HS2 Mixbury - The Longest Cutting On HS2 - November 2023 - FlyDJI
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- On October 20, 2022, EKFB (Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial, Bam Nuttall Joint Venture), a contractor for HS2 Ltd, initiated substantial excavation work in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to prepare space for two of the most extensive cuttings along the high-speed rail route.
The first of these cuttings, spanning 4.1 kilometers from Barton Hartshorn to Mixbury near Brackley, will become the lengthiest cutting on the HS2 line. Over the next three years, approximately 1.3 million cubic meters of material will be removed to create an 11-meter deep trench that will eventually accommodate trains passing beneath six road, foot, and bridleway bridges.
In parallel, excavation has commenced for the Calvert cutting, which will extend over 3.4 kilometers, closely following the disused Great Central Railway's path. This cutting will traverse the Buckinghamshire villages of Calvert Green and Steeple Claydon and reach a depth of 9.7 meters, allowing the railway to pass beneath four road bridges and East West Rail. It will also feature additional width to accommodate local railway lines alongside the HS2 route in the future.
EKFB has also initiated excavation work for other significant cuttings at Turweston in Northamptonshire, Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire, and Ladbroke in South Warwickshire. In total, the first phase of HS2, connecting London and Birmingham, will encompass 70 cuttings.
Across the 80-kilometer section of the HS2 route through Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and West Northants, EKFB will need to transport approximately 36 million cubic meters of earth and rock over the next three years. Notably, nearly 99% of this material will be relocated within HS2 property using a dedicated network of haul roads to alleviate traffic congestion on public roads.
The material excavated from these sites, expected to consist of clay, sand, gravel, and limestone, will be repurposed elsewhere on the project, contributing to the creation of embankments, noise barriers, and landscaping. Utilizing on-site materials also plays a vital role in reducing the number of trucks on local roads.
HS2 Ltd's project client, Rohan Perin, stated, "Construction is now well underway across the entire first phase of the HS2 project, with almost 28,000 jobs supported throughout the UK. Some of the most extensive cuttings will be in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, minimizing noise and visual impact for local residents while facilitating the new high-speed rail line's passage beneath a series of road and railway bridges. We are excited to see such promising progress on-site."
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Thank you for an informative video. Good to see progress being made on the first part of a rail system which is vital to the UK's future transport capacity.
Thank you for watching. I've got more coming soon. It's interesting to see how it's progressing.
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Thank you! I will be back gradually as the project progresses. Many people are angry about this project. Thank you for watching. I really appreciate it. Greetings from the 🇬🇧 Uk!
@@flyDJIuk my pleasure
So much beautiful countryside destroyed for a white elephant. Would have been a lot easier and cheaper to reopen GCR and improve other lines like GWR from Paddington to Birmingham and Chiltern line from Marylebone
I'm currently putting another video together that shows even more work they're undertaking having knocked down a generations old farmhouse and torn up a local village to push this line through and build a so-called "green bridge".
First the whole idea of HS2 was to relieve the amount of trains using the WCML and move the high speed Inter City trains off the WCML route onto the HS2 route, this would then allow more capacity on the WCML south of Lichfield for freight services and local services to operate which then would improve high speed train services from Birmingham and Manchester to London. Next no it would not of been cheaper to reopen the old Great Central route as most of the track bed has been wiped out by knocking down bridges and viaducts, using the track bed for other things, the steel viaduct at Rugby was destroyed years ago taking the GC route over the WCML, a preserved Railway owns the track between Nottingham and Lough borough, Nottingham Central station has been totally wiped out with new housing on it and it's terminus in Manchester is now a conference center, plus the old GC route does not serve the main point of building HS2 " Birmingham".. The line from Paddington to Birmingham does not exist any more and the Marelabone to Birmingham Snow Hill is operated by Chiltern Trains and is not suitable for 225 mph trains, plus there is no scope to extend Marelabone Station plus HS2 is operated by Avanti West Coast Trains that use Euston Station in London
Additionally to the earlier comprehensive response, the GCR was not laid out for 2029s High Speed Rail. The curves for HSR need to be FAR more gentle. This new Spine Railway will serve the UK for 120 years, which is roughly the life of the rusting remaining bridges on the abandoned 1896 GCR alignment.
Whether the GCR should have been closed in the 1960s is, sadly, a moot discussion for history scholars.
Onwards beyond Handsacre!
The leading European countries all did this 30 years ago ! Billions for 20 minutes !
40 mins minimum
There is also talk that the trains won't ever reach full speed because the rail bed plans have changed. They WERE going to sit the rails on concrete to support the high speed, now they're apparently sitting them on ballast which flexes and therefore cannot handle the full speed!
@@flyDJIuk I don't think you know much about Railway's, there has never ever been any talk about putting the rails on concrete supports, the plans have always been to put the rails on track ballat which can take trains travelling at any speed and it depends on the grade of ballast and how it is packed and it will do 225 MPH. All high speed lines in the World use ballasted track
@peterwilliamallen1063 Thanks for this! This was one of the HS2 workers who told me this. Maybe they were mistaken. It makes sense what you're saying 👍
I live here, it is a terrible mess and roads are always closed, not a fan😂
I can imagine. It looks a complete tip! 🤦♂️
@@flyDJIuk Look at HS1 - three years after construction was completed, the farmland either side (much of which was used for working compounds and temporary dump sites) was back in productive use. The UK motorway network is incapable of expansion, so rail is the answer, despite the temporary disruptions.
Nice to know that the levelling up cash has gone to the south. 32 miles of tunnels and vanity bridges are the reason why HS2 is so over budget. HS2 is only half a job now. The 20 million in the North have been ignored again
It's the same story over and over again sadly.
I assume you mean, there are two cuttings between Barton Hartshorn and Mixbury, one of which, at 4.1km, will be the longest on the HS2 project
Yes. When you see the actual site, you realise the sheer scale of this project! 😲
What a pointless mess.
The money is unbelievable! I was chatting to someone who worked for HS2 and they said you can travel from Euston across the entire site on their privately built haul roads... without touching public roads at all.