Sir John Hawkshaw and John Wolfe-Barry designed the original station for the South Eastern Railway, and the Lucas Brothers built it. Construction began in July 1863, and it opened on September 1, 1866 at a cost of £4 million. E. M. Barry designed the City Terminus Hotel.
The station is carried on a brick viaduct 700 feet (210 m) long, with 27 million bricks, under an iron train shed topped by an almost semicircular arch of glass and iron. Two towers in the style of Christopher Wren, 135 feet (41 m) high, stood at the station. The article names no style for the station itself.
It suffered bomb damage in the Second World War, and the train shed roof was demolished in 1958 and the hotel in 1960. A 2007 redevelopment by Foggo Associates and Hines added over 400,000 square feet of office space. The infobox lists seven platforms, while the text describes eight.
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