Tuesday, January 5, 2010

King's Cross




Kings’s Cross Railway Station

King’s Cross Railway Station was built in 1852. The station is located on Central London, at the junction of the Euston Road and York Way, in the Kings Cross district. Over 40 million people pass through the station each year.

The origin of the name of the station comes from en accident monument to King George IV of England.

Apart from to be a railway station , King’s Cross shares than tube station with St. Pancras , called King’s Cross St. Pancras tube station.

King’s Cross is featured in the Harry Potter books, by J. K. Rowling, as the starting point of the Hogwarts Express. The train uses a secret platform 9¾. To arrive at the Hogwarts Express the Hogwarts’ students have to cross the wall. When the films were made, the station scenes took place in the main station, with platforms 4 and 5 renumbered 9 and 10 because the platforms 9 and 10 are in separate buildings.


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