King's Cross Thameslink railway station

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King's Cross Thameslink is a closed railway station which served the King's Cross area of central London, England, between 1863 and 2007. It is located on Pentonville Road, around 250 metres (270 yd) east of London King's Cross main line station. At the time of its closure, it was served by Thameslink trains and was managed by First Capital Connect. Services transferred to a new station underneath St Pancras. The station opened in 1863 as King's Cross Metropolitan. It was one of the initial seven stations on the Metropolitan Railway, London's first underground line, which ran between Paddington and Farringdon. The Metropolitan had been planning for the station since 1851, when King's Cross main line station was constructed, to provide a connection between the Great Western Railway at Paddington and the Great Northern Railway (GNR) out of King's Cross. Within a year of the new station's opening, a pair of tunnels were added, which surfaced on the GNR just north of King's Cross and provided...

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