Kings Cross

Kings Cross or King's Cross can refer to:

  • Kings Cross, London - an area of Central London, England
    • King's Cross Central a development of previously semi-derelict land in the King's Cross area
    • London King's Cross railway station a major London railway terminus
    • King's Cross St. Pancras tube station for London Underground lines
      • the location of the King's Cross fire of November 1987.
    • King's Cross Thameslink railway station a former railway station connecting with King's Cross station and King's Cross St Pancras tube station
  • Kings Cross, New South Wales - an area of Sydney, Australia
    • Kings Cross railway station, Sydney an underground railway station in Sydney

Also:

  • "King's Cross", a Pet Shop Boys song from their 1987 album Actually, also covered and released as a single by Tracey Thorn in 2007.
  • "King's Crossing", an Elliott Smith song on the album From a Basement on the Hill.
  • Kings Cross, a UK rock band formerly known as Belisha.
  • King's X, an American rock band.
  • The Kings Cross - Cardiff's oldest serving gay pub
  • A type of solitaire card game.

Famous quotes containing the words kings and/or cross:

    “As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they the same education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
    Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour
    high—I see you also face to face.
    Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
    On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning
    home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
    And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)