Spelling
King's Cross is seen spelt both with and without an apostrophe:
- King's Cross is used in signage at the Network Rail and London Underground stations, on the tube map and on the official Network Rail webpage.
- Kings Cross is used in the National Rail timetable database and other National Rail railway pages, and on the TheTrainLine online booking system. (Stations such as King's Lynn and Hall i' th' Wood also lack apostrophes, suggesting that this is a software limitation or a stylistic convention.)
- Older British Railways signage did not have an apostrophe.
- Kings X, Kings + and London KX are abbreviations used in space-limited contexts.
- KGX is the station code
The name of the locality is commonly written as "Kings Cross", without an apostrophe.
Read more about this topic: London King's Cross Railway Station
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