AN excellent update; we drove through the M42 works this weekend (southbound on Saturday, home on Sunday. Thanks: this helps to set everything in context on this massive programme to deliver much-needed additional rail capacity to the UK.
Really nice shots, videos like this are helping me start to comprehend what's actually being build. The Delta junction seems so confusing until you see it from above like this!
If you pause at around 1:00, the five box viaducts being built from the North (top of screen) are, left to right: 1. Trains from Curzon Street, splitting further up to Leeds and Manchester 2. Two tracks, trains from Interchange to Leeds (left) and Manchester (right) 3. Trains from Manchester to Interchange 4. Trains from Leeds and Manchester to Curzon Street 5. Trains from Leeds to Interchange Of course, thanks to successive PMs buggering it all up, much of what is being built is going to sit unused for a *very* long time. 😡
Just imagine, all landscaped and green, lovely trees dotted about, trains whizzing past one another on those elevated stanchions, car drivers mesmerised at the sight and doing a double take, swerving, BANG, BANG, BANG, and the motorway is closed for four hours, tailbacks all the way to Solihull
There are innumerable places in the country where road and rail infrastructure interact, let alone airports near major roads and other examples, strange isn't it that you think there would be issues here when they don't exist anywhere else.
It is a known issue. If they build it like they did where HS1 goes over the M25 at Dartford crossing, they will build high walls/fences on top of the new rail viaduct so vehicle drivers don't get distracted by the trains crossing above them at high speed. 👍
Great video and thanks for posting, but just by the way of friendly feedback, all drone pilots seem to love to fly directly along the line of the viaduct, meaning we never get to see any side-on views which add a much-needed perspective. Any chance of a different angle? 🙂
Whatever happened to our beautiful North Warwickshire countryside?. Gone forever. And for what?. A ridiculously expensive folly which is years from completion. More road chaos to come no doubt.
For what? For the future! But you may not be able zo recognize that. Concerning the costs: The german chancellor Ludwig Erhard had a word: "Sozialbindung des Eigentums".
I drive through this twice a day on my commute to work. It's caused chaos during rush hour with ridiculous delays. It's nothing but a nightmare and a bloody eye sore.
It's an active construction site through a brownfield site currently riddled with unattractive industrial units, substations and pylons. When it's complete it will be a functional piece of vital national infrastructure, with parkland underneath. Sorry about your commute.
@@Gareth.Walley The motorway network is a massive scar on the countryside that everybody seems to ignore, but people absolutely lose their shit when we try and built an electric railway with a fraction of the final footprint. The utter car brain of this country is ridiculous.
interested to know how the construction causes delays as it is a self contained site for H&S reasons. Is it rubber neckers slowing down to look rather than drive ?
So there was no congestion on the M42/M6 interchanges before HS2 started? No, the reason for the delays are the same as they've always been; too many cars, something which HS2 will help alleviate...
AN excellent update; we drove through the M42 works this weekend (southbound on Saturday, home on Sunday. Thanks: this helps to set everything in context on this massive programme to deliver much-needed additional rail capacity to the UK.
Really nice shots, videos like this are helping me start to comprehend what's actually being build. The Delta junction seems so confusing until you see it from above like this!
If you pause at around 1:00, the five box viaducts being built from the North (top of screen) are, left to right:
1. Trains from Curzon Street, splitting further up to Leeds and Manchester
2. Two tracks, trains from Interchange to Leeds (left) and Manchester (right)
3. Trains from Manchester to Interchange
4. Trains from Leeds and Manchester to Curzon Street
5. Trains from Leeds to Interchange
Of course, thanks to successive PMs buggering it all up, much of what is being built is going to sit unused for a *very* long time. 😡
Just imagine, all landscaped and green, lovely trees dotted about, trains whizzing past one another on those elevated stanchions, car drivers mesmerised at the sight and doing a double take, swerving, BANG, BANG, BANG, and the motorway is closed for four hours, tailbacks all the way to Solihull
There are innumerable places in the country where road and rail infrastructure interact, let alone airports near major roads and other examples, strange isn't it that you think there would be issues here when they don't exist anywhere else.
It is a known issue. If they build it like they did where HS1 goes over the M25 at Dartford crossing, they will build high walls/fences on top of the new rail viaduct so vehicle drivers don't get distracted by the trains crossing above them at high speed. 👍
Great video and thanks for posting, but just by the way of friendly feedback, all drone pilots seem to love to fly directly along the line of the viaduct, meaning we never get to see any side-on views which add a much-needed perspective. Any chance of a different angle? 🙂
Next time I'm down there I'll get a more detailed version
@gordonbroomhall8812 Much appreciated! 😃
Whatever happened to our beautiful North Warwickshire countryside?. Gone forever.
And for what?. A ridiculously expensive folly which is years from completion. More road chaos to come no doubt.
For what? For the future! But you may not be able zo recognize that. Concerning the costs: The german chancellor Ludwig Erhard had a word: "Sozialbindung des Eigentums".
I drive through this twice a day on my commute to work. It's caused chaos during rush hour with ridiculous delays. It's nothing but a nightmare and a bloody eye sore.
The motorways were also a bloody eye sore when they were getting built (and still are) yet everyone is glad we had the patience to build them
It's an active construction site through a brownfield site currently riddled with unattractive industrial units, substations and pylons. When it's complete it will be a functional piece of vital national infrastructure, with parkland underneath. Sorry about your commute.
@@Gareth.Walley The motorway network is a massive scar on the countryside that everybody seems to ignore, but people absolutely lose their shit when we try and built an electric railway with a fraction of the final footprint. The utter car brain of this country is ridiculous.
interested to know how the construction causes delays as it is a self contained site for H&S reasons. Is it rubber neckers slowing down to look rather than drive ?
So there was no congestion on the M42/M6 interchanges before HS2 started?
No, the reason for the delays are the same as they've always been; too many cars, something which HS2 will help alleviate...