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- Exploring either side of Leather lane... It was a real gusty day which affected the filming and where the drone coud physically go so some information is needed:
1.46 beyond the permanent drainage pool... the green area is a cutting in progress
4.06 site of overbridge GMI/2
4.38 alignment/overbridge
It is a curiousity why the cutting is taking so long to reveal itself in this area.. something to do with the geology maybe?... but it appears work has now started!
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I love how neatly your videos demonstrate how the wider landscape is untouched and even where HS2 works have impacted it's clear the majority will be green once again soon enough. The irony is much of this land was mono crop farmland and particularly after ploughing looked no different for parts of the year to where HS2 has moved earth.
Thanks! I agree. Some people cannot see beyond the disruptive construction works. 👍
Thanks. Interesting. Is this in the area just north of the Chiltern tunnels. If so I believe that the bridges there are being built by Align who built the tunnels, as subcontractors to the main contractor for that stretch.
Yes it’s about a mile north of the tunnel and there’s a few ‘smaller’ scale overbridges to build before Wendover. 👍
Align are the main Contractors - it's a joint venture partnership formed between Volker, Sir Robert McAlpine, and Bouyges. Biuyges are a French contractor, McAlpine a British contractor and Volker not sure, might be German. All of the main Contractors building the civil engineering contracts for HS2 are in various different joint ventures between them.
I think the Align contract might have ended at the northern face of the Chiltern tunnels. If so this contract is being built by a joint venture comprising Effiage (French), Ferrovial (Spanish), Kier (British), Bam (Dutch).
EKFB were originally contracted from just beyond the Chiltern North Portal (where the trackbed suddenly stops beyond the green landscaping for the portal buildings) to the Itchington Wood tunnel. However, it was taken from them and given to Align when it was clear they were under-performing and falling behind. You can see from the tunnel portal to Wendover green tunnel that very little (if any) earthworks have taken place. The viaducts that were already nearly finished remained with EKFB but the smaller scale bridges and earthworks were handed to Align instead. Looks like Align though are also still concentrating on finishing the tunnel portal site before moving on...
@@ebsbrown4983Aha. So do you know what went wrong with EKFB ? I say this with some interest as I used to work for Kier.