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Originally Posted by llamaorama
I never really paid much attention to this project until recently.
Old Oak Common is just weird. It's going to only have one street going in and out of it, Old Oak Common Lane, which is only 2 lanes wide. It's meant to be a mega transfer stop but only to the Elizabeth line. The Central tube line and Overground lines are right there but not quite close enough to have a directly attached station. It's a very inaccessible and odd location.
I also still do not understand why they ruled out a connection to HS1.
On the other hand, Old Oak Common to the new Birmingham terminal does function really well as a "minimum operable segment", so it ensures the project can continue. If they weighed it down too much who knows what would have happened.
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Old Oak Common Lane indeed isn't a major thoroughfare and I don't think it ever will be, even after OOC is built and the surrounding area redeveloped into a new district.
The Central Line is a bit too out of the way, and the two branches of the Overground's Mildmay Line are on the periphery of the site. There is a proposal for an out-of-station interchange with the Richmond branch of the Mildmay Line (and the proposed West London Orbital Line) at a new station on Old Oak Common Lane. There is an argument that you could have remodelled the area, but it would have been incredible disruptive. Not helped by the presence of the Elizabeth Line depot which is directly to the north of the HS2 station box.
The surface-level section (platforms 7-14) won’t just be served by the Elizabeth Line, but also Heathrow Express and all Great Western Main Line services (local, regional and intercity) all the way out to Reading, Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, south Wales and the South West of England, which adds a further 16 trains per hour on top of Elizabeth Line services.
Source: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Oa...ailway_station
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