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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HS2 was out of date before they even started building it

Scrap it hand out prison terms for major fault

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 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.

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.

All this concrete and excavation surely cannot be any good for the environment

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.

I don't know why but i'm just imagining Handsacre Junction could be a GREAT place for trainspotting

HS2 is a colossal waste of money & made so the rich can get from A to B 10 minutes quicker

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.

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.

Why make it so complicated? Just install a 750v DC overhead catenary for the non 3rd rail section and a pantograph on the train.

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.

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.

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?

Thanks for the update. Good to see its nearly finished

I think it looks great - especially once the pontoon bridges have been removed and landscaping has matured.

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.

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.

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!

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!

Class 99 has appeared in public

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

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.

HS2 is a colosssal waste and insane money pit.

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

Exactly. WHY do we need this piece of shit???