- Official website
- Historical development ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Photo gallery with photos from 1960/64
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '35.4 " N , 0 ° 8' 55.1" W.