This GNER train serving Kings Cross is named "White Rose" after the traditional symbol of This article is about the English county. For other uses, see Yorkshire (disambiguation). Yorkshire as a traditional county. The White Yorkshire rose. Yorkshire is the largest traditional county of England, covering some 6,000 sq. mi. (15,000 km²) with a population of some five million. It is traditonally divided... Yorkshire.

Kings Cross (or King's Cross) station is a This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. These consist of two parallel rails, usually of steel, generally mounted upon cross-sectional beams (termed sleepers or ties) of timber, concrete or other... railway Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. A train station (American English), or railway station (British English), is a point of call for trains, allowing the loading or unloading of goods, or allowing passengers to board and alight. Early stations were usually... station in Kings Cross is an area in the London Borough of Camden in the north of central London, England. The area was previously a village known as Battle Bridge, which referred to a bridge also known as Broad Ford Bridge, which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet. The bridge... Kings Cross to the north east of central London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. Founded as Londinium, the capital of... London, Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Official language None; English is de facto Capital London Capitals coordinates 51° 30 N, 0° 10 W Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK... England. It is located in the borough of Islington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. Population 179,000 (1998), ethnic minority population about 20%. It was formed in 1964 through amalgamation of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the Metropolitan Borough... Islington, and is the southern terminus of the GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway line in the United Kingdom which links London to Aberdeen, via Stevenage, Peterborough, Grantham, Doncaster, York, Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dunbar, Edinburgh, Leuchars, Dundee and Arbroath. The... East Coast Main Line. It is immediately adjacent to The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. St Pancras station is a railway station in St. Pancras in northeast central London, United Kingdom, in between the new British Library building to its west, and Kings Cross... St Pancras station.

The station serves routes to the North East of the UK, including The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is also at the heart of Silicon Fen, which... Cambridge, This article is about the English city. For other meanings, see York (disambiguation). York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. In 1991 the city had a population of 123,126. Its geographic coordinates are 53°57 North, 1°05 West... York, For other places called Durham, see Durham (disambiguation). Durham Market Place Durhams traditional flag A map of the city from 1610 Durham is a small city in County Durham in the north east of England, situated 25 km (15 miles) to the south of Newcastle upon Tyne... Durham, This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. For other uses of the name, see Newcastle (disambiguation), for other cities of the same name in the United Kingdom see Newcastle, United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne, often called just Newcastle, is a city in North East England that is... Newcastle and Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. See also this picture for a panoramic view from Holyrood Park towards Ocean Terminal. Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra (SAMPA: [Ed@n%b@r@])), Dùn Éideann in Scottish Gaelic, is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the... Edinburgh. Kings Cross also incorporates a major Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and outdoor signs. The London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city... Underground station known as King's Cross St. Pancras, which is a principal interchange station on the Tube network.

Three train companies run services into the station:

• GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. It was awarded a 7 year franchise to operate high speed train services on the East Coast Main Line in April 1996. GNER... GNER - inter-city services on the East Coast Main Line.
• A Wagn outer suburban electric unit Wagn is a franchise operator of commuter train services out of London Kings Cross and Moorgate stations. Services Outer Suburban: services run from Kings Cross to Peterborough, Cambridge and Kings Lynn. Inner Suburban: trains run from Kings Cross and Moorgate to Welwyn Garden City... WAGN - shuttle services to The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is also at the heart of Silicon Fen, which... Cambridge and King's Lynn, local services to North London, Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is one of the Home Counties. Hertfordshire is located to the north of Greater London, and much of the county is part of the London commuter belt. To the... Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire is a county in England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders on the ceremonial counties of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with Milton Keynes), and Hertfordshire. Luton was part of Bedfordshire until 1997, when it was made a unitary authority. However, it is still part of the Ceremonial County of... Bedfordshire and This is about the English city of Peterborough. For other uses, see Peterborough (disambiguation). Arms of Peterborough City Council Peterborough is a city in Cambridgeshire, in the east of England. Along with surrounding towns it forms the Peterborough unitary authority. The Romans first established the fort of Durobrivae -- which later... Peterborough.
• Hull Trains - inter-city services to Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. It is surrounded by the East Riding of Yorkshire, but is a unitary authority. The council is today called Hull City Council, and refers to the city as Hull. Details Unusually for... Hull via the East Coast Main Line.

West of Kings Cross are, in succession, The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. St Pancras station is a railway station in St. Pancras in northeast central London, United Kingdom, in between the new British Library building to its west, and Kings Cross... St Pancras, the new British Library main building, London The British Library is the United Kingdom and one of the worlds largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year. As of March 2004 the library holds 11.2 million monographs and receives more than 41,500... British Library building, and Facade of Euston Station, London Euston Arch: the original Euston Station, as enlarged, ca 1851 Euston station concourse Euston station (also known as London Euston), is a large railway station in Central London. The station is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line with trains to and from... Euston station, all within a few minutes' walk. The present Kings Cross Thameslink station is a railway station in central London, which serves the Thameslink franchise. It is located on Pentonville Road, very near Kings Cross station As part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Links last phase, the station will be moved to underneath St. Pancras station, the... King's Cross Thameslink station is 5 minutes' walk to the east.

The new London terminus of the Model showing the current redevelopment of the Kings Cross area with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminal behind the barrel vaulted St Pancras Station on the left. The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (or CTRL) is a project to construct a 108 km high-speed rail line from London to... Channel Tunnel Rail Link is being built in an area immediately north of Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations. A Eurostar train running through London suburbs on the third-rail electric supply Eurostar is a train service that connects London with Paris and Brussels. Trains cross the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel. The French and Belgian sections of the route use the same high-speed rail lines as... Eurostar trains (to France, not those on loan to GNER) are due to arrive there in 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. Predicted events January January 1 - Target date for the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union. January 1 - Changing of ISBN Numbering system to be 13 Digit Code. February February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be... 2007, in the second phase of the Model showing the current redevelopment of the Kings Cross area with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminal behind the barrel vaulted St Pancras Station on the left. The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (or CTRL) is a project to construct a 108 km high-speed rail line from London to... Channel Tunnel Rail Link project.

Considerable regeneration effort has gone into the area in recent years, with the opening of new hotels and office space under construction.

History

Kings Cross was originally designed and built as the London hub of the A separate article covers the Great Northern Railway in the USA and the Great Northern Railway in Ireland. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of 1846. The main line ran from London via Hitchin, Peterborough, and Grantham, to... Great Northern Railway and terminus of the East Coast Main Line. It was designed by Lewis Cubitt was born on 29 September 1799 and died on 9 June 1883. He married Sophia Kendall (1811-1879) on 23 January 1830. He is one of a (somewhat confusing) family of Cubitts who were noted engineers and architects. Lewis designed the London Kings Cross railway station which was... Lewis Cubitt and constructed in two years from Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. March 1 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times March 27 - First... 1851 to 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devils Island penal colony opens February 11 - First British public toilet for... 1852, on the site of a former fever and smallpox hospital. The main part of the station, which today includes platforms 1-8, was opened on October 14, 1852. The platforms have been reconfigured several times; originally there was only one arrival and one departure platform (today's platforms 1 and 8 respectively), with the space between used for carriage sidings. In later years as suburban traffic grew, space for additional platforms was added with considerably less grandeur; the secondary building now containing platforms 9-11 survives from that era.

Since privatisation, express services into the station have been run by GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. It was awarded a 7 year franchise to operate high speed train services on the East Coast Main Line in April 1996. GNER... Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). According to legend it is built on the site of Boudicca (also written Boudica, Boadicea, Buduica, Bonduca), was a Celtic female chieftain who led the Iceni and a number of other Celtic tribes, including the neighbouring Trinovantes, in a major uprising against the occupying Roman forces in Britain in AD 60 or 61 during the reign of the emperor Nero... Boudicca's final battle, or else her body is buried under one of the platforms there.

The ' The Kings Cross fire was a devastating underground fire in London on November 18, 1987 which killed thirty-one people. It burnt out the top level (entrances and ticket halls) of Kings Cross St. Pancras London Underground station, a huge interchange station which has platforms on the Victoria, Piccadilly... Kings Cross fire' of 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite is found in the US October 15 - Hurricane force winds cause extensive damage in southern England. January January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999... 1987, in which 31 people died, was actually at the adjacent King's Cross St. Pancras underground station.

The original "King's Cross" was a monument to George IV King of the United Kingdom George IV (George Augustus Frederick) (12 August 1762–26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 29 January 1820. He had earlier served as Prince Regent when his father, George III, suffered from a relapse into insanity from... King George IV.

King's Cross in Fiction

Harry Potter

Platform 9 3/4 - Kings Cross station - London - England - Photo by and copyright Tagishsimon - 2nd May 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on...

Platform 9 3/4 - Kings Cross station - London - England - Photo by and copyright Tagishsimon - 2nd May 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on...

The Platform 9¾ sign occasionally causes congestion as tourists and Harry Potter fans stop to photograph it.

Kings Cross features in the Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Harry Potter is the informal name given to a series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, and the movies based on them. They are named after the protagonist, Harry James Potter, who was born... Harry Potter books, by Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. Rowling is most famous for being the author of the... J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Rubeus Hagrid meets the Hogwarts Express at Hogsmeade station in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. The Hogwarts Express is a fictional magical train in the Harry Potter series of books. It is ridden by students between London and Hogwarts. The train stops at King... Hogwarts Express. The train uses a secret platform 9¾ located by passing through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.

Unfortunately, platforms 9 and 10 are in a separate building from the main station and face each other across the intervening tracks: Rowling intended the location to be in the main part of the station, but misremembered the platform numbering (in a 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millenium. Popular culture, however, often views the year 2000 as holding this distinction. 2001 is also the year... 2001 interview she indicated she had actually confused King's Cross with Facade of Euston Station, London Euston Arch: the original Euston Station, as enlarged, ca 1851 Euston station concourse Euston station (also known as London Euston), is a large railway station in Central London. The station is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line with trains to and from... Euston; hence also the wall/barrier confusion).

When the books were filmed, the main station was used, with platforms 4 and 5 renumbered for movie purposes as 9 and 10. In the 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' film the exterior of the nearby St Pancras was a Roman citizen who converted to Christianity, and was beheaded for his faith at the age of just 14 around the year 304. Some of his relics found their way to England, which is why many of the nations churches are dedicated to this saint. St... St Pancras Station was used as St Pancras with its impressive gothic facade was considered more impressive than the real Kings Cross. A cast iron "Platform 9¾" sign has been erected on a wall of the station's suburban building where the real platforms 9 and 10 are.

Other Fiction

The The Doctor Who 2005 television series logo. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. It is common to see... Doctor Who novel Transit features King's Cross as one of the main hubs of an interplanetary transit system based on the London Underground.

In children's television programmes featuring the puppet Roland Rat (also Roland Rat Superstar) is a British television puppet character. He was created, operated and voiced by David Claridge who had previously been behind the Mooncat puppet in the ITV childrens television programme Get Up and Go!. Roland Rat was introduced to ailing breakfast television network TV... Roland Rat, Roland is said to live in the sewers beneath Kings Cross. Roland Rat:The Series shows this as a high tech "Ratcave", accessed from a hidden lift in a workman's shelter.

Spelling

The name is variously spelt both with and without an An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. In English, it marks omissions, forms the possessive, and, in special cases, forms plurals. English language usage An apostrophe is commonly used to indicate omitted characters as in: abbreviations, as govt for... apostrophe:

• Kings Cross is the name for the surrounding area, as supported by both style guides and general usage. Reference: [1] (http://eur-op.eu.int/code/en/en-4100213en.htm)
• Google searches also say that Kings Cross station is more common than King's Cross station
• King's Cross is the "official" signage on both the railway and tube stations; it is also used on the London Underground maps...
• but Kings Cross is the "official" usage in the timetable database, as well as being used on other "official" railway pages...
• and, as of 2004, the new official Network Rail webpage now uses the "King's Cross" spelling [2] (http://www.networkrail.co.uk/Stations/stations/KingsCross/Default.aspx)

External links

• Station information (http://www.networkrail.co.uk/Stations/stations/KingsCross/Default.aspx) on Kings Cross railway station from Network Rails logo Network Rail is a British not for dividend Company Limited by Guarantee that owns the British railway system with the exception of rolling stock: i.e. Network Rail owns the railway tracks themselves, signals, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and stations. It took over ownership by buying... Network Rail
• Train times (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=KGX) for Kings Cross railway station from National Rail uses the BR double arrow logo National Rail is a brand name describing the passenger rail service previously provided by British Rail, the now defunct UK state-owned rail operator. The term is usually used to distinguish these services from other rail passenger services in the UK that... National Rail
• Street map (http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?client=public&lang=&advanced=&quicksearch=N19AX) and aerial photo (http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&lang=&pc=N19AX) of Kings Cross railway station from Multimap.com

There is another Kings Cross railway station is an underground railway station in Sydney, Australia. The station is on the Eastern Suburbs line, one of the Sydney underground railways. It is neither very big nor particularly well-known, but the Kings Cross area is well-known (some say notorious) as the location of... Kings Cross railway station in This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. For other meanings, see Sydney (disambiguation), or Sidney. Sydneys skyline with the Opera House on the left Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city, founded in 1788... Sydney, Australia.