The Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Interior of the departure shed 1852
King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus, opened in 1852. It is on the northern edge of central London, at the junction of Euston Road and York Way, in the London Borough of Camden on the boundary with the London Borough of Islington. It is one of 17 UK stations managed by Network Rail. King's Cross station is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of Britain's major railway backbones. Its most important long-distance destinations are Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Other services run to Bradford, Sunderland, Hull and parts of Northern Scotland. It also hosts commuter services to areas of North London and outer-suburban services to Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, as well as fast regional services to Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn. Immediately to the west across Pancras Road is St Pancras International, the London terminus of the Midland Main Line, Eurostar and high-speed trains to Kent via High Speed 1, and a major interchange for Thameslink services between Bedford and Brighton. The two stations are operationally completely separate, but as they are adjacent, they are regarded as a single complex for interchange purposes. They share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network, where six Underground lines meet. Taken together, the two main-line stations and the associated Underground station form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs. The station is also within walking distance of Euston, the southern terminus for the West Coast Main Line.
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