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King’s Cross is the London station on the East Coast Main Line, with trains departing for Edinburgh, York and Newcastle – and commuters have criticised the move.
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to Yorkshire and the Humber, North East England and Scotland.
British Railways poster celebrating the centenary of the Flying Scotsman.The locomotives shown are a GNR Sturrock Single and a Class 55 Deltic The Flying Scotsman hauled by LNER Class A1 No. 2547 Doncaster in 1928 The Flying Scotsman hauled by 4488 Union of South Africa at London King's Cross in 1948 Deltic The Black Watch with the Flying Scotsman and headboard 91101 in Flying Scotsman livery ...
The Elizabethan was a British Railways non-stop passenger train that ran between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley in the United Kingdom. The daily service, which operated for ten years from 1953 to 1963, took just over 6hrs. It was hauled by steam engines until they were replaced by diesel units in 1961.
In 2005, a business case was prepared to re-open the disused York Road Underground station on the Piccadilly line, to serve the King's Cross Central development and help relieve congestion at King's Cross St Pancras. [53] York Road station closed in September 1932 and was around 600 m (660 yd) north of King's Cross St Pancras. [54]
It stands between the British Library, the Regent's Canal and London King's Cross railway station, with which it shares a London Underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. The station was constructed by the Midland Railway (MR), to connect its extensive rail network, across the Midlands and North of England, to a dedicated line into London.
King's Cross Thameslink on Pentonville Road closed on 8 December 2007. Trains operating the "main line" service (Bedford and Cambridge to Brighton, Peterborough to Horsham) include first-class accommodation; those operating from Luton, St Albans and Kentish Town to Sutton, Sevenoaks and Orpington are usually standard class only.
Until December 2005, GNER's White Rose service was operated by Class 373 Regional Eurostar sets, one of which is seen here at London King's Cross. There were two trains per day between London and Bradford Forster Square. These were extensions of the King's Cross–Leeds services and were operated using an electric InterCity 225.