Good shout for sensible comments only! So little sense has been uttered throughout the lifetime of HS2, that it frustrates me that we can't get big things done in the UK! Hopefully a future government will see sense and bring HS2 fully up to Scotland.
Yeah, let's prove how good we are at getting Big Things Done. Saving 20-30 minutes to get from Curzon Street (***where ???***) to Old Oak Common (same again). Grandiose waste of the filthy lucre. Good for the engineering contractors & consultants, mind. And there'll be some revolving-door fringe benefits for a few at the end. HS2 only made sense as a truly long-distance project, so as others have said, should have done Scotland & the North first, or not at all. Now, it's a dead duck
I very much dought HS2 will reach Scotland considering how much it has cost up to now plus the continual threat by the SNP of trying to get Independence and the logistics of building a new Hi Speed line through this mountainance area. HS2 trains though will reach Scotland by Using the existing WCML from Handsacre in Staffordshire to Scotland
It was never going to Scotland and never will. Far too expensive. It'll be a miracle if it ever gets to Wigan or Leeds. I think a lot of politicians on all sides breathed a sigh of relief that they wouldn't be the one to let down the north of England (again!!!).
@@peterwilliamallen1063 "HS2 trains though will reach Scotland by Using the existing WCML from Handsacre in Staffordshire to Scotland" - yes, they'll be really speeding w/o tilt on the bends 😞
Many thanks, Martina. I grew up in this area, but have lived away now for many years. So, it's lovely to see how this is developing. I would be grateful if you could keep doing these updates as things progress. Best wishes, Chris
Washwood heath our home was destroyed mom died in Yardley care home800pounds week they took 💔 the proceeds of the compulsory purchase money dad died in John Taylor hospice I have no home I'm 60 female 💔 they think more of the bull woth its hornsin new street station than humanity and homeless people
….another excellent informative video ! It’s so good to hear about the HS2 Project that’s going on right where we live. Would love to see an update on the works going on in and around the NEC for HS2 as well as an update on the new M42 Junction being installed. Can’t wait for the road to Catherine-de-Barnes from the airport to open to see what the new road layout looks like. Any drone footage would be greatly appreciated 😊
Even though I don't live anywhere near them, I love watching videos about the progress on projects like HS2 or CAHSR. If that nuclear project you talked about is Hinkley point c, then I'd also be very excited about that, so you have gained yourself a new subscriber!
Further to my comment, the two large Gas Holder holes you show are not the Saltley Gas Holders but the Washwood Heath Gas Holders, two of the largest in the Country, Saltley Gas Holders were where the paper mill is, I know this as I worked for the West Midlands Gas Board/ British Gas West Midlands as a Gas Service Engineer and I can well remember in the late 1960's when I was young lad there was also a large National Grid substation near them built of wood which caught fire and threatened these two massive gas holders full of Towns Gas ( Natural Gas had not arrived at this point) and every fire engine in what was then the City of Birmingham fire dept and from round the midlands was used to try and extinguish this fire at the Electric substation and to keep these two Gas Holders cool and from exploding and if they did explode at least the whole of Saltley, Alum Rock and areas with in about 3 miles of this Gas Holder would of been flattened with a massive shock wave and many killed, it also shut the Birmingham Deby Line and the line from Aston to Stechford. As I said in this area of Birmingham you of late had 4 gas Holders these Two called the Washwood Heath Gas Holders, two more at Saltley where the paper mill is now and where Saltley Gas Works was and two more at Windsor Street in the City Center.
The HS2 Old Oak Common - Birmingham Curzon Street/Handsacre development has come along quite nicely, and its already made a impact, as the alignment is very clearly visible now on some parts on Google Earth. Itll be intresting to see how it Progresses, even with Phase 2 being cancelled (though that may already be up in the air depending on what happens next year)
@@nickmagee-brown739 I respect your view, but I don't think Cancelling the rest of HS2 and turning it into local roads would make no sense. HS2 as is has progressed too far as a Rail project, and redoing it as a road would probably get more fury and political opposition to the project. I'm not against building new roads in any sense, as it does make sense in rural areas or for where public transport can compete but it would be ludicrous to turn HS2 into a bunch of local roads.
@@Dinoteddi it would be used by local residents and logistics services and the depot areas could be turned into distribution centres with perhaps part of the route complimenting the Chiltern mainline running fast services from Aylesbury and North Bucks. into London helping to spread the commuter belt. There is no need to run a 3rd railway into Birmingham or a 4th Railway to the North, we have spent a fortune upgrading the 3 existing mainlines and this nothing more than a labour created relic... continued by a weak conservative government, trying to make promises to the north that don't make sense, we should be upgrading and creating more capacity on the main commuter corridors out of London, that is where the demand is and repurposing this line into express road and commuter rail into London makes far more sense and is actually needed.
@@nickmagee-brown739 "we should be upgrading and creating more capacity on the main commuter corridors out of London, that is where the demand is and repurposing this line into express road and commuter rail into London makes far more sense and is actually needed." Yeah, I don't think you've thought this through very well.
Living in this area I have been watching the progress of work for the Bromford tunnels and to look at the new Bridge in Aston Church Road, god knows what it will sound like being steel when you drive over it, but I believe another one is required for Saltley Viaduct, but the work going on now between Birmingham Interchange station and Birmingham Curzon Street Station is imence now. The site where the HS2 repair a train storage facilities in Washwood heath on the Former LDV works and former Worlesley car plant where the infamous Leyland Sherpa van was built and the Former MCW Works where not only were London Underground trains were built but also the famous Blue Pullman train and the first batch of Euro Star trains class 373 and Pendolino trains were assembled but also buses such as the MCW Metropolitan Scania and MCW Metro Bus which went in vast amounts to the WMPTE, London Transport and Greater Manchester PTE to name a few, but now obliterated at this spot was a dirt cycle track that followed the edge of the MCW plant and the Birmingham Derby line which went over a steel river bridge called " The Monkey Run" why I do not know but it was where train spotters used to go, but this area has changed out of all recognition now. One last thing was the amazement of seeing Eurostar trains on the back of low loader lorries coming off the M6 from France at Castle Bromwich and wind their way up the Chester Road to the Clock Garage and then onto the A47 through the Fox and Goose to Common lane and the MCW works was a site to behold how different this vast site will look when the HS2 repair and storage sidings are built.
I haven't heard anyone use the term "Monkey Run" for years. A real blast from the past. 60 years ago, my friends and I would ride our bikes along there, and were always disappointed that we didn't see the monkeys 😊 The best sight used to be railway carriages doing the left turn at The Fox and Goose to get to the motorway at Spaghetti Junction. That would have been the late 60s or early 70s (instead of paying attention in French lessons, I watched them build the M6 😊).
@@PLuMUK54 Yep never knew why it was called the Monkey run, but ran from the bottom of Common Lane to Bromford Road including a metal girder Bridge of the River Tame where I would do my Train Spotting as a 15 year old lad and did the river stink in those days. Running paralel to the Morris Commercial /LDV Factory and the Birmingham to Derby line was a large shunting embankment which occasionaly an 08 shunter would shunt wagons and occasionaly the driver would give one or two lucky lads a cab ride, alas the lot has gone,theMonkey Run and Bridge, the shunting hump, the LDV works and MCW Bus/Train building works to make way for the HS2 line and its storage sidings and repair works
Nice to see a new video from you 😊 , i do like your hs2 & railway infrastructure content & narration, iam sure we all look forward to your future videos! So keep them coming 😊
There has always only going to be one Delta Junction at Water Orton which has only started to take shape over the last 18 months to allow trains to go from Birmingham Curzon Street to London Euston and Manchester and the North and for trains from London Euston to Manchester and the North to by pass Birmingham
It has been cancelled from Handsacre to Manchester, these HS2 trains for Manchester and the North will run from Birmingham Interchange on the HS2 line as far as Lichfield/ Handsacre in Staffordshire and then join the West Coast Mainline to travel to Manchester
But who would ever want to travel on a train 400m long - all that walking!! And of course trains beyond Birmingham cannot be longer than 200m. Limiting all HS2 trains to 200m would save hugely on the size of Curzon St, Old Oak and Euston (last two both underground).
@@user-hk5zo9ll1s First there would be no requirement to walk the whole length of the train, you don't do it now on a Pendolino so why on a HS2 train, then Birmingham Curzon Street station is being designed to cope with these long trains as they will be the trains operating Birmingham to London and as these trains going to Manchester will not stop between Birmingham Interchange and Manchester there is no reason that full length trains can not operate, all this hype of shorter trains operating to Manchester have come from Chineses whispers as no official statement has been forth coming. The idea of HS2 trains reaching Manchester via a link to the WCML at Handsacre has only just surfaced in any quarters with the statement by the Government that the HS2 line North of Birmingham made every one think that no HS2 service would run North of Birmingham and only Old Oak Common is underground as London Euston is a surface station with the HS2 platforms next to the existing platforms
Excellent drone work as usual! The scale of this project is wild, so many moving parts coming together in such a small space. Keep up the good work!
absolutely. an engineering marvel. imagine if it was all getting built to manchester and leeds )':
Good shout for sensible comments only! So little sense has been uttered throughout the lifetime of HS2, that it frustrates me that we can't get big things done in the UK! Hopefully a future government will see sense and bring HS2 fully up to Scotland.
Yeah, let's prove how good we are at getting Big Things Done. Saving 20-30 minutes to get from Curzon Street (***where ???***) to Old Oak Common (same again). Grandiose waste of the filthy lucre. Good for the engineering contractors & consultants, mind. And there'll be some revolving-door fringe benefits for a few at the end. HS2 only made sense as a truly long-distance project, so as others have said, should have done Scotland & the North first, or not at all. Now, it's a dead duck
@@daffyduk77 And potentially taking longer to get to Scotland than it does now, as regular trains are slower up the West coast than Pendolinos are.
I very much dought HS2 will reach Scotland considering how much it has cost up to now plus the continual threat by the SNP of trying to get Independence and the logistics of building a new Hi Speed line through this mountainance area. HS2 trains though will reach Scotland by Using the existing WCML from Handsacre in Staffordshire to Scotland
It was never going to Scotland and never will. Far too expensive. It'll be a miracle if it ever gets to Wigan or Leeds. I think a lot of politicians on all sides breathed a sigh of relief that they wouldn't be the one to let down the north of England (again!!!).
@@peterwilliamallen1063 "HS2 trains though will reach Scotland by Using the existing WCML from Handsacre in Staffordshire to Scotland" - yes, they'll be really speeding w/o tilt on the bends 😞
Many thanks, Martina. I grew up in this area, but have lived away now for many years. So, it's lovely to see how this is developing. I would be grateful if you could keep doing these updates as things progress. Best wishes, Chris
Not a bore-ing video in the slightest.
Good to see you back
Nice video, I live in Water Orton, as a local this project has been devastating, and continues to be so.
The village will never be the same again.
Washwood heath our home was destroyed mom died in Yardley care home800pounds week they took 💔 the proceeds of the compulsory purchase money dad died in John Taylor hospice I have no home I'm 60 female 💔 they think more of the bull woth its hornsin new street station than humanity and homeless people
Yeah maybe 70 million people should always have bad trains because of one village
Was worried we wouldn’t hear from you again. Glad to see another quality video 👍🏾
….another excellent informative video ! It’s so good to hear about the HS2 Project that’s going on right where we live. Would love to see an update on the works going on in and around the NEC for HS2 as well as an update on the new M42 Junction being installed. Can’t wait for the road to Catherine-de-Barnes from the airport to open to see what the new road layout looks like. Any drone footage would be greatly appreciated 😊
Even though I don't live anywhere near them, I love watching videos about the progress on projects like HS2 or CAHSR.
If that nuclear project you talked about is Hinkley point c, then I'd also be very excited about that, so you have gained yourself a new subscriber!
Further to my comment, the two large Gas Holder holes you show are not the Saltley Gas Holders but the Washwood Heath Gas Holders, two of the largest in the Country, Saltley Gas Holders were where the paper mill is, I know this as I worked for the West Midlands Gas Board/ British Gas West Midlands as a Gas Service Engineer and I can well remember in the late 1960's when I was young lad there was also a large National Grid substation near them built of wood which caught fire and threatened these two massive gas holders full of Towns Gas ( Natural Gas had not arrived at this point) and every fire engine in what was then the City of Birmingham fire dept and from round the midlands was used to try and extinguish this fire at the Electric substation and to keep these two Gas Holders cool and from exploding and if they did explode at least the whole of Saltley, Alum Rock and areas with in about 3 miles of this Gas Holder would of been flattened with a massive shock wave and many killed, it also shut the Birmingham Deby Line and the line from Aston to Stechford. As I said in this area of Birmingham you of late had 4 gas Holders these Two called the Washwood Heath Gas Holders, two more at Saltley where the paper mill is now and where Saltley Gas Works was and two more at Windsor Street in the City Center.
Great drone work of the Delta junction, makes more sense at that altitude!
I know all of this area well, so it's fascinating to see the drone shots.
The HS2 Old Oak Common - Birmingham Curzon Street/Handsacre development has come along quite nicely, and its already made a impact, as the alignment is very clearly visible now on some parts on Google Earth. Itll be intresting to see how it Progresses, even with Phase 2 being cancelled (though that may already be up in the air depending on what happens next year)
It should be cancelled completely after next election and existing structures turned into local roads
@@nickmagee-brown739 I respect your view, but I don't think Cancelling the rest of HS2 and turning it into local roads would make no sense. HS2 as is has progressed too far as a Rail project, and redoing it as a road would probably get more fury and political opposition to the project. I'm not against building new roads in any sense, as it does make sense in rural areas or for where public transport can compete but it would be ludicrous to turn HS2 into a bunch of local roads.
@@nickmagee-brown739 Why Roads and Pollution
@@Dinoteddi it would be used by local residents and logistics services and the depot areas could be turned into distribution centres with perhaps part of the route complimenting the Chiltern mainline running fast services from Aylesbury and North Bucks. into London helping to spread the commuter belt. There is no need to run a 3rd railway into Birmingham or a 4th Railway to the North, we have spent a fortune upgrading the 3 existing mainlines and this nothing more than a labour created relic... continued by a weak conservative government, trying to make promises to the north that don't make sense, we should be upgrading and creating more capacity on the main commuter corridors out of London, that is where the demand is and repurposing this line into express road and commuter rail into London makes far more sense and is actually needed.
@@nickmagee-brown739 "we should be upgrading and creating more capacity on the main commuter corridors out of London, that is where the demand is and repurposing this line into express road and commuter rail into London makes far more sense and is actually needed."
Yeah, I don't think you've thought this through very well.
Great video!!!
Living in this area I have been watching the progress of work for the Bromford tunnels and to look at the new Bridge in Aston Church Road, god knows what it will sound like being steel when you drive over it, but I believe another one is required for Saltley Viaduct, but the work going on now between Birmingham Interchange station and Birmingham Curzon Street Station is imence now. The site where the HS2 repair a train storage facilities in Washwood heath on the Former LDV works and former Worlesley car plant where the infamous Leyland Sherpa van was built and the Former MCW Works where not only were London Underground trains were built but also the famous Blue Pullman train and the first batch of Euro Star trains class 373 and Pendolino trains were assembled but also buses such as the MCW Metropolitan Scania and MCW Metro Bus which went in vast amounts to the WMPTE, London Transport and Greater Manchester PTE to name a few, but now obliterated at this spot was a dirt cycle track that followed the edge of the MCW plant and the Birmingham Derby line which went over a steel river bridge called " The Monkey Run" why I do not know but it was where train spotters used to go, but this area has changed out of all recognition now. One last thing was the amazement of seeing Eurostar trains on the back of low loader lorries coming off the M6 from France at Castle Bromwich and wind their way up the Chester Road to the Clock Garage and then onto the A47 through the Fox and Goose to Common lane and the MCW works was a site to behold how different this vast site will look when the HS2 repair and storage sidings are built.
I haven't heard anyone use the term "Monkey Run" for years. A real blast from the past. 60 years ago, my friends and I would ride our bikes along there, and were always disappointed that we didn't see the monkeys 😊
The best sight used to be railway carriages doing the left turn at The Fox and Goose to get to the motorway at Spaghetti Junction. That would have been the late 60s or early 70s (instead of paying attention in French lessons, I watched them build the M6 😊).
@@PLuMUK54 Yep never knew why it was called the Monkey run, but ran from the bottom of Common Lane to Bromford Road including a metal girder Bridge of the River Tame where I would do my Train Spotting as a 15 year old lad and did the river stink in those days. Running paralel to the Morris Commercial /LDV Factory and the Birmingham to Derby line was a large shunting embankment which occasionaly an 08 shunter would shunt wagons and occasionaly the driver would give one or two lucky lads a cab ride, alas the lot has gone,theMonkey Run and Bridge, the shunting hump, the LDV works and MCW Bus/Train building works to make way for the HS2 line and its storage sidings and repair works
Wonderful stuff , thank you , it’s very exciting.
Good to have you back! Great video and commentary as always. Appreciate your updates
Nice to see a new video from you 😊
, i do like your hs2 & railway infrastructure content & narration, iam sure we all look forward to your future videos! So keep them coming 😊
As usual excellent work. No complaints! thanks for the update legend, keep at it
I love these videos, very well made
Can you try film or drone at the Avonmouth Bridge to see if any updates have happened on the hinkley connection project there.
My dreams of pan continental high speed rail... sigh
Had any construction started on the other Delta junction before the remains of the Eastern leg were scrapped?
I haven't seen anything on the ground of the other junctions, but have seen some prep work north of Handsacre
There has always only going to be one Delta Junction at Water Orton which has only started to take shape over the last 18 months to allow trains to go from Birmingham Curzon Street to London Euston and Manchester and the North and for trains from London Euston to Manchester and the North to by pass Birmingham
just wish it was extending to manchester anf further.
HS2 trains will get to Manchester via a juncton at Handsacre in Staffordshire where HS2 trains will join the WCML to Manchester
Any new content coming soon Martina ?
There should be!
im confused, what has been cancelled then?
Everything that's not already being built, basically
It has been cancelled from Handsacre to Manchester, these HS2 trains for Manchester and the North will run from Birmingham Interchange on the HS2 line as far as Lichfield/ Handsacre in Staffordshire and then join the West Coast Mainline to travel to Manchester
Do we really want 400m long trains? Settle on 200m and you save hugely by halving the size of Curzon St, Old Oak and Euston
The size of Curzon Street is irelevent of the size of the trains, it is being designed tis way so any length of train can use Curzon Street
But who would ever want to travel on a train 400m long - all that walking!! And of course trains beyond Birmingham cannot be longer than 200m. Limiting all HS2 trains to 200m would save hugely on the size of Curzon St, Old Oak and Euston (last two both underground).
@@user-hk5zo9ll1s First there would be no requirement to walk the whole length of the train, you don't do it now on a Pendolino so why on a HS2 train, then Birmingham Curzon Street station is being designed to cope with these long trains as they will be the trains operating Birmingham to London and as these trains going to Manchester will not stop between Birmingham Interchange and Manchester there is no reason that full length trains can not operate, all this hype of shorter trains operating to Manchester have come from Chineses whispers as no official statement has been forth coming. The idea of HS2 trains reaching Manchester via a link to the WCML at Handsacre has only just surfaced in any quarters with the statement by the Government that the HS2 line North of Birmingham made every one think that no HS2 service would run North of Birmingham and only Old Oak Common is underground as London Euston is a surface station with the HS2 platforms next to the existing platforms
@@user-hk5zo9ll1s uhhh capacity...
@@user-hk5zo9ll1sdon’t walk just sit down 😊