1997
TQ3082 : King's Cross Thameslink station, 1997
taken 27 years ago, near to Camden Town, Camden, England
King's Cross Thameslink station, 1997
View NW, towards St Albans and Bedford, to which EMU No. 319.174 is receding. The station was originally on the Metropolitan Railway and 400 yards to the west. That station was destroyed on 16/10/40 in the Blitz and replaced on 14/3/41 by this one, on the Metropolitan Widened Lines. It was used by the peak-hour local services to Moorgate via Farringdon from St Albans LMSR (ex-Midland) via Kentish Town and from Hatfield/Hertford North/High Barnet/Edgware LNER (ex-GNR) via Finsbury Park and King's Cross. Meanwhile, cross-London freight traffic predominated on the Widened lines through Farringdon, the Snow Hill Tunnel and over Blackfriars Bridge, forcing cessation of these passenger services during WW2 until 1946 and restored for only a few years thereafter. The station seems to have been 'in limbo' until 15/5/83, when it was revived as 'King's Cross Midland City' when the Midland main line was electrified as far as Bedford and the 'Bedpan' service to Moorgate' began. From 16/5/88 the new cross-London Thameslink services began, from Farringdon through a reopened Snow Hill tunnel, and this station became 'King's Cross Thameslink'. Finally, on 9/12/2007 with the opening of an underground station beneath the new St Pancras International Station, it was closed.
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