Fascinating to see all the elements coming together. Little did I realise, walking up a muddy disused railway track with my then-girlfriend and her dog in 1978, that 45 years later there would be a new high-capacity railway linking our major cities on that very spot. Good luck with the remaining construction.

The regard given for the environment is actually incredible vs other HSR projects around the world and even in Europe, just a shame costs/timeframes are always out of whack in all big infrastructure projects in the UK (and the wider Anglosphere too), though I suspect this will be forgotten when the benefits are realised like with other projects

@mattytullos8766

Жыл бұрын

You clearly haven't a clue about the environment works! Who are you then? Someone set to make lots of money, a business person who needs to get to Birmingham 25 seconds quicker? Or are you one of those types who stand at the platform and get all excited like a four year old? 🤔

@1DontNoclip

Жыл бұрын

I think the high speed rail in Japan was hugely controversial because of its cost but look at it now!

Hs 2 will really enhance the country side I'm sure

Excellent progress so far, really incredible 😊

And the empty, soon to be abandoned swath of demolition at Euston station …? How had this hole improved the land ?

Can you please do a video on the site by the A38 in Staffordshire?

I thought I'll just mention on this channel, that HS2 progress can now be seen on Google Earth.

“Ecosystems permanently damaged. Irreplaceable habitats destroyed. Taxpayer's money spent on habitat restoration wasted. Wildlife extinctions at a local level. This will be nature’s fate if UK Government doesn't rethink HS2” Wild life Trust: This IS NOT an endorsement of HS2 green credentials

@davecooper3238

Жыл бұрын

I used to live within a mile of this tunnel at a time when the Kenilworth/Berkswell single track branch line ran through a narrow cutting. These tunnels follow the line of the cutting. The tunnels are wider than the cutting. This meant demolishing the village hall. Now replaced with a new improved version.

What's happening to the old railway alignment north of the road? Is that just being taken over by HS2?

@Whiskey2shots

Жыл бұрын

I think thats the Greenway they mentioned? They're realigning it and reconnecting it with local infrastructure

GREEN WASHING !!!! Here is London Euston 2023 : HS2's big hole: what should happen to flattened site now work has come to a halt? Traders in famous curry restaurant street devastated as they are left next to wasteland…

👍

Why a cut and cover tunnel instead of a normal bored one? Is it due to the low height of the hill, money, speed or smth?

@isnitjustkit

Жыл бұрын

It's cheaper, faster, and easier

and the large abandoned hole at Euston??? Comments please

Can we have a video of the now abandoned, site at Euston and show how a few tastefully placed pot plants, have helped create a real rural feel in the local area ?

@thorley1969

Жыл бұрын

Euston hasn't been abandoned. It's just the date for the completion of the station has been pushed back to 2040. Still plenty of work going on along the station approaches.

@mikehindson-evans159

Жыл бұрын

Paused, not abandoned. Sensible reaction to the UK finances. Old Oak Common could not cope as the permanent terminus. It HAS to be Euston, this tine with the logicsl 11-platform configuration which is actually needed for the full longterm service delivery.

HS2 contractor confirms ‘sizeable’ sinkhole in Buckinghamshire

They try and trump negative comments- can HS2 address the issue of chopping down ancient oaks, as well this garbage ?

The UK has an appalling record record with major infrastructure projects, and from past examples rightly so. But HS2 is so encouraging. As a naturalist, I did coastal wildlife surveys pre and post the channel tunnel. then nature didn't matter much. With HS2 there has a been an earth shift in thinking, where wildlife , and communities matter. I get that you cant move ancient woodland, but but by doing there very best and replanting far more than was removed is a slightly better option. We need nett zero. building more roads will not do. Rail is miles better than motorways, even with EVs. Life is about imperfect compromise. I am on the "green side". yes, best not to travel at all, but it is a human condition, would you rather more cars, busses and trucks? or a few trains?. HS2 in not a good option, but is the better option given human kind.

@1chish

Жыл бұрын

Excellent comment. Sadly the Naysayers are just blind to the exceptional measures being taken by HS2.

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

@@1chish I get the Naysayers. some will be blind. but they have a voice and should also be heard. UN-usually HS2 is doing that, to a point. and hats of to them

@mattytullos8766

Жыл бұрын

Just so a bunch of business types can get to Birmingham a few minutes faster? I'd rather have the wildlife, green space, trees and nature any day!

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

@@mattytullos8766 No, it's about INCREASING CAPACITY! The faster journey times are just a bonus - how many more times am I going to have to point that out?

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

@@mattytullos8766 says they man typing on a computer and no doubt has children : totally Ignoring their impact on the environment when it suits.

Can't believe all the naysayers here with absolutely no forward vision. We build the line now so that we future proof our rail network. If we all took the same attitude as you, we'd all still be going around by horse and cart.

Why is HS2 using such a vast amount of land? Railway construction methods were perfected in terms of efficiency in the late 1800s, using the rail heading being constructed to move mass materials forward from excavation sites such as cuttings and tunnels to embankments etc. You would think that using that method but with modern excavators in place of navvies would be even better. We seem to have a fixation today with having to use trucks to shift muck. Comparison of timescales would suggest the old methods are superior too. Brunel would have had the thing built and carrying passengers before HS2 had got the haul roads in.

Also ….. HS2 contractor confirms ‘sizeable’ sinkhole in Buckinghamshire

Take a shot everytime he says tunnel

There is much local pressure from the villagers to make sure this structure does not disrupt nearby houses, traffic routes and the existing greenway, which is a cycle route using the same abandoned railway line which HS2 has taken over, all meeting at this odd pinchpoint for the HS2 project. There is a lot to get right at Burton Green and much could go wrong. That's why HS2 is being particularly conciliatory by presenting this public centred progress report. It is unfortunate that the term 'green' tunnel continues to be used; it is a false impression that this method of tunnel building is of benefit to the environment, as opposed to the more environmentally considerate bored tunnel. The Burton Green tunnel should be called a 'cut and cover' tunnel, which describes the process. This is the only place on the HS2 route between London and Birmingham in which a cut and cover tunnel is more environmentally appropriate than a bored tunnel, because it will be dropped through the bottom of an existing railway cutting. Sadly enormous environmental destruction is occurring at Wendover, Greatworth and Chipping Warden tunnels which might have been bored but are not; and lamentably the ancient woods of Cubbington have lost their integrity by being sliced through when a more enlightened engineer might have proposed a short bored tunnel there

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

And yet you want more railways. And have them cost less. The two are incompatible with all the nimby requests. In fact Britain wouldn’t even have the railways they have today if we had the same so called nimbys and environmental ‘activists’ we have today….oh and notice in every case the environment has always recovered after construction.

1 stop hs2 oak common to Birmingham?

@peterwilliamallen1063

Жыл бұрын

No mate, HS2 is terminating at London Euston to Birmingham, keep up with the news

@danielspencer6174

Жыл бұрын

I know it london Euston all I'm asking when stop at oak common station is it 1 stop from there?

@peterwilliamallen1063

Жыл бұрын

@@danielspencer6174 It is just one stop from OOC to Euston and the only other intermediate station on HS2 will be Birmingham Interchange.

Playing with words “a green tunnel is make a cut then fill it in”. .. the victorians calked it a cut & shut ffs.

Why do they need a tunnel in flat Warwickshire? Surely unnecessary expense

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

To appease all the NIMBYs that keep moaning and bitching about the impact!

HS2 delays: hundreds of Londoners are stuck in homes they can’t sell amid stalled construction

😹😹😹

Who will ride the white elephant, clown G B ?

@peterwilliamallen1063

Жыл бұрын

Same price as now by Avanti West Coast from Birmingham New Street to London Euston

get on with it

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

@@PerryDaPlatapus With the willpower we could, and build more of it.

@intherealworld7705

Жыл бұрын

Could have built miles more for less £ and in far less time where is not for all the greenwashing

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

@@intherealworld7705 100% We could. But that's not what most people want, and many want even more "greenwashing" as you call it

@isnitjustkit

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkUKInsects With the power of friendship...

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

@@isnitjustkit What better way of boosting the power of friendship and love could be making travel available and affordable to many?

BOLLOCKS

@1chish

Жыл бұрын

I see you are a LibDem supporter ... 😂😂

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

Care to elaborate?

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

@@1chish Who are in favour of HS2!

@1chish

Жыл бұрын

@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Exactly just as most political parties are although I was recalling the LibDems use of that word on some T Shirts!

@mattytullos8766

Жыл бұрын

B-b-bloody bwell bed, Brian! 😂

They want to build a vent shaft beside the River Mersey on a wonderful site of natural regeneration with 25+ species of tree, bats and newts. The nearby golf course is not being considered for cost reasons !!! They have NO green credentials and the tax payers ( you and me ) are paying for this glossy video 😮😮😮

@nw5835

Жыл бұрын

If you know anything of vent shafts within any environment you would be hard pressed to identify one, you will most likely not know it's there. No doubt you have your own agenda.

@mattytullos8766

Жыл бұрын

Do you know anything about the environment? 🤔

@mikehindson-evans159

Жыл бұрын

Err - HS2 isn't currently going anywhere near the Mersey? Which bit of the Mersey are you referring to?

Enhance? Very funny. NOT

Not needed, waste of money = a white elephant which will blight the genuine rail projects that this country desperately needs like improved east west connectivity across the Pennines. The government’s own inquiry says that it will be marginal value for money at current costs. With premium fares to use it and limited, if any time saving it’s time to pull the plug on the Digbeth to Wormwood Scrubs railway.

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

Although this is HSR. Its primary aim is to increase capacity on the biggest bottle-neck in the rail network. One bonus will be to open part of the "old" rail to more cargo taking 1000s of trucks of the road. The HS bit is a secondary. Hopefully HS2 will make a cross Pennine route more viable. That will be very costly because of the Geology. But I would rather have that than another motorway.

@simonturner5450

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkUKInsects taking that argument then surely a better plan would be to build hs2 as a freight only line, dramatically reducing the cost as you are running at slower speeds and you don’t need the vast expense of Euston or Curzon Street.

@MarkUKInsects

Жыл бұрын

@@simonturner5450 A freight only line would give you 2 slow lines. and the existing line still couldn't cope with passenger numbers. it hasn't coped for nearly 30 years.

@Inkyminkyzizwoz

Жыл бұрын

It IS needed and will people STOP making out that it's one or the other?

@Whiskey2shots

Жыл бұрын

​@@simonturner5450 the reason for HS2 gaining capacity has more to do with removing the none stop express services north south on all 3 main lines (as originally envisioned) this allowing more freight in the rails and more local/stopper passenger services. A freight line is a bit nonsensical here as it would only maybe gain you one extra path on the main lines instead of the several HS2 gains, and alot of freight goes all over the place making one new line quite difficult to engineer to suit all. So you can either have one high speed line that creates loads of new capacity, or several slow freight lines that only marginally increase capacity. I do however agree we should be enhancing and hugely expanding our rail freight network and classic network as well (note I say as well) preferably all electrified