HS2’s Old Oak Common station gets formal start

HS2’s huge hub station at Old Oak Common has received formal approval for the permanent construction work to start.
When completed, it will link HS2 with the Elizabeth line and GWR services and planned nearby London Overground stations. It also includes a future option for a link with the Chiltern Railways.
The site, not far from Willesden Junction, has been seeing construction work for some years preparing it for construction, but there’s always been a vanishingly tiny chance that i