King's Cross St. Pancras

King's Cross St. Pancras is located in zone 1 on the Tube map. It has connections with the Piccadilly, Victoria, Northern, Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines. It also has connections with National and International Rail services.

The first underground station at King's Cross was part of the original underground system, being part of the Metropolitan Railway and opening in 1863. It was then rearranged in 1868 and 1926. There have been new platforms for the sub-surface lines, these were 452 metres to the west in 1941 to make interchanging easier.

Do not use the signs at this station if you want to get to the sub-surface lines. Just under King's Cross Mainline Arrivals area there is an entrance where you will find a semi-circular set of steps down to the gateline and then you will find the entrance to the sub-surface lines on the right.

You may also be alike to see this sign if you are lucky.

This station is often regarded as the Underground's most complicated station on the whole network, this is because six different lines converge here. Three of these lines are deep level Tube lines with their own separate platforms. These lines are the Piccadilly, Northern and Victoria. Whilst the three sub-surface lines (Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan) share the one very wide island platform.

King's Cross has 20 escalators this is the joint with Waterloo station which also has this many escalators.