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Network Rail will today announce the completion of the new western concourse, the most spectacular part of the five-year programme to restore and improve King’s Cross station. More than 45m passengers a year - travelling through London and to and from destinations as far afield as Newcastle, Edinburgh and York - will benefit from a raft of improvements when it opens to the public on Monday (19th March). The new concourse opens to the public on Monday 19 March 2012.

Over 600 people – from engineers, electricians and builders to carpenters, stone masons and abseilers – who are working to transform King’s Cross station celebrate the end of major construction work on the new western concourse.

The ruins, which are believed to be one of the biggest Roman find in London on the south side of the River Thames, have been uncovered during work for the Thameslink programme on the corner of London Bridge Street and Borough High Street.

Foot burns suffered by Nathan Wood aged 12 after coming into contact with overhead wires on the railway

Pioneering rail technology tested in Wales

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Rosie Winterton with pupils from Phesant Bank Primary School and players Tom Doughty and Douggie Flockhart

Temporary galvanised arches being positioned at the start of work (July 2008)