King's Cross station

King's Cross station is the last confirmed meeting point in the account of Jane Glasson's journey home from Cambridge. Her separation from a friend there precedes a planned change of route through London and becomes part of the unresolved story of her disappearance.

Role in Jane Glasson's Journey

At the end of her second year at Cambridge, Jane and a friend travelled together by train to London. They parted at King's Cross station. Jane had said she would take the Tube to Paddington and catch a train to Cornwall, but her father later learned that she had not arrived on the expected train.

Place in the Disappearance

The account identifies King's Cross as the point of separation, not as the place where Jane was last seen after vanishing. Her father initially thought there had been a misunderstanding and that she might be on a later train; the narrative supplies no evidence about what happened after she and her friend parted. The station's significance lies in this gap between Jane's stated onward plan and her failure to reach Cornwall.