Monday - Friday 05:00 - 01:36
Saturday 05:00 - 00:36
Sunday 05:30 - 01:36
The station will remain open until the last train departs.
Opening hours
In the Main Concourse opposite the shops
Location
Height adjusted ticket counter is not available at this station
Height adjusted ticket office counter
This office has an induction loop
Induction loop
Yes
Ticket machines
There are accessible ticket machines at this station
Accessible ticket machines
One London North Eastern Railway machine inside the travel centre and one London North Eastern Railway machine outside the travel centre and are DDA compliant. There is a lowered ticket machine at this station.
Accessible ticket machines note
Yes, from ticket machine
Collection of pre-purchased tickets
Oystercards
No
Get Oyster cards here
Yes, at ticket machine
Top-up Oyster pay as you go here
Yes
Use Oyster Pay as you go here
Oyster transactions only available from self service ticket machines operated by Great Northern
Smartcards
Smartcards issued
No
Smartcards validators
No
Penalty fares
Penalty fares apply for Great Northern
London fare zone
Zone 1
Ticket Office
Information available from staff
The Rail Information Point is located in the centre of the Main Concourse.
Information services - opening times
Departure screens, Announcements, Arrival screens
Passenger Information Systems
Yes
Customer help points
Customer help points are available at the platforms and at the taxi rank as well as using the rail information point at the centre of the main concourse.
Left luggage
Yes
Lost Property
Excess Baggage Company
Customer Services
View Excess Baggage Company website
Ticket gates
020 3468 4690
CCTV
Left Luggage - Baggage Storage (Lockers). Situated on the main Concourse. Mon - Sun 07:00 - 23:00.
Station Facilities
Staff help available
Help is available at the Rail Information Point in the centre of the concourse, station help points or from any member of staff.
Disability assistance is available to and from platforms, the car park and the taxi rank. You can request this from the Kings Cross Information Point in the centre of the Main Concourse, station help points or from any member of staff.
It is preferred if disabled assistance is booked 24hours in advance by using the following numbers of your relevant train operator:
London North Eastern Railway - 03457 225 225 [Option 3 then Option 4] textphone 0800 975 1052 or you can complete the web form at www.lner.co.uk/customer-service/contact-us/assisted-travel/ Open Monday - Saturday 08:00-20:00, Sunday 10:00-20:00
Hull Trains - FREEPHONE 0800 316 1323
Grand Central - 08440 8110 072
Great Northern - 0800 0582 844
A blue plaque has been unveiled at King’s Cross station in celebration of Wilston Samuel (Bill) Jackson, the UK’s first black train driver, who drove his first passenger train in 1962.
An isolated box entrance to King’s Cross tube station is to be demolished and replaced with a new step-free entrance as part of a building development.
Network Rail’s project to increase the number of tracks at King’s Cross station is going to cause a lot of disruption over the year ahead and they’ve outlined the dates to avoid the station.
Network Rail is warning that there will not be any trains in or out of London King’s Cross, and no Thameslink services via Finsbury Park, on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June.
As part of the East Coast Mainline upgrade, King’s Cross station will close completely for two weekends in the early part of 2020, and be disrupted at weekends through most of Jan and Feb.
Steam trains are usually found on the rail tracks, but for one week, two locomotives will be sitting in the middle of the passenger concourse at King’s Cross.
Early morning commuters are in for a steamy surprise in a few weeks, as the Flying Scotsman makes its inaugural passenger journey from King’s Cross station.
The complex of tunnels and entrances at King’s Cross tube station gained another addition recently, a stunning tunnel with a permanently changing lighting effect.
The large flat regular space of the new plaza outside King’s Cross station has started to regain a little bit of the clutter that has defined it for the past hundred years.
Barely meeting its Thursday deadline, the long anticipated King’s Cross station got the wide plaza space in front of the original Victorian station building.
In just under two weeks time, commuters arriving at King’s Cross station will be the first to leave the front of the building and walk not onto a building site, but a large open plaza.
In just a few weeks, the famously ugly green shed that has been despoiling the frontage of King’s Cross station since the 1970s will start to be swept away in the final stage of the upgrades to the area.
Just a heads up that the A1 Tornado, the first steam train to be built in the UK for nearly 50 years will be making its first commercial passenger trip tomorrow (Sat 7th Feb), and will be expected at Kings…
