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Scrap Old Oak HS2 interchange and serve Stratford instead, DfT urged

High-Speed Rail

Andrew Forster
26 August 2011
 

Plans for a high-speed rail station at Old Oak Common in West London should be scrapped, with services running to Stratford instead, according to the organisation that helped put high-speed rail on the political map.

Greengauge 21 says the proposed Old Oak interchange, envisaged to have as many as 15 platforms, will be hugely expensive and serves little purpose. Its original rationale was to provide an interchange between the London-West Midlands high-speed line (HS2) and trains to ...

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