HS2 Old Oak Common Station Project Update | October 2024

[@TimDLee-no4on]

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. 👍

[@romansanders]

This rail line will be truly game changing for the local area, the cities of Birmingham and London, and the UK as a whole. I cannot wait for it to be complete! Great work to all those involved 😊

[@CRIMSONANT1]

It certainly WON'T be "game changing" for either London, Birmingham or the UK as a whole. There's no way on earth that HS2 Ltd will get the passenger numbers they require & ticket prices will be so expensive when it opens (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), that only the elite will be able to travel on it. It's nothing more than an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century. I

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@CRIMSONANT1 Oh James do the Maths, of course HS2 will get their pasenger figures it is so simple, the reason is that passengers using the WCML trains run by Avanti West Coast train's at present from Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland will have their trains rerouted from the WCML onto the HS2 route using the new HS2 trains when it opens and no it won't be just the elite as you put that will travel on the HS2 services it will be every one just like Hi speed services in Europe and if it isn't a game changer for London it definately will be a game changer for Birmingham with Birmingham Curzon Street the first new terminal station built from scratch in the UK for at least 100 years being a fantastic modern station in Birmingham City Centre plus the new Birmingham Interchange Station at Bickenhill serving Birmingham Airport and the NEC plus connecting to the WCML from Birmingham New Street to London at Birmingham International. So how the F--k is it going to be an enviromental disaster of epic proportions and Britains biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century, what I would like to know why is just half a century, how you make out it will be a enviromental disaster and the big one I would like to know James is I dought you would make up this crap if HS2 was being built from Newcastle upon Tyne to London. Give you brin a rest and accept HS2 is well on the way to be fully constructed

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@CRIMSONANT1 Yes at least Birmingham will have a game changer when HS2 opens it's new Curzon Street Terminus in Birmingham City Centre and yes it will get it's full number of passengers as the trains that now run on the WCML route into London will when HS2 opens transfer these services to the HS2 route

[@CRIMSONANT1]

@peterwilliamallen1063 .. I've already sent you this but just to drive home the point, here it is again .. part of a "cost report" undertaken by the i newspaper . The decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2 will see the construction of a vast £460m new Birmingham station that will sit largely unused, a major new report from the spending watchdog has shown. An analysis by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the cost of the previous government’s decision to axe Phase 2 of HS2 reveals that the project will plough ahead with building a seven-platform station at Curzon Street, despite just three being required for the reduced HS2 line. According to the report, the decision was made by officials to continue to build the Birmingham Curzon Street Station to its full specification because it was cheaper than trying to cancel part of the scheme. And for your information, there's absolutely no way on earth that passenger numbers will be anywhere near those required by HS2 Ltd to "break even". It's a physical impossibility as you'd be aware of if you did some research 😉

[@masterbarnard]

@@CRIMSONANT1 seeking out HS2 videos to post negative comments?

[@shaunwest3612]

Going to be incredible when finished, incredible British engineering 👌👍

[@FranzTraininand]

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!

[@jsaeedfirstname]

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.

[@DH-ce8iv]

I'm a site engineer and trying to get a job on hs2. What's the work like is it slow pace with lots of regulations, strict checks and health and safety or is it fast pace with high stress levels and pressures? Many thanks

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

​@DH-ce8iv not too much stress and lots of regulations like all major construction projects in the UK.

[@scottpeacock5492]

Wow at last the Labour Government has given the go ahead to let HS2 run to London Euston, The station is the most congested station in the UK with 40 million passengers passing through this station every year and needs remodelnesing, Finger cross the new terminal will open way before 2041 and tough to the nimbys brigade if you don't like the truth.

[@clwydian1]

they've only given the go ahead to do the tunnelling not to redevelop Euston to cope with it. So it is essential to do the tunnel but a lot more to do and fund to get it into London.

[@scottpeacock5492]

@@clwydian1 Hopefully the station get rebuilt privately,

[@clwydian1]

@scottpeacock5492 I certainly hope it will but at least it was sensible to give the tunnels the go ahead now

[@1chish]

be careful reading Labour handouts. The Tories never stopped the building of the line into Euston as the massive building site next to Euston proves. Even the TBMs were still being installed and would have started the two drives. The issue was the over station development business case because it was a failure. The Tories / Treasury were resolving that and Labour inherited that work. Reeves has actually put caveats on the tunnelling even now as the over station business case work is not complete. Whoever won in July would have given the go ahead so be careful who you praise.

[@mwd331]

Remodelnesing.

[@andreachinazzi7946]

simply amazing ....I wanna thank you all for your hard work. to let me enjoy UK with HS-TRAINS ...love to ride with trains (i'm living in switzerland).-))))))))

[@luizeduardopeixoto489]

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.

[@mazybee9149]

Very pleased the Labour government has invested in this project because Euston is heavily congested

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

HS2 is now going to run to London Euston

[@mikehindson-evans159]

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.

[@heckmacbuff]

Wonderful! Now send it all the way to Scotland please.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Thats if the SNP pay for it

[@jamesrobert102]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Uk govt has power over cross-country rail lines and could just legislate over any of the snp whiners

[@andrewwoodgate3769]

Good on Labour for giving the green light to the Euston section 👍

[@1chish]

Except the Tories never stopped it as the massive building site next to Euston station proves. Even the TBMs were still being installed at OOC and would have started the drives to Euston regardless. The issue was not the line works into Euston it was about the deal for the over station development which had become unaffordable and the whole thing needed re-working. Which they did before the election. Whoever won in July would have given the go ahead for the TBM drives to Euston. Even Reeves has placed caveats on that over station development to make it look like it was HER doing. Deception at best.

[@zacurrya9485]

And to crewe (basically Manchester)

[@ShadowCastPro]

@@zacurrya9485 They didn't green light it to Crewe from what I saw, got a source for that?

[@zacurrya9485]

@@ShadowCastPro Its rumoured that they'll announce it soon.

[@DavidKnowles0]

@@1chish The Tory plan was to store the TBMs underground so that the tunneling works could be completed at some stage in the future. Once Old Oak common is complete, there no way to get those TBMs into place. The works current going on at Euston is just last of the site preparation works and relocating utilities.

[@aquilarossa5191]

Units Of Measurement: USA: Yards France: Metres UK: Football Pitches. ⚽⚽⚽ USA: Gallons France: Litres UK: Pints 🍺🍺🍺

[@ACELog]

🙃

[@timcarnell5133]

France: metres .

[@robertgarrett5009]

Great update, I thought the TBM's too Euston where already nearly done drilling.

[@FlyingScud]

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.

[@DavidShepheard]

There was a lot of fuss made about the Jubilee Line taking too long, when it opened back in 1979 (instead of 1977). Now nobody gives a toss.

[@AndrewLumsden]

👍👏 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.

[@Rick-n7v]

Cannot wait to see this line finished 😍

[@RECHARGED77]

hopefully the northern Phases will go again

[@RichardHill-bi5le]

Brilliant update👍

[@RetiredPlum.]

Awesome Guys .. Crack on..

[@sneakyfingersdevandle8164]

I just watched a video of a Yankee saying aliens have a flight plan that instead of moving from here to there, stays still an the outside moves around the vehicle to remove g-force

[@JamesJones-uu7ou]

Bloody love to see it

[@janeknight3597]

Are you sure there are enough ladies loos?? Is it too late to double the quantity??? This is really important.

[@rppacademic]

Lady loos? Equality!!! Unisex loos must come.

[@alistairsmith5389]

Why’s it not going up to Manchester?

[@AmazeTase]

Where’s that? 🤣

[@zipWith]

Tories

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

HS2 trains will go to Manchester, but the metro mayors of the West Midlands and Greater Manchester are planning to find money to build a line from Lichfield in Staffordshire to Manchester utilising land already set aside for the original HS2 route but built slightly cheaper with a speed of 185 mph instead of 225 mph

[@DavidShepheard]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 We do really need a Parliamentary Petition to reinstate proper HS2 trackage (that allows for 225 mph line speeds) up to Manchester and beyond. I keep seeing anti-railway campaigners say high-speed rail between London and Birmingham makes no difference, but this line eventually needs to get to Scotland. And high-speed InterCity trains need to be able to compete with domestic flights from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh, so that we can ban domestic flights in England and between England and the Scottish Central Belt.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@DavidShepheard Parliamentry petitions andpublic debates cost money and is the reason costs are soring on HS2, they just spent nillions of pounds putting a !km tunnel to protect Bats from HS2 trains because of eco warriors when there is no proof that HS2 trains will disturbe these bats. HS2 will never get to Scotland due to the treain and the fact that there are already 2 lines direct to Scotland, the WCML and ECML and the only way this could be acieved is for the WCML from Crewe to Scotland to be ttaly upgraded with cash comming from the Scottish SNP Government to help finance it plus there is no reason what so ever to ban domestic flights in the UK.

[@lombax5901]

Do we know when the tunnelling to Euston will commence?

[@Jamie92208]

Early in the new year apparently.

[@neilbrooks5099]

Wonderful project

[@Omanjack]

Classic British engineering using a combination of the imperial, metric and football pitch measurements

[@philipareed]

I'd like to congratulate HS2 on finally making a video in which the letter AITCH is pronounced correctly. I doubt it'll last.

[@spsmith45]

In many British dialects the ‘h’ is heard. Not inferior, just language variation.

[@sneakyfingersdevandle8164]

Cant wait to go back & forth from Birmingham an London.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It happens at the moment from London Euston to Birmingham New Street, but HS2 is going to Manchester as well

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

You have a long wait.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg long wait for what

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

It's been announced HS2 are going to try to reset the existing construction contracts in an attempt to get control of the escalating costs. They have said it's likely to take 18 months to achieve that goal. Does that mean the work will stop while they try to achieve their goal ?

[@KennethMacArthur]

Great update. Please can you use metric units consistently in future videos!

[@highpath4776]

The London Overground passes nearby yet is not integrated into the site, which seems to be a lack of useful planning

[@DavidShepheard]

The Mayor of London has a plan for two London Overground stations close to Old Oak Common. These require Central Government funding though. If the money is made available, they will be Out of Station Interchanges. A pair of moving walkways to give a direct connection would have been better.

[@joechampion.296]

An excellent futuristic project. But should have included Sheffield Town as well.

[@RichardBacon-h5x]

Exciting!!

[@jimh8040]

This looks amazing, I just wish we could get the basics right so that for example someone could get from Swansea to Heathrow just tapping in and out rather than booking multiple trains and trying to work out what off-peak trains are.

[@DavidShepheard]

The priority of railways needs to be the maximise the modal shift from road to rail. We need to make rail fairs cheap. And we need to make rail fares idiot-proof and not build the system to entrap people who buy the wrong ticket with penalty fares. Revenue protection officers should focus exclusively on people who regularly avoid paying. Anyone who buys the wrong ticket should just be asked to pay the difference.

[@EpicGames12345]

This looks amazing ❤

[@kevinjones4559]

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

[@DavidShepheard]

They Mayor of London has plans for two new stations on London Overground close enough to Old Oak Common for an Out of Station Interchange. But those plans require Central Government funding (as do other TfL improvements like the Bakerloo Line Extension, Crossrail 2 and diverting the Metropolitan Line from Watford Station to Watford Junction Station via Watford Hospital).

[@songulkan9860]

WOOO

[@DavidSmith-648]

One of those TBM's doing the Euston Tunnel must surely be named RACHEL!

[@1chish]

No they should be named after people who contributed to the well being of local communities not someone who is engaged on damaging communities.

[@DavidSmith-648]

@@1chish ...after Rachel Keen, better known as (London singer songwriter) Raye!!!!!

[@1chish]

@@DavidSmith-648 Brilliant then 👍... And I fell right into that clever trap didn't I? 😏🤣

[@tbn.london]

amazing stuff

[@andrewgriffiths2789]

Why is there a tunnel being built at washwood heath?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

The Tunnel is being built from Bromford not Washwood Heath to Water Orton due to the amount of existing obsticles in the lines way, at the point of the Tunnel going from the Bromford End it goes under the main Bromford Road Outer Circle Ring Road, the River Tame, the Birmingham to Derby line, Bromford Bridge Council Housing estate, the elevated M6 motorway, a Birmingham City Council public refuse tip and the Chelmsley feeder road surfacing just out side Water Orton. It is called the Bromford tunnel and starts just before Wshwood Heath

[@AGMTB.]

It's been amazing seeing my hometown area absolutely destroyed and being inconvenienced on a daily basis for no benefit to my community. Great work!

[@cujimmy1366]

What's Euston going to look like.

[@EASYTIGER10]

Would terminating at Old Oak Common be such a bad thing? Surely the bulk of passengers arriving at the existing London Termini need to use public transport to reach their final destination. So the important thing is to have an efficient interchange with the tube/Elizabeth line/buses rather than be in the centre of London.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

So if passengers wanted to go to Manchester or Liverpool, is it fair to say that their trains should terminate at Crewe or Euro Star trains terminated at Stratford International, why when other parts of of the UK have their trains terminating at the existing London Terminals such as Paddington, Marylabone, St Pancras International, Kings Cross, Waterloo and Charing Cross should people from the Midlands and the North West and Scotland have to get off in the middle of no where in London insted f where they normaly get off in London at London Euston

[@EASYTIGER10]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 No it wouldn't be fair for Manchester or Liverpool trains to terminate at Crewe, because there is no rapid, high density public transit system connecting Crewe to Manchester or Liverpool, and Crewe is well outside of these 2 cities. Old Oak Common and Stratford on the other hand are in London and very connected to all parts of London via tube, DLR, Elizabeth Line etc. How many people arriving at Euston leave the station and walk to their final destination? Very few. Compared to the huge number that continue their journey via tube, bus etc

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@EASYTIGER10 Same difference as there are fast trains from Crewe to both Liverpool and Manchester from Crewe so if these trains terminate at Liverpool and Manchester so they should terminate at Londoin Euston as all other lines terminte in the centre of London. why should it change to rough it on London commuter trains for no reason at all, after all the first GWR trains that will call at OOC will still go into London Paddington. People from the Midlands and the North have for a 100 years travelling on the WCML into London have got off at London Euston so why should it change now.

[@smorkeyyy9845]

I'm with the plants in thinking that CO2 is important

[@DH-ce8iv]

I'm a site engineer and trying to get a job on hs2. What's the work like is it slow pace with lots of regulations, strict checks and health and safety or is it fast pace with high stress levels and pressures? Many thanks

[@avgeekperson2225]

HS2: Wow this is a big project! hampton roads bridge tunnel expansion project:

[@JohnZoidberg-qs4jr]

I didn't realise HS2 was being built using imperial and metric measurements... Feet?

[@srpacific]

Too bad it doesnt join up with HS1

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Why does it require to join up with HS1

[@DavidShepheard]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 We need to get Eurostar trains to Scotland eventually.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@DavidShepheard Eurostar Trains will never run to Scotlaand as all Eurostar as a company are intrested in is High Speed trains from London to Paris and Brussels and the Eurostar trains could not operate on the UK rail network due to their desighn and Signalling desighn

[@maxwild3516]

A strange mixture of metric and imperial measurements!

[@dukeofvoid6483]

All the work is done in metric.

[@GIOGS]

Can we get Peter on all the videos? Speaks clearly with the added bonus of having English as his first language

[@jamesrosicky2912]

Still don't understand, what is the benefit of the Old Oak superhub? It seems to be a bit... useless?

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

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.

[@DavidShepheard]

Most abandoned Underground stations in London have trains running through them non-stop. There is a short bit of four line Metropolitain Railway Line cut and cover tunnel that got cut off so that the Thamelink trains could be extended in length. Gloucester Road and South Kensington are four platform stations that got throttled down because east of South Ken only has two platforms. The Picadilly Line from Holburn to Aldwich has been abandoned, but that is tube-sized track that doesn't even properly connect to the Piccadilly Line. The abandoned Jubilee Line station at Charring Cross is used to park trains that need to be taken out of service. The Crossrail Project could have built new lines for HS2, as well as for Crossrail, and linked HS1 and HS2 together, but you can't run high-speed rail trains through London Underground, as the Victorians who built the Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway did not build in enough capacity for extra trains to run through London Underground's busy east-west lines.

[@RitaFarrow]

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

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

99% of the work done so far is below ground.

[@TheDarq0n]

don't we already have a fast train from London to Birmingham?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Yep, but the line and Birmingham New Street are congested and Avanti West Coast train services from Birmingham to London are being transfered to the HS2 route when it opens

[@scottpeacock5492]

The whole point of HS2 is to relive pressure on the West Coast Mainline when those High Speed Avanti trains moves to their own set of tracks to run more local and regional services, plus freight which unable to run a full service at present.

[@Michael-yz4mc]

Hurry up

[@jeremyparsons5379]

1 million tonnes of construction concrete is never zero carbon 🤷‍♂️

[@martinreynolds5905]

They didn’t make that claim

[@jeremyparsons5379]

@ I think you’ll find they did make the claim they are net zero- hello wake up!

[@DavidShepheard]

HS2 constuction is a one off carbon cost, with the engineers working to make that cost as low as possible. HGVs and cars going between London and Birmingham and beyond create an ongoing carbon cost. Moving InterCity trains off of the West Coast Mainline (and also the East Coast Mainline and Midland Mainline if Labour does the right thing and restores the northern part of HS2) will allow for rail-freight going to the Midlands and the North to get beyond the Birmingham bottleneck. We can then lower the carbon cost of HGVs driving north-to-south past Birmingham and increase the amount of rail-freight that runs on our existing railways. (Our stopping trains also gain more capacity if InterCity trains are moved away from the existing mainlines.) The amount of carbon cost for construction will soon be repaid and then we will be running at lower carbon costs and reducing the amount of climate change. If we extend high-speed rail to Scotland we get to ban domestic flights between England and Scotland.

[@jeremyparsons5379]

@@DavidShepheard that’s a lot of unsubstantiated and unfunded assumptions there that completely ignore the carbon costs now, with no actual real plan to reduce them in the future. I agree with the railway line, but claiming it is Net Zero is a con at an almost criminal level.

[@naveenmessi2705]

The super slow construction of the super fast trains 😂😂😂

[@_RabbitLeader]

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?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Double deck or Duplex trains will not operate on HS2 as these trains will have to be able to run on existing UK main lines to Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland and will be normal height trains

[@_RabbitLeader]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Yes I know that but one can imagine in 20 years time we will say no because we did not think ahead!

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@_RabbitLeader We have tried double deck trains in the 1960's on London suburban work and it did not work out plus HS2 trains will not be restricted to just running on the HS2 route but will be capable to run on the existing rail network and if it was the case Eurostr would of introduced them on their HS1 route from London to Paris and Brussells

[@jonathanwilliams9697]

Any other country could have built and had the entire line open by now

[@scottpeacock5492]

Yep other countries don't have to deal with nimbys brigade like we do in the UK, We are well behind like France Germany and Spain. We are the laughing stock of Europe and people in Europe would get shot at in other countries if they said anything.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Dought it

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

Can you demonstrate some proof of your theory ?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg CAN YOU mate, if the Nimby's and people like your self hadn't kept asking for costly public enquiries the coasts would of been less plus concrete and site preperation takes a lot, so can you prove other countries would of built and opened the entire line by now, the answer is a big fat NO as each country has sifferent geology to go through

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

​@@peterwilliamallen1063you have the wrong person. I have never suggested a public enquiry. And I also know every country is different so costs vary.

[@anthonypurvis8619]

I wonder how much of the northern section could have been built if they weren't wasting money making pretty stations, cutting carbon emotions and "meadows" for Southerns. typical London centric instruction from London centric politicians.

[@DavidShepheard]

HS2 is fixing congestion in Birmingham New Street and will allow for additional commuter trains to run in and out of New Street every hour. HS2 does nothing to benefit London commuters.

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

Every construction project in the UK suffers from the same fate you mention. Architectural dreams dreamt up by the concept lead Architect. Then the Contractor has to design the detailing to make the concept work which always costs more than the Cost Consultant has put in the budget. That's because the concept doesn't work in practice snd the Cost Consultant doesn't understand that. Then there are the eco warriors who sit on the town and country planning departments of every Local Authority who insist on the top level of the Environmental BREAMM rating beibg applied to the design, and also insisted on by the concept Architect. That adds millions to the cost to provide things like badger setts, bat tunnels, newt ponds, rainwater harvesting, over the top landscaping and tunnels instead of cuttings to cut down on the noise. Then there are the agreements of the statutory service providers to appease where the work impacts on their service such as Network Rail. British waterways and the gas, power, water and drainage authorities. Then the 32 billion budget figure that was pulled out of the air without very much thought given to it becomes 100 billion and rising.

[@user-zh9kc7tw4n]

How can it take so long to build when China built thousends of miles of high speed rail in the last 10 years

[@shrubbie1]

Don't give a fuck about net zero, but thanks for infrastructure update.

[@AmazeTase]

Yep its all nonsense tbh!

[@asaltedfish]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣2009-2024 30km🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Joe90V]

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?

[@AdrianWT-j9n]

This is a joke. UK is 49 years behind France when it comes to railway 😂😂😂. Who is going to use hs when the tickets on a normal shit train are so expensive? I mean 3 adults from Bham to London nearly 200 quid 😂😂😂

[@NobbingNobby]

Old Oak Common will probably end up becoming as irrelevant as Stratford International on HS1. Total waste of money.

[@DavidShepheard]

Not quite. Unlike Stratford International, which is a long way away from the other Stratford, this station connects directly with Crossrail trains to Reading, Heathrow Airport and Essex and the Great Western Mainline.

[@NobbingNobby]

@ Ha ha ha! Great Western mainline? It takes 1h 20m to travel directly from Bristol Temple Meads to Birmingham New Street! Who’s going to bother farting around by changing at OOC? The whole project is an overpriced farce: £100 million for a bat shelter! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Alto53]

​@NobbingNobby the GWML doesn't solely connect to Bristol, thus, Old Oak Common should be useful for people who use the GWML that are closer to London than to Bristol.

[@slavvy.mp4884]

The more I look at this project, the more depressing it gets. He's trying SO HARD to make this sound good

[@davidsedlickas8222]

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

[@DavidShepheard]

The main reason for building HS2 is because mixed traffic on the West Coast Mainline, Midland Mainline and East Coast Mainline prevents more commuter trains from being run. The only way to fix that issue is to separate the express services and stopping services onto different tracks. The alternative to HS2 is "widening the existing mainlines" which means bulldozing large numbers of houses in every city, town and village that those mainlines pass through. Given that we need new tracks anyway, it makes sense to build high-speed lines because we need to eventually run high-speed trains all the way from the Eurotunnel to Scotland.

[@_Ben4810]

For a construction project so dangerously out of control financially, & still with no final projected overspend figure available, could you please start incorporating in the end credits the production cost of how much each KZbin video costs to make...🤔 It's a simple enough request, & it gives both reassurance & transparency to the viewing public who are both funding the project & the videos.

[@uingaeoc3905]

Old Oak Common is NOT a 'superhub' it is the TERMINUS - HS2 is not going to Euston.

[@byrnemeister2008]

It is.

[@uingaeoc3905]

@@byrnemeister2008 Nope - no budget for the track.

[@eddaines237]

Yes it is

[@uingaeoc3905]

@@eddaines237 No budget has been allocated. the new terminal platforms will be left unused. if you think this is stupid, and unlikely I suggest you read up on the history of Waterloo international.

[@eddaines237]

@@uingaeoc3905 I know about Waterloo International. Bad analogy. The tunnels have been given the go ahead. Everything else will follow. The final form of Euston station is still evolving as the government try to maximise private investment and reduce costs. It will be the final terminus for HS2. HS2 is going to Euston. That’s what the tunnels are for, regardless of what later pieces of procurement remain at this point. OOC will likely have duty as the terminus for a period of time due to the mucking around that’s happened, and has been adjusted to be able to accommodate the additional bits of programme to allow that to happen but that doesn’t change the basic plan.

[@robjoel6493]

Clowns

[@majorberk4647]

The train to nowhere worth visiting

[@scottpeacock5492]

Especially if HS2 trains stops at Old Oak Common, not worth visiting if HS2 trains doesn't terminate at London Euston.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

HS2 will be travelling initially from the UK's second City and Second Largest City, Birmingham City Centre to London Euston, so how is it the train to no where !!!!

[@luizeduardopeixoto489]

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.