London King's Cross is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden on the edge of Central London, and adjacent to St. Pancras Station. The station was opened in 1852 by the Great Northern Railway, taking its name from the Kings Cross monument. The station grew rapidly to cater for suburban lines, In 1923, King's Cross became one of the "Big Four" train stations, and, by 2018, the station ran long-distance trains to Edinburgh, Leeds, and Newcastle upon Tyne.