Thanks for this. Best video of this viaduct I've seen so far. Hopefully they can finish the cutting and embankment work soon so that they can leave the ground alone and let the grass grow back. You can see how much better it looks already in the parts where they've done that.
I don’t understand how sunak can find billions of £’s to spend on pot holes but not complete, relatively ( in cost terms ) the cheaper part of hs2 to Manchester.
This should have been built already back in the 1980s or so when land prices and building costs were so much much lower . (See the TGV network built back then, and STILL expanding). The best way to go now is just to build it out now to Birmingham and HOPE that future generations will have more vision and commitment to carry it on than our current politicians seem to have. IMHO it's pretty disgusting that a very short term and rather deperate Prime Minister can mismanage this decades long project and cancel it in a Party Conference minute, just in the hope of a quick popularity boost. It's because of this myopic short-term populism that the UK rail/transport infrastrucutre is in the shameful state that it is. Still, despite the politicians, great engineering and construction work from the teams on the ground here.
UK rail infrastructure is actually in a fairly good state when compared to anywhere outside of Japan, Spain, France, or Germany China is trillions in debt from their HSR program; Spain's land costs nothing comparatively; France redirected funds from the regular rail network to HSR leading to a dilapidated rail network outside of major cities; German trains are less timely than the UK by a massive margin; Switzerland hasn't built much new rail in the last century either apart from tunnels to speed up existing lines; Norway, Denmark, and Belgium's trains are all more expensive per km than the UK's; and finally, the entirety of North and South America, and Oceania, have less than the length of HS1 in actual high speed track mileage combined.
the land purchasing agreements were for the entire plots they'd need to construct HS2, as splitting the plots would've taken weeks per acquisition and thousands of lawyers before construction could begin splitting the blocks afterwards also allows HS2 to benefit from the raised land values from stations being in proximity to some of the plots
Oh wow they are able to build in the countryside without tunnelling the ? Shame they did not try that first the other 99% between London and Birmingham…..
@@peterwilliamallen1063.. but they WON'T be high speed when they transfer to the WCML! HS2 is nothing more than a monstrous vanity project yet you continue to think its the best thing since sliced bread.
Journey times are not the main aim of HS2. The main aim of HS2 is capacity to drive economic and environmental benefits. The West Coast Mainline is at capacity. By taking the fast trains off the WCML and putting them on HS2 there is now more space for slower, regional trains and freight. More regional services and freight increases rail supply and lowers prices to drive demand. Demand and supply of rail increases and the use of hundreds of thousands of cars and lorries decrease. What you are saying with your comment is “please don’t dig up a small slither of the overall countryside, I want roads congested with lorries pumping out tonnes of carbon please” 🥴
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Exactly. Motorways are massively more environmentally destructive and polluting than the completed and functioning HS2 will be, yet they just seem to be accepted. People see videos of what look like big scars in the landscape and go into meltdown. These scars are superficial and temporary.
Most of the construction site you see here will be restored to grass afterwards. And they’re building across open fields which are monocultures, they don’t add anything to the countryside.
A massive scar on the landscape just to produce something that wasn't needed not going to the places anyone wanted it to. What a tribute to this utterly disastrous government and it's criminal waste of money
Highly needed, going between the major cities in the UK. It's problem? Wasn't ambitious enough. Needs extensions to Bristol and Cardiff alongside Leeds/York/Sheffield
kinda a defeatist attitude. what ever happened great britain? the gov is going to waste cash anyway. rather it was on a railway that people can use instead of PPE contract payments that went missing or bailing out banks etc. once built there is long use of the railway. much of the UKs railways are over 100-150 years old.
@fndjfgsdk Yeah, the UK. What about extensions to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness? That's right, soon we won't be part of this clown car of a country and can go our own way with out own network.
Thanks for this. Best video of this viaduct I've seen so far.
Hopefully they can finish the cutting and embankment work soon so that they can leave the ground alone and let the grass grow back. You can see how much better it looks already in the parts where they've done that.
I don’t understand how sunak can find billions of £’s to spend on pot holes but not complete, relatively ( in cost terms ) the cheaper part of hs2 to Manchester.
Thanks for posting, an excellent record of progress.
Nonsense its about capacity not speed. NIMBYs should be quiet and think of the rest of the UK and not just the Tory Home Counties
This should have been built already back in the 1980s or so when land prices and building costs were so much much lower . (See the TGV network built back then, and STILL expanding). The best way to go now is just to build it out now to Birmingham and HOPE that future generations will have more vision and commitment to carry it on than our current politicians seem to have.
IMHO it's pretty disgusting that a very short term and rather deperate Prime Minister can mismanage this decades long project and cancel it in a Party Conference minute, just in the hope of a quick popularity boost. It's because of this myopic short-term populism that the UK rail/transport infrastrucutre is in the shameful state that it is.
Still, despite the politicians, great engineering and construction work from the teams on the ground here.
UK rail infrastructure is actually in a fairly good state when compared to anywhere outside of Japan, Spain, France, or Germany
China is trillions in debt from their HSR program; Spain's land costs nothing comparatively; France redirected funds from the regular rail network to HSR leading to a dilapidated rail network outside of major cities; German trains are less timely than the UK by a massive margin; Switzerland hasn't built much new rail in the last century either apart from tunnels to speed up existing lines; Norway, Denmark, and Belgium's trains are all more expensive per km than the UK's; and finally, the entirety of North and South America, and Oceania, have less than the length of HS1 in actual high speed track mileage combined.
Hard to understand why thousands of acres are needed in preparation for the hundreds of acres used after construction.
the land purchasing agreements were for the entire plots they'd need to construct HS2, as splitting the plots would've taken weeks per acquisition and thousands of lawyers before construction could begin
splitting the blocks afterwards also allows HS2 to benefit from the raised land values from stations being in proximity to some of the plots
All those Olympic swimming pools
thanks for this,shame u did not get lower and have good look at them beams,whats with waikway in the middle of the run of beams
Oh wow they are able to build in the countryside without tunnelling the ? Shame they did not try that first the other 99% between London and Birmingham…..
The white elephant line.
How is it a white elephant line when 95% of WCML trains will transfer fromthe WCML to HS2
@@peterwilliamallen1063.. but they WON'T be high speed when they transfer to the WCML! HS2 is nothing more than a monstrous vanity project yet you continue to think its the best thing since sliced bread.
The ignoramous comment….
@@gorgu08 ok Einstein. I don't think it's ever going to go from anywhere to anywhere. It regularly gets shortened. The costs don't come down either.
@@smile768bet you £100 it’s all completed in the end.
Thank you for the update! It really does look like canal building, in places!
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Its a very slow progess. I think Gromit was faster laying the tracks down.
What a waste of money.
Railway to nowhere fast! ✋🚆 Brexit Britain living the daydream 🇬🇧 💩 Vote the Tory government out!!!!! 🗳
Railway to Nowhere fast , it is running from the UK's second largest City, Birmingham to London
So much countryside destroyed just to save 30 minutes
Journey times are not the main aim of HS2. The main aim of HS2 is capacity to drive economic and environmental benefits.
The West Coast Mainline is at capacity. By taking the fast trains off the WCML and putting them on HS2 there is now more space for slower, regional trains and freight.
More regional services and freight increases rail supply and lowers prices to drive demand. Demand and supply of rail increases and the use of hundreds of thousands of cars and lorries decrease.
What you are saying with your comment is “please don’t dig up a small slither of the overall countryside, I want roads congested with lorries pumping out tonnes of carbon please” 🥴
Would you moan as much if it was a New Motorway
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Exactly. Motorways are massively more environmentally destructive and polluting than the completed and functioning HS2 will be, yet they just seem to be accepted. People see videos of what look like big scars in the landscape and go into meltdown. These scars are superficial and temporary.
Most of the construction site you see here will be restored to grass afterwards. And they’re building across open fields which are monocultures, they don’t add anything to the countryside.
But they can never restore the ancient woodlands can they ? @@spacetweek
A massive scar on the landscape just to produce something that wasn't needed not going to the places anyone wanted it to. What a tribute to this utterly disastrous government and it's criminal waste of money
Highly needed, going between the major cities in the UK. It's problem? Wasn't ambitious enough. Needs extensions to Bristol and Cardiff alongside Leeds/York/Sheffield
kinda a defeatist attitude. what ever happened great britain? the gov is going to waste cash anyway. rather it was on a railway that people can use instead of PPE contract payments that went missing or bailing out banks etc. once built there is long use of the railway. much of the UKs railways are over 100-150 years old.
@fndjfgsdk Yeah, the UK. What about extensions to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness? That's right, soon we won't be part of this clown car of a country and can go our own way with out own network.
You are criminally ignorant if driving around choked motorways and trains where you have to stand for three hours you through this was not needed…!