Old Oak Common railway station

The Old Oak Common railway station is a planned railway hub of the UK regional and long-distance transport in the British capital London. The opening of the entire complex is estimated at 2025.

With Old Oak Common, another rail transport hub will go outside of central London in operation in addition to Stratford International.

Location

The station is south of Willesden Junction northwest of the city center, situated in the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, planned, also the Underground / Overground Station Kensal Green and Kensal Rise Overground Station are located in the vicinity. Now a depot for railway companies, which approach the Paddington Station, as well as the block location is North Pole Junction, where an electroless Verbindungsgleis leaves the West London Line and opens into the Great Western Main Line to the site.

Construction

The station is designed as a tower station. The high speed trains of the High Speed ​​2 should stop in a tunnel station while Crossrail and the traits of the GWML stop on the Earth's surface

Traffic

Old Oak Common will be according to the published in 2010, project one of the main stations of the United Kingdom, are to him of high-speed trains to suburban trains British Rail, Crossrail and London Overground and underground trains two lines be almost find all UK train categories. Also the trains to Heathrow, Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect are tangent to the railway station.

He is holding point for trains of the planned High Speed ​​2 London Euston - are West Coast Mainline - Birmingham International. In addition, to keep him trains of the Great Western Main Line. London Transport provides breakpoints London Overground (North London Line and West London Line and Watford DC Line possibly ) and the London Underground ( Central Line and Bakerloo Line). Also, the planned East-West train London Crossrail, open a station at Old Oak Common.

Euro Star - Transport

With the completion of the planned link High Speed ​​2 - High Speed ​​1 terminal stations whose north London Euston and St Pancras also Euro Star trains can stop at Old Oak Common. This would take out to St. Pancras to central and northern England, and keep within London or in Stratford International.