King's Cross St. Pancras

King's Cross St. Pancras
Entrance on Euston Road outside King's Cross station concourse.
King's Cross St. Pancras Location of King's Cross St. Pancras in Central London
Location	King's Cross / St Pancras
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground
Number of platforms	8
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	1
OSI	London King's Cross and London St Pancras Int'l
London Underground annual entry and exit
2013	84.87 million
2014	91.98 million
2015	93.41 million
2016	95.03 million
Key dates
1863	Opened (MR)
1906	Opened (GNP&BR)
1907	Opened (C&SLR)
1968	Opened (Victoria line)
1987	King's Cross fire
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°31′49″N 0°07′27″W / 51.5302°N 0.1241°W / 51.5302; -0.1241Coordinates: 51°31′49″N 0°07′27″W / 51.5302°N 0.1241°W / 51.5302; -0.1241

King's Cross St. Pancras is a London Underground station located within the London Borough of Camden. It serves King's Cross and St Pancras main line stations and falls within fare zone 1. Being an interchange station between six lines, (the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines) it is the second busiest station on the network, second only to Waterloo.

King's Cross St Pancras is the biggest interchange station on the London Underground, serving six lines on four pairs of tracks as well as two National Rail stations:

The underground part of the station underwent extensive remodelling works to increase throughflow of passengers resulting from the opening of High Speed 1. The expanded station has four entrances, and was opened to the public in November 2009.

The first underground station at King's Cross opened as part of the original section of the Metropolitan Railway in 1863 and was rearranged in 1868 and 1926. New platforms for the sub-surface lines of the Underground were opened about 400 m (440 yd) to the west in 1941 to make interchanging between the sub-surface lines and the tube lines easier; the 1868 platforms later became the former King's Cross Thameslink station, which closed on 9 December 2007 when the Thameslink service moved to St Pancras International. One of the platforms may be seen from Underground trains between the present station and Farringdon.