Old Oak Common Station - Unrivalled Connectivity

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HS2’s new superhub station, Old Oak Common in West London, will offer passengers seamless travel making journeys in, out and around London’s transport system quick, easy and convenient.
As well as being a key stop on Britain’s brand new high speed railway, offering quick, reliable and comfortable journeys to the Midlands, the North and Scotland, it will also be the 42nd stop on London’s new Elizabeth Line. From here London’s West End will be just 10 minutes away, and Liverpool Street station just 20 minutes away. Air passengers will be able to get to Heathrow using either the Elizabeth Line or the Heathrow Express, with journey’s taking as little as 10 minutes.
Beyond London, Old Oak Common it will serve as a gateway to Wales and the Southwest, through Great Western Mainline services. This once industrial area of West London is being transformed into a thriving super-connected neighbourhood, and an exciting development that will build a legacy for the local community, to be enjoyed for generations to come.
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@rypieuwu Месяц назад

ok cool, now bring back the manchester and leeds branches

@gitgut4977 Месяц назад

greetings from germany. the scaling back of HS2 is a disgrace for your proud railway traditions.its like the difference between a table and a plate without legs: not very useful!

@Kratos-005 Месяц назад

The UK government committed to this project only to scale it back. I just don’t see the point, once you go sliding into a tackle, you must follow through with it. No point pulling out.

@DavidShepheard Месяц назад

Unfortunately our government went insane after the Brexit vote. When they cut back HS2 they tried to "salt the Earth" that HS2 was going to be built on, by selling off the land to prevent the next government reversing the decision, without it costing a lot extra. I'm hoping that a future government upgrades the West London Line and connects it directly to Old Oak Common. With the released capacity of HS2, hopefully there can be more than one train per hour going from Watford Junction, through the line from Old Oak Common to Gatwick Airport.

@Cookie2k Месяц назад

Ikr!

@daranphilipson1025 Месяц назад

Good observation and comparison

@CynicalPlatapus Месяц назад

Much like Germany and scaling back nuclear power in favour of natural gas, coal and the largest open pit mine in europe

@jakethadley Месяц назад

The transition from the GWR to HS2 platforms via the classic art on the newspaper was ace! Still pissed how much the government ahs cut this back, stupid short-sighted ideological approach. Hopefully whoever follows is able to restore at least some of it, we need to get the space back for local services and especially freight.

@gorgu08 Месяц назад

Wow London gets another hyper connected hub how convenient for the south east of England

@philkelly704 Месяц назад

“Connecting West London to the West Midlands. And Beyond.” You sure about the “And Beyond” bit?

@joegrey9807 Месяц назад

There will still be through trains

@GJChurchward Месяц назад

@@joegrey9807 North of Handsacre, they will be slower than existing trains.

@joegrey9807 Месяц назад

@@GJChurchward I don't think they'll be much slower as far as Manchester or Liverpool. But I'm not sure about any going up through the windy bit north of Carnforth where the tilt on the current fleet has a real benefit.

@jp2ric Месяц назад

By West Midlands, this means getting out at Curzon Street and a long walk through a dim tunnel to New Street where the connectivity is!

@joegrey9807 Месяц назад

@@jp2ric or using the tram that'll be next to Curzon St, or the busses, or walking next door to Moor St, and if you do need New St, then yes you have to currently use a short subway. But I'd assume that will be improved.

@ICanPlayPiano Месяц назад

We don't hear much about the projected Interchange station to the east of Birmingham much on here!

@Pesmog Месяц назад

The map at 0.08 is misleading, implying connectivity/interchanges with nearby lines that won't actually be there even five years after it is completed. It isn't going to be linked into the London overground, Central line, Southern line or the West coast main line as implied in the graphic. 🙁 Upon opening HS2 at Old Oak Common will only link with the GWR mainline and the Elizabeth line. Are they even making provision to link into all the other nearby lines to make it a truly well connected high speed hub? Old Oak Common - a missed opportunity.

@neilboulton9813 Месяц назад

It may well be misleading but can you explain to me as the Overground, Central Line and GWR are all on different alignments/routes, so the right decision was to integrate Elizabeth Line with GWR and HS2. There is no point integrating it with the West Coast Mainline as they are effectively the same route. So how would you have knitted it together for maximum connectivity remembering land availability and existing roads etc?

@KingCharles3 Месяц назад

would be nice if we could design a nice station facade for once

@tubegirl1013 Месяц назад

not sure if the person who did the graphics didn't get the memo but there's truly not enough density/ToD being shown around the station for the best opportunity since the docklands to do so and make the station even more useful

@nathan_scofield_ynwa Месяц назад

its just not on the graphics. There will be a lot of density around!

@WatchMeDoMath Месяц назад

If you show density you will scare the anti-housing folk

@petercrossley1069 Месяц назад

Who ever wants to go to Old Oak?

@neilboulton9813 Месяц назад

The area will be re-developed it was rail yards and old car showrooms so it was never a desirable area, but that will change and the connectivity will help.

@samhagger1860 Месяц назад

Heathrow Express is direct between Paddington and Heathrow. Old Oak common will either slow it down or you'll have to go into Paddington first. So how is it only 10 minutes away from Heathrow?

@Cookie2k Месяц назад

…as the crow flies…. 😝

@trainjedi9651 Месяц назад

They'll probably make trains call at Old Oak Common?

@jp2ric Месяц назад

Years of misery ahead for GWR users, getting diverted to an overcrowded Euston and scaled back Elizabeth Line services whilst the track is skewed.

@TheRailwayDrone Месяц назад

They're building up to Leeds and Manchester?

@normhanson981 Месяц назад

Amazing , we do a great job in this country . Great location for a flat !

@RHITTOURSBusman Месяц назад

I hope with more money funding and donations that they will be able to extend it to Manchester and Leeds.

@joe-vl3nd Месяц назад

100 Billion London to Birmingham are you kidding 😅😅😅

@benphillips5041 Месяц назад

You must be as its not 100bn for London to Birmingham

@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg Месяц назад

I think it's 66 billion at 2019 prices. Then you have to add inflation from 2019 to whenever it will be completed.

@matthewfisher2088 Месяц назад

How will hs2 get to Crewe

@SirKenchalot Месяц назад

So you're not bothering with Euston? I like the way you say HS2 trains are 'at the heart of the station' by which you mean, buried several floors below!

@janeknight3597 Месяц назад

The Euston link issupposed to be funded by private money. There appears to be no mechanism for this yet.

@TobyClarky Месяц назад

"Heart of the station" as in none of this would happen without the HS2 trains

@Inkyminkyzizwoz Месяц назад

@@janeknight3597The latest reports are that there will in fact be Government funding

@CRIMSONANT1 Месяц назад

HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

@Cookie2k Месяц назад

@@janeknight3597….and then the UK government will take the credit…🙄

@wasabi1m Месяц назад

Central line? Overground?

@DavidShepheard Месяц назад

Central London is via Crossrail, now renamed the "Elizabeth Line". London Overground lines that go either side of Old Oak Common go to Clapham Junction and Richmond, in the West and to Stratford in the East. It's the old North London Line, now about to be renamed the "Mildmay Line". There is also a branch that splits off the West London Line (from Clapham Junction) and that joins the Euston mainline up to Watford Junction.

@user-ps2zr7jp6p Месяц назад

Will there be parking so that we only have to rely on one form of public transport when planning our journeys from locations outside Central London?

@Aloh-od3ef Месяц назад

London gets 2 high speed trains station. That has connections to other trains. But not so in Birmingham. They get just 1 high speed train station. That doesn’t connect with any other train service! Could not find the money to build the track to new street station. (Less than 500 meters away.) But they could find BILLIONS to build underground tunnels from central London to the other side of London! 👍 Just another example of London disproportionately benefiting, from a so called NATION project!

@smorkeyyy9845 Месяц назад

I blame the Vikings. They went to France and became Normans, who then invaded England. The North stood up to them and been 'harrowed' ever since. We should make Norway pay reparations which would then fund our infrastructure projects in the North.

@chrishardy3473 Месяц назад

Mate... Moor St is less than a 5 minute walk away... New St is less than 10 🤣

@chrisoddy8744 Месяц назад

The problem with tunnelling to New Street is that you don't just have to spend money on the tunnels, but also on the underground station - Euston and OOC are located in areas easy to build in with fairly minimal clutter, a trait that Curzon Street also shares. New Street, by contrast, is hemmed in on all sides by dense city centre, meaning you'd have to use expensive TBMs rather than a box construction methods for a seven platform station. Curzon Street is also a two minute walk away from Moor Street (which, under the Midland Rail Hub proposals, will take over some of New Street's suburban services) and is getting a direct tram connection to both New Street and Snow Hill, so it's not completely isolated. Basically, they saved several (most likely the double digits of) billions without massively compromising service or connections. I have no doubt that a New Street terminus was at the very least proposed during the design stage, but for the reasons listed above discounted as overly expensive and impractical. (Also, Birmingham gets a second station, technically, although that's just to serve the airport. Does offer a fast connection onto the WCML at Birmingham International, though)

@Cookie2k Месяц назад

Have a word with yourself…..London contributes tens of billions of pounds to the UK economy….not to mention the 12m people who live or work in London

@pwithnall Месяц назад

@@Cookie2k No other part of the UK is ever going to be able to get level with that if it never gets investment. It’s a vicious cycle

@philipareed Месяц назад

What the hell's a SOO-BAHV?

@andyb3712 Месяц назад

How many weeks now until Keir Starmer?

@barryamorris Месяц назад

Ah yes Old Oak Common. Aka Wormwood scrubs

@ClarkeDesign Месяц назад

Sadly, sounds like this video was made BEFORE the culling of the rest of the route. Now just connect two big cities that already had fairly decent connections. Unless this links MANY places, it is a marvellous waste of a great opportunity.

@davidfalconer8913 Месяц назад

You forgot to mention that for folk that live in the Midlands , this station is PERFECT for wives and girlfriends to visit their other ½ in Wormwood Scrubs ( just a lovely walk across the park ! ) .. ( handy tip # 45 ) ... DAVE™🛑

@ncooper8438 Месяц назад

While the Camp hill line upgrade in Birmingham is struggling for a few million pounds of funding, this station seems to have no limits on how much is spent on it. London first, the rest of the country second.

@Smart1529 Месяц назад

Put Manchester and Leeds back on the map

@smorkeyyy9845 Месяц назад

How about connecting the North properly? Anyway all will be lost if LegoHead and his party get in.

@Inkyminkyzizwoz Месяц назад

LegoHead?

@matt-88 Месяц назад

So London to just Birmingham. Who really does this commute frequently enough to have any benefit? It'll go down as a massive waste of time and money. It's frankly pathetic.

@scottpeacock5492 Месяц назад

No HS2 is not just London to Birmingham, it is hope that the HS2 trains will rejoin the West Coast Mainline at Handsacre for North to Manchester by passing Birmingham Curzon Street new Station, those who want to go to Birmingham will use the London to Birmingham service only.

@matt-88 Месяц назад

@@scottpeacock5492 "it is hope". So it's just London to Birmingham with wishful thinking by those who have no idea how disastrous this project is.

@scottpeacock5492 Месяц назад

@@matt-88 With any construction is a diastrous, Doesn't mean we shouldn't build it, The West Coast Mainline is at full capacity and other Rail companies wants to bid to run on the West Coast mainline to Birmingham Manchester and Glasgow Like Azuma and Virgin to compete against Avanti, plus we have local trains running into London from Milton Keynes and Northampton, Plus frieght struggle to run during the day and is done last thing at night.

@matt-88 Месяц назад

@@scottpeacock5492 stop talking bud, you're gaslighting only yourself. Many civil projects don't run this overtime and over budget. It's a complete disaster.

@CrazyHamburger_guy Месяц назад

First SIUUUU w hs2

@davidwebb4904 Месяц назад

Who wants to tell them the bad news....😆😆😆

@scottpeacock5492 Месяц назад

What the bad news??

@davidwebb4904 Месяц назад

@@scottpeacock5492 That Labour is going to stop and rework the entire project. And blaming the Tories on waisting tens of billions of pounds of YOUR money. OOC will be completely scrapped. Such a waste….

@rubberduck3788 Месяц назад

@@davidwebb4904 where have Labour said they're going to stop the project as it currently stands, and rework everything done to date..? I know Labour were keen on revisiting the extension to Leeds, etc. and seeing what could be done, but hadn't seen them mention reworking Old Oak Common -> Birmingham, etc.? Where is Old Oak Common being scrapped exactly..?

@davidwebb4904 Месяц назад

@@rubberduck3788 Its in their unpublished election manifesto. It helps to know people…..

@rubberduck3788 Месяц назад

@@davidwebb4904 Unpublished manifesto and you need to know the right people, sounds an awful like "trust me bro", there's absolutely no evidence of them scrapping Old Oak Common right now.

@Vazpro444 Месяц назад

@RitaFarrow Месяц назад

is there any point showing what the station could look like ,you have still got a hole to dig out and that is taking forever a few more years yet,thats what you get from british workers,everything about face

@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg Месяц назад

😂they're mostly foreign workers.

@Cookie2k Месяц назад

#1 the station looks awful. #2 the’superhub’ needs to be at Euston NOT Old Oak Common…and for the total cost the whole project is a joke!

@barryjatkinson Месяц назад

An embarrassing joke.

@shannonribbons Месяц назад

Incredible world class example of catastrophic large infrastructure project fail. Partly stemming from the initial hubristic brief to be 'the fastest" - meaning insane choices on route (less bends, more precious habitat destruction, more tunnels). The whole thing given free reign to sink billions into a construction black hole ( who can even begin to imagine the wealth generated for certain stakeholders), inevitably resulting in a political backlash. The people responsible should be ashamed.

@kevinengland7444 4 дня назад

Why though? WHY? Why is the design so bloody boring! Look at it. It looks like a Tesco. So lazy. So uninspired. So uninspiring.

@barryamorris Месяц назад

All of that money spent would have been better invested in hyperloop transportation systems. Why waste money on old technology

@DavidKnowles0 Месяц назад

Even hyperloop transportation would need stations.

@barryamorris Месяц назад

@@DavidKnowles0 Would have cost substantially less than HS2

@pwithnall Месяц назад

High speed trains are technology which have been proven to work at scale, with costs which are fairly well understood, and a large industry already in place to help implement and maintain them. Hyperloop systems were invented by Elon Musk to stall decent public transport being built in America so that he could sell more cars. There are no large scale hyperloop systems in the world.

@barryamorris Месяц назад

@@pwithnall Hyperloop as a concept has been around for nearly a hundred years. It wasn’t invented by Elon Musk. He’s not an inventor, he’s a businessman.

@pwithnall Месяц назад

@@barryamorris Still no commercial scale hyperloop systems anywhere.