Reposted by astock5000
🎉 Happy birthday London King's Cross!
#OnThisDay in 1852 the Great Northern Railway’s permanent King’s Cross station opened to passengers. The temporary station had been at Maiden Lane (now York Way):
👉 bit.ly/4dxOrf9
#RailHistory #RailHeritage
![Comic. [Next to a two-story house and some trees is a huge rail (several times the height of the house) with an incomplete huge wheel on top surrounded by scaffolding.] [caption] Due to a typo in the plans, I’ve been building an 87:1 model train set in my yard.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicc6re2xjfzasl5jhzh7jmti3dc7ippkxxvyqji3eqrs2dhuh6xki)
