RAILSCOTPhotographs of Kings Cross
Kings Cross: Newspaper train loading at Kings Cross in the 70s.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 2584 |
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Kings Cross: Kings Cross - pictured while waiting to board the 23.55 Edinburgh sleeper - 1980s.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 3231 |
Kings Cross: Buffer stops - Kings Cross east side.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 3232 |
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Kings Cross: Deltic awaiting departure from Kings Cross.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 4338 |
Kings Cross: Just listen to that! 55008 The Green Howards about to leave Kings Cross with a train for Edinburgh.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 4342 |
Kings Cross: Once heard, never forgotten - a Deltic warming up for the off alongside an HST at Kings Cross.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 4343 |
Kings Cross: 5596 leaving the Cross with suburban ecs
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 4346 |
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Kings Cross: Night scene at Kings Cross in the early 70s, looking back towards the station along platform 8 with empty stock about to leave platform 7.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 6266 |
Kings Cross: Deltic 55005 The Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire on Sleeper duty at Kings Cross in the 1970s.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//] Ref: 22269 |
Kings Cross: A rainy day at Kings Cross shed, with A4 Pacific no 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower ready for the road, thought to have been photographed in 1959. Standing behind the A4, also ready to roll, is another Pacific, York^s class A2 no 60502 Earl Marischal.
Great Northern Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//1959] Ref: 27084 |
Kings Cross: A2 Pacific no 60502 Earl Marischal stands on Kings Cross shed around 1959, no doubt ready to work an ECML service back to its home depot of York. Note the shovel rim smoke deflectors fitted to this locomotive.
Great Northern Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//1959] Ref: 26399 |
Kings Cross: It didn^t get much better than this.... Lineup of top-link locomotives being made ready at Kings Cross shed in October 1959. The four Pacifics holding centre stage are, from the left, A3 60039 Sandwich, A4 60010 Dominion of Canada, A4 60033 Seagull and A3 60038 Firdaussi.
Great Northern Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [04/10/1959] Ref: 25955 |
Kings Cross: Deltic D9003 Meld stands alongside an unidentified Britannia Pacific at Kings Cross circa 1962. [Photo by the late Dave Gordon.]
Great Northern Railway Dave Gordon collection [Courtesy Colin Alexander] [//1962] Ref: 19711 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross loco stabling and fuelling point on 6 August 1968 with (Left to Right) D1531, D1542, D1556.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [06/08/1968] Ref: 2575 |
Kings Cross: ECML arrival passing Kings Cross loco - 1968.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [07/08/1968] Ref: 4347 |
Kings Cross: 1775 arriving at the Cross in 1969.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [//1969] Ref: 4339 |
Kings Cross: 1762 meets 1101 at the Cross - Sept 1969.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [24/09/1969] Ref: 2749 |
Kings Cross: D5652 with empty stock at Kings Cross in September 1969.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [24/09/1969] Ref: 4337 |
Kings Cross: D5605 arriving at Kings Cross with empty stock in 1969.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [24/09/1969] Ref: 4340 |
Kings Cross: Kings cross arrival - September 1969.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [24/09/1969] Ref: 4344 |
Kings Cross: Look - no wires! 47547 about to take a train out of Kings Cross in March 1976, before even the suburban electrification.
Great Northern Railway John McIntyre [//1976] Ref: 22019 |
Kings Cross: The driver of 47547 looks back from the cab window as he slowly reverses onto his train at Kings Cross in March 1976.
Great Northern Railway John McIntyre [/03/1976] Ref: 27443 |
Kings Cross: Externally traffic – scarred, but internally as fit as a proverbial butcher’s dog (one of impeccable pedigree, naturally), locomotive 55 017 The Durham Light Infantry arrives to take command of its train at around 11.20 a.m. on Monday March 13th 1978. It will shortly race up the ECML to Edinburgh at speeds in excess of 100 mph.
Great Northern Railway Mark Dufton [13/03/1978] Ref: 23389 |
Kings Cross: Deltic 55003 Meld getting into the mood at Kings Cross on 26 June 1978.
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [26/06/1978] Ref: 20299 |
Kings Cross: Deltic 55013 The Black Watch stands at Kings Cross alongside 47528 in June 1978.
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [27/06/1978] Ref: 27412 |
Kings Cross: Scene at Kings Cross on 27 June 1978 with Deltic 55013 The Black Watch leaving the platforms and a pair of 31s acting as station pilots.
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [27/06/1978] Ref: 27432 |
Kings Cross: Deltic no 55003 Meld, at the head of an ECML service, standing alongside 31405 on empty stock duty at Kings Cross on 27 June 1978
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [27/06/1978] Ref: 27449 |
Kings Cross: Deltic 55013 The Black Watch stands at Kings Cross on 27 June 1978.
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [27/06/1978] Ref: 27473 |
Kings Cross: Deltic 55014 The Duke of Wellington^s Regiment carries out a few manoeuvres between turns at the north end of Kings Cross on 24 April 1979.
Great Northern Railway Peter Todd [24/04/1979] Ref: 25532 |
Kings Cross: Thank God I live in Peterborough... Scene at Kings Cross during a signalmens dispute in July 1994, with no main line services running beyond Peterborough.
Great Northern Railway David Panton [/07/1994] Ref: 22272 |
Kings Cross: Deltic Preservation Society 9019 Royal Highland Fusilier clears its throat as it starts a railtour out of Kings Cross on 7 June 2003.
Great Northern Railway Colin Alexander [07/06/2003] Ref: 18250 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross station, looking west along Euston Road in July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [/07/2005] Ref: 5145 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross and St Pancras in July 2005 with work on the roof of the latter well advanced and the cranes competing with the BT Tower.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [/07/2005] Ref: 5184 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross seen looking south west from above Gasworks Tunnel in July 2005. The station^s Eastern Range building is on the left with the clock tower of Mr Barlow^s Magnum Opus in the right background.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [/07/2005] Ref: 8716 |
Kings Cross: GNER Regional Eurostar forming the 14.35 White Rose service to Leeds standing at Kings Cross on 23 July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 4913 |
Kings Cross: View from the station concourse at Kings Cross looking out along platforms 6, 7 and 8 on 23 July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5146 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross frontage - July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5164 |
Kings Cross: Kings Cross west side 2005 - stopping train for Peterborough boarding.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5187 |
Kings Cross: Quiet period at Kings Cross - July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5227 |
Kings Cross: The White Rose leaving Kings Cross for Leeds in July 2005.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5235 |
Kings Cross: Remembrance garden outside Kings Cross station in memory of those killed in the London bombings of 7 July 2005, seen 16 days later.
Great Northern Railway John Furnevel [23/07/2005] Ref: 5247 |
Kings Cross: 47709 at the stops having brought in the ECS for a charter to Manchester.
Great Northern Railway Michael Gibb [18/11/2006] Ref: 12374 |
Kings Cross: 47703 at the head of a charter to Manchester.
Great Northern Railway Michael Gibb [18/11/2006] Ref: 12375 |
Kings Cross: 4771 arrives at Kings Cross with an NRM charter from York.
Great Northern Railway Michael Gibb [18/11/2006] Ref: 12376 |
Kings Cross: Only the wires indicate that this is 2006 and not 1956.
Great Northern Railway Michael Gibb [18/11/2006] Ref: 12377 |
Kings Cross: The first of the grey liveried National Express East Coast HST sets stands in the winter sunshine at Kings Cross on 19 December preparing to embark on its 530 mile journey with the 1400 service to Aberdeen.
Great Northern Railway Mike Gibb [19/12/2007] Ref: 17529 |
Kings Cross: The 1400 Kings Cross - Aberdeen HST in NXEC colours prepares to exit Kings Cross and head for Gasworks Tunnel on 19 December.
Great Northern Railway Michael Gibb [19/12/2007] Ref: 17539 |