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I love the way it's right next to the existing line. I live near Southam and 5 or 6 years in and not a metre of track laid from what I can see. It's ironic really that HS2 have constructed more miles of enabling roads than the total length of track to be laid.

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Can we get a new video from September showing the exiting road and how it is affected in Burton Green?

Truly shocking waste of public money!

Lots goin on there m8 -have to see the finished product! (Subbed you btw).

Awesome video 😊👌 new subscriber 😊

Looks great, can't wait for trains to start running.

Whats the purpose of leaving those foundations 4:40 underwater?

Thanks for the bonus train.

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

That bridge has gone up since my last visit to the lane. Time I went back round.

Love how you are covering new sections! Thanks for sharing 👍

Another great video mate

Love the intro on your channel, this is a mammoth task that's been undertaken, it's always good to see where our hard earned income tax is being spent, appreciate the share 👍👍

Looks like another big push of a bridge, but this time a rail underbridge including the embankment each side. I hope it all goes well. The A46 is a dual-carriageway here.

Good to see the area from the air. Helps interpret what I see from the ground.

Certainly coming along.It looks as if the invert in thevtunnehas been filled in ready for tracklaying. When the road is reinstated it should provide a good vantage point for photos of trains going in and out of the tunnel.

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

This is one of the many locations where, under funding and over-spend pressures, HS2 and DfT deemed it less costly to pause works here (for the moment) than continue. Once a better grasp of costings are understood and approved, works will continue. There will be a reduction of parallel works, in favour of a more serial approach, reducing capital and manpower resources at any given time but at the expense of delivery dates. One of the problems with this pause is that 'temporary' local route closures and diversion will remain far longer than initially forecast.

that bridge aint level for shit bruv, it's lower on the left. no one used Gary Neville (spirit level)

What a bloody mess they have made of our countryside just to do a simple thing like build a railway?

Wowww........... Thank you for this 🙂

Another Great video! You are spoiling us this weekend mate. 😊

I drive that road quite a bit and I always wonder what's been going on there and just how much progress ha been made. Thank you for this video 🙂

Great haul roads and ‘clean’ contractor roads along the whole job. Railway formation mostly missing.

Looks like it’s going to be like plenty of road improvements just like what’s happening near me.

Great drone footage and amazing aerial view. 👍👍👍 Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

None of these bridges would be needed if the line was in a tunnel

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Waste of money

Over the last few months, have you noticed a slowing of the pace of work and a mysterious absence of people all along at least a 26 mile length of this between Stoneleigh and Radstone? Where once there used to be numerous hives of activity, there remains widespread unfinished ancillery jobs, a sudden absence of most heavy plant and a handful of security staff only.

There do seem to be a lot of culverts on the new line. Maybe they know future weather will be hotter and wetter?

I’d be thinking culverts if it’s some sort of flood plain? Theres’s nothing like them on the online drawing to show that number though, so it might be a recent change?

03:20 It's not clear what these structures across the intended solum are, or what they are for - any ideas please?

Thank you for this excellent footage. We can now see the signs of substantial progress. The world-class civil engineer will appreciate the comments on alignment by the armchair citizen technologists. Now, why can't the viaduct be made of glass?

Love these videos 🙂

needs to be speeded up.

All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising. When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this. The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight. This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.

Wow when I first glanced at this video I initially thought wow at last someone has finally laid some track for HS2, but then realised I was mistaken as it was a new bridge over a victorian railway, how amiss I am to think that HS2 is supposed to be a new railway but someone has forgotten to lay any track. This whole thing is some civil engineering fiasco where they are more interested in destroying the landscape with haul roads and work sites than of laying down the railway that all this money is meant for.

This starts by showing Balsall Common Viaduct which runs northwest from Truggist Lane. At around 2:15 the drone follows the route over the last of the viaduct piers, Truggist Lane and onto the Beechwood Embankment. 2:55 we can see where the embankment will rise up to the Carol Green Rail Underbridge, there is a retaining wall built here as well. 3:05 we can under the retaining wall the Lanscombe culvert 3:45 the Beechwood Embankment continues to the southeast of the Carol Green Rail Underbridge with another retaining wall. After that we can see either the beginnings of the Footpath M191 Underpass and next to it the Truggist Hill culvert.

This shows the B4113 Stoneleigh Road Green Overbridge near Stoneleigh (Business) Park. The green bridge is wider than the road that will go over it so it will probably have some landscaping and allow humans and animals to cross the HS2 tracks without having to be too close to the road traffic on the bridge. According to the plans available on the gov.uk website there's also going to be a new roundabout south of the bridge with an exit into the business park. Stareton lane joins Stoneleigh Road north of the bridge though.

When I look at some of the construction now it sometimes looks like it is not in line with further work, perhaps it will all come clearer has time passes, keep up with the videos.

Any ideas what the Black trapezoid is?

Bridge due to be rebuilt as not signed off 'fit for purpose', so another 2 years to wait.

Tunnel to nowhere ........

Thanks for an excellent update.

nice video, but painfully slow progress, sadly.