Kings Cross

Hammersmith & City Line

Metropolitan Line

Circle Line

KINGS CROSS

(1863-1941)

The Metropolitan/Circle line station used to be situated to the east of its present location but was moved to allow a more convenient interchange with the deep level stations and the main line station itself.

Construction of the new station was accomplished by filling in the running tunnel to provide a concourse and diverting the tracks into old tunnels that ran outside of and parallel with the original running tunnels (the old tunnels were short City Widened Lines extensions past the junction where they veered north to St.Pancras)

According to two ex-pats; Ian Simpson and Dewi Williams, the western end of the replacement Kings Cross station had a bay platform for terminating trains. It was of six-car length but was rarely used as the norm was for eight-car trains after the war. It remained until the 1960s but was mostly filled in, leaving just the short section shown here.

The changing face of the old running tunnel: in the late 1970s and (moving your cursor over the image) in Oct 2006.

The old station building site, sixty five years after closure, on a road called Kings Cross Bridge. It is still partially used by LT's Cleaning Services (the white shop front in the middle of the photo).

(Apr 2006)

Staircase up to the surface on the sheltered part of the platforms.

The sheltered part of the westbound platform, still very visible from passing trains.

View of the open air part of the old station, taken from roughly the same position as the photo above but turned 90° east. The platform underfoot is the platform that was subsequently taken over by the Thameslink station, itself closed in 2007. The initial stages of its construction can just be seen on the left and in the distance.

The old station looking west.

Shepherd's Bush (Hammersmith & City Line)

Photos taken between 1977 and 1981, except where stated.