Things To Do In King’s Cross This Weekend
Your local guide to the weekend of Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June 2026 · Islington Local Guide
I have spent more weekends than I can count drifting between Granary Square and the canal, and I still get a small thrill walking out of the station into the back of King’s Cross. Twenty years ago this was somewhere you passed through with your collar up. Now it is one of the most rewarding patches of central London to spend a Saturday and a Sunday, and the good news is that most of the best of it is either free or close to it.
This weekend has a proper anchor event in the British Library Food Season, a Bowie show that has been quietly stealing everyone’s afternoons at Lightroom, and the usual run of fountains, canal boats and street food that make the area such an easy sell. What follows is the version I would give a friend who messaged me on Friday night asking what to do. I have checked every venue below against current listings, and where something is worth a second look before you set off, I have said so.
A little context helps you read the place. Almost everything north of the station sits on the old goods yard, sixty-odd acres of Victorian railway land that lay derelict for decades and has been reborn over the last fifteen years as King’s Cross Central. The granaries, coal drops and transit sheds that once moved freight into London now hold restaurants, an art school and a Google headquarters, with new squares and parks stitched between them. The bones of the industrial past are still everywhere, which is what saves the area from feeling like a shopping centre. Understanding that the canal, the gasholders and the brick warehouses are the originals, not the theming, changes how you walk it.
A quick word on trust, because it matters. Everything here was verified against venue listings on the morning of 11 June 2026. Programmes do change, so confirm timed and ticketed events before you travel. One correction worth flagging, since several older guides still get it wrong: the House of Illustration at 2 Granary Square closed back in 2020. Its successor has just opened this month as the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, a short walk away in Clerkenwell, and I have written about it below.
The Weekend At A Glance
If you only have the headlines, here is where I would point you.
What’s On In King’s Cross This Weekend
These are the dated, time-specific things happening across the weekend. I have led with the one that will define most people’s plans.
British Library Food Season: The Big Weekend
The British Library’s Food Season opens with its Big Weekend, and for anyone who reads recipes for fun this is the event of the weekend. Across Saturday and Sunday the Library turns over its spaces to chefs, food writers and historians for back-to-back conversations drawn from its own collection of cookery books and manuscripts. The Saturday programme alone runs from Irish food culture and the history of food photography through to a panel on the women redefining barbecue, a celebration of the cook Edna Lewis, and Simon Russell Beale on appetite and feasting in Shakespeare. Across the wider season you will also find Neneh Cherry in conversation with Andi Oliver, and Mary Beard on the food of ancient Pompeii.
Why it’s worth it: It is the rare festival that is genuinely intellectual without being dry, and the Library building itself is one of the great underrated rooms in London.
Who it suits: Keen home cooks, food-writing obsessives, and anyone who likes a proper talk over a passive day out.
Price: Sessions are individually ticketed, from around £2.50 online up to roughly £25 for in-person sessions. There is a multi-session discount if you book three or more across the weekend.
Location: The British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Two minutes from King’s Cross St Pancras.
Insider tip: Even without a ticket, walk in and see the Treasures gallery, which is free and holds a Magna Carta and Beatles manuscripts. The piazza out front is a fine spot for a coffee between sessions.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom
Lightroom, the four-storey projection space tucked into Lewis Cubitt Square behind Coal Drops Yard, is currently running David Bowie: You’re Not Alone, made with the Bowie estate and drawing on rarely seen material from the archive. You sit or sprawl on the floor while the walls fill with footage, handwriting and sound. I went in a sceptic about immersive shows and came out genuinely moved, which is not something I say often. It runs until 10 October, so it is not strictly a this-weekend exclusive, but a wet Sunday afternoon is exactly what it was built for.
Why it’s worth it: The sound system and the scale do things a screen cannot, and the edit is far more thoughtful than most of these shows manage.
Who it suits: Bowie fans of course, but also anyone curious about how a life in music can be told without a single glass case.
Price: From around £25 for adults, from £15 for students and under-18s. Family discounts available.
Location: Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, N1C 4DY, about eight minutes from the station.
Insider tip: Book a late Sunday slot, then walk straight out into Coal Drops Yard for a drink while the crowds thin.
National Geographic Traveller Photography on the Art Benches
Dotted around the King’s Cross estate this summer is a free outdoor exhibition of the National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition, displayed on the art benches that line the walkways near Granary Square. It is the kind of thing you stumble into rather than plan, and it rewards a slow wander between the station and the canal.
Why it’s worth it: World-class travel photography, no ticket, no queue, and it gives a walk a sense of purpose.
Price: Free.
Location: Outdoors across the King’s Cross estate, around Granary Square and the surrounding walkways.
Insider tip: Outdoor displays do rotate and move, so treat it as a happy bonus on a canal walk rather than the sole reason to come.
The Fountains, The Canal and The Free Layer
Even on a weekend with no festival in sight, King’s Cross has a permanent programme that costs nothing. The 1,000-plus choreographed fountains in Granary Square run from morning until late and are mesmerising after dark when each jet is lit. The Regent’s Canal towpath gives you a genuinely lovely walk in either direction. I will come back to both in the free and family sections below, but if your plan is simply to turn up and mooch, you will not be short of things to look at.
Nearby This Weekend
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. Just opened in early June at New River Head in Clerkenwell, a roughly fifteen-minute walk or short ride from King’s Cross. The launch show, Quentin Blake: Performance, runs into 2027. More on this under New Openings.
Highgate Festival. Running 13 to 21 June up the hill in Highgate, opening with the Fair in the Square on Saturday and live music in Pond Square on Sunday. An easy add-on if you fancy combining King’s Cross with a greener afternoon.
Best Live Music This Weekend
King’s Cross has quietly become one of the better corners of London for live music, with rooms to suit most moods within a few minutes of each other. Line-ups shift week to week, so rather than promise you a specific act, I have pointed you at the rooms that consistently deliver and told you where to check what is actually on for Saturday night.
Lafayette
The 600-capacity room on Goods Way, from the team behind Omeara, has become the go-to for artists on the way up. The sightlines are excellent, the sound system is a cut above for the size, and it doubles as a cabaret venue earlier in the week. Check the current listing before you head down, as it sells out fast when a buzzy name is in.
Location: 11 Goods Way, N1C 4DP, two minutes from the station.
Scala
The old cinema turned music venue opposite the station has been a fixture for decades and swings between live gigs and big club nights. It is a proper room with a balcony and a bit of grandeur, and it is usually busy at weekends with everything from indie to dance.
Location: 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL.
Kings Place
For something more considered, Kings Place on York Way is the area’s classical and jazz hub, sitting right on the canal. Its Songlines Encounters strand of world music returns through 2026, and the concert halls are beautifully designed. This is where I send anyone who wants to sit down, listen properly and have a glass of wine by the water afterwards.
Location: 90 York Way, N1 9AG.
The Lexington and Jamboree
Just towards Angel, The Lexington pairs a serious whisky and bourbon bar downstairs with a sweaty little gig room upstairs, and it remains one of my favourite places in London to catch a band you have not heard of yet. Down towards the canal at Jamboree you get jazz, folk and world music in a candlelit room, plus a Saturday life-drawing class earlier in the day. Between the two you can build a whole evening without a tube.
Best Food & Drink Experiences
This is where King’s Cross genuinely earns its reputation. A decade ago you ate here because you had to. Now people travel in for it. I have grouped my regulars by mood, because the area finally has enough range that the right answer depends on what kind of day you are having.
The names worth the hype
Dishoom. The King’s Cross flagship, in a restored railway transit shed on Stable Street, is still the one I bring visitors to. The bacon naan at breakfast is a rite of passage and the evening buzz on the upstairs floors is hard to beat. They do not take bookings for small groups at peak times, so come early or be ready to wait with a chai.
Barrafina. The Coal Drops Yard outpost of the Hart brothers’ Spanish counter is as good as their Soho rooms. Sit at the bar, order the tortilla and whatever is on the specials board, and watch the chefs work.
Parrillan. Also in Coal Drops Yard, this is the one where you grill skewers yourself on a little tabletop grill. On a warm evening with the terrace open it is one of the most fun ways to eat in the area.
Casa Pastor. The Tacos at the canal-facing end of Coal Drops Yard, with proper margaritas and a loud, happy room. Good for a group that cannot agree on anything else.
Coal Office. Assaf Granit’s Middle Eastern cooking in Tom Dixon’s building on Bagley Walk. The kind of meal that turns into a long evening. This is my pick for dinner when someone else is paying.
Decimo. Peter Sanchez-Iglesias’s Spanish and Mexican cooking on the top floor of The Standard, the hotel opposite St Pancras. The room and the long views are as much of a draw as the plates, and it is still one of the more glamorous dinners in the area. Start or finish with a drink at Sweeties, the hotel bar, to make a proper night of it.
Brunch, coffee and all-day
Caravan. In the Granary Building on the square, this all-day spot roasts its own coffee and does one of the better weekend brunches in the area, with a big terrace right by the fountains.
Granger & Co. Bill Granger’s King’s Cross room remains a dependable, sunny brunch choice if Caravan has a queue out of the door.
Spiritland. The Stable Street listening bar is one of my favourite hideouts in King’s Cross. The hi-fi system is the star, but the brunch is quietly excellent, all shakshuka, poached eggs and avocado on sourdough, washed down with an Allpress coffee or a Bloody Mary. It turns into a proper bar later, so it works morning or night, and the terrace is a treat in good weather.
Morty & Bob’s. The all-day spot for comfort food and a justly famous grilled cheese, in a relaxed room that suits a slow weekend lunch. Exactly the sort of unfussy place the area occasionally forgets it needs.
Lower-key and still excellent
The Lighterman. A three-floor pub and dining room overlooking the canal and the square. Not the most adventurous menu in King’s Cross, but the Sunday roast and the view from the terrace make it a reliable weekend default.
German Gymnasium. A grand brasserie in a restored Victorian gymnasium by the station, doing central European cooking in a genuinely special room. Worth it for the building alone, and a lovely spot for a late lunch.
Flat Iron. The King’s Cross branch of the cult steak chain does one thing brilliantly: a single flat iron steak at a fair price, with complimentary popcorn while you wait and a soft serve to finish. My go-to when I want a proper feed without a big bill.
Kimchee. Generous, reliable Korean cooking near the station, ideal for a quick, warming bowl when you want flavour over ceremony. A useful one to know for a no-fuss weekend lunch.
Supawan. A few minutes into Somers Town on Phoenix Road, this is the area’s sleeper hit for regional Thai food, the kind of cooking that rewards going past the usual suspects. Well worth the short walk off the estate.
Best Bars For The Weekend
For a drink, the trick in King’s Cross is knowing whether you want canal-side and casual or grand and old-school. Both are within a short walk.
The Lighterman terrace. The most reliable canal-side drink in the area, with the fountains on one side and the water on the other. Arrive before the after-work crowd on a sunny evening and claim an outdoor table.
Booking Office 1869. Inside the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, this is a soaring, theatrical bar built into the old station booking hall. The cocktails are not cheap, but the room is one of the most dramatic places to drink in London and worth one round even if you go elsewhere after.
Coal Drops Yard. The yard itself has a cluster of bars and restaurant terraces that spill out on a warm evening, so it is an easy place to wander between drinks without a fixed plan.
The Drop. From the Barrafina team, this Coal Drops Yard wine bar champions low-intervention bottles, with an oyster cart out in the courtyard and small plates to graze on. My pick for an unhurried glass with someone you actually want to talk to.
Vermuteria. An all-day vermouth bar on the Coal Drops Yard terrace, with rows of Italian and French bottles and Mediterranean small plates. Order it on the rocks with a slice of orange on a sunny afternoon and you will struggle to leave.
The Cross rooftop. The reborn King’s Cross institution, which I cover properly under Nightlife, has a roof terrace with a wide view across the skyline and a pair of lounge bars below it. A grown-up spot for a cocktail before the basement club gets going.
Sweeties at The Standard. The hotel’s top-floor bar opposite St Pancras, dimly lit and a little glamorous, with views back over the station. Pair it with dinner at Decimo on the same floor for a memorable evening.
Best Things To Do For Free
You could spend an entire weekend here and barely open your wallet. This is the part of King’s Cross I love most, and the part visitors most often miss.
Family-Friendly Things To Do
King’s Cross is one of the easier central neighbourhoods to take children, largely because so much of it is open space rather than fragile interiors.
The fountains. The single best free activity for younger children in central London on a warm day. Bring a towel and let them run riot between the jets in Granary Square.
Camley Street Natural Park. Pond-dipping, birdsong and the Viewpoint platform make this a calm, genuinely educational stop, and it is right on the canal.
A canal walk to Camden. Flat, car-free and full of boats, ducks and the occasional heron, the towpath keeps small legs entertained all the way to Camden Lock if you fancy the full walk.
The outdoor sports pitch and soft-play kit. Off York Way and Handyside Street there is a floodlit pitch and toddler soft-play equipment, useful if you need somewhere to burn off energy.
London Canal Museum. A short walk away on New Wharf Road, this small museum tells the story of the canals and the Victorian ice trade, with a real ice well to peer into. A good wet-weather backup with children in tow.
Best Culture & Exhibitions
Beyond this weekend’s headline events, the area has built up a serious cultural cluster.
The British Library. Even outside Food Season, the free Treasures gallery is one of the great quiet pleasures of London, and the building hosts changing exhibitions worth checking before you visit.
Lightroom. The David Bowie show, covered above, until 10 October. Worth keeping on your radar for whatever comes next, too.
Gagosian, Britannia Street. A free, museum-scale contemporary gallery a few minutes from the station. Shows change regularly, so check what is hanging before you go, but it is always worth a look and rarely busy.
Central Saint Martins and the Lethaby Gallery. Parts of the art school in the Granary Building are open to the public, and the Lethaby Gallery puts on student and graduate shows during term time.
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. The newest arrival, just opened in Clerkenwell. Details below in New Openings.
St Pancras: The Other Half Of The Story
People treat King’s Cross and St Pancras as one place, and for the purposes of a weekend they more or less are, but St Pancras deserves its own paragraph because it is one of the most beautiful buildings in the country and most people walk straight through it without looking up. The great Barlow train shed, all pale-blue ironwork and glass, was the largest single-span roof in the world when it was built, and the Gothic red-brick hotel that fronts it on Euston Road is a Victorian fantasy that was very nearly demolished in the 1960s. That it survived is one of London’s better near-misses.
The Meeting Place statue. The towering bronze couple embracing under the clock is worth finding. Look at the frieze running around its base, which is a far more interesting and quietly subversive piece of work than the giant figures above it.
The Betjeman statue. On the upper concourse, a likeness of the poet John Betjeman gazes up at the roof he helped save. It is a lovely, gentle tribute and a good spot to appreciate the engineering overhead.
The station piano. The public piano on the concourse has become something of an institution, with everyone from passing commuters to the occasional famous name sitting down for a tune. Linger a moment and you will usually catch something.
Searcys champagne bar. Running the length of the platform under the trainshed roof, this is billed as the longest champagne bar in Europe and makes a memorable, if pricey, pre-Eurostar treat or a celebratory weekend pause.
My advice is simple. Whatever else you do this weekend, give yourself ten minutes inside St Pancras with your head tilted back. It costs nothing and it is one of the great free spectacles in London.
Hidden Gems
These are the corners I take people to when I want to show off a bit. None of them appear on the average tourist’s map.
Word on the Water. The floating bookshop is the obvious one, but it earns its place. The stock is sharply curated, the welcome is warm, and there is usually music on the roof in good weather.
Camley Street Natural Park’s Viewpoint. Walk to the very end and out onto the floating platform. On a still morning, with the swans about, you would never guess you were two minutes from a mainline station.
Lower Stable Street. The quieter lane behind Coal Drops Yard, home to independent makers and the occasional weekend market. Worth a slow look while everyone else photographs the main yard.
St Pancras Old Church gardens. One of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England, with a peaceful churchyard. The famous Hardy Tree, ringed with gravestones, sadly came down in 2022, but the gardens remain a lovely, little-visited pause.
The Skip Garden. Global Generation’s moveable community garden off York Way grows produce in skips and runs a pop-up cafe. Opening days vary, so check before you make a special trip, but it is a charming bit of green improvisation.
Where To Eat This Weekend
If you want it broken down by occasion, here is my shorthand.
Best brunch: Caravan in the Granary Building, or Spiritland on Stable Street if you want a soundtrack with your eggs. Granger & Co is the backup.
Best lunch: Casa Pastor for tacos and a margarita, Morty & Bob’s for a grilled cheese, or a quick Dishoom if the queue is kind.
Best dinner: Coal Office for a long evening, Decimo for the rooftop glamour, or Barrafina if you would rather perch at a counter.
Best date night: Decimo at The Standard, then a nightcap at Sweeties upstairs. Coal Office if you would rather a candlelit, hands-on feast.
Best cheap eats: Flat Iron for a steak that will not break the bank, the Dishoom bacon naan, or the rotating street-food traders around Coal Drops Yard at weekends.
Best for a group: Casa Pastor for tacos and noise, or Supawan in Somers Town if everyone is up for sharing proper Thai plates.
Best coffee: Caravan roasts its own. For a local angle, Redemption Roasters has a King’s Cross presence and trains people leaving the prison system, which is a coffee worth buying.
Best Sunday lunch: The Lighterman, for the roast and the canal-side terrace.
Best outdoor dining: The Granary Square terraces in general, with Parrillan’s tabletop grills the most fun of the lot and Vermuteria’s vermouth terrace for a slower afternoon.
Nightlife
Here is where I owe King’s Cross an apology, because it has more clubbing history than almost anywhere in London and I spent years talking about it in the past tense. The old goods yard was home to legendary warehouse clubs before the regeneration, and the good news is that the spirit has not entirely been swept away with the coal dust. A couple of the great names are still standing, and one has come roaring back.
Egg LDN. The techno and house institution on Vale Royal has been going since 2003 and remains the serious clubber’s pick, spread across three floors with outdoor spaces and a sound policy that leans properly underground. It keeps going very late, so check who is on for Saturday and pace yourself.
The Cross. One of the defining King’s Cross clubs of the 90s has returned, reimagined as a six-storey venue on Wharfdale Road. There is a Mediterranean restaurant, a pair of lounge bars, a rooftop terrace with a wide skyline view and, at the bottom of it all, a basement club. The whole thing runs on a drink, dine and dance format across Friday and Saturday, so you can start with dinner and end up dancing without changing postcode. For anyone who remembers the original under the railway arches, this is a genuine event.
Lafayette and Scala. Both covered above, carrying the live-and-late load between gigs and club nights. For something looser, the bars of Coal Drops Yard stay busy, and a short walk towards Angel opens up The Lexington and the options around Upper Street. As ever, check each venue’s own listing for Saturday, because the bigger nights sell out and the line-ups change weekly.
Weekend Walking Routes
The best way to understand King’s Cross is on foot. Here are four routes I walk regularly, in rough order of how much I love them.
Granary Square to Coal Drops Yard to the canal to Camden Lock
Start at the fountains, cut up through Coal Drops Yard for a coffee, then drop down to the Regent’s Canal and turn left. From here it is a flat, lovely forty-minute towpath walk to Camden Lock, past Gasholder Park, St Pancras Lock and a string of houseboats. End with the food stalls at Camden, or turn back when you have had enough. This is the walk I recommend above all others.
King’s Cross to Angel via the canal
Turn right out of Granary Square along the towpath and follow the water as it curves up towards Islington. You will pass the entrance to the Islington Tunnel, where the towpath rises to street level and deposits you a short walk from Angel and the cafes and pubs of Upper Street. A gentle half-hour that swaps tourists for locals.
King’s Cross to Clerkenwell
Head south through the back streets towards Clerkenwell and you arrive in one of London’s most characterful old quarters, all converted workshops and good restaurants. This is also the route to the brand-new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration at New River Head, which makes a natural destination for the walk.
King’s Cross to Bloomsbury
Walk down past the British Library and into Bloomsbury, with its garden squares and the British Museum at the far end. A more bookish, leafy wander, and an easy way to combine a Library visit with an afternoon among the squares.
New Openings To Know About
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration. The headline opening of the moment. The successor to the old House of Illustration has just launched at the restored New River Head waterworks in Clerkenwell, a short walk or ride from King’s Cross. There are three galleries, a free illustration library, a garden and a cafe, with the opening show, Quentin Blake: Performance, running into 2027. For anyone who grew up with Blake’s drawings, this is a genuine event, and at ninety-three he was there for the launch.
David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom. Opened in April and running until 10 October, this is the freshest reason to head into Coal Drops Yard, covered in full above.
Coal Drops Yard residencies. The yard rotates in new traders, street-food residencies and pop-ups through the year, so it pays to wander rather than plan. What is there this month may not be next month, which is part of the fun.
I have deliberately not padded this section with restaurant openings I could not stand behind. The two above are confirmed and current as of this week. If a shiny new spot has appeared in the yard since, treat it as a bonus to discover on the day.
Local’s Pick Of The Weekend
If you made me choose just one of everything, this is where I would send you.
One restaurant: Dishoom King’s Cross. Still the most joyful meal in the area, breakfast or dinner.
One event: The British Library Food Season Big Weekend. Smart, warm and very easy to lose an afternoon in.
One hidden gem: The Viewpoint platform at Camley Street Natural Park. Pure calm, two minutes from the chaos.
One drink spot: The Lighterman terrace, with the canal on one side and the fountains on the other.
One family activity: The Granary Square fountains, followed by a canal walk towards Camden. Free, and it never fails.
Why King’s Cross Wins The Weekend
What makes King’s Cross special is not any single attraction. It is how easily it all joins up. You can start with a food talk at the British Library, walk ten minutes to a Bowie show, eat tacos on a terrace, then follow the canal until the city quietens around you, and the whole thing costs less than you would expect. Few neighbourhoods in London let you swing between high culture, good food and proper green space without ever getting in a taxi.
Come for the headline event by all means, but leave time to get lost. The best of King’s Cross is still the bit you find by accident, down by the water, with a book from a barge under your arm. I will see you on the towpath.
Getting There & Practical Tips
A few things worth knowing before you come, learned the hard way over many weekends.
Getting here. King’s Cross St Pancras is one of the best-connected spots in London, with six Underground lines, mainline rail and the Eurostar. From the station, the whole development north of the tracks is a flat five to ten minute walk, signed towards Granary Square and the canal.
The fountains. They run daily from morning until late and look their best after dark when lit. On a hot weekend, children will end up soaked, so pack a towel if you have little ones.
Booking. The British Library Food Season sessions, Lightroom slots and the better restaurant tables go quickly at weekends. Book the timed and ticketed things in advance, and keep the canal, fountains and free walks as your flexible backbone.
Wet weather. If the rain sets in, the indoor combination of the British Library, Lightroom and a long lunch in Coal Drops Yard will see you through a whole day without getting drenched.
Quieter times. Saturday late morning and Sunday before noon are the calmest windows. By mid-afternoon on a sunny weekend the squares fill up, so front-load anything you want to enjoy in peace.
Accessibility. The development is largely step-free and level, with the canal towpath ramped at most access points, which makes it one of the easier central areas for prams and wheelchairs.
King’s Cross Weekend: Quick Questions
What’s on in King’s Cross this weekend?
This weekend, 13 to 14 June 2026, the standout is the British Library Food Season Big Weekend on Euston Road, with two days of cooking talks and tastings. David Bowie: You’re Not Alone continues at Lightroom in Coal Drops Yard, and the Granary Square fountains, Regent’s Canal and free art-bench photography exhibition are all there for the wandering.
Is King’s Cross good for families?
Very. The Granary Square fountains are a free hit with younger children on a warm day, Camley Street Natural Park offers calm green space and a floating platform, and the flat canal towpath makes an easy walk to Camden. The London Canal Museum nearby is a handy wet-weather option.
What are the best free things to do in King’s Cross?
The fountains, a Regent’s Canal walk, Camley Street Natural Park, Gasholder Park, the Identified Flying Object birdcage swing in Battle Bridge Place, and browsing Word on the Water, the floating bookshop. The British Library’s Treasures gallery is also free.
Where should I eat near King’s Cross station?
For a sit-down treat, Dishoom, Barrafina, Coal Office or the German Gymnasium are all within a few minutes. For something quicker, the street-food traders around Coal Drops Yard and the Dishoom bacon naan are reliable. Caravan does one of the better weekend brunches.
How do I get to Coal Drops Yard and Granary Square?
Both are about a five to eight minute walk from King’s Cross St Pancras station. Head north out of the station towards the canal and Granary Square, and Coal Drops Yard sits just behind it. The area is served by the Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria, Circle, Hammersmith and City, and Metropolitan lines, plus mainline and Eurostar services.
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