Kings Cross track layout 1960’s

[Silverfox86]

Hi all

I’m looking for the track layout of kings Cross station in the 1960s.

Does anybody know where I can find this please.

Thank you

[DonAnderson]

Hello silverfox86

Try this:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103030230

It should be good up to the end of steam, and it shows you all the pointwork of the "throat", but nothing under the overall roof. Probably the only source widely and commonly available. There is a larger scale, more detailed earlier edition, but not for the period you want.

[Mickey]

The Kings Cross track layout of the 1950s & 1960s didn't substantially change until 1977 (except maybe for the re-numbering of all the station platforms in May 1972) when the area from the platform ends to Gasworks tunnel was 'rationalised' in what British Rail at the time called "The clearing the throat" which eliminated the use of the eastern tunnel out of the three tunnels.

The LNER 1933 Kings Cross signal box that stood at the platform ends between platforms no.5 & no.6 was closed and replaced by a new Kings Cross power box built over on the York Road station area later in 1971 which has subsequently closed in 2021 although the redundant 1933 structure remained left standing until 1976 when it was finally demolished from memory?.