Interestingly, as the retained cutting get shallower and shallower as it approaches Berkswell, the wall is retained on south side for some distance, with a traditional cutting slope on the north side. I assume the cut-and-cover tunnel will eventually get a roof. I wonder what material they'll use.
Sorry, I'm struggling to understand, how is rail obsolete? What would a viable alternative be? If your answer is maglev then be prepared for the price tag that goes with that then also consider it will be incompatible with any other part of the transport network. Not picking a fight, just trying to get what you mean by obsolete.
@@thorley1969 tell that to people like me who live in Warwickshire and despair of more of their county buried underneath tons more concrete, Try and imagine of you lived in those houses close to those culverts. why not pop around there and ask for their opinion. Not picking a fight just wondering where you live and how this travesty improves anything ?
@@beecee2205 I freely admit that I don't live along the route of HS2 but this country does need vital infrastructure and unfortunately it has to go somewhere. The construction phase will always be the most disruptive, there's no avoiding that on any construction project. Like HS1, once construction is complete, it's influence on the surroundings will be minimal. Sure better than building more motorways. Unfortunately people seem fixated on the high speed time saving aspect of the line and not the capacity alleviating purpose. We might not see things the same way but I like to be optimistic about this project. Always happy to discuss.
@@thorley1969 I am not fixated on the time business I dont need to because of the following truth. My nearest Mainline station is 3 miles away. The quickest Avanti train takes 70 minutes. I can get a bus to the train station as can the rest of my town for a couple of quid. If I choose to take HS2 I would go via the Interchange at Water Orton which is 10 mile away . Please note that there is no bus service from Nuneaton, so I would take the car. Petrol is not free. Neither will parking be. And if you think the train ticket for h2s will be cheaper than avanti I would call you a four letter word beginning with L. this scenario is exactly the same for every single town in Warwickshire. Because we are already served very well by main line. So what benefit does Warwickshire get ? tell the truth - I have.
@@beecee2205 I know it's far from ideal and no one is pretending that this will benefit everyone but this is a national project that will alleviate the congestion on the busiest section on one of Europe's busiest railway lines. All inter city trains will use HS2 between London and Handsacre Junction where they will rejoin the WCML. Having regularly seen the problems caused by mixed traffic on a single route with no extra capacity available, there is only one logical answer which is to create separation which HS2 does.
I am not generally impressed with HS2, there are tunnels yes, and viaducts, but neither are unique to this railway; and there has been much destruction of historic landscapes. But I am impressed with the works at Burton Green. Mile after mile of large scale clearance is suddenly met with a contradiction at a pinch point - an opportunity to tunnel a ready made abandoned railway cutting slap bang between houses, crossed by a road, spanning a greenway. It looks like a giant needle threaded into quicksand and I cannot imagine the cost of this mile or so of railway. When the landscape is reinstated this will be the only section of route to actually improve the environment, a feeble consolation. A pleasure to watch drone footage of this quality
What a load of bull, there will be 60% more wild habitat when construction ends Save your protest for roads which cause far more damage to our countryside than any railway every could
If you look on the Phase 1 plans, which are available on the Gov.uk website, you see that so much of the land clearance is for environmental mitigation and the actual railway (including embankment and cutting slopes) is a fairly small part. You can see from the video where planting on these cleared areas is becoming established but it will take a few years before the landscape heals with new woodland, wetland and grassland plus the balancing ponds designed to deal with heavy rain run-off from the track. Once major construction works are completed, the construction compounds and access roads will be removed and the sites landscaped. HS2 must be the greenest major infrastructure project ever constructed in the UK. Probably a good idea to look at HS1 through Kent, which would have looked much like this back in the '90s.
@@martinsloman6905 what has HS1 done for the inhabitans 0f Kent ? and what will HS2 do for the inhabitants of Warwickshire, that they do not currently have ?
@@beecee2205 I didn't say that HS2 would improve the environment as it's fairly obvious that building a double track high speed railway through open countryside is going to do some damage. What I referred to was environmental mitigation. So, where ancient woodland has to be cut down - something that is unavoidable for a high speed alignment, HS2 plants far more trees in mitigation - often using soil transplanted from the woodland site. That is obviously not a perfect solution and people will still talk about 'ecocide' and make comparisons to the felling of the Amazonian rain forest but were HS2 to be constructed in full, it would account for only 0.018% of the total remaining ancient woodland in the UK. Far more woodland is lost to wind farms and how much was lost to the 2,200 mile motorway network is anyone's guess. The irony of HS2 is that so much of the 'environmental destruction' attributed to the new line is due to environmental mitigation measures. That includes excessive length of cuttings created simply to screen the railway from sight and hearing and not for traditional engineering reasons and then the large areas of tree planting, grasslands and water meadows - all designed both to screen the railway and increase biodiversity. However, all that you see in current drone videos is acres of mud. (If you want to know the extent and type of these works look for the HS2 route plans on the gov.uk website). The real environmental benefit of HS2 comes from the low energy use and carbon emissions of rail transport. Reduced journey times encourage modal shift from far more carbon intensive modes such as domestic airlines and road transport. However, the main advantage of HS2 is the huge amount of capacity it releases on the existing railway for freight and local and inter-city trains. The more passengers and freight we can get onto rail, the more likely the UK is to achieve carbon targets.
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Interestingly, as the retained cutting get shallower and shallower as it approaches Berkswell, the wall is retained on south side for some distance, with a traditional cutting slope on the north side. I assume the cut-and-cover tunnel will eventually get a roof. I wonder what material they'll use.
Good view of Berkswell Station.
All that land buried under concrete and for what? A mode of transport that was obsolete 100 years ago.
Sorry, I'm struggling to understand, how is rail obsolete? What would a viable alternative be? If your answer is maglev then be prepared for the price tag that goes with that then also consider it will be incompatible with any other part of the transport network. Not picking a fight, just trying to get what you mean by obsolete.
@@thorley1969 tell that to people like me who live in Warwickshire and despair of more of their county buried underneath tons more concrete, Try and imagine of you lived in those houses close to those culverts. why not pop around there and ask for their opinion. Not picking a fight just wondering where you live and how this travesty improves anything ?
@@beecee2205 I freely admit that I don't live along the route of HS2 but this country does need vital infrastructure and unfortunately it has to go somewhere. The construction phase will always be the most disruptive, there's no avoiding that on any construction project. Like HS1, once construction is complete, it's influence on the surroundings will be minimal. Sure better than building more motorways. Unfortunately people seem fixated on the high speed time saving aspect of the line and not the capacity alleviating purpose. We might not see things the same way but I like to be optimistic about this project. Always happy to discuss.
@@thorley1969 I am not fixated on the time business I dont need to because of the following truth. My nearest Mainline station is 3 miles away. The quickest Avanti train takes 70 minutes. I can get a bus to the train station as can the rest of my town for a couple of quid. If I choose to take HS2 I would go via the Interchange at Water Orton which is 10 mile away . Please note that there is no bus service from Nuneaton, so I would take the car. Petrol is not free. Neither will parking be. And if you think the train ticket for h2s will be cheaper than avanti I would call you a four letter word beginning with L. this scenario is exactly the same for every single town in Warwickshire. Because we are already served very well by main line.
So what benefit does Warwickshire get ? tell the truth - I have.
@@beecee2205 I know it's far from ideal and no one is pretending that this will benefit everyone but this is a national project that will alleviate the congestion on the busiest section on one of Europe's busiest railway lines. All inter city trains will use HS2 between London and Handsacre Junction where they will rejoin the WCML. Having regularly seen the problems caused by mixed traffic on a single route with no extra capacity available, there is only one logical answer which is to create separation which HS2 does.
I am not generally impressed with HS2, there are tunnels yes, and viaducts, but neither are unique to this railway; and there has been much destruction of historic landscapes. But I am impressed with the works at Burton Green. Mile after mile of large scale clearance is suddenly met with a contradiction at a pinch point - an opportunity to tunnel a ready made abandoned railway cutting slap bang between houses, crossed by a road, spanning a greenway. It looks like a giant needle threaded into quicksand and I cannot imagine the cost of this mile or so of railway. When the landscape is reinstated this will be the only section of route to actually improve the environment, a feeble consolation. A pleasure to watch drone footage of this quality
What a load of bull, there will be 60% more wild habitat when construction ends
Save your protest for roads which cause far more damage to our countryside than any railway every could
If you look on the Phase 1 plans, which are available on the Gov.uk website, you see that so much of the land clearance is for environmental mitigation and the actual railway (including embankment and cutting slopes) is a fairly small part. You can see from the video where planting on these cleared areas is becoming established but it will take a few years before the landscape heals with new woodland, wetland and grassland plus the balancing ponds designed to deal with heavy rain run-off from the track.
Once major construction works are completed, the construction compounds and access roads will be removed and the sites landscaped.
HS2 must be the greenest major infrastructure project ever constructed in the UK.
Probably a good idea to look at HS1 through Kent, which would have looked much like this back in the '90s.
imrove the environment ? How does that work ?
@@martinsloman6905 what has HS1 done for the inhabitans 0f Kent ? and what will HS2 do for the inhabitants of Warwickshire, that they do not currently have ?
@@beecee2205 I didn't say that HS2 would improve the environment as it's fairly obvious that building a double track high speed railway through open countryside is going to do some damage. What I referred to was environmental mitigation.
So, where ancient woodland has to be cut down - something that is unavoidable for a high speed alignment, HS2 plants far more trees in mitigation - often using soil transplanted from the woodland site. That is obviously not a perfect solution and people will still talk about 'ecocide' and make comparisons to the felling of the Amazonian rain forest but were HS2 to be constructed in full, it would account for only 0.018% of the total remaining ancient woodland in the UK. Far more woodland is lost to wind farms and how much was lost to the 2,200 mile motorway network is anyone's guess.
The irony of HS2 is that so much of the 'environmental destruction' attributed to the new line is due to environmental mitigation measures. That includes excessive length of cuttings created simply to screen the railway from sight and hearing and not for traditional engineering reasons and then the large areas of tree planting, grasslands and water meadows - all designed both to screen the railway and increase biodiversity. However, all that you see in current drone videos is acres of mud. (If you want to know the extent and type of these works look for the HS2 route plans on the gov.uk website).
The real environmental benefit of HS2 comes from the low energy use and carbon emissions of rail transport. Reduced journey times encourage modal shift from far more carbon intensive modes such as domestic airlines and road transport. However, the main advantage of HS2 is the huge amount of capacity it releases on the existing railway for freight and local and inter-city trains. The more passengers and freight we can get onto rail, the more likely the UK is to achieve carbon targets.