King's Cross St. Pancras Tube Station
King's Cross St Pancras is a tube station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Camden, serving King's Cross and St Pancras main line stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. It is the third-busiest station on the system after Waterloo and Victoria, and serves more lines than any other.
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