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King's Cross is a district in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, on either side of Euston Road in north London, England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Charing Cross, bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Euston to the west and Camden Town to the northwest.
Camden Town is a London Underground station in Camden Town. [7] It is a major junction for the Northern line, as it is where the Edgware and High Barnet branches merge from the north, and is also where they split to the south into the Bank and Charing Cross branches for the journey through Central London.
Map of Zone 1 Underground stations, pre 2021. London is split into six approximately concentric zones. Zone 1 covers the West End, the Holborn district, Kensington, Paddington and the City of London, as well as Old Street, Angel, Pimlico, Tower Gateway, Aldgate East, Euston, Vauxhall, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Earl's Court, Marylebone, Edgware Road, Lambeth North and Waterloo.
Originally proposed to be named "Heath Street"; this name can still be seen on wall tilings on station platform walls. map 18: Belsize Park: One of eight London Underground stations that have deep-level air-raid shelters underneath them. The shelter was constructed in the Second World War to provide safe accommodation for service personnel. map 19
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The towpath links Camden Town to Angel and King's Cross to the east, and Regent's Park and Maida Vale in the west. [28] [30] The London-wide Santander Cycles cycle hire scheme operates in Camden Town. There are several docking stations, some near rail and Tube stations. [31]
One of the entrances to King's Cross St Pancras tube station from the St Pancras concourse. King's Cross St Pancras Underground station serves both King's Cross and St Pancras main-line stations. It is in fare zone 1. [144] The station has two ticket halls, both of which can be accessed directly from the St Pancras concourse.
The Copenhagen Tunnel is a set of three parallel railway tunnels carrying the main line tracks out of London's King's Cross terminus under the rising ground at Barnsbury, about a mile north of the station. Each bore has the capacity for two tracks.