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A platform ticket issued at Kings Cross railway station, valid for one hour A disused platform ticket machine in Tanga, Tanzania. A platform ticket is a type of rail ticket issued by some rail transport systems, allowing the user to access the platforms of a train station, but not to board and travel on any train services.
King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to Yorkshire and the Humber, North East England and Scotland.
King's Cross St Pancras (also known as King's Cross & St Pancras International) is a London Underground station on Euston Road in the Borough of Camden, Central London.It serves King's Cross and St Pancras main line stations in fare zone 1, and is an interchange between six lines: Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria.
A platform ticket allows non-travelers access to the paid area of a station to make a platform tour, seek for departures of friends or relatives, greet friends and family members or to assist them with their luggage without having to have a ticket for a journey. These are generally available only at major terminal stations, but other smaller ...
The King's Cross station is built on a site that previously held the Jaws attraction. The entrance to the station, which is a quarter-scale replica of London King's Cross railway station, is located in the London area, close to Diagon Alley. [10] [39] [40] Passengers enter the station building and have their admission ticket checked.
The southern end of The Arcade links to the western ticket hall of King's Cross St Pancras tube station. [ 14 ] [ 94 ] [ 95 ] The East Midlands Railway platforms are at the northern end of The Arcade , while the Thameslink and domestic High Speed platforms are reached via a street-level concourse where the old and new parts of the station meet.
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Trains into London stopped at a new platform known as King's Cross York Road to the north east of the mainline station, and again at the Metropolitan station, while trains out of London stopped at the Metropolitan station, and again at the mainline station, by reversing into a platform after exiting the Hotel Curve. [22]