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The government wants to get private developers to help build the new HS2 station by essentially building a massive mixed-used development on top of the platforms. Right now, they have scrapped like 2 or 3 previous designs, causing the eventual cost to be even higher. Right now there is NO DEFINITIVE PLAN to build the station or combine it with a rebuild of the original Euston station, which is what really should be prioritized. Ultimately the tories have messed up and delayed Esuton for no other reason than incompetence.

Precisely David. Hopefully someone with some balls will get this project built in its entirety and drag this country into the 21st century. We cannot keep being reliant on roads and heavily polluting internal flights should not exist. With passenger numbers back up to pre-covid levels and only set to increase, the existing network will reach breaking point and no matter of 'upgrades' will fix it. (They already tried)

@@davidwatson8292 .. haha, you mean "modern electric trains" that will run almost empty & will NEVER be carbon neutral through their entire, projected lifetime? The whole sorry project has been a disaster from day one & continues to be so. Labour have already stated that when they win the election, they have NO plans whatsoever to "revive" the scrapped sections & fingers crossed, they'll cancel the whole lot 🤞

@@thorley1969 .. I've got news for you .. even if HS2 had been built in full, it would have ZERO effect on internal flights (which are actually increasing due to the haphazard way our rail system is run & the ludicrous pricing system). Also, research shows that traffic on the M40 & M1 would decrease by less than 1%. Arguments that the rail network is at "full capacity" rely on a discredited, out of date forecasting model which overestimates long distance passenger growth & isn't used for anything anymore except to justify the monstrous vanity project that is HS2. Network Rail's "New Lines Programme Capacity Analysis" shows that WCML capacity is kept artificially low by private operators wanting to maximise profits. A DfT analysis shows that in peak hours leaving Euston, WCML trains were loaded at just 52.2%.

It's all good for the southerners but what about the north?

@@CRIMSONANT1 Sorry James but your cherry picked information is so out of date. How often do you travel on the WCML? Not often enough it seems. It doesn't take much do bring it to a snail's pace. The signaling blocks are often full and with the current system, trains are forced to slow down. Time to wake up and get with the times. High speed rail is coming whether you like it or not and phase 1 will be in service within the next decade. I suppose I should stick with tradition and ask you yet again, what is your most viable alternative for inter city transport in this country?

Err, I won't be cycling from Cheshire to London. I require a modern fast rail system with the added capacity to meet Britain's growing population over the coming 120 years. Just as the Victorians bequeathed us a large rail system (which we have now outgrown) so we must invest for our future. We cannot widen the M6 any more. However, in a democracy, you are entitled to express such an opinion. Just don't expect the Silent Majority to fall into line with you.

@@mikehindson-evans159 .. haha 🤣 Firstly, the "majority" are against HS2 as opinion polls have regularly shown for the past 12 years! Secondly, you might not be cycling to London from Cheshire but you certainly won't be travelling on a "high speed" train (have you been on another planet for the last year)? Thirdly, what was once forecast to be a world beating high speed rail service connecting the South to the North & beyond has been reduced to nothing more than a shuttle service between West London & Birmingham. Golborne link - scrapped. Eastern Leg - scrapped. Northern leg - scrapped. The disaster that is Euston station - "on hold" for two years & will only continue if private investment can be found. Add into the mix the blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed where senior executives shredded documents & used misleading projections to ensure that billions of pounds kept flowing into the project. Whistleblowers claim they were told by bosses to lie about the project’s cost & were sacked after speaking out. They say the government wasn't informed of the real cost of HS2 for years, all while voting on laws that approved its construction. You've been hoodwinked by HS2 from day one & have fallen for it hook, line & sinker just like all the other extremely gullible HS2 fanboys 😉

@CRIMSONANT1 In a democracy, you are of course entitled to your opinion. The original Stockton & Darlington started as a "shuttle service". Are you even looking at the current population stats for the UK?

@@mikehindson-evans159 .. but the HS2 fanboys were expecting sooooo much more than a shuttle service weren't they? It's not just my "opinion" .. I'm quoting facts or do you not like the truth?

@@mikehindson-evans159 I'm afraid this same clown basically copies and pastes the same diatribe on just about every HS2 video but most of us live in the real world and will welcome a much needed upgrade to our transport system. He likes to brand it as a vanity project but he would have probably have been saying the same thing 200 years ago when the first rail lines were being built claiming we already have canals so we don't need anything else. It will be so much more than a 'shuttle service' as it will also carry the bulk of long distance trains off of the southern section of the WCML.

It was closed last time I was there, looks like it has been newly resurfaced?

The TBM's HAVE been delivered but as the disaster that is Euston has been "put on hold" for two years, the machines have been buried into the site at OOC until a decision is made in the future as to whether Euston will actually go ahead & it will only do so if private investment can be found. The whole scenario is reminiscent of a Hollywood comedy & HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

No the TBM's are not there yet. An 800 metre logistics tunnel has been built to supply them without disrupting work on Old Oak Common Station. The maxpchines are due to be delivered over the next few months and will then be assembled at OOC and will drive the first 200 plus metres of tunnel. These contracts were already in place when the Euston tunnels were paused.

@@Jamie92208 Crimsonant keeps up with HS2 progress and therefore knows full well where this is up to. As they are patently anti HS2, they apparently are not above spreading misinformation about it.

​@@peterrobinson6872.. "spreading misinformation" ? All of the points I mentioned in my comment can be fact checked online & also appear on HS2' s own website! The whole sorry project has been a disaster from day one & continues to be so & now that the blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd has recently been exposed, it's obvious that the public & the government have been lied to about the true cost of this massive white elephant.

At this point it is running to the Turweston Green Bridge in a cutting. From HS2 "Once the deck has been completed, the road will be moved back over the new bridge and excavation can begin to create space for the railway to pass underneath".

The A43 will become a 65m deck carrying traffic OVER the HS2 line which will be cut underneath the A43. The foundation pilings are underway now and go 52 meters down. We're doing videos on this too. It's a phenomenal project!

HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Er silly mech Eng graduate here, would it not have been a million times less expensive to have simply built a viaduct over the road? Plonk the supporting strut in the middle of this two roads and just have the road deviate permanently? Another 500M pissed down the drain

​@@flyDJIuk.. it's also a phenomenal WASTE of money .. nothing but a massive vanity project & an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

Cost, lazy design, excessive demand for housing meaning you can chuck any old tripe at people. Build it and they will come. Build loads of the same and it will save costs....

Whoops of course it does

Pity we won't be around in a 100yrs time to hear the comments then

@@jimrobinson6362 .. well, HS2 certainly won't "be around" in 100 years. Within a decade of opening (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), it'll be nothing more than a glorified cycle path 😉

Sadly had left microphone at home, trying to add more audio to the drone videos. Thanks for watching