Kings Crossing Train Station; Many Royals Have Traveled Kings Crossing Train Station was built in 1851–1852 as the London hub of the Great Northern Railway and terminus of the East Coast main line. It took its name from the Kings Cross area of London, which was named after a monument to King George IV that was demolished in 1845. It was constructed on the site of a fever and smallpox hospital and it replaced a temporary terminus at Maiden Lane that had opened on 7 August 1850. Plans for the station were first made in December 1848 under the direction of George Turnbull, a resident engineer for construction of the first 20 miles of the Great Northern Railway out of London. The detailed design was by Lewis Cubitt. of Bloomsbury, Belgravia and Osborne House, and of Sir William Cubitt, who was chief engineer of The Crystal Palace built in 1851, and consulting engineer to the Great Northern and South Eastern Railways. The main part of the station, which today includes platforms 1 to 8, was opened on 14 October 1852. The platforms have been reconfigured several times. Originally there was only one arrival and one departure platform and todays platforms 1 and 8 respectively, with the space between used for carriage sidings. A new platform, numbered 0, was opened in 2010. To the east of platform 1, it created additional space for Network Rail to achieve a phased renovation of platforms 1–8 that includes new lifts to a new footbridge between the platforms. By 2013 the entire station had been restored and transformed. The Duchess
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