Trains to London Kings Cross - Station Details and further Information on the London Kings Cross Area
King's Cross station, also known as London King's Cross, is a major railway terminus opened in 1852. The station is located on the edge of Central London, at the junction of the A501 Euston Road and York Way, in the Kings Cross district and within the London Borough of Camden on the border of the London Borough of Islington.
King's Cross forms the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of the UK's major railway backbones. Immediately to the west is St Pancras station, the terminus for international Eurostar trains, and the two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network.
The station is served by routes from the north and east of England and Scotland, connecting to major cities such as Cambridge, Peterborough, Hull, Doncaster, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Four train companies currently run services into the mainline station:
National Express East Coast: inter-city services on the East Coast Main Line to Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, Wakefield, Hull, York, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. National Express East Coast also has plans to operate a new service to Lincoln Central from 2010. National Express East Coast are known as the "lead operator" from the station.
First Capital Connect: suburban and regional services to North London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
First Hull Trains: inter-city services to Hull via the East Coast Main Line. Unlike its sister company, First Hull Trains is not a franchised train operating company but operates under an open access arrangement.
Grand Central: inter-city services to North Yorkshire, County Durham and Sunderland, also along the East Coast Main Line. Grand Central is also an open access operator.
Grand Northern: a future operator which will be running open access services to Bradford Interchange from December 2009.
London's Kings Cross Train Station Location
West of King's Cross are, in succession, St Pancras station, the new British Library building and Euston station, all within a few minutes' walk. The reconstructed and restored St Pancras is the new London terminus of High Speed 1 which replaced Waterloo International on 14 November 2007. Eurostar trains serve Lille Europe, Paris Gare du Nord and Brussels Midi-Zuid, and from 2009 domestic SouthEastern services will serve Kent over the High Speed 1 route.
Considerable regeneration effort has gone into the area in recent years, with the opening of new hotels and office space under construction. The Network Rail owned Power Signal Box (PSB) for the southern end of the East Coast Mainline is located at the country end of the station. The box controls trains as far Biggleswade & Royston, and also controls the Northern City Line. Peterborough signal box takes over after Biggleswade and Cambridge after Royston. First Capital Connect also control all their GN route trains from their control aka 'Service Delivery Centre' at King's Cross PSB. |
