This GNER train serving Kings Cross is named "White Rose" after the traditional symbol of Yorkshire. Kings Cross (or King's Cross) station is a railway station in Kings Cross to the north east of central London, England. It is located in the borough of Islington, and is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line. It is immediately adjacent to St Pancras station. GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross station - London - England - 240404 Photo taken by Tagishsimon on the 24th April 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Eurostar Kings Cross railway station Euston Road Great North Eastern Railway User:Tagishsimon/Gallery London 240404 Wikipedia:List of images...
GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross station - London - England - 240404 Photo taken by Tagishsimon on the 24th April 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Eurostar Kings Cross railway station Euston Road Great North Eastern Railway User:Tagishsimon/Gallery London 240404 Wikipedia:List of images...
Yorkshire as a traditional county. ...
Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
Kings Cross is an area in the London Borough of Camden in the north of central London, England. ...
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...
Islington is a borough of London to the north of the City of London, west of Hackney, east of Camden, and south of Haringey. ...
The East Coast Main Line viaduct at Durham. ...
The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ...
The station serves routes to the North East of the UK, including Cambridge, York, Durham, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Kings Cross also incorporates a major Underground station known as King's Cross St. Pancras, which is a principal interchange station on the Tube network. The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ...
York is a city in Northern England, built at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...
Durham (IPA: locally, in RP) is a small city in the north east of England. ...
This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...
Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ...
Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and outdoor signs. ...
Kings Cross St. ...
Three train companies run services into the station:
West of Kings Cross are, in succession, St Pancras, the new British Library building, and Euston station, all within a few minutes' walk. The present King's Cross Thameslink station is 5 minutes' walk to the east. 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. ...
A Wagn outer suburban electric unit Wagn is a franchise operator of commuter train services out of London Kings Cross and Moorgate stations. ...
The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ...
Kings Lynn is a medium-sized town in Norfolk, England on the River Great Ouse. ...
Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county in the United Kingdom, officially part of the East of England Government region. ...
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Hull Trains is a train operating company in the United Kingdom, running up to five long distance services each day between London Kings Cross and Hull, calling at Grantham, Doncaster, Selby, Howden and Brough. ...
Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ...
The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ...
British Library main building, London The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the worlds largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year. ...
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. ...
Kings Cross Thameslink station is a railway station in central London, which serves the Thameslink franchise. ...
The new London terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is being built in an area immediately north of Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations. Eurostar trains (to France, not those on loan to GNER) are due to arrive there in 2007, in the second phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. 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. ...
Eurostar is a train service that connects London with Paris and Brussels. ...
2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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. ...
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 Great Northern Railway and terminus of the East Coast Main Line. It was designed by Lewis Cubitt and constructed in two years from 1851 to 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. A separate article covers the Great Northern Railway in the USA and the Great Northern Railway in Ireland. ...
Lewis Cubitt was born on 29 September 1799 and died on 9 June 1883. ...
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. ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Since privatisation, express services into the station have been run by Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). According to legend it is built on the site of Boudicca's final battle, or else her body is buried under one of the platforms there. 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. ...
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. ...
The 'Kings Cross fire' of 1987, in which 31 people died, was actually at the adjacent King's Cross St. Pancras underground station. The Kings Cross fire was a devastating underground fire in London on November 18, 1987 which killed thirty-one people. ...
1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The original "King's Cross" was a monument to King George IV. George IV (George Augustus Frederick) (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 29 January 1820. ...
King's Cross in Fiction
Harry Potter
The Platform 9¾ sign occasionally causes congestion as tourists and Harry Potter fans stop to photograph it. Kings Cross features in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The train uses a secret platform 9¾ located by passing through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. 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. ...
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. ...
Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - This original edition was distributed throughout the English-speaking world outside of the United States Harry Potter is a fictional young wizard, the protagonist in a series of fantasy and wizardry novels by J. K...
Joanne Rowling, OBE, (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing), is a British fiction writer. ...
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. ...
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 interview she indicated she had actually confused King's Cross with Euston; hence also the wall/barrier confusion). 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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. ...
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 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. 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. ...
Other Fiction The Doctor Who novel Transit features King's Cross as one of the main hubs of an interplanetary transit system based on the London Underground. BBC Doctor Who website DMOZ Doctor Who page Doctor Who Cuttings Archive — hosts a large number of press cuttings from the 60s onwards. ...
In children's television programmes featuring the puppet 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. Roland Rat (also Roland Rat Superstar) is a British television puppet character. ...
Spelling The name is variously spelt both with and without an apostrophe: An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. ...
- 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 Rail
- Train times (http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=KGX) for Kings Cross railway station from 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
Network Rails logo Network Rail is a British not for dividend Company Limited by Guarantee that owns the fixed assets of that part of the British railway system that formerly belonged to British Rail, the now defunct UK state-owned rail operator. ...
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. ...
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The original station (left) closed in 1965. ...
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Waverley Station, from the Scott Monument. ...
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Reading station frontage, showing the old (1860) and new station buildings Reading station from the station car park at the north (rear) side of the station Reading (formerly Reading General) is a railway station in the large town of Reading in south central England. ...
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The acute end of the railway junction at Clapham Junction, facing east. ...
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. ...
Main entrance and Fenchurch Place Fenchurch Street is a railway station in the south eastern corner of the City of London close by the Tower of London. ...
Kings Cross Thameslink station is a railway station in central London, which serves the Thameslink franchise. ...
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The Gothic Revival facade and clock tower of the disused Midland Hotel are the most visible part of St Pancras station. ...
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There is another Kings Cross railway station in Sydney, Australia. Kings Cross railway station is an underground railway station in Sydney, Australia. ...
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