Inside Old Oak Common as London’s new 14-platform station takes shape

Anyone catching a train out of Paddington in recent years can hardly have missed the vast construction site alongside the railway. This is the future Old Oak Common station, and the project has now reached a major milestone with the completion of its first platforms.
Passing the construction site on a train
When it opens, Old Oak Common will combine a new subterranean six-platform station for HS2 trains with an eight-platform surface station for GWR and Elizabeth line services.
With 14 plat