Kings Cross Station

London Kings Cross (KGX) station opened in 1852 & is one of the main terminus points for trains into and out of London & a major point for lines on the London Underground. The station is large and historic, it's quite a nice station for its design & texture. 4 train companies operate routes into & out of the station, they are, Hull Trains with daily express departures to Hull, National Express East Coast with regular express trains to Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, York, Durham, Newcastle & Scotland, Grand Central running services do York, Sunderland & Hartlepool and First Capital Connect running services to North, East ...  Read the complete review

Kings Cross is one of the most important Stations in London, and pretty much all connections to other regions of the South East/East via London go from this Station. I tend to go to Kings Cross from Paddington, (I live in south Wales) and on the whole, my experience of the station has been exceptionally good. I'll start by telling the one problem I have with this station. It is probably just me, but the signs connecting Kings Cross underground Station with Kings Cross Railway station seem to confuse me to the point where I get lost. Once I got off the tube and ended up on the high street, despite following the Signs and once, I ended up in St Pancras ...  Read the complete review

Its amazing how many times at the end of that seemingly never ending couple of days I've spent working in old London town, emerging squished and grinded on the signally challenged tube lines, despite a fevered dash around the mazey and baffling sequence of exits I arrive at that Golden board at Kings Cross and it hits me - I've just missed it - got to wait at least another twenty mins for the next one, the commuting law of sods in full progress I've been a regular on the good old GNER now National Express east coast line to destination North for many a year now since I glided into the dark side that is IT infrastructure land so I've learnt a trick or two ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever wondered why Kings Cross (or parts of it) is such a dump? One reason is planning blight caused by the on-off channel tunnel connection. Currently the project is 'on' and we will see the power of good transport to transform an area that is rather seedy at present into a second docklands - but this docklands will have charicter and will be for the locals too. Any increace in capacity for international passengers will have to affect the rest of us too. The track and signals are all new so there will be minimal disruption. Kings Cross underground is already over streched and well overdue some capital investment. I see that the infraco (company ...  Read the complete review

In spite of its Harry Potter connections, Kings Cross station is not a nice place to be. And a quick safety note: if muggles run headlong into the gate between platforms 9 and 10, it just hurts. Erase from your mind images of yourself sailing out of the station on the Hogwarts Express, mouth full of every-flavour beans and pocket full of small rodents. Platform nine and three-quarters does not exist. But don't be disheartened. There are plenty of other exciting things to do. Within the station itself, you could...um...buy a newspaper, or an overpriced and papery croissant. If you dare to venture outside the station, you can buy a number of class A and B ...  Read the complete review