HS2 Wendover Dean Viaduct
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
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Having has a helpful comment from @isaac.raskin I followed up on the information about this 90 Tonne digger in the area. It was supported by a convoy of equally heavy dump trucks. From up above I feel like a child playing with toy diggers in a sandpit.
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James
I was employed on the Taiwan High Speed Rail project in 2000-2005 as Senior Inspector of Work on a 16 km section that had 11 tunnels, 10 bridge and a large section of viaduct and raised station. The ROW remained with a viaduct after the flood plain to bring the line into more stable ground in the foot hills. The tunnels were excavated using the NATM system of excavating short sections of top heading, installing roof bolts, mesh and applying a sprayed concrete lining in layers. Continuing down with the mid section and invert to form a ring structure.
The viaduct section was built on spread footings, extra width piers capped with Earthquake suppression pads. The deck spans were either DSM, ASM or falsework cast insitu station tracks and platforms. One river bridge was erected using steel frame units, the others were cast insitu stressed beams and decks. The viaducts provided free movement for farmers, rather than an embankment.
The contract was awarded to THSR on a design, build equip and run basis. The partners in THSR included Eva Air and Fubon bank, expat employees were given access to free flights and banking from these two companies.
Fascinating, thank you for your well informed comment!
Great video. I like the background and timeline you have described. It’s sad you have to put up with the drivel from those who can’t appreciate this engineering masterpiece.
Ahhh, thank you. It’s interesting collating points of view on this page though. More comments the better!
Joe90. Why do anything? You'd have us in mud huts and dressed in bear skins. After all, we soon won't need heating with the world heating up! We won't need heat pumps either. Thank god at 20K a throw.
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That's a 70 tonner machine not 90 tons
Its hard to tell, not a great deal of difference visibly from a distance. You’re probably right but I still think it could be the 90 tonner machine.
I live closby. The mess and chaos HS2 has caused and for what? To drop the time from London to Birmingham? This has cost billions, no one will benefit apart from the consultant's, land agents and construction companies etc. Monumental waste of money that would be better allocated to building new hospitals,
£1.6 billion, about the same as the winter fuel payments for pensioners.
@@Joe90V it wouldn’t be a long term solution IMO. Insulate Britain? New builds should have PV cells and a heat pump as standard. We waste countless millions on fuelling our homes with non renewable energy when the solution is renewable. By reducing the outgoing costs of energy we increase homeowners budgets.
@@jamesmaclarnon yeah