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English: A proper look around London King's Cross Station.

The concourse with it's mix of old and new looks amazing!

You will also find the fictional Platform 9¾ from Harry Potter here.

Noticed that the real platforms start from Platform 0 and above.

King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus which opened in 1852 on the northern edge of central London.

King's Cross is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, providing high speed inter-city services to Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland. Virgin Trains East Coast is the main inter-city operator with destinations including Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Other inter-city operators serving the station include Hull Trains and Grand Central.

King's Cross is also a terminus for Great Northern which provides commuter services to North London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Norfolk. Immediately to the west across Pancras Road is St Pancras International, the London terminus of Eurostar services to continental Europe. The two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network and taken together form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs. The station is 820 yards (750 m) north-east of Euston, the southern terminus for the West Coast Main Line.

Grade I listed building.

Kings Cross Station, Camden

   CAMDEN

   TQ3083SW EUSTON ROAD
   798-1/85/420 (North side)
   10/06/54 King's Cross Station

   GV I

   Railway terminus. 1850-52. By Lewis Cubitt (architect), and
   Sir William and Joseph Cubitt (engineers). Yellow stock brick.
   2 train sheds (originally 1 for arrivals, the other for
   departure) closed by monumental plain brick screen of 2 glazed
   semicircular openings, framed with recessed arches (echoing
   the train sheds behind) with central and flanking towers;
   ground storey obscured by late C20 additions. Central tower
   with rectangular clock turret with pyramidical roof, eaves
   cornice and weather vane. To the west, 3 storey 3 window
   office block with booking hall and service rooms at rear; 1st
   floor with thin, debased Venetian windows, cornice at 2nd
   floor level, 2nd floor segmental-arched sashes (flanking bays
   tripartite), cornice. On east side, an extension with archway
   to the cab drive (now bricked up); rusticated surround to arch
   and quoins; cornice above which 3 tripartite sashes and
   parapet.
   INTERIOR: train sheds separated by round-arched brick
   colonnade. Originally, train shed roofs of laminated wood,
   inspired by the Crystal Palace, but these rapidly deteriorated
   and were replaced by the present iron-ribbed roofs to the
   eastern shed 1869-70, to the western 1886-7. (Laminated wood
   trusses successfully used at 26 Pancras Road (qv).
   HISTORICAL NOTE: when opened as the terminus of the Great
   Northern Railway, was the largest station in England and is
   the earliest great London terminus still intact.
   The contrast of its functional simplicity with St Pancras
   Station next door (qv) is powerful.
   (Hunter M and Thorne R: Change at King's Cross: London: -1990:
   59-64).

   Listing NGR: TQ3026983130

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Source: English Heritage

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