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English: A proper look around London King's Cross Station.

The concourse with it's mix of old and new looks amazing!

You will also find the fictional Platform 9¾ from Harry Potter here.

Noticed that the real platforms start from Platform 0 and above.

King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus which opened in 1852 on the northern edge of central London.

King's Cross is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, providing high speed inter-city services to Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland. Virgin Trains East Coast is the main inter-city operator with destinations including Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Other inter-city operators serving the station include Hull Trains and Grand Central.

King's Cross is also a terminus for Great Northern which provides commuter services to North London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Norfolk. Immediately to the west across Pancras Road is St Pancras International, the London terminus of Eurostar services to continental Europe. The two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network and taken together form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs. The station is 820 yards (750 m) north-east of Euston, the southern terminus for the West Coast Main Line.

King's Cross Square

German Gymnasium seen when exiting St Pancras International and heading towards King's Cross Station on Pancras Road.

Grade II listed building

26, Pancras Road, Camden

   CAMDEN

   TQ3083SW PANCRAS ROAD
   798-1/85/1265 (East side)
   30/01/76 No.26

   GV II

   Gymnasium and library, now offices & gymnasium. 1864-65. By
   Edward Gruning. For the German Gymnastic Society. Built by
   Piper and Wheeler. Multi-coloured stock brick. Rectangular
   plan with narrow, slightly projecting entrance frontage to
   Pancras Road.
   EXTERIOR: frontage 3 storeys 1 window. Stucco door surround of
   pilasters supporting a dentil entablature with segmental
   pediment. Round-arched doorway pilaster jambs supporting an
   architrave with keystone; fanlight and C20 panelled doors with
   small lights. 1st floor, recessed 4-pane sash with stuccoed
   lintel with mask; 2nd floor, round-arched 4-pane sash with
   stuccoed head. Moulded brick cornice and blocking course.
   North and south elevations with brick pilasters dividing bays
   (rectangular windows), 1st floor brick bands and deep Lombard
   frieze at eaves level; brick gables. Hipped roof with
   continuous lantern along the ridge. Gabled east elevation with
   gabled brick porch, 5 pointed arch windows above which an
   oculus, very deep Lombard frieze and enriched brick cornice.
   To the left, a staircase tower with narrow lights (those at
   base bricked up) and Lombard frieze.
   INTERIOR: narrow entrance hall with Imperial stair (2 flights
   then 1) the entire width of the hall. Gymnasium a single cell
   subdivided into nave and aisles by 2 storeys of cast-iron
   piers with lush early English foliage capitals. The piers
   support arched, laminated wood roof trusses some 20m wide, as
   experimented with but replaced at King's Cross Station, Euston
   Road (qv). A second floor has been inserted at gallery level
   providing office accommodation.
   An important early example of the use of laminated timber to
   give broad spans.

   Listing NGR: TQ3011483152

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Source: English Heritage

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