Kings Cross railway station

King's Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus, opened in 1852. It is on the northern edge of central London, at the junction of Euston Road and York Way, in the London Borough of Camden on the boundary with the London Borough of Islington. It is one of 19 stations managed by Network Rail.King's Cross station is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of Britain's major railway backbones providing high speed inter-city services to destinations in Yorkshire, the North East and northern and eastern Scotland. East Coast is the main inter-city operator and its most important long-distance destinations are Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Other inter-city operators serving the station include First Hull Trains and Grand Central.King's Cross is also a London terminus for Great Northern which provides commuter services to areas of North London and outer-suburban/regional services to Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire including fast regional services to Peterborough, Cambridge and King's Lynn.