Inside the empty station box at Old Oak Common looking up to the daylight overhead

HS2 progress on West London terminal

Going deeper underground. The station box at Old Oak Common begins to take shape. Image HS2 media centre

HS2, the British high speed rail project is still on track. The brakes may be firmly applied to work at Euston in Central London, but the throttle is wide open on work at Old Oak Common. The high speed rail project, connecting London and Birmingham, has been the subject of a radical rethink by the UK government, but there has been no pausing of work at the interim terminal in West London, where high speed trains, initially from Birmingham, will start to arrive before the end of the decade.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is UK correspondent for RailTech.com and Railfreight.com

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