The introduction of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras International and the rebuilding of King's Cross station helped stimulate the redevelopment of the long-derelict railway lands to the north of the termini.

Lewis Spence's 1937 book Boadicea – warrior queen of the Britons includes a map showing the supposed positions of the opposing armies.

The suggestion that Boudica is buried beneath platform 9 or 10 at King's Cross station seems to have arisen as urban folklore since the end of World War II.

[4] The area had been settled in Roman times, and a camp here known as The Brill was erroneously attributed to Julius Caesar, who never visited Londinium.

[3] The statue itself, which cost no more than £25, was constructed of bricks and mortar, and finished in a manner that gave it the appearance of stone "at least to the eyes of common spectators".

Known locally as the "Lighthouse Building", the structure was popularly thought to be an advertisement for Netten's Oyster Bar on the ground floor, but this seems not to be true.

The passenger stations on Euston Road far outweighed in public attention the economically more important goods traffic to the north.

In the late 1980s, a group of musicians, mechanics, and squatters from Hammersmith called Mutoid Waste Company moved into Battlebridge Road warehouse.

[16] In 1992, the Community Creation Trust took over the disused coach repair depot and built it into the largest Ecology Centre in Europe with ecohousing for homeless youngsters, The Last Platform Cafe, London Ecology Centre (after its demise in Covent Garden), offices and workshops, gardens and ponds.

The London terminus of the Eurostar international rail services to Paris and Brussels moved to St Pancras station in November 2007.

The area has also been for many years home to a number of trades union head offices (including the NUJ, RMT, UNISON, NUT, Community and UCU).

There was a small theatre, the Courtyard, that closed in late 2006 as a result of the gentrification of the area caused by a number of regeneration projects there, in this case, Regent's Quarter, across the boundary in Islington.

[21] The London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are based in King's Place, on Battlebridge Basin next to the Regent's Canal.

The importance of King's Cross station means that use of the place name term spills over into neighbouring parts of the London Borough of Islington.

[24] The railway station has put up a sign for the fictional "Platform 9+3⁄4" described in the books, and embedded part of a luggage trolley halfway into the wall.

A triad of Dun's, excerpted from another poem, "The Brill", has been installed at the western end of Granary Square in a small grove of trees beside the new Central Saint Martins.

[30] The British pop music duo Pet Shop Boys recorded a song featured on their 1987 album Actually named "King's Cross": the melancholy track discusses the hopelessness of the AIDS epidemic during that time and uses the King's Cross area as the "backdrop" of the story, trading on the area's associations with drug use and prostitution.

Songwriter David Gedge also wrote a song called "King's Cross" while recording under the name Cinerama.

[32] King's Cross station is a railway terminus and London Underground interchange, and a focal point in the district.

Commuter services from King's Cross are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern, serving destinations in north London, such as Finsbury Park, Harringay, and Enfield Town.

Destinations further afield include Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Peterborough, Cambridge, and King's Lynn.

[33] Long-distance departures from King's Cross are operated by Grand Central, Lumo, Hull Trains, and LNER.

[37] The Goods Yard complex, part of the King's Cross Central development, was a rail freight terminal.

[39] The station is also the terminus of Southeastern High Speed services from Kent and Stratford International (where London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is situated).

A new park utilising the former railway alignment between Camden Town and Kings Cross was given planning permission in January 2023.