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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

Elizabeth line will be as crowded as Tube with new HS2 Euston delay, warns Sadiq Khan

The Elizabeth line will become as overcrowded as the Tube because of a decade-long delay in opening the HS2 high-speed station at Euston, Sadiq Khan warned today.

He said retaining Old Oak Common, a new £2bn station under construction in north-west London, as HS2’s southern terminus until Euston’s now-likely opening date of around 2040 was “not a viable option”.

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