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HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct
Footage taken a few weeks ago on a somewhat breezy day where the Colne Valley Viaduct intersects with the Grand Union Canal.
Work continues to remove the jetty across the final lake but the area has been tidied up and the workers have almost left...and the viaduct is set fair in the landscape.
The civil works are due to complete in the colne valley in 2025.
HS2 is the UK's newest high speed rail line connecting London with Birmingham and the north of England, due to open 2029/33.
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Work continues to remove the jetty across the final lake but the area has been tidied up and the workers have almost left...and the viaduct is set fair in the landscape.
The civil works are due to complete in the colne valley in 2025.
HS2 is the UK's newest high speed rail line connecting London with Birmingham and the north of England, due to open 2029/33.
Thanks for watching. Please consider subscribing to help the channel.
#hs2
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St Pancras International Station and Agar Grove Bridge update
Просмотров 4,2 тыс.14 часов назад
Progress on the new bridge continues after the midland mainline reopened on 30th December 2024 after the previous bridge was replaced during a 9-day blockade over the Christmas period. The new deck has been laid with concrete and an engineer walking over it confirms it must have cured by now. Not forgetting the large cranes have been transported away which must come as some relief to all concer...
HS2 Old Oak Common
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.21 день назад
Footage taken post Christmas period of the area of what will be the approaches… and western section in front of building terminus. The new temporary London terminus HS2 station - due to open 2029/33. Thanks for watching!
St Pancras International Station & bridge replacement day 10
Просмотров 5 тыс.21 день назад
Day 10 and the midland mainline railway has reopened since closure south of Harpenden on 21st December 2024. Thameslink and East Midland Railways services are resumed through to St Pancras station. Agar Grove has reopened to pedestrians only via temporary walkway and it seems it will be several more days at least if not longer til the bridge opens to vehicular access. But the main goal has been...
St Pancras International Station - bridge replacement day 8
Просмотров 8 тыс.21 день назад
Footage taken on day 8 of a 9-day Midland Mainline closure (services still suspended up to Harpenden) with Southeastern’s high speed Javelin trains in service at St Pancras International Station. Parapet wall installation has completed with deck preparations under way for concreting with the works due to complete on Monday I believe… Underneath the new bridge deck work on the overhead line equi...
St Pancras International Station - bridge replacement day 6
Просмотров 10 тыс.28 дней назад
Footage taken on day 6 of a 9-day Midland Mainline closure (services still suspended up to Harpenden) with a Boxing Day Paris bound Eurostar service departing St Pancras International Station. It appears Christmas Day was the day where all the large beams were moved into position. Parapet wall installation has commenced with the works due to complete in 3 days time. The structure in front of th...
St Pancras International Station - bridge replacement day 4
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.28 дней назад
Footage taken earlier today on day 4 of a 9-day Midland Mainline closure (services suspended up to Harpenden) The deck of the existing structure has been removed and preparations are under way for new supporting structures. The beams of the new deck are positioned in adjacent streets ready to be moved. The diggers are working efficiently to remove remaining material from the old structure. Just...
St Pancras International Station - bridge replacement December 2024
Просмотров 11 тыс.Месяц назад
Just north of the mainline station, massive Agar Grove bridge has reached end of life and is to be replaced over the festive period, with train services north out of St Pancras International station suspended. The deck of the existing structure(s) is to be replaced. Footage taken on the 3rd day of a 9-day Midland Mainline closure (up to Harpenden) with an empty Eurostar passenger train unaffect...
HS2 Leather Lane
Просмотров 877Месяц назад
Exploring either side of Leather lane... It was a real gusty day which affected the filming and where the drone coud physically go so some information is needed: 1.46 beyond the permanent drainage pool... the green area is a cutting in progress 4.06 site of overbridge GMI/2 4.38 alignment/overbridge It is a curiousity why the cutting is taking so long to reveal itself in this area.. something t...
HS2 Chiltern Tunnel North Portal
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Месяц назад
Four months since the last video at South Heath (Bucks) in August where they had just started preparing the formwork for the porous portal structure on the up line and a concrete batching plant has been installed and is supplying the concrete to build them. The structures are designed to reduce sonic boom when a high speed enters a tunnel. Tunnel bore completed in spring 2024 but work continues...
HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Месяц назад
Construction of the viaduct completed in September 2024. Work continues at ground level, making good the areas surrounding the piers, and landscaping post haul road removal. Much of the contractors construction equipment has been taken away. With the temporary jetty/haul road dismantled, an enclosed area of water adjacent to river colne reveals itself... At deck level, acoustic screens continue...
HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.Месяц назад
Work continues on the deck of this low lying viaduct over the lakes near Harefield in North West London, parapet installation. The civils construction work is due for completion by the middle of next year. A bit of tidying up still to do on the southern embankment, now that Dominique has departed. Please consider subscribing to help support the channel. And thanks for watching!
HS2 Northolt Tunnel West Portal
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.Месяц назад
Progress update on construction of new high speed line - the area between the Colne Valley Viaduct and the Northolt Tunnel West Portal. Nearly 3 months since i last visited ..the embankments are a little higher and there's a new culvert built. TBMs Sushila and Caroline are tunnelling 8km towards Green Park Way ventilation shaft, Greenford. Sushila has almost reached her destination and TBM Caro...
HS2 Chiltern Tunnel South Portal
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.Месяц назад
Update. Transformation from factory/production facility back to countryside slowly taking place. Chiltern tunnel length 16km Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. It’s appreciated! #hs2
HS2 Old Oak Common
Просмотров 3,1 тыс.Месяц назад
Update at the construction site of what will be the temporary London terminus. Almost a year since I was last here and on the surface, not a lot appears to have changed! There will be a railway possession of the GWR mainline over the festive period so preparatory work can be carried out in the area, AIUI. Not sure if those are platform edges for the future GWR/Elizabeth Line that can be seen to...
HS2 Princes Risborough Line Overbridge
Просмотров 4 тыс.2 месяца назад
HS2 Princes Risborough Line Overbridge
HS2 A4421 Buckingham Road Overbridge/Newton Purcell
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.2 месяца назад
HS2 A4421 Buckingham Road Overbridge/Newton Purcell
Subscribed primarily due to that great footage of the Eurostar departing St. Pancras. Excellent video.
This should stand the test of time. And I wouldn't mind it adopted as a template design for low viaducts everywhere
As long as the graffiti artists keep off it it will look good for decades
Graffiti artists do tend to use railway infrastructure as there’s a lot of it about…!
Lovely to see, and a fly under... over the water of the Grand Union Canal... congratulations...👍👍🫧...
It is rather nice to see - they’ve been working quickly here. 👍
Looks spectacular! The victorians would have been proud to build such a structure. Unlike today when every NIMBY or environmentalist wants to put a stop to everything! Now we need you to do a low level speed run along the whole length!
Impressive healing of the land by such landscaping.
Like the Millau bridge, very elegant. Brunel would have been delighted by those flat 'arches'.
How long before the graffiti arrives?
It’s an interesting thought but not so sure it will be a problem given the viaduct’s out of city ‘remote’ location.. 👍
Fantastic footage. With the vast majority of the temporary works gone it's looking so different.
Next step is to add tracks
St Pancras is the most beautiful building in London. And philistines wanted to demolish it in the 1960s.
Given the value of land around there one wonders why the enire cutting isnt decked over tbh.
I’m wondering the same thing
@toby.maximillianyes maybe in a future project that may be possible…
It would certainly make a beautiful restaurant/garden area…
Hi there. very complicated junction bridge with 4 roads at weird angles. caroline.
Hi Caroline I agree with you - I had to look at google maps to see what was there before! 👍
I love the way everything is so compact and you have narrow boats rubbing shoulders with Eurostars. So typically London. Pity you didn't have better weather
Yes where has the winter sunshine gone!? It’s a curious fact that the canal you refer to.. at the next door Kings Cross station, when they were building they avoided the canal by digging a tunnel underneath it!
Yes (it’s a shame Britain isn’t a thousand miles further south), -then it would be perfection! 👌
Great vlog.Thank you very much. Hopefully you will be able to show the end result so we can see how the roads join up again. Still enjoying your updates on the “naturalisation” of the Colne Valley Viaduct.
Thanks. I’ll try to get back again soon.👍
No wonder taxes are going through the roof with all the money wasted on this white elephant project. Ticket prices will remain high and nobody save a few rich bankers will use it.
Is if finished, and are you going to do a follow up video, please.
Might be noticeable but there are stretches of the line that are not even started
The stretches which require little or no civil engineering.
They can't start everything at once, it's done sequentially.
5 years to finish the track and Birmingham Curzon station, Washwood Heath, OOC, Interchange, and IMD. Probably 10 years from now to finish Euston station. No worries ! get it done ! Now we just have to wedge-in the full extension north to Crewe !!
Once again some noticeable progress if one looks in the right places. Lots of surface drainage works for example ready for the tracks through the surface platforms.
Im sure those OHLE masts are new on the frieght link down towards Acton Main line?
It’s quite possible they are - done during Christmas period when the gwr main line was closed. Thanks
They are fairly recent, been in progress a few months I believe, but the freight line was in use for GWR diversions into Euston during the Christmas GWML closure.
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Smooth footage 👍 New friend here, liked and subscribed 👍 Greetings 😁
Thanks 👍
So is that the big crane being dismantled? So big another crane is needed to help? The worst must be over for the residents even if it's another month before the new bridge opens fully.
@@garthcox4307 650t mobile to build 600t crawler and a 150t mobile to dismantle the 650 ,
The concrete will need a few days to cure before they can lay the road surfaces.
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I was lucky enough to be part of the team on this project, the best job I've ever worked on , the most amazing team 💪👍🏻👍🏻
I hope the residents are enjoying their Christmas break…
@johnturner4400 they were respected and helped in any way possible trust me 👍🏻
Alas it can’t be avoided when you buy a house next door to a railway.
Thanks for posting yet again an amazing engineering job over Christmas.The Dedication to all the men who have given up their Christmas with their families to do this work is amazing. And that crawler crying is so interesting. It's huge but does such a lot of jobs. I wonder if they're going to pour a wet concrete slab over the top of the bridge..???...
Looks like the tracks are almost completely laid.
Great drone footage and amazing aerial view. 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing. Subbed and Liked.👍👍👍
Excellent series of videos and the drone views really give your a much better appreciation of how tight the site is and the logistics of this operation. Getting that crawler crane built and in a position is big task in itself as well. Thanks for braving the weather and doing the daily updates.
Thanks! We’ve been lucky with the dry settled weather. It would have been nice to see the huge beams being moved into place.. but it’s been interesting to see the progress. 👍
We’re at around 04 Mile to around the 14, OLE125 works… has we are hitting Mike stone after mile stone, we’re truly rooting for you guys… looks amazing … what a legacy … that’s what I always take away from sacrifice’s working away from hone … the legacy ….
Looking likely to reopen on time or near to it.
Thanks for posting these @cuemaster. For context, I don't think the description of "St Pancras International Station - bridge replacement" is quite right - St Pancras station is close to a mile away from this bridge - perhaps better to describe it as something like "St Pancras Midland Line Agar Rd overpass rebuild" - Thanks!
It’s turned out to be a more interesting subject than I had imagined! 🙏
No sound!
What's the name of the nearest street to this bridge?
The street name of the road that crosses the bridge is Agar Grove I believe, though with a couple more roads leading off it.
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Do you have to get permission to fly the drone?
It depends on the drone type I use so always best to check. The sub 250g drones are generally less restrictive. Thanks for watching. 👍
Impressive.
I really love that you include Eurostar trains in these videos leaving or departing St. Pancras. I love looking at that train from the air.
It’s quite impressive to see such long coach trains, 16 I think. I’d love to try Eurostar, perhaps next year! 👍
Those workers are on £3000 an hour each!!!! Supervisors £8000.... No wonder a 20bn project now estimated at 220 billion and rising
Haha unfortunately I don’t think the figures are publicly available though I could be wrong! Thanks for watching.
They really aren’t! 😂😂😂😂
I doubt it but they have worked through the holidays. I expect that comes at a premium.
@ I’m a train driver, I’m working both days but only getting double time.
Utter nonsense of course, even if it was HS2 which you seem to have this confused with. Still just another armchair expert in a social media echo chamber.
You could include the ambient sounds (but not a musical overlay).
That would be a great feature to have. 👍
@@1258-Eckhart I’m not sure the buzz of the drone motors would add to the scene.
They should build over that whole section (they might be already) to basically extend the tunnel
Still a lot of work to be done on that deck but they are certainly cracking on with it. Thanks for the update.
Yes they are! I’m curious to know if the beams are flush with each other or whether there’s some infill taking place? 👍
Now that's some dramatic progress.
Where are the trains taking the old material away? Oh it's Christmas, let's use a bunch of lorries in those residential streets...
lots of people still standing around doing nothing though!
Everyone has a role, sometimes many staff are required for short periods. Whatever way you look at this it's a complicated job in a very tight space. But social media is full of armchair experts.
When working on the weekend relay jobs, when they close the line. When it comes to removing or replacing ballast as an example, it is all machine work. But when it comes to replacing the sleepers and installing the new rail, we get busy, we welcome the periods when we can have a break, when working 12 hour shifts.
Only to the untrained eye , every man/woman played a major role trust me
@@Polarbear1-b6jain't that the truth 👍🏻 if only they knew what it took to do this ,
Thanks for the update. That's a big crawler crane, they've got there to do the lifting... such a tight site, right in the middle of London. Amazing...👍👍👍 Happy Christmas to you and yours....🎉🌲🎁...
Think they have clawed back the delay ….
Incredibly complicated rail network in that area! Im guessing that most of this is looking north, somewhere around Agar Grove Camden but railmaponline is not very clear about tunnels. Your Map would be handy, but thanks QM!
The tunnels in the main footage are indeed just north of Agar Grove. 👍
Hi Simon I too recently had a look at railmaponline in this area. I think I still need to revisit to work out all the connections!
google map of the area maps.app.goo.gl/VsdP9yj5HGqZVoYbA
very interesting thank you😁
You’re welcome. It’ll be interesting to see if all goes to plan! 👍
@stevetony6876 it did , not only to plan but ahead of schedule
What an epic job, large rebuild in a very tight area.
The digger swinging past that building makes me a bit nervous!!
.....and on a bridge carrying a road which usually sees two very busy bus routes run.....
All planned out , don't panic, all in a days work 👍🏻👍🏻@@stevetony6876