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HS2 sky view Warwickshire
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Welcome to my channel here you will see me covering all HS2 sites across Warwickshire from above. And revisiting locations to keep you all updated on the progress in the area
I will aim to post regular updates. All dates shown are true dates of recordings, depending on the weather flying conditions video releases may differ from week too week
Thanks for all your support on my channel
I will aim to post regular updates. All dates shown are true dates of recordings, depending on the weather flying conditions video releases may differ from week too week
Thanks for all your support on my channel
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HS2 Cryfield grange road 2nd September 2024
มุมมอง 1.2Kวันที่ผ่านมา
HS2 Cryfield grange road 2nd September 2024
HS2 Hunningham road near offchurch 29th August 2024
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HS2 Hunningham road near offchurch 29th August 2024
HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 28th August 2024
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HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 28th August 2024
HS2 Banbury Road near Wormleighton 25th August 2024
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HS2 Banbury Road near Wormleighton 25th August 2024
HS2 Southam road A425 25th August 2024
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HS2 Southam road A425 25th August 2024
HS2 Station road and Banbury Road near Southam 18th August 2024
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HS2 Station road and Banbury Road near Southam 18th August 2024
HS2 Welsh road near Ufton 17th July 2024
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HS2 Welsh road near Ufton 17th July 2024
HS2 Lark road near Southam 15th July 2024
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HS2 Lark road near Southam 15th July 2024
HS2 Waste lane near Burton green 8th July 2024
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HS2 Waste lane near Burton green 8th July 2024
HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 7th July 2024
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HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 7th July 2024
HS2 Burton Green split screen now and then
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HS2 Burton Green split screen now and then
HS2 Kenilworth road A429 26th June 2024
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HS2 Kenilworth road A429 26th June 2024
HS2 Banbury Road near Wormleighton 11th June 2024
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HS2 Banbury Road near Wormleighton 11th June 2024
HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 6th June 2024
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HS2 Coventry road near Cubbington 6th June 2024
HS2 Welsh Road just off Fosse way B4455 3rd June 2024
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HS2 Welsh Road just off Fosse way B4455 3rd June 2024
HS2 Welsh road near Ufton 3rd June 2024
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HS2 Welsh road near Ufton 3rd June 2024
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?
@@JohnOKeefe-x6m are see what I can do 👍🏻
Truly shocking waste of public money!
Lots goin on there m8 -have to see the finished product! (Subbed you btw).
Awesome video 😊👌 new subscriber 😊
Thanks 😊
Looks great, can't wait for trains to start running.
Whats the purpose of leaving those foundations 4:40 underwater?
The water is likely used on site, eg dampening down dust, rather than using water from a stream or pipe.
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 👍👍
Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & our "hard earned income tax" is being wasted on an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@CRIMSONANT1so true, do you know what the cost has been so far 🤔
@@CRIMSONANT1 i doubt you said that about the motorways when they were getting built
@@Steve53 .. HS2 Ltd revised its figures again in January this year saying inflation since 2019 would likely add another £8-10 billion to its previous estimate, bringing the overall cost up to a potential £67 billion of which approx £27 billion has been spent so far.
@@bobthegreat297 .. nope, because when motorways were built, they enabled people & trade to get from A to B in relatively quick times. Research shows that even if HS2 had been built in full, traffic on the M40 & M1 would reduce by less than 1% & it would have ZERO effect on domestic flights. The blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed, reveals that senior management used misleading projections & "facts" (commonly known as lies), to ensure that billions of pounds kept flowing into the project. It's nothing but fraud on a gigantic scale & will ultimately result in a public enquiry. They've been fooling the public & the government since day one of this massive white elephant & sadly, all the HS2 fanboys have fallen for their lies hook, line & sinker 😉
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.
Perhaps one day, the local punters down at the Plough Inn, The Carpenters Arms and The Butchers Arms will start asking questions...
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 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. 👍👍👍
@@transylvanianvistas Thank you 👍🏻
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.
The NAO - National Audit Office issued a report last month: Report - Value for money HS2: update following cancellation of Phase 2 Date: 23 Jul 2024 "In October 2023, the government announced significant changes to the HS2 programme, including the cancellation of Phase 2 of the railway from the West Midlands to Manchester, and a smaller HS2 station in London Euston. The government took these decisions due to increasing costs of Phase 1, repeated delays to the schedule and changing patterns of travel since the COVID-19 pandemic, which it considered to have weakened the case for HS2." [...] "As soon as government announced plans to cancel Phase 2, DfT and HS2 Ltd started work to understand and respond to immediate risks to value for money. They established what decisions were needed on the scope of Phase 1 to minimise unnecessary costs and established plans to decommission Phase 2 sites." [...] "The government’s decision to cancel Phase 2 created uncertainties in a range of complex areas, particularly as HS2 Ltd and other rail organisations had not been involved with the decision." [..] "After the announcement, DfT worked with HS2 Ltd and others to establish a critical path and identify options by the end of 2023 to allow for informed decision-making on different actions and trade-offs. DfT’s general principle is to stop work where it is no longer needed for Phase 1 unless it would cost more to stop or change plans. " [...] "HS2 Ltd has established a new role of Chief Railway Officer, with responsibility for integration and focusing programme decisions on how to best deliver the whole Phase 1 railway, rather than individual component projects. HS2 Ltd also needed to reestablish its senior leadership following the departure of its Chief Executive in September 2023 and the interim appointment of an Executive Chair." [...] "rior to the October 2023 decisions, HS2 Ltd estimated that the total costs of Phase 1 would be £49 billion to £57 billion, while DfT estimated a cost to complete of £45 billion to £54 billion. Both estimates are above the current funding envelope of £44.6 billion (all 2019 prices), and HS2 Ltd has since identified cost pressures which will increase their estimated range further." [..] "DfT and HS2 Ltd should agree on the final cost of Phase 1 before they agree with HM Treasury a revised funding envelope for the HS2 programme, as well as establish revised financial controls, including an approach to annual funding beyond 2024-25 and the programme’s overall contingency. " [...] "An important element of this plan is for HS2 Ltd to renegotiate its four main construction contracts to better incentivise cost control and achieve greater certainty on costs. However, DfT and HS2 Ltd acknowledge that successfully renegotiating major contracts that are already in progress will not be straightforward"
@41istair, That's a very interesting synopsis. But does it mean the entire project is going to suffer some sort of a cutback ? Coming from the construction industry (now retired) I can't see how the existing construction contracts can be renegotiated unless 80 to 90 % of the scope of works can be defined leaving the contractors to take a risk on the outstanding 10 to 20%. I'm not sure the project has reached that stage yet so it is likely things will continue as they are with no known end cost or date.
There do seem to be a lot of culverts on the new line. Maybe they know future weather will be hotter and wetter?
Any railway (or road) has far more culverts than most people would think. There is a culvert(s) for every depression in the topography.
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.
To state the obvious, you can't have the track before the civil engineering work has been installed.
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.
I've added this to my map but I can't really share the url in the comment section. If anyone wants access reply to this and we can find a way to share the link
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.
@@isaac.raskin cheers Isaac, appreciate the insight 👍
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.
What do you mean by “in line”?
Dont forget they will be putting down the hard core ballest (which will be alot 100+ miles) to then get leveled out then the track will be set down and tamper machines fix up the line.
Yes, I agree it does look a bit off line in some places, lets hope it's an optical illusion.
I think it is an optical illusion as you see the entrance to the new rail underbridge for the existing railway line and thst makes the eye think that HS2 is heading I to the tunnel rather than over it.
Don’t forget there is a temporary haul road on one side, which may make the whole site look lop sided.
Any ideas what the Black trapezoid is?
That's the only trouble with his videos. There's no explanation about anything.
@@SWRural-fk2ub Maybe he doesn't know. I appreciate his videos, they cover areas that are not covered by the other droners. Be good if someone who does know the answer could comment. Looks like some kind of temporary surface that will be lifted and pushed to form the new overbridge, but seems like a big structure for this and doesn't follow the usual procedure they have been using on other bridges.
Just watched it again and judging by the big columns on either side of it, I wonder if this is the new overbridge and this time they dig out the ground underneath leaving the road in its place and the train track running underneath. Still seems like a hell of a lot of extra work
Thats all the rebar for the overbridge , about to be cast in place. The columns are concrete pilings forming a diaphragm wall. As you say they will dig out under , between the piling. This way they make the bridge deck in one go, without having to crane beams into place over a trench.
@@simoncroft9792 Cheers Simon!
Bridge due to be rebuilt as not signed off 'fit for purpose', so another 2 years to wait.
Tunnel to nowhere ........
In tiime.....it will link up. They cant do everything at once.:)
The track bed wont go in yet. Afterall you would not want to drive machinary over it. The track stuff is the easy part so left till much later.
Thanks for an excellent update.
nice video, but painfully slow progress, sadly.
Agree. Long itchington wood bored tunnel completed in half the time! Thanks for the video, focus does not seem to be as sharp as usual though.
@@simoncroft9792 thanks for the feedback I think the gimbal is playing up again are take a look at it 👍🏻