{"id":4051,"date":"2011-04-13T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2011-04-13T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T01:06:55","slug":"london-victoria-station-the-refurbished-roof-sees-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-victoria-station-the-refurbished-roof-sees-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"London Victoria railway station &#8211; the refurbished roof sees the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-victoria-station-roof-01.jpg\" alt=\"London Victoria station - the refurbished roof sees the light\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Costing a cool \u00a324m and the result of several years work, the roof renewal project at London&#8217;s bustling Victoria railway terminus is finally reaching completion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hefty scaffolding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project involved erecting a huge scaffolding &#8216;protection deck&#8217; above the tracks, which sat on a purpose built gantry.<\/p>\n<p>For commuters, it seemed like the scaffolding has been there for an eternity, but finally the original roof can now be seen above the tracks, freshly refurbished and repainted and looking like new.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/london-victoria-station-roof-02.jpg\" alt=\"London Victoria station - the refurbished roof sees the light\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The work saw the roof being re-clad and\u00a0re-glazed, with contractors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maygurney.co.uk\/news\/606.html\" target=\"_blank\">May Gurney<\/a> also repairing and repainting the roof steelwork, improving the underground drainage system and providing new M&amp;E (mechanical &amp; electrical) services.<\/p>\n<p>Now a\u00a0stately\u00a0146-years old, the refurbishment should prolong the life of the Grade II listed structure for another 75 years, and, no doubt, make for a more pleasant\u00a0experience\u00a0for\u00a0travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costing a cool \u00a324m and the result of several years work, the roof renewal project at London&#8217;s bustling Victoria railway terminus is finally reaching completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193,90],"tags":[199,10,207],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","category-railways","tag-architecture","tag-london","tag-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/london-victoria-station-roof-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-13l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}