King's Cross St Pancras tube station

King’s Cross St Pancras is a London Underground station on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It serves both King’s Cross and St Pancras main line stations and lies in fare zone one. Six lines call here: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria. Opened in 1863, it is one of the network’s oldest stations and now ranks as the second busiest by passenger numbers. The station’s long history is marked by repeated rebuilding and tragic events. In 1987 a fire on the Northern/Piccadilly escalator killed 31 people and led to sweeping safety changes across the Underground. A decade-long upgrade completed in 2009 doubled capacity to more than 100,000 daily users and introduced new ticket halls, escalators and lifts. The work also closed the separate King’s Cross Thameslink branch after services moved to St Pancras. Inside, passengers find wide concourses, tiled platforms and multiple interchanges. The Northern and Piccadilly platforms still carry Paul Huxley’s 1986 mosaic letters ‘K’ and ‘X’. Two new ticket halls sit beneath St Pancras forecourt and the King’s Cross concourse, linked by subways and lifts. Above ground, the station fronts Euston Road with its busy red buses and taxis.