📺King’s Cross Station: Then & Now airs at 10pm on Channel 5 🚉It unravels the 170-year history of the Grade I listed transport hub, from its construction and opening in the mid-1800s to the major interchange we see today. ➡️https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/story-of-network-rails-historic-kings-cross-railway-station-told-in-new-channel-5-documentary #ThenandNow | Network Rail

Happy birthday to the iconic railway transport hub London King's Cross Station, first opened in 1852. Designed by Lewis Cubitt to be simple and functional it was at the time the largest railway station in Britain. There are two large arched windows and with a porch of six arched openings, three each side of the square Italianate clock tower 112ft high which is the station’s only ornament. Since 2002, major improvements and investments have been made in the transport infrastructure in and around