If you have occasion to take the Elizabeth line from one of the Ealing stations you will soon pass a large area of London that might come as something of a surprise to you. Old Oak Common is slowly being turned into what the Government likes to call “a new super-hub set to be the best-connected and largest new railway station ever built in the UK”.
It’s almost certainly the biggest building site in Europe, and the first time I saw it it reminded me of Texas. All of it. And not in a good way either. Old Oak Common seems to go on forever; it is so big, it seems, that it can almost certainly be seen from space. Well, it can at the moment, while it is still there.
