Boogies Trains at: London Kings Cross - 7 January, 2025

[@maimadha]

Great video.

[@breeze1472]

got to love kings cross

[@Andrewjg_89]

I do think that Great Northern should start allowing the Class 379 Electrostars to enter service that would be used on London King’s Cross-Cambridge, Peterborough, King’s Lynn and Ely routes.

[@deauvilledad07]

Great video Mr Boogie, nice to see it's still busy. Why did you have to sign in? Is this a new thing.? Well done 🤓

[@BoogiesTrains]

It felt like they were trying to enforce the Network Rail rules. Not sure how successful that will be at busy times.

[@John2Ward]

One uncommon thing for a London terminus station is that the platforms are numbered from right to left when looking from the concourse; and similarly the country end roads from F to A. Euston is the same, but most such stations go the other way, with platform 1 on the left. The current signalling at Kings Cross comes under YA, whatever that refers to, rather than (say) KX as I believe it was before.

[@BoogiesTrains]

Very interesting observation. Marylebone might be the same. I think YK is York.

[@BoogiesTrains]

And Fenchurch Street but you are right, most big terminus stations are numbered left to right.

[@John2Ward]

@@BoogiesTrains ...but not YA as here. Yes, YK is York. I seem to have developed a fascination with signalling areas recently: I don't know why, but there it is (as Harry Worth once said.)

[@BoogiesTrains]

I'm guessing that, as the centralised signalling centres become bigger, different geographical areas are controlled from different rooms so different designations are required.

[@John2Ward]

@@BoogiesTrains Yes, as for example Feltham area is now controlled from a panel/workstation at Basingstoke ROC, so the new signals around there are designated BEF (BasingstokE, Feltham panel.) YA still has me baffled, though...

[@randomidiot24563]

why did they remove platform 10?

[@BoogiesTrains]

They needed to extend the suburban platforms and couldn't do it with three of them. The extension to eleven encroached on the track for ten.