Kings Cross Station | London underground | Stock footage | 1980s| TN-SL-046-007

Thames News report. stock roll - Kings cross underground station - Late 80s early 90s
GVs include controls rooms, passengers, shops, behind the escalators, passenger side escalators, signs, platforms .
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Thames News was the flagship regional news programme of Thames Television, serving the Thames ITV region and broadcast on weekdays from 12 September 1977 to 31 December 1992.

[@oabuseer]

Was this the reopening of the station after the fire? It all looks very new + there seems to be photographers

[@simonlarson7230]

Yes - those escalators in the first minute used to be wood! Incredible to think really

[@TEBEnthusiast]

@@simonlarson7230 ture they were wooden

[@billyh88uk]

Filmed sometime after December 1988 judging by the ticket machines, and obviously predating December 1992. Probably 1989-90.

[@tobeytransport2802]

What happened in 1992?

[@billyh88uk]

@@tobeytransport2802 Thames News finished that month, replaced by London Today/Tonight.

[@tobeytransport2802]

@@billyh88uk ah ok

[@leisterverner5211]

Those escalaters don't look wooden and cannot see any cigarette butts t

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Those ticket machines look so confusing

[@CoxallK]

People weren't thick back then like they are now.

[@OneHundredPiplup]

0:15 bro looked straight at the camera xD

[@tropicalpalmtree]

The black dude at the start defo thought he was being followed lmao

[@paulb9769]

The camera person was creepy.

[@tropicalpalmtree]

@@danielfactor3180 with that in mind i can't believe they didn't interview him

[@patrickdinneen4492]

This is creepy, by the look of the video, the new 'no smoking' signs (smoking 'banned' in 1985 (which is apx. when I would say this was filmed) and the wooden escalators this would appear to have been filmed only two years maximum b4 the fire. And it focused on the Picadily Ln escalators. Also, seeing that large machine room beneath them I can see how large the fire had got...

[@tome8677]

This was filmed after the fire. The man in the video mentions the Fennell Report which was written afterwards.

[@ZeldaFitz]

Smoking was banned on tube trains in 1984. You could still smoke in and around the station up until the KX fire. This was filmed a couple of years after 1987.

[@simonlarson7230]

@@ZeldaFitz It might have been banned in 84 but I travelled through there about 12 times a year to get to boarding school from '85 onwards and I deffo remember people smoking. The '87 fire was caused by a flicked cigarette on the wooden escalator.

[@paulb9769]

That was the first thing I though...WTF

[@susanwahl6322]

The sad thing was before the fire, the no smoking rules were just a suggestion.

[@matinhewing1]

No wooden escalators...

[@Jay-ru3mu]

init

[@PC-lu3zf]

This is not pre November 87 I recall the old dirty ticket hall

[@tjfSIM]

No. It's after the station was refurbished and reopened, so likely 1989.

[@jackmellor5536]

I heard they didn't have fire alarms in the London Underground at the time of the Kings Cross fire. Is that true?

[@momentogabe]

yes

[@ichangedmyname5278]

Jumpscare at 2:41

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

What was that person doing at 0:31 ? Yeah just stand there in front of an escalator love, in cloud cuckoo land. Absolute freak

[@redemption843]

Nasty comment ,you know nothing about that lady .maybe had problems or may even have lost someone in the devastating fire there that killed many .she may even have been there that day .be kind ,one day you could be that person.!!

[@tjfSIM]

That person was a photographer, possibly working with the crew who were making this video, or maybe he was another journalist doing a piece on the reopening of the station. There is no need to be so rude about people.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

Kyle ha ha calm down lad

[@charlesgund4812]

I think instead of wooden escalators they should have been made of hard plastic. Much better 👍

[@paulb9769]

WTF is this? The camera person is very intrusive.

[@SI-cd7xs]

back when white britons weren't foreigners in their own country.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

You might not agree with what he says I don't but he is entitled to his opinion

[@user-sh2rc5kc7x]

You just couldn't help yourself could you?. Pleb

[@johnclark7065]

Whatever there is a lot of white English people working in central London just most of them moved to outer London to Essex and Kent and Hertfordshire and travel into London to work everyday.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

@@user-sh2rc5kc7x sugar pie honey ?

[@SI-cd7xs]

@@johnclark7065 no. Even firmly white British areas like barking are majority non white British now.