HS2 Construction - HS2 Delta Junction on the outskirts of Birmingham & Water Orton
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Construction of the HS2 Delta Junction near the M42/M6 Toll - not the M6 as I say in the video! Filmed around the Hams Hall Distribution Park.
It will be interesting to see if this is fully used in the future of if two of the spans turn out to be underutilised.
00:09 Looking SW across the M42/M6 (Toll) where the Water Orton No. 1 and 3 viaducts will cross
00:24 Piers for Water Orton No.1 Viaduct on the left, No. 3 on the right
00:55 No. 1 Viaduct on the right now (has higher piers as this viaduct will go over the Main Line)
01:08 A446 Lichfield Road
01:50 Watton House Viaducts (East and West)
02:30 On the left Water Orton No. 3 or 2 Viaduct (original plan called for an embankment here between them)
02:35 In the centre Water Orton No. 1 Viaduct (2 regular piers and then 3 "straddle bents" consisting of pairs of parallel piers with a steel beam across them, allowing the main line to run between them)
03:42 North abutment of the Watton House Viaducts (presumably there will be an embankment from here to the River Tame Viaducts)
03:58 Chattle Hill Box Structure
06:00 Pilings for the River Tame Viaducts (East and West)
06:05 Left to right: Water Orton No. 2 Viaduct, River Tame West Viaduct (2 piers), Water Orton No. 1 Viaduct (tall piers), River Tame East Viaduct
08:36 Curdworth Viaduct and Box Structure and then the above viaducts coming out (the longer section is part of the River Tame West Viaduct)
13:21 Looking SW towards the Curdworth Viaduct and Box Structure
Thank you to @isaac.raskin for the chapters above!
Brilliantly video. I pour concrete on these sites everyday. Its great to see it from a different angle.😊
and boyy do we all love concrete
Great video. Amazing construction.
Loving the intersection with an 18th century canal, a 19th century railway, and a 20th century motorway.
21st too of course too
The full delta will get used: the arm nearest Water Orton will follow the M6 (free) before diving into a tunnel between Castle Bromwich and Washwood Heath (where the depot is also being built), while the arm closest to Hams Hall will run to Handsacre, slightly NW of Lichfield, where it will join the existing WCML. Hopefully there they'll leave passive provision for a future Phase 2 (similarly just North of Hams Hall where there would have been a fork serving the Eastern leg, which, bizarrely, is shown on the official map despite seemingly not connecting with the Cross Country route (the existing line from Birmingham to Leeds).
Yep, because there is no connection between curzon and Newstreet, they will remain 2 in dependant lines. They could adapt it in future (a la curzon street closure of old) but for the meantime there is a distance similar to that between snow Hill and Newstreet.
The least used curve at the delta junction will be Curzon Street to London (ie. West to South Curve) at 3 trains per hour each way. Which is why it was sheer nonesense abolishing HS2A Northwards as that would produce the most trains.
@@johnwebster3224 I agree,unfortunately the contracts where already signed and the work started. A stop at the international would be enough for the midlands.
hardly any people travel between those areas. a lot seems pointless
@@barrypickles6546 There ia no rerason for connection between New Stret and Curzon Street stations as Curzon Street station will be the main station for InterCity services from Birmingham eaving New Street to deal with X Country trains and semi fast train services, ny connections between the two lines will be made at Birmingham Interchange/ Birmingham International at the Airport.
00:09 Looking SW across the M42/M6 (Toll) where the Water Orton No. 1 and 3 viaducts will cross
00:24 Piers for Water Orton No.1 Viaduct on the left, No. 3 on the right
00:55 No. 1 Viaduct on the right now (has higher piers as this viaduct will go over the Main Line)
01:08 A446 Lichfield Road
01:50 Watton House Viaducts (East and West)
02:30 On the left Water Orton No. 3 or 2 Viaduct (original plan called for an embankment here between them)
02:35 In the centre Water Orton No. 1 Viaduct (2 regular piers and then 3 "straddle bents" consisting of pairs of parallel piers with a steel beam across them, allowing the main line to run between them)
03:42 North abutment of the Watton House Viaducts (presumably there will be an embankment from here to the River Tame Viaducts)
03:58 Chattle Hill Box Structure
06:00 Pilings for the River Tame Viaducts (East and West)
06:05 Left to right: Water Orton No. 2 Viaduct, River Tame West Viaduct (2 piers), Water Orton No. 1 Viaduct (tall piers), River Tame East Viaduct
08:36 Curdworth Viaduct and Box Structure and then the above viaducts coming out (the longer section is part of the River Tame West Viaduct)
13:21 Looking SW towards the Curdworth Viaduct and Box Structure
Let me know if I got anything wrong or if I missed something out
Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions alot of us will be asking.
Great video, many thanks,
Would be good to see more of the Curdworth viaduct erecting machine at 8:43, great video though!
I couldn't figure where to go to get closer, the road is now closed I assume for a bridge to go up so will head back in a few weeks and see if I can get closer.
some great construction
Just one question. Who is building the power stations for this all-electric railway, and where ? Or do the powers-that-be think they can just plug it into tbe National Grid ?
That’s the M42 not the m6 at the start
I realised that part way through filming, but was a little lost for the majority of the day!
Excellent video! Is it possible to put labels on some of the landmarks. It's a very confusing building site
On a future video, I'll give more detail, this one wasn't as easy as I expected to follow so was recorded in 5 chunks on the same day. Had expected the day to be pouring with rain so didn't do any research on where the site was so ended up driving around trying to find best viewing points!
There is a bridge being put in place this weekend so we'll be back in a few weeks to get a more detailed view.
I added a comment with timestamps. let me know if there's anything I didn't label that you wanted to know about
@@isaac.raskin Thank you, I'll add it to the description, that is excellent!
@@masekwm You can put fancy little graphics superimposed on the vid
@@dominiccottrill2387 I've only just learnt how to make subclips in PremierPro, I'll do some reading
Wot railway line is the one in the video then run then in the middle then
It is the Birmingham to Peterborough railway line, didn't even know such existed
at the 8.30 point, is there a support wall to be build to get across the road/carriage way.
States on the plan that there will be a box structure and additional box structure to "facilitate future improvement to the A446"
That's the M42!!!!!
I realised that partway through the video, had just come off the M6
Travesty to not have built north to south. when Spain bullt theirs, it was almost there one day and complete the next.. it must have been 5 times faster and 5 times cheaper
It will look like a complete mess even the 3d version looks embarrassing again it’s just so ugly and heartbreaking to see our beautiful countryside being ruined by so vile concrete and waste of effort to a waste of money and resources to a railway that can’t even get into London every time I see this picture it’s just reminding me of how much the government doesn’t care about the environment when they built the old type of railway they thought of the countryside but this is just another disaster waiting to happen I’m so sad to see the countryside destroyed by destruction with concrete the bridges will be an embarrassment just look at spaghetti junction this is never going to be the same again the grass will never grow the same the trees will never grow the same all we get is underneath the bridges are more rats more rubbish being dumped it’s going to be worse than ever it’s heartbreaking 😭😭😭😭
‘Beautiful countryside’ ??
Can you not see all those massive slabs of concrete and tarmac called MOTORWAYS?!
Get a grip man. It’s called progress. Every developed country in the world is developing high speed rail as a lot of people want more trains and not be beholden to be sat in gas guzzling cars on an aging motorway network.
@@edb8568 you won’t see the end result of the whole mess that is going to happen because you will be on your fancy train please don’t get me wrong we do need to move with the times but what you don’t understand is the mess that will happen aka rubbish being dumped/thrown everywhere graffiti everywhere burnt out cars dumped etc all you see is a computer design that makes it all look so magical it would be easier to turn it into a motorway with electric vehicles only on them see what you don’t think of is the trains that will also do damage by the speed they will go aka stones flying everywhere damaging the ecosystem but don’t get me wrong I support progress but it’s a railway that goes from Birmingham to where London? that is a joke they will have to dig a tunnel to get to London and please don’t get upset if we didn’t get rid of the old railway System we could have upgraded that at a cheaper price and do the same thing instead of having to make the countryside pay for this country’s stupidity we could have been up with the best but hey we could have been at the forefront of everything but at the end of the day we have a joke of a government who are now chasing the pack as they say so sorry if I can’t “ get a grip man “ but if we were at the forefront of everything we would have more chargers and maybe like Back to the future Flying Cars lol 🤣🤣👍
@@michaelthomas8693 What utter rubbish, how do you through rubbish off trains that you can not open windows of, and for throwing stones every where, every railway line in the world as rock ballast but stones are not thrown up from the trains nd this line will go from Birmingham and the North to London Euston and the relevant tunnels are being bored out now from OOC to Euston, it seems you don't know much about Railways or to say the least anything at all
So I don’t know everything who does but I know that this is going to be a complete mess as I say the speed the trains will go you think the ballast what keeps the track all perfect is going to be what glued down or something no matter what type of train it is stones will move no matter what some will get knocked by the train itself aka flying debris but again the main issue is the tunnels in London again you’re not thinking the more they keep building tunnels the more the ground becomes unstable and London is famous for tunnels lol 🤣🤣but remember that this isn’t going to look like the computer images that you have seen 🤣🤣as you say I know nothing 😁but I do know on the destruction it’s going to happen once everything is done built etc graffiti rubbish aka fly tipping etc will happen rubbish being dumped everywhere but you will not see that in your first class seat travelling along lol 🤣🤣but remember no matter we aren’t going to agree on everything but this is a fun argument lol 👍👍
@@michaelthomas8693 Sorry mate but the ballast is under the track DOES not move or fly arround any where, it is under every railway line in the world plus what rubbish and grafety or fly tipping