When was Kings Cross electrified?

British Rail completed electrification of the East Coast Main Line to Leeds and Edinburgh between 1985 and 1991, and electric InterCity 225 rolling stock was introduced to work express services. These began service between King's Cross and Leeds on 2 October 1989, and to Edinburgh on 8 July 1991.



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Due to the decline in freight transported by railway during the 1980s, Kings Cross became a derelict, underfunded area. This impacted the local community significantly, the majority of which were impoverished and unemployed. It became a site that was rife with unsafe practices, such as drug abuse and prostitution.

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The first deep-level tube line, the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890 with electric trains.

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King's Cross, between 1923 and 1930. Courtesy of Transport for London at the London Transport Museum. King's Cross is the more senior of the two stations. Built by the Great Northern Railway, it opened in 1852.

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What exactly is Kings Cross if it's not just a station? An inner district in north London in the boroughs of Camden and Islington, this used to be a former red light district that has been regenerated since the 1990s with the arrival of the Eurostar at London St Pancras station next door to kings Cross station.

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From the 1960s onwards Kings Cross also came to serve as both the city's main tourist accommodation and entertainment mecca, as well as its red-light district.

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More than 150 firefighters and 30 fire engines were called to a blaze at King's Cross station at on the evening of 18 November 1987. The blaze, which is thought to have started around 7:25pm, when a lit match fell through a gap on a wooden escalator and set fire to the grease and litter beneath the steps.

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