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St Pancras railway station (/ ˈ p æ ŋ k r ə s /), officially known since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services from Belgium, France and the Netherlands to London.
King's Cross St Pancras (also known as King's Cross & St Pancras International) is a London Underground station on Euston Road in the Borough of Camden, Central London.It serves King's Cross and St Pancras main line stations in fare zone 1, and is an interchange between six lines: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria.
King's Cross is a district in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, on either side of Euston Road in north London, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Charing Cross, bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Euston to the west and Camden Town to the northwest.
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King's Cross station shares a London Underground station with neighbouring St Pancras station. King's Cross St Pancras tube station is served by more lines than any other station on the London Underground. In 2023, King's Cross St Pancras was the most used station on the system, with 72.12 million passengers entering and exiting the station. [95]
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
A map showing the wards of St Pancras Metropolitan Borough as they appeared in 1916. The ancient parish of St Pancras (also known as Pancrace or Pancridge [1]) was established in the medieval period to serve five manors: two manors named St Pancras (one prebendial, one lay), Cantlowes (Kentish Town), Tottenham Court and Rugmere (Chalk Farm).
The left side shows the 1933 Beck map and the right side the map in 2012. 1908 map of the Underground overlaid on a city map. Early maps of the Metropolitan and District railways were city maps with the lines superimposed, [264] and the District published a pocket map in 1897. [265]