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Rail Focus: Railway news and features. Weekly videos covering everything from new and old rolling stock to existing railways and new railway construction projects.
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HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct | Summer 2024 Update
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155mph Class 390s on HS2?!
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Network Rail Mobile Maintenance Train
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HS2 Unusual TBM Extraction | Green Park Way, London
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HS2, Handsacre, What Will Labour Do?
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HS2 Burton Green Tunnel, Warwickshire
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Stadler Class 93 Tri-Mode Locomotive
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Blackpool Tram first tram to North Station
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HS2 Bromford Tunnel Portal
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Avanti's New Class 805 bi-mode units
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HS2 Train Maintenance Depot & Control Centre | Washwood Heath, Birmingham
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Midlands Rail Hub, Birmingham and Beyond
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Midlands Rail Hub, Birmingham and Beyond
Camp Hill Line reopening | Birmingham
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Camp Hill Line reopening | Birmingham
Deeside Industrial Park, Flintshire
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Deeside Industrial Park, Flintshire
Transpennine Route Upgrade! Huddersfield to Dewsbury [TRU]
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Transpennine Route Upgrade! Huddersfield to Dewsbury [TRU]
Transpennine Route Upgrade [Electrification]
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Transpennine Route Upgrade [Electrification]
Midland Metro Eastside Extension Update
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Midland Metro Eastside Extension Update
HS2 M42 Bridge Demolition | West Midlands
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HS2 M42 Bridge Demolition | West Midlands
Curzon No. 3 Viaduct, Birmingham | HS2
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Curzon No. 3 Viaduct, Birmingham | HS2
Birmingham Curzon Street Station | HS2
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Birmingham Curzon Street Station | HS2
East West Rail January 2024 Update
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East West Rail January 2024 Update
HS2 Wendover Viaduct "Push Launch"
Просмотров 10 тыс.7 месяцев назад
HS2 Wendover Viaduct "Push Launch"
Wrexham - Bidston Line New 45 minute Timetable
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Wrexham - Bidston Line New 45 minute Timetable
HS2: Impact of cancelling Phase 2?
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HS2: Impact of cancelling Phase 2?
Handsacre, The End of the Line for HS2?
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Handsacre, The End of the Line for HS2?
White elephant
Excellent video. I live on the south side, closer to Bromsgrove than the city center. I had no idea this fantastic civil engineering project was happening. Its a pity local Tv are not playing their part in showcasing the incredible work going on. Its going to be great for the city. Such pity and a missed chance that it wont be going on northwards. Short sightedness.
I wonder how many potentially advantageous rail links might still be in existence today but for Dr Beeching's woefully short-sighted mass culling across the entire network. which took no account of future population growth and urban expansion with it. The real crime was the ripping up of lines and selling much of the land they were on. It is incredible that no one thought to instead mothball selected closed lines. Sadly, decades of similar short-sighted political thinking on all manner of infrastructure needs has left us in the mess we are in today.
Bit of a vanity project i think, just so Blackpool council can put the connectivity statement into there transport policy. Dont think Ma Kellys and a few other pubs/restaurants will be happy about people riding trams passed there premises when usually they get lots of footfall.
HS2 was out of date before they even started building it
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Scrap it hand out prison terms for major fault
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To Liverpool Airport would be a good start....so get going Steve.
Civil engineering at its best. Staggering construction expertise.
I live on the south side of the city (Bromsgrove is closer to me than the city centre is !) So I really had no idea of the construction of the Birmingham end of HS2. Incredible civil engineering. Excellent informative video. Thanks.
I am all for HS2, but the problem with all this construction is that the AI generated images of what they think it will look like will be far from the truth. It will take years, if not decades, to look like those images, trees don't grow overnight, and they will not provide support to replace trees that die after planting. Look at other areas of HS2 where planting has already occurred and half the trees are dead or dying. The destruction of the habitats where they have stored the spoil will probably never recover.
The thing with trees is they can be replanted. But I've seen plenty of successful mitigation sites with healthy trees. HS2 are going to great lengths to ensure there's no net less.
The key aspect is tilt trains allow higher speeds on the non high speed rails north of Birmingham. HS2 transits are non tilting and would be slower than the current tilt trains without high speed tracks north of Birmingham. HS2 transits are also at a much larger loading gauge than standard UK loading gauge.
The HS2 trains currently on order are being built to a "UK" loading gauge so can fit on the WCML. That shouldn't be confused with current story in the press regarding the step down to the platform. Yes non-tilting trains will be slower, but the time penalty has been over stated and things are already being put in place to allow non tilting trains to travel faster on straighter sections of the WCML.
My (incredibly hopeful) scenario would be the construction of the B’ham to Crewe section as part of Hs2. Then adding the Crewe-Piccadilly section to a later NPR Hybrid bill (that part probably won’t happen until next election season at the earliest) The eastern leg should still be safeguarded, but built as a Hs3 from Cardiff to Newcastle, to be contracted long enough in the future to not be a problem right now.
A green tunnel is also known as just a tunnel.
@@Cartoonman154 🤷
All this concrete and excavation surely cannot be any good for the environment
If it generates even a relatively modest modal shift from air to rail (Manchester and Glasgow flights) then the embedded carbon will be easily paid back. Can't
What is the point, doesn't go to Birmingham centre, and on ward stations, and doesn't go to London. Don't bother replying heard all the hs2 engineers bs before. How many people have died because money wasn't spent on NHS, i personally know one.
It does go to Birmingham City centre. Claiming people have died to pay for HS2 is an utterly ridiculous argument. Best educate yourself on the difference between CapEx and Opex. However, the entire budget for HS2 spread over many years would fund the NHS for less than 6 months.
@@Rail_Focus you obviously are not a brummie, digbeth is not Birmingham centre. So educated yourself. Wasted money on railway no one wants means money can't be spent on NHS. Trains not running another 10 years absolute joke.
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@@Rail_Focus yeah you got no answers. Ps HS2 money is government money, so it does effect NHS, as 50% of people will get cancer I know what I would want my taxes to go to.
I don't know why but i'm just imagining Handsacre Junction could be a GREAT place for trainspotting
There is a decent over bridge just by Handsacre to do some spotting.
HS2 is a colossal waste of money & made so the rich can get from A to B 10 minutes quicker
Don't be daft 🙄
Sadly the rail operators send perfectly acceptable and sometimes relatively new trains to the scrapyard or to sit and rot in a field off lease as it is cheaper to order and lease brand new ones. This is because the owner of the existing trains is charging more to lease them than the company which can provide brand new trains. Seems a bit strange as the owner of the existing trains would probably be better off getting something rather than nothing.
Not sure that has any bearing on this topic. We need new trains and Pendolinos would be retained even without Gibb's proposal. But spending many millions to make Pendolinos faster is not a viable plan.
Be funny if they bored into Anchor ⚓️☎️ 🫢😉🤫 And carried on straight through it 😂 Great video And indeed ! Its incredible! all the ginormous structures that we have, can and do build below our feet
And your 100% correct in they need more trams to stop here per hour and they need to sort out the track layout to do it
We have two here in the South East. I was at Rail Live this year with that machine. Ours in the South East at Horsham perform very well.
In my view on an island our size 140mph is adequate. Yes we need several new railways and many new trains, not refurbished but the damage is done. All that's left of HS2, is stupid. For the money the UK is now only likely to raise you could upgrade many routes to higher speeds and still open a few more at 140mph max, not a few miles at max but more miles to lower overall times and capacity. As we all should know the higher the speed the straighter the alignment adding extra costs. As to big Government and the Quango, NIMBY's, consultants, newt worshippers and red tape let's cut it! We must get the biggest bang for our (borrowed from now on) buck for what is now a country living well beyond it's means. As for those here who can work and those arriving that see UK benefits as a lifestyle choice, give them a shovel, well you know what I mean.
"an island of this size" is a meaningless argument. The distance from London to Glasgow is actually further than Osaka to Tokyo. Many of the main cities in Germany are similarly spaced as the UK's main cities. Why should we compromise, when Government lending is cheap and investment is very rarely wasted money.
Why make it so complicated? Just install a 750v DC overhead catenary for the non 3rd rail section and a pantograph on the train.
ORR rules make 3rd rail expansion difficult and expensive.
I know that is why the 3rd rail system can't be extended. But there is no problem installing an overhead catenary on the section to Headbolt Lane. Connecting it to the 3rd rail 750v DC supply and fitting a pantograph to the unit. That is what the Southern Region did with its' goods yards a long time ago. @Rail_Focus
It's a choice between batteries, or AC-DC inverters and pants. They chose batteries taking into account whole life costs.
HS2 should have been London to Glasgow and Edinburgh, via Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds & Newcastle. It would have been in any other country. High Speed rail to Birmingham only, is, if anything, a very marginal improvement on what we currently have. HS2 has been an absolute disaster during pre-construction & physical construction. Too expensive & too long to build, not because of the engineering involved but from the sheer incompetence & middling from the Government & it's partners.
Short answer - waste our money on foolish projects.
Nope 🙄
Hey, Mr. Focus. You seem to be abreast of this stuff. At 0:35 we get a clear view of the four 'antennae' at the front of Dominique. There are four at the other end also. They adopt all sorts of angles: sometimes a pair will be down with the other pair splayed at a higher angle etc. It's been baffling a few of us as to what their function is. Can you shed any light on this? Ta.
Not 100% sure, I always thought they were hoists, but may actually be antenna, perhaps for location monitoring.
Absolutely but make them able to tilt as they are but if the correct investment was to be provided. Well you’ve got hs2 plus hs2 plus?
Pld tracks connected to everything
I can't see this benefiting the working-class (blue collar) people of the UK, the only thing they'll get out of this is the 'bill' and will probably not be able to afford to travel on it anyway; so, the only ones to benefit will be the (knob head rich), Labor will do no better. Haven't the government already spent massive amounts of taxpayers' money on other stupid ideas? Like spending millions of pounds on illegals flooding the country and millions on pouring money and resources in Ukraine as well as HS2, when will the government stop ripping off the working class?
You do know infrastructure investment doesn't work like this don't you? With people paying out of their own pocket? Infrastructure investment is paid for through borrowing, which is based on the business case, with the line providing a financial return through increased economic output, developmentents around stations and revenue from tickets.
@@Rail_Focus Yeah right, so it's OK to use taxpayer money for HS2; yet 95% of the population will never be able to pay for a ticket, it's being built for 'rich elites' not the working class.
Thanks for the update. Good to see its nearly finished
Will be good to see it when the parapets are installed and pontoon bridge removed.
I think it looks great - especially once the pontoon bridges have been removed and landscaping has matured.
It will be good to see it with the pontoon bridges removed.
It does look very impressive and it’s coming along very nicely. I can’t wait to see HS2 completed in the next 5 years.
Ok. What like another 10 years?
If they could add an extra coach to Pedalinos why not the HS2 fleet? Also I thought the pendalos on HS2 were an Open Access idea.
Hadn't heard about any open access ideas. Open Access wouldn't be possible within the current plan.
@@Rail_Focus I'm sure I first read about the idea in Rail magazine and that it was Branson idea to get Virgin back as an open access operator.
Open Access on WCML, don't believe it involved HS2.
Why am I just now finding this, the algorithm is a bit crap
Nice Class 805 Video!
Wonderful project. The U.K. s transport network is pathetic compared to Germany and france . The French have a fantastic rail network, we have British rail, need I say more. Also the motorway system on the continent is years ahead of the U.K., Britains motorway network is a fraction of what Germany and france has yet we are always amazed why our motorways are so congested. Of course the greens have the solution to congestion, put petrol up £6 a litre so that only the rice can drive or go abroad on holiday. Little wonder that in Europe generally the green vote is plummeting, I wonder why.
HS2 kind of sums up how incapable and bogged down by bureaucracy Britain has become. Just hand the whole project over to Japan and it'll get built in full in no time!
Bureaucracy is a Governmental issue, you can't just outsource the parliamentary process and legally binding processes. If you're talking about construction, we've already imported a lot of knowledge from abroad, with French companies who have experienced building HS lines involved in HS2's construction. What we don't want to do though is lose that knowledge by curtailing investment.
We should hand the entire project over to the Japanese and buy N-700S shinkansen that have a minimum tilting capacity and battery power for emergencies. Mind you, buy the time HS2 is finished they'll be on the N-900 and their mag-lev from Tokyo to Osaka will be finished!
@@B-A-L Hitachi is working with Alstom to deliver the HS2 trains, Hitachi is a Japanese manufacturer.
Class 99 has appeared in public
Does it look similar to the Class 93? I've only seen the image in the factory
@@Rail_Focus looks longer with different bogies . F Photos are on stadlers facepage
@@anthonypowell5665 just seen Richard Clinnick's Tweet. Co-Co and does look bigger you're right
Well done on a great update and balanced view in more ways than one.... Yes I have been following the chase of 'Dominique' across this beautiful valley that is so close to London, and I have enjoyed every moment, what will happen to the launching girder is a good question, as is the date for the last segment.....we will have to see, thanks again...Rail_Focus..👍👍👍👍....
I live close by. The cut and cover copthall tunnel makes sense now. I couldn't quite work out how it was going to work
I wasn't 100% sure until recently. Will make for an interesting journey, across the viaduct and then mostly in tunnels as the trains head to London.
It may cost double than other countries, but these things (which were designed before HS2 was getting downscaled) show that the UK could be an infrastructure god if it wanted.
It doesn't cost double to other Countries. Other Countries (in Europe and China) only publish the cost of the track and trains.. Track and stations in Denmark. So you are comparing apples with oranges
@@BCrossing other countries don’t have expensive lengthy public enquiries and NImbys don’t have the power that they do here. In China it would just be built regardless of human cost or environmental damage.
HS2 is a colosssal waste and insane money pit.
Nope 🙄
I suspect that the launching girder might be on the way to Estonia to build viaducts on the Rail Baltica route. They have several viaducts to build, and one currently has the supports being built but no sign of starting on the deck.
Fantastic piece of engineering
Yes, it is wonderful of itself, but given the curtailment of HS2 proper, it looks like a big expensive white elephant.
Exactly. WHY do we need this piece of shit???