Old Oak Common railway station
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Oct 1, 2026
Richard BowkerHOST
Transport for London has issued a consultation on proposals for a new London overground service linking Hendon and Haleslow.
Richard BowkerHOST
The new 11.5 mile route would improve access to major transport hubs, including, importantly, Old Oak Common.
Richard BowkerHOST
It's an eight week consultation running until November 18th, inviting feedback on the route, which would enable passenger services on rail lines currently only used for freight services.
Richard BowkerHOST
The plans include up to six trains per hour and, subject to funding and approvals, TfL says that they could support the delivery of 25,000 homes, 11,500 jobs and up to £1.3 billion in wider economic benefits.
John HallGUEST
And I think something like 96% of HS2 will be via duct, bridge or in a tunnel.
John HallGUEST
In fact, the only bit where the public sector isn't paying for a tunnel is a section from Old Oak Common to London Euston, which you might have thought was slightly higher up on the list.
David GaukeHOST
Yeah, tuples being how we tend to do things in central London, but there you go.
David GaukeHOST
Second point you raised, John, was the weak public sector client capability.
David ParishGUEST
They're going to look at it with a lot more scrutiny.
David ParishGUEST
And I mean, you can see it now that when you hear what the Mayor of London is saying about HS2, he's not actually terribly enthusiastic about it ending up in Old Oak Common and discharging all these passengers onto his railway, the Elizabeth line and all the links around there.
David ParishGUEST
So by offering to pay for the thing as central government, you're never going to get an honest local perspective.
David ParishGUEST
But if we could have got an honest local perspective at the start, I bet they would have said, well, it's interesting, but actually we've got higher priorities.
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David ParishGUEST
But because the Act of Parliament was already through, we couldn't stop the London to Birmingham
Lawrie PhilpottHOST
bit.
Lawrie PhilpottHOST
And at the moment it ends at Old Oak Common, I think, doesn't it? That's the plan.
David ParishGUEST
Woodward Scrubs to Winston Green, the prison line.
Oliver LowrieHOST
And the only way that we're going to be able to do it is to create, essentially what you're saying is like development corporations on the edge of settlement to be able to compulsory purchase land, put it together and then develop at scale.
Nicholas FalkGUEST
And you've got absurd situations which should be developed quickly, like around Old Oak Common or Old Oakers.
Nicholas FalkGUEST
But that's had a development corporation, and it's very hard to work on this.
Nicholas FalkGUEST
But it's not working.
Mark HopwoodGUEST
And I think, you know, one of the things that a piece of work like this, uh, does is it brings lots of different parts of the industry together.
Mark HopwoodGUEST
And, and of course, the consequences of what starts off as a problem at, at Old Oak Common and Slough rapidly grows into a, a, a challenge for a wider part of the network.
Richard BowkerHOST
In addition to traveling from Oxford to Milton Keynes, we also make a trip down the Marston Vale line from Bletchley to Bedford.
Richard BowkerHOST
That will be the next phase of East West Rail.
Richard BowkerHOST
So this is an opportunity for everyone, including the DFT, to appreciate just how significant the railway's role will be when the theme park opens in 2031.
Richard BowkerHOST
Of course, the engineering works in November and over Christmas are just the beginning, really.
Richard BowkerHOST
They're almost a dress rehearsal for what is to come when HS2 moves the Great Western mainline from its current alignment and through a brand new station being built at Old Oak Common.
Mark HopwoodGUEST
Old Oak Common is gonna move from a, a four-track railway with no station to an eight-track railway with platforms on every line.
Malcolm CodlingGUEST
So we're stood here
Nigel HarrisHOST
on the top of the access scaffolding and ahead of me I can see the The trace heading up towards Coppell Tunnel, but behind us is the West Rye Slip portal where HS2 has come from Old Oak Common Station.
Nigel HarrisHOST
Time now to climb down the scaffold tower steps and head to the tunnel portal itself.
Nigel HarrisHOST
The team check that we're OK to head into the tunnel to have a look.
Nigel HarrisHOST
Malcolm Codling is the project director for this whole section of HS2.
Nigel HarrisHOST
And he explains some of the challenges of building this tunnel, which stretches all the way to Old Oak Common Station.
Nigel HarrisHOST
And he also gives me some of the stats of this remarkable tunnelling project.
Malcolm CodlingGUEST
This is a box section.