HS2 - Old Oak Common Progress - January 2024 

Thanks for the video excellent. You asked a out what's happening at about 10 minutes in. You are looking down into the station site. In some areas this is at full depth and the intermediate floors are in place. In other areas they are still digging. I believe that the platform construction wilmainly be hidden by the intermediate floors. When you get to the Victoria Road box you can see the tail structures of both Emily and Ann, which are about 200 metres long. The heads of the TBM'S are where the access shaft is, further along. At the other end of the site the TBM's for the Euston tunnels are due to be assembled and wild rive the first portion of the tunnels so that their tails clear the station site. There is another tunnel being dug by TBM Lydia that goes from this area to near the rail logistics hub through which spoil from the Euston tunnels will be taken and the lining segments delivered. Keep the good work.

Excellent video, very professional flying, camera work and narration. Thankyou for providing this superb update. It has given me a very good understanding of the overall infrastructure.

Great Video Thanks for making it.5 STAR

Excellent drone work.

Nice one! An area i knew in the 80/90's on my spottin expeditions to OOC and WN from Kent. . . Some more facts about the George J. Churchward designed Old Oak Common depot, it housed the largest covered turntable shed in the world with 4 turntables until dieselisation. It had the first ever female loco driver based there in the UK from 1978/9, and perhaps the first to have a 2nd female loco driver based there from 1990 (my ex girlfriend lol), firstly working class 1's out of Paddington after DMU driving. She moved on to drive freights off Acton some time later in her illustrious 25+ year career! Oh the stories i have!!!! . . . Crazy to see the area like this now, at least its still railway land, unlike the mighty Stratford depot area these days. Great views of the skyline and good bit of ambient aswell on this. I produce such stuff. If i hadn't had the dj name of 'trainspotter', me and her would of never of met, as she found me on pirate radio ! . . . My plan actually worked (for a while anyway). Subbed, most interesting updates thanks :D

The canal level is controlled and does not vary. Reservoirs and pumping stations out in the chilterns keep it topped up. and welsh harp i believe.

Very very interesting. Old oak looks a bit different since i used to visit late 1980s with the class 50,s and the turntable aaah happy days. Unrecognisable now 😢

Great superstructure for the South, as usual bugger all for the North

Why has China 30,000 kilometres of hi-speed rail.......and the UK spat the dummy at 100 kilometres? 🤔🤔🤔

Liked and subbed👍

The problem with this design is that NOBODY WANTS TO GO TO OLD OAK COMMUNS fast .

Great video, what drone are you using mate, have you got a link please?

Why do you need to take ‘special care’ when tunnelling under a cemetery ? Highly unlikely the residents will be writing to their MP’s, or is it ?

Fabulous aerial footage. You really are skilled at flying the drone. Do you need special permission to fly over these sights? 🤓 🏍️

10:58 staff basketball court on the left?

would there be a reason as to why the above ground buildings have not started as yet,being has the bottom section has concrete in place,and is it right ,that tbm,s are to finish the chilton hills in february then transfer to here,thanking you for the talk thru

I'd of thought the reason is look at the size of china you could get the whole of the UK in one of their regions and then you wouldn't see it space is as valuable as money

Shame the drone is showing a herd of white elephants, sorry one white elephant. Shame if you had to travel ten miles from central London to ge there. How long did that take out of curiosity?

Video good, but what a shocking waste of money this whole ridiculous project is. It isn't needed and will achieve nothing at all, who the hell wants to get to Birmingham twenty minutes quicker anyway? But then again, in public transport obsessed London why should I be surprised

Anyone who refers to a railway station as a 'train station' gets a thumbs down from me!