Welcome to Old Oak Common.
This future HS2 super-hub station in West London is set to be one of the UK’s largest and most sustainable rail stations.
Join our Old Oak Common Project Director Peter Gow as he takes you behind the scenes, sharing the latest progress, milestones, and innovations driving HS2’s new London–Birmingham line.
When complete in the early 2030s, Old Oak Common will seamlessly connect high-speed trains with conventional rail services, offering swift links to central London, Birmingham, Heathrow, and beyond. As the temporary London terminus for HS2, this super-hub will transform UK travel while revitalising the area, opening up new opportunities and growth for local communities.
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0:00 Introduction
0:23 Completing the underground station box
1:08 The station underground platforms works
1:40 Overground platform construction
2:02 Reducing our carbon emissions
3:20 Upcoming works
3:53 Connecting the station to the existing railway network
4:42 Unrivalled connectivity
5:04 Transforming the surrounding area
5:30 Closing comments
5:40 Outro
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40 Comments
Units Of Measurement:
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France: Meters
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France: Litres
UK: Pints 🍺🍺🍺
Good on Labour for giving the green light to the Euston section 👍
What's Euston going to look like.
Can we get Peter on all the videos? Speaks clearly with the added bonus of having English as his first language
I am genuinely impressed by both the project, progress to date, and, the narration to the video. Clear, concise and informative. More please! We must have a solution for the North and Scotland, this shows that the Brits can still do magnificent civil engineering. 👍
I'm with the plants in thinking that CO2 is important
Old Oak Common is NOT a 'superhub' it is the TERMINUS – HS2 is not going to Euston.
👍👏 But I genuinely hope that there will be vastly more seating in the passenger concorses than is depicted in this video, which appears to be so woefully inadequate.
Don't give a fuck about net zero, but thanks for infrastructure update.
Very pleased the Labour government has invested in this project because Euston is heavily congested
Brilliant update👍
1 million tonnes of construction concrete is never zero carbon 🤷♂️
The London Overground passes nearby yet is not integrated into the site, which seems to be a lack of useful planning
has the tunnel bore started,and 2030-33 to finish the whole job,the work never really changes for me ,looks as nothing is moving forward
amazing stuff
As a local resident (Harlesden), this is very exciting and definitely a game changer for NW London in general. Would like to see improved cycling infrastructure around the area too, where there is barely any, as part of an integrated transportation strategy for the station use.
As a local resident (Harlesden), this is very exciting and definitely a game changer for NW London in general. Would like to see improved cycling infrastructure around the area too, where there is barely any, as part of an integrated transportation strategy for the station use.
I'd like to congratulate HS2 on finally making a video in which the letter AITCH is pronounced correctly. I doubt it'll last.
Wonderful! Now send it all the way to Scotland please.
Are all HS2 and GWR trains stopping there ? Shame no link to North London (Mildmay) line. Would gave been useful link to Richmond and North London
I feel proud working on behalf of HS2 on this project last few years. Watching through video it is incredible piece of engineering. I would like to congratulate all participants who put their intense hardwork day and night to bring this dream project into reality.
Thank you for this useful and informative update. This will be an essential asset once the penny drops and the line extends further north beyond Handsacre Junction. From the understandability PoV, the English narration helps to get the message across. Well done, one and all. Now, onwards to Euston.
Why’s it not going up to Manchester?
Any other country could have built and had the entire line open by now
Absolutely fantastic work! If only HS2 wasn’t a one off project but the benchmark for all High speed rail in the UK! Would love to see the East Coast Mainline get the same amount of engineering expertise!
The more I look at this project, the more depressing it gets. He's trying SO HARD to make this sound good
Well you have the management-speak off to a tee, mentioning sustainability every few seconds, but you omitted the time frame. How many centuries are we talking?
hopefully the northern Phases will go again
And will the station have the ability to accept double height trains to be future proof that is now the norm in Europe unlike the UK?
Too bad it doesnt join up with HS1
don't we already have a fast train from London to Birmingham?
Hugely impressive feat. The negativity around the Elizabeth line has evaporated now, I believe. The same has been said about HS2 by the nay-sayers, but the country needs this desperately to be completed London to Manchester and further afield.
Hurry up
Why is there a tunnel being built at washwood heath?
Old Oak Common will probably end up becoming as irrelevant as Stratford International on HS1. Total waste of money.
I needed to know why they couldn’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for most of the mainline Trains so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock which will include the class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign all of them into an overhead wire line trains and also make most of them into Five carriages per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Gardner 6LXCT, Leyland 510, Gardner 6LXC, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7 Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 10 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into 11 carriages per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers? A Stock Train and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it even much more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 carriages per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 carriages per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Gardner 6LXCT, Leyland 510, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXC, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 87 Octagon and Every 48 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those 18 Tonne Boxes of Coal for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!!!! So please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!!!!!!! And PLEASE do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
An excellent futuristic project. But should have included Sheffield Town as well.
A strange mixture of metric and imperial measurements!
Clowns
The HS2 concept was born because of several misconceptions imaginations.
First the wealthy instead of using a helicopter to get out of London to their country estates in the north.
Our landscape does not lend itself to high speed trains. Cattle truck trains already do 115 mph.
HS2 155 mph not that much faster. The time saved is lost because of slowing down into stations and then travel into the centre of London another 45 minutes.
Madness utter madness,HS2