Updated designs for HS2 west London super-hub at Old Oak Common were unveiled as part of the Schedule 17 submission, which is the next stage in the development of the Old Oak Common site. The station design development has been led by WSP and WilkinsonEyre.
The Old Oak Common station will provide a world-class interchange for an estimated 250,000 passengers each day and will be a gateway into Old Oak and Park Royal, one of the largest regeneration sites in the UK.
The station will have six high-speed platforms which will be situated underground with an integrated connection to the adjoining conventional station at ground level via a stylish shared overbridge. Six 450m HS2 platforms will be built in an 850m long underground box, with twin tunnels taking high speed trains east to the Southern terminus at Euston and west to the outskirts of London. Material excavated during work on the tunnels will be removed by rail from the nearby former Willesden Euroterminal depot.
A light and airy concourse will link both halves of the station, unified by a vast roof inspired by the site’s industrial heritage. To the west of the station, above the HS2 platforms, there will be a new public park, a green space. The submission also includes an application to lower and widen Old Oak Common Lane, which will improve access to the station for buses and pedestrians.
The new HS2 station will incorporate passenger and retail facilities, providing a high quality and exemplary customer experience for all passengers and visitors to the station. It will provide direct interchange with conventional rail services through eight conventional train platforms, to be served by the Elizabeth Line, taking passengers to Heathrow and Central London, and trains to Wales and the West of England.
Plans to transform the wider area around the station, a former railway and industrial site, are being led by Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) and they forecast that the area around the new HS2 station will become a neighbourhood with the potential to create tens of thousands of homes and jobs.
The work at Old Oak Common to prepare for construction of the station has been ongoing since 2017 and the site is near ready to be handed over to HS2’s station construction partner at Old Oak Common, Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra JV who were awarded the contract September 2019. HS2’s enabling works contractor, Costain Skanska JV have to date made considerable progress on the site, clearing 32,000 cubic meters of former rail depot sheds and outbuildings, working through 105,000 cubic meters of earth to clear the site and remove any contamination built up over a century of continuous railway use.
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