Euston Approaches and Euston Station, with London in the background

HS2 in Old Oak and North Acton

Set to be the best connected and largest new railway station ever built in the UK, Old Oak Common will become one of the country’s most vital transport super hubs. The station is expected to be one of the busiest railway stations in the country.

The new HS2 Old Oak Common station, in the Old Oak and Park Royal area, will sit across three London boroughs: Brent, Ealing and Hammersmith & Fulham.

The station will have 14 platforms, a mix of six high speed and eight conventional service platforms, with an 850m-long station box. It is expected to be one of the busiest railway stations in the UK, with high speed rail services to the Midlands, Scotland and the North, and access to central London and Heathrow via the Crossrail Elizabeth Line.

Within Old Oak two new Tunnel Boring Machines will be used to dig the 13.5km from Old Oak Common to Green Park Way in Greenford. A second tunnel between Old Oak Common and Euston will complete the remaining 7.2km of tunnelling between the two stations.

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Changes to Old Oak Common Lane

We’ve a requirement to lower Old Oak Common Lane to enable double decker buses to pass under the rail bridges. This is a legal commitment that has been provided to Transport for London (TfL).

To make the road lowering possible, we will need to move all of the utilities out of the road and run them through the new mini tunnels already in place under the side of the road under the railway.

New bridges must also be built to accommodate the railway lines needed for Great Western Mainline and Elizabeth Line into the new station.

Other work required includes constructing a new retaining wall for the Hitachi North Pole Maintenance Depot and new cycle and pedestrian pathways, as Old Oak Common Lane will be widened so that the pathways are able to run along both sides of the road.

We are currently exploring a number of options to undertake the works on Old Oak Common Lane, and we’re at the very beginning of this process. No decisions have been made on the length of the road closure and we will be working closely with the local authorities, TfL, emergency services, local communities and businesses, utility companies and others to plan these works.

We don’t have a start date for the road closure yet as we are still at an early stage of planning the works, but we will keep you informed as soon as we have further information on this. However, we won’t be closing the road until early 2025 at the earliest.

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Utilities works for Old Oak, Park Royal and Hanger Lane

We need to divert the gas mains to prevent it becoming damaged in the future before starting our upcoming tunnelling works. The gas diversion will run across the A40 and onto Brunswick Road. Phase one of these works began on 6 November 2023 and is due to be completed on 7 June 2024.

Find out more about utilities works in Old Oak, Park Royal and Hanger Lane.

Wormwood Scrubs

HS2 has now completed all its utility relocating works on Wormwood Scrubs, with the land parallel to the railway handed back to the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. The small site next to Old Oak Common Lane remains in place for future work.

The work consisted of:

Under track crossing utility diversion: Nine micro-tunnels were bored under the Great Western mainline railway with utility cables diverted from the road in the west corner of the Scrubs next to Old Oak Common Lane. This diversion was needed to allow us to lower Old Oak Common Lane that is planned in the future. It is this site that currently remains in place for future works
Sewer diversion: BBVS diverted a large sewer (called the Stamford Brook sewer) that serves the local area from the Old Oak Common Station site to the northern part of Wormwood Scrubs.

Hammersmith & Fulham have developed a masterplan that will improve the Scrubs allowing more people enjoy the benefits of exercise and relaxation.