HS2 Construction - Birmingham Curzon Street Viaduct 3 and station site

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  • Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024

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  • @Carlos-im3hn
    @Carlos-im3hn 2 месяца назад +9

    excellent details, views and progress from the top and bottom, thank you.

  • @mazybee9149
    @mazybee9149 Месяц назад +1

    This is very good views, thank you. I hope these new developments really transforms Birmingham as it needs it 🙏

  • @peterg.crosby6320
    @peterg.crosby6320 Месяц назад +5

    Very informative thanks for doing this, 😊

    • @masekwm
      @masekwm  Месяц назад

      Thanks for watching!

  • @Jarradjhon
    @Jarradjhon Месяц назад

    ABSOLUTLEY VERY GOOD PROSSES MR NORHENER FANASTIC CONSTRUCTION UNBELEVEBLE WHATA MAJOR SUCCSESS AY THATS THE MAIN I VERY ENJOY THIS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY MAJUR AND MAIN PRIORITY HS&E BEST OF THE BEST 100%
    THANK YOU HS2 FOR THIS EXPIRENCE YOU HAVE PROVITED IN THIS VIDIO

  • @JP_TaVeryMuch
    @JP_TaVeryMuch Месяц назад +2

    Thanks for this footage. The long lingering shots are sthg of a rarity in today's Get in, get content, get out, get it posted and get revenue as quickly as you can world.
    As for the now traditional tidal wave of vitriol, I had a blinding realisation:
    There's nothing new under the sun. If You Tube had existed when Euston was being built, the very same litany of complaints would've been on it:
    Too much money,
    Too much destruction,
    Too far from the centre,
    Too little gain for too much pain.
    I'm not in any way saying that it's covered in glory, but like all new infrastructure, give it time for the wounds to heal and then assess it.

  • @Martello--64
    @Martello--64 2 месяца назад +4

    Hello, New subscriber here. Just saying loving the quality drone filming showing so much progress. Thank you for doing this, its an engineering (rail) masterpiece. Many people say getting from birmingham to a london suburb and back a little quicker is a waste of cash.
    Crossrail (now elizabeth line) and Hs1 kent line are new. What needs to be considered is the commercial activity around the new railway permanent way . flats in skyscrapers with commercial shops or & hotels in same building. Seen it all on hs1 and elizabeth line.
    With elizabeth line and Hs1 a question ? to all. How many residential properties have been constructed adjacent to train stations. As a clue its 1 million+ & more in construction.
    All the time.
    Sorry got carried away on the purple line to eathrow..h

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 2 месяца назад +1

      HS2 will only temporarily terminate if at all at Old Oak Commom as it is not being built as a terminal station but as an intermediate terminal station, it will still be terminating at London Euston

  • @declanjoyce8640
    @declanjoyce8640 2 месяца назад +4

    Cool...Cheers

  • @ScottishDroner
    @ScottishDroner 2 месяца назад +8

    History in the making

  • @rinkydinkmcruk
    @rinkydinkmcruk Месяц назад +10

    HS2 without Manchester is completely pointless

    • @normhanson981
      @normhanson981 Месяц назад +1

      I’m sure the property developers In Birmingham are rubbing their hands .

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      What is so special about Manchester

    • @quailking8265
      @quailking8265 Месяц назад

      Indeed, I feel they should have begin construction in the North, or even have construction begin in both the North and the South at the same time

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад +1

      @@quailking8265 They have begun construction in the North, From Birmingham and Staffordshire, to Londoners nything north of Watford is the North, They are Building from Birmingham and the West Midlands in both the North and South Direction and From the Lodon and Oxfordshire area North towards the West Midlands, but what s so special about the North nd nchester that they should of started building HS2 from there.

    • @rinkydinkmcruk
      @rinkydinkmcruk Месяц назад +2

      @@peterwilliamallen1063 it’s the second most significant city in England. Many reasons. Too many to list.

  • @timcarnell5133
    @timcarnell5133 Месяц назад

    I love the juxtaposition of the 18th century BCN, 19th century railways, 20th century roads and the 21st century HS2. I wonder what’s next ?

  • @daranphilipson1025
    @daranphilipson1025 Месяц назад +2

    I wish you had flown over the grounds works although it doesn’t seem like a lot going on they are working every day on the ground works, it would be good to see the changes over time.

    • @masekwm
      @masekwm  Месяц назад +1

      I did, I spent an age flying over them, landed the drone on the steps to change the battery and forgot to end recording before pulling the battery = corrupted the footage, gutted
      Good to see that works have started there though

    • @daranphilipson1025
      @daranphilipson1025 Месяц назад +1

      @@masekwm Ok maybe next time.

  • @user-gj5yy6rk2q
    @user-gj5yy6rk2q 2 месяца назад +1

    seems like it is drastically changing now the few months. But I do wonder, how long will this actually take? Would there be any more delays like we already have had

    • @Carlos-im3hn
      @Carlos-im3hn 2 месяца назад +1

      recently a HS2 train re-design discussion of two items: 1. level boarding (HS2 over 1 meter height vs. UK nominal standard platform height is 915mm), 2. 1 vs. 2 door carriages to speed seating. These two HS2 train re-designs could add hundreds of millions and could impact WWH and many HS2 (and non HS2) station's platform designs (heights and lengths).

  • @jonathanwilliams9697
    @jonathanwilliams9697 2 месяца назад +15

    So much disussed industrial land behind Curzon Station. I honestly think that this HS2 project in Birmingham shouldve been used to completly remodel transport and infrastructure in the city and wider region.

    • @EdgyNumber1
      @EdgyNumber1 2 месяца назад +4

      What I hate about this country. It's always either-or. Tories have been in power for the majority of the past 100 years and they ALWAYS hold back funds for infra, national or local, often handing backhanders and contracts to their mates instead. It's ridiculous that they have conditioned us like this through their tightness and their greed. And their reputation for economic competence has been a joke since the 1950's. And don't talk to me about Ernest Marples. You think Beeching was the bad boy. Marples was scum when it came to the railways.

    • @barrypickles6546
      @barrypickles6546 2 месяца назад +1

      It was not disused, it was cleared, exept the park, which has been concreted over.

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 2 месяца назад +4

      The disused land you are on about is due to be developed under the East Side regenertion of this part of Digbeth including a new Film Studio, BBC TV Studio and entertainment and residential properties

    • @quailking8265
      @quailking8265 Месяц назад +4

      honestly I feel Curzon Street should have been an underground through station instead of an overground end-of-line terminus. Would have been more efficnet to just have trains going directly through the station in the same direction instead of having them go in, then having to reverse to leave to go further north/south.

    • @barrypickles6546
      @barrypickles6546 Месяц назад +1

      @@quailking8265 they could have gone up the main lime from Solihull, that line still has bridges for a 4 track layout even though there is only 2 tracks, straight to snow hill.

  • @mikewilson8513
    @mikewilson8513 Месяц назад

    I was down there last saturday morning, doing still photography. Nobody about so i just wondered in. How (where) did you down to the canal ?
    Excellent video btw, The quality from your drone is superb.

    • @masekwm
      @masekwm  Месяц назад

      Thanks Mike, the canal entrance is on the left opposite the Co-Op, it is behind the ruclips.net/video/lNJpYcrcMUo/видео.html pedestrian barrier shown here

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Месяц назад

      @@masekwm Thanks for the reply. I have clicked on your link and none the wiser. I come from the far south of the city, (Bromsgrove is closer to me than the city centre) so i dont know this part of birmingham.
      Just looked again, Is it where the canal goes under the bridge ?

    • @masekwm
      @masekwm  Месяц назад

      @@mikewilson8513 tinyurl.com/39k9chaf this link should bring up StreetView, if walking to the station construction it is marked by the footpath sign on the left.

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 Месяц назад

      @@masekwm Thanks. I have only just got the chance to look at this. Its so obvious, i could kicked myself !
      As i say, apart from going to St Andrews, this side of the city is a bit of a mystery to me. I will deff give it a visit next time. I like to photograph canals etc, so two birds with one stone.
      Anyway thanks for taking the time.

  • @philjones3550
    @philjones3550 Месяц назад +2

    Shinkansen line 1483 miles HS2 121 miles

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      Yes but we have high speed lines all over the UK not just HS2, the Shikansen lines came because Japan had no standard gauge lines after the second world war so to get high speed railservices they had to totaly build a brand new standard gauge rail network

  • @alanpeel3972
    @alanpeel3972 2 месяца назад +1

    How late is this

    • @kenwilkins8237
      @kenwilkins8237 Месяц назад +1

      Or a 15 minute walk to new st station 😢

  • @PeterUnwin-h1i
    @PeterUnwin-h1i 2 месяца назад +1

    Note "Birmingham city centre in the distance" Taxi 😂

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад +1

      No mate, the main entrance to Birmingham Curzon Street Station will be in Birminghm City Centre next door to Birmingham Moor Street Station on Moor Street Queensway close to the Bull Ring Shopping Centre

  • @boblovell5789
    @boblovell5789 2 месяца назад +2

    Does this city have a wilding policy . Can't visualise the finished product but concrete jungle comes to mind.

    • @bobthegreat297
      @bobthegreat297 2 месяца назад +4

      its a city

    • @paulhughes3524
      @paulhughes3524 2 месяца назад +1

      @@bobthegreat297 The whole city is a bit wild with some green bits

    • @laurencec09
      @laurencec09 2 месяца назад

      They're starting to address this in some parts, but yes we do need a bit more greenery, this will come in time!

    • @GJChurchward
      @GJChurchward 2 месяца назад +2

      Birmingham already has a greater tree density than any other large city in UK.

    • @CRIMSONANT1
      @CRIMSONANT1 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@GJChurchward.. Sheffield & London both have greater tree density than Birmingham .. FACT!

  • @peterjaniceforan3080
    @peterjaniceforan3080 Месяц назад +1

    🇬🇧👍

  • @DS-fo4ed
    @DS-fo4ed Месяц назад +4

    All to get to Birmingham 20 minutes faster. Anyone in their right mind is trying to escape this hell hole of a city. Ahh well, at least it's jobs for the boys and big profits for the multinationals.

    • @kenwilkins8237
      @kenwilkins8237 Месяц назад +1

      It dosent go to Birmingham city centre, you will have to walk 15 to 20 minutes to get to the centre,you couldn't make it up 😅

    • @DS-fo4ed
      @DS-fo4ed Месяц назад +1

      @@kenwilkins8237 true. I’m a brummie. You will need to negotiate the electric bike and knife gangs along the way also

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      @@kenwilkins8237 It does go to Birminghm City Centre, as I have said earlier the main entrance to Birminghm Curzon Street Station will be on Moor Street Queensway in the City Centre next door to Birmingham Moor Street Station and the Bukk Ring Shopping Centre with no walking time at all

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      It will save 40 mins on the journey from Birmingham to London Euston not 20 mins

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      @@kenwilkins8237 Yes it goes to BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE where do you think it goes, the main entrance to Birmingham Curzon Stret Station is in the CITY CENTRE on Moor Street Queensway next to Birmingham Moor Street Station and the Bull Ring Shopping Centre, do some reserch before quoting a silliy comment as it seems you know nothing about Birminghm City Centre 👌

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary 2 месяца назад +1

    I still can not understand why they did not connect this station up with WCML and other train services & lines at this point - it is like a train station in the middle of nowhere - this could become a white elephant due to the lack of connections and further travel and add to it it is not an easy switch between other Birmingham stations to this station.
    Sorry about the rant but great video as always and thank you for sharing

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 2 месяца назад +4

      It seems you know nothing of what is going on here, as a Brummie ( to you a Birmingham Citizen)I can tell you that this station is not in the middle of no where as the land at the top where the red and white taping is is where Birmingham Curzon Street Stations main entrance will be next dor to Moor Street Station on Moor Street Queensway in the middle of the City Centre with Bus and Tram stops out side, it could not be connected to the WCML in Birmingham because the HS2 route and the line into Birmingham New Street are at different levels plus the reason for Curzon Street Station is that Birmingham New Street Station is grid locked and these new HS2 trains would not fit into Birmingham New Street and this new station will never become a white elephant as all Inter City Avanti West Coast trains from Birmingham will run from Curzon Street and not B/Ham New Street Station when HS2 opens and it will connect to the WCML at Handsacre in Staffordshire and inter connect at Birmingham Interchange Station with Birmingham International Station and Birmingham Airport at Bickenhill

    • @kenwilkins8237
      @kenwilkins8237 Месяц назад +1

      ​@peterwilliamallen1063 that's great then for people that arrive into new st and want to connect with a train from Curzon St,its still a 15 minute walk, and at the other end it may never get to Euston and terminate at old oak,a complete waste of money and resources, a complete White Elephant. A liebour vanity project. 😢

    • @rinkydinkmcruk
      @rinkydinkmcruk Месяц назад

      @@kenwilkins8237spot on

    • @normhanson981
      @normhanson981 Месяц назад +1

      The tram will connect the station to New Street , the new station is IN the city centre . This is no white elephant, recent survey suggested that 10 billion per annum will be added to the economy of the city . All the disused land will be developed before the station opens . Pathetic short sighted government should have take this to Manchester and Leeds.

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      @@kenwilkins8237 Why do people need to walk from Birmingham New Street Station to Birmingham Curzon Street Station, if you live in Birmingham and you want to go to London, Manchester, Liverpool or Scotland you will just go to Birmingham Curzon Stret Station, any other passengers will have interchange facilities at Birmingham Interchange with Birmingham International Station at Birmingham Airport and yes it is going to London Euston now as Old Oak Common is not desighned as a terminal station just a through station

  • @adrianpeters2413
    @adrianpeters2413 22 дня назад

    At aprox.7.43min what is that brown bricked up derelict building still there for ,effing well knock the victorian? Piece of crap down please , oh and the rest of birminghamstan....

  • @philjones3550
    @philjones3550 Месяц назад +1

    White Elephant !

  • @stuartsinclair6269
    @stuartsinclair6269 Месяц назад +1

    What a waste of tax payers money, just for 15/20mins quicker….
    Billions wasted, who will up keep this project who will fund it…. Yes the tax payer, I didn’t want this I didn’t agree to this…..
    Shut down the whole project

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      40 mins faster

    • @stuartsinclair6269
      @stuartsinclair6269 Месяц назад

      @@peterwilliamallen1063 🤣

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      Oh what shame you did not want HS2, but the Country needed it matey and it will save $0 mins each way between Birmingham and London not 20 min, I ddn't want the M25 or the Elizbeth line on the Underground but I had no choice 👌

  • @John-h7w6c
    @John-h7w6c 2 месяца назад +3

    Hopefully theh will be driverless trains so they cannot hold the people to ransom

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 2 месяца назад +1

      How do you hhave driverless trams running through public streets

    • @John-h7w6c
      @John-h7w6c 2 месяца назад +1

      @@peterwilliamallen1063 HS 2 trains ain't running through public streets and they had driverless trains running in Japan

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 2 месяца назад +2

      @@John-h7w6c I know that mate and sorry to say the Bullet trains in Japan have never ben driverless, basically the only dtriverless trains have been the Victoria line on the London Underground and the Docklands light Railway in London

  • @russelltaylor7779
    @russelltaylor7779 Месяц назад +2

    HS2 has been a total waste of billions of pounds! It will only serve Londoners who want to live in cheaper housing but still commute to the capital to work. House prices will rise drastically due to demand out stripping supply and locals will be pushed out. The money should have been put to helping local issues .

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад +1

      It has nothing to do with London or Londoners, HS2 is being built to creat more capacity on the Southern Half of the WCML and Birmingham New Street Station and it has more to do with Birmingham as the HQ of HS2 ltd is in Birmingham, the HQ of the trin operator who will operate the line, Avanti West Coast Trains is in Birmingham as will the main operation Centre and Maintinance facilities will be at Washwood Heath in Birmingham and sorry to disapoint you no Londoners have moved en mass thank goodness to Birmingham

  • @derekspitz9225
    @derekspitz9225 Месяц назад +2

    Nice footage of a massive waste of time and money.

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      Why is it a waste of money, so was the M25

    • @derekspitz9225
      @derekspitz9225 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@peterwilliamallen1063 Because the cost of intercity rail travel is for most people prohibitively expensive - you can fly London to Newcastle for significantly less money. And the massive cost of HS2 will require even higher fares to make it profitable for shareholders.
      Add to that the 'high speed' lies, and the scrapping of HS2 beyond Birmingham, and the project becomes farcical.
      There is perhaps a capacity argument for another mainline in Britain, but it's not at all compelling, and the HS2 project certainly isn't the answer to that. Money would be better spent on an East/West mainline in the North connecting with the Midlands. We need to get away from a London-centric mindset and encourage investment and attract business to the North and the Midlands.

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      @@derekspitz9225 First thing is that the cost of a rail ticket from Birmingham to London will cost no more on HS2 as it does on the existing route as the train services on HS2 will be run by the same operator that runs services on the West Coast Main line, Avanti West Coast Trains and shareholders will not be involved, not sure where you got that idea from, HS2 goes beyoned Birmingham to Handsacre in Staffordshire where it connects onto the existing WCML to Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland and as they have back tracked on trains terminating at London Euston, the provision of a high speed line to Manchester is still being mulled over. What high speed lies, trains on the HS2 route will be capable of doing 225 mph.
      So what is so compelling about a high speed East to West Connection main line in the North, nothing realy and Birmingham has connections to the East Coast via X Country trains and there is enough investment in Railways and Trams in the North, it is in the West Midlands and the UK's second largest and second City investment in Trains, Trams and Buses is required

  • @paulmarjoram2258
    @paulmarjoram2258 Месяц назад +1

    Totally ridiculous. The rest of the country is crumbling but they choose to spend 100s of billions of OUR money on a pet project. I hope the national audit office is keeping a close eye on this.

    • @Mu3az523
      @Mu3az523 Месяц назад

      100 billion is misinformation

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 Месяц назад

      It was built for a reason as the WCML south of Rugby is totaly Grid Locked with Freight Services hindering High Speed Train services South of Stafford

    • @adrianpeters2413
      @adrianpeters2413 22 дня назад

      IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY !!!! ON 'YOUR MONEY'IT CLEARLY STATES..." I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF " did you ever get educated I wonder , learn what is in front of you , and what is stated ..

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 22 дня назад

      @@adrianpeters2413 Thats after the government has given it you mate, so what are you rabbiting on about.

    • @adrianpeters2413
      @adrianpeters2413 22 дня назад

      @@peterwilliamallen1063 the govt.given me!!!! Oh o.k. then ha ha ..oh dear I percieve that you really know that it is your money ha ha ...have a great life , and remember work hard you will get on , also fight for freedom and die ,,being dead is really being free..oh who determines the value of YOUR pound sterling ..you??? Answers please oh I know yours already you do ha ha ...anyway you work hard, enjoy.... I t will be worth it ..I promise .....good luck

  • @ted5669
    @ted5669 Месяц назад +2

    Waste of money!

  • @RobertHiggins-w5y
    @RobertHiggins-w5y Месяц назад

    Waste of money