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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.
London King's Cross – Edinburgh Waverley: 1956 – 1991 The Tees Thames [21] London King's Cross – Middlesbrough – Saltburn: 1959 – 1961 Tees-Tyne Pullman [11] [16] [21] London King's Cross – Newcastle: 1948 – 2004 Thames-Clyde Express: LMS / BR: Glasgow Central – Carlisle –Leeds – London St Pancras; before 1966 from Glasgow ...
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.
It evaluated options for high-speed rail in the UK and recommended an £11bn route from London St Pancras and Heathrow to Birmingham and the North West, which they dubbed HS2. The report recommended the new line be built in the M40/Chiltern Main Line corridor, and used it as the basis for its findings.
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]
King's Cross and St Pancras railway stations are about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 metres) east along Euston Road. Euston, the first inter-city railway terminal in London, was planned by George and Robert Stephenson. It was designed by Philip Hardwick and built by William Cubitt, with a distinctive arch over the station entrance.
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.
King's Cross Central, a development of previously semi-derelict land in the King's Cross area; London King's Cross railway station, a major London railway terminus; King's Cross St Pancras tube station for London Underground lines The location of the King's Cross fire of November 1987; King's Cross Thameslink railway station, a former railway ...