Great work. As a Eurostar Driver I watched with great interest as HS1 was being built. The work sites did create a lot of mess all along the route BUT once construction finished and those work sites were cleared away, and landscaping began, very quickly the line merged into the Kent countryside and today it's hard to imagine how it looked during construction. Lessons learned from building HS1 are being incorporated and improved for HS2.
As a regular long-distance walker in Kent I have NEVER thought of HS1 as merging into the countryside. In many places you can only describe it as an eyesore. There are no longer any stations to board a train to Europe so like HS2 there's no benefits for locals only negatives.
Fantastic engineering, but......Imagine, instead of under minor hills in Buckinghamshire, they'd built a 10 mile long bored tunnel to the middle of Manchester to join up initially with the WCML, then HS2 when its built. Improving connections to Manchester and freeing up capacity on crowded north west lines. Oh well, too late now.....
Are you suggesting a HighSpeed line that has all trains go quickly in a straight tunnel through Manchester on their way north? Maybe the same for Birmingham? Bigger investment, bigger dividend.
Because most of Westminster believes Manchester to be a fictional place, like Narnia or Oz. They're only just coming to terms with the existence of Birmingham, hence these intrepid explorers building a railroad roughly in the direction of where they think it is. Who knows if they'll ever make it, the shadowlands outside the M25 are infamously unforgiving...
@@dietcab-kem6142 I assume they are, a bored tunnel to Manchester city centre was always part of HS2. Its the order and priority of what they do that I thinks is all messed up. The FIRST thing I would have built is tunnels into Leeds and Manchester and initially link them to the existing intercity network. Even if HS2 was subsequently cancelled before anything else was done, these tunnels would serve a crucial purpose for a century to come. You can't say the same for a tunnel under the Chilterns...
An excellent update - thank you. In the manner of "Le Walk" - through the Channel Tunnel for charity between construction end and service commencement 30 years ago - is there any thought of a "Charity Walk" through the Chiltern Tunnel(s) once the "boring bit" has been completed?
Beautiful work, a real project in our lifetime that will serve the British people for centuries and improve the quality of life of people in the UK. Lowering emissions, raising capacity, lowering the cost of freight, taking trucks and lorries off our motorways, lowering the time taken to travel across the country too. Truly infrastructure like this is one of the noblest ways to spend tax layer money, and most effective methods of redistributing wealth
Well that won't happen, the trains will still be far, far slower than those of many other nations. 20 years ago I went on one of France's TGV's - far faster than the trains proposed for use on this route. It's an embarrassment of massive proportions.
Amazing progress and I hope that all the hard work will be appreciated in the long run. We have to do this project to ensure that the UK remains current and viable. Vehicles have to be taken off the roads and both passengers and goods have to be transported by rail in the future. HS2 will free up the WCML for goods and provide a brilliant passenger experience.
Aimed at the Westminster cost cutters - but if you can plan such a long tunnel under the Chilterns then surely one into Manchester to minimise disrupting a major non-London city should've been firmly on that plan as well (?)
Cost cutters = not thinking money grows on trees? Some times I see why London acts as if its the only place in the UK, its the only place with good schools.
Amazing construction/engineering job. Well done to all. Ps it occurred to me, could these same tunnels also carry cables for super fast gigabyte broadband cable to the northern regions etc.
Notice how the chilterns gets a lovely long tunnel through the countryside but in Birmingham and Manchester where the tunnels are really needs they have to put up with ugly turn back viaducts, so much for levelling up, you could not make this shit up….!
Actually only one tunnel is required in Birmingham which is being built, the Bromford Tunnel, the rest of the way from Washwood Heath into Birmingham HS2 uses ex Railway Land and old industrial waste land and requires a viaduct to get into Curzon Street Station. What is a " Turn back" there is no such thing in Railway Terminology, the Rail " TERMINUS" you are on about will be a modern looking Station and ends in a Terminus as it can not go any further due to the City Center called Birmingham Curzon street station.
Undoubtedly an engineering marvel but can anyone answer this? Who on earth is going to use this vastly expensive service? I mean truthfully the contractors and investors must be shitting themselves at the prospect of this project being a complete flop or even more likely scrapped altogether before the insanely heavy costs start to take hold. It's a vanity project that our gov't have literally bulldozed through but haven't made allowances for being hit by a pandemic and now a cost of living crisis which has completely moved the goalposts. £150bn + is not going to generate anywhere near the growth expected instead it will add to a high cost low value Britain
HS2 don't care about their employee's - im currently one of them, There is no way to climb the ladder here To work inside the tunnel, you have to be born in Donegal in Ireland, or be connected with 'TGT' Tommy Gallagher Tunnelling
The main benefit of HS2 aren't speed improvements. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
@@HM...333 There won't be any benefits because people won't use it for the same reasons they don't use the trains now. They are not reliable and they are far too expensive. Last time I enquired to go from Boston to Winchester was over 200 quid return for 2 of us, I would have to park the car and risk it being vandalised because thieves love station car parks. Then I would have had to get a taxi at the other end. Even at 20 mpg it was cheaper, easier and faster to take the car. I didn't have to worry about industrial action, cancellations or the nutter with a tin of spam claiming it to be an atom bomb. Engineers can't fix that.
@@davidpowell3691 The reliability will be able to be improved. take transpennine express, however their problems have been caused doesn't matter. If hs3 was built, all the local services which get stuck behind and massively effected by the longer distance trains will be able to run more efficiently and more frequently. that's how railways work. And on the price front, hs2 has never set out to solve that. That is the job of other projects (Great British railways..) When all of the big projects work together, they allow for a much improved and more efficient network, that's why the railway experts designed hs2 to be the way it should be, even if politics have since got in the way
@@HM...333 the clue is in the name - high speed 2 - it fails at that first hurdle. The French TGV's of 30 years ago are faster than the trains that will run on hs2. with the proposed cost of tickets and the minimal benefit it has with regards to journey times the whole thing is an embarrassing white elephant.
@@davidpowell3691 So are you trying to say, that a scheme where Britain can catch up is a bad thing. Take crossrail, the french have had something very similar for a long time now, but that isn't a failure, and that cost a lot, but massively successful. These projects have the benefit of journey time, but they unlock massive capacity upgrades which will be the largest benefits, unless you don't want that to happen. Also any upgrades to the current network would have to be done the wcml, mml, and ecml to match the benefits. As well as other smaller sites that would need the work, it would all add up to more than the cost of HS2. Not my words, but proven by engineers and designers and railway planners.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. Hs2 allows massive improvements to the current network.
@mikehindson-evans159 .. HS2 claims it will encourage modal shift from cars and air and be “net zero carbon from 2035,” only 5 years after opening. In fact, its own assessment says that “over the construction and the first 60 years of operation of HS2, it is likely that carbon savings will be less than the carbon emissions.” Only 4% of HS2 passengers would previously have travelled by car and only 1% would have flown, while 26% will be new journeys. At this rate, it will be well into the 22nd century, not 2035, before Phase 1 of the scheme has covered the 6.5 metric tonnes of carbon equivalent created in its construction. Per pound spent, literally almost any other public transport project imaginable could achieve greater modal shift & CO2 reduction than HS2 - and that it takes vast sums away from such projects is another of its environmental harms. And all this is based on the published costs and calculations of benefits, which have not changed for 3 years or more. In that time, the true position has become worse. Covid has further undermined HS2’s already weak strategic rationale: to free space on existing lines for more local & commuter services - this is no longer necessary. Since the pandemic began, significant and probably permanent changes in working patterns have seen rail commuting plateau at around 70% of pre-covid levels. Business travel, HS2’s core direct market, is also down. nik Planned journey times on the new line have quietly increased, reducing the value of time saved, integral to the business case. As the benefits of HS2 have fallen, its costs have risen further. The Financial Times recently reported that an internal review by its deputy chair, Jon Thompson, finds that Phase 1 of the project, from London to the West Midlands, will run “many billions” further over budget, is “very unlikely” to meet its £40.3bn target cost & has only a 50% chance of meeting its upper envelope of £44.6bn (at 2019 prices), including contingency. HS2’s costs will rise very significantly above even this when 2022 inflation, now at 18% in the construction sector, is added. HS2 Ltd’s management has drifted. The organisation has been without a chair for the last 15 months. It's nothing more than an environmental disaster of epic proportions. Excellent news that the Eastern leg & the Golborne link have now been cancelled & fingers crossed, the rest of this monstrous vanity project will never see the light of day.
There's no getting away from the fact that the huge amounts of money being spent on this would have been better spent elsewhere. It is impossible to justify.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
@HM... this response is given all the time, but it doesn't bear close examination. Think about the amount of money again. Less destructive and more efficient, smaller projects would do a better job. Thank you for confirming that my regular London to Coventry journey will be slower with HS2.
@@barryjatkinson This response is given all the time by the rail experts, the ones who actually know how beneficial this project can be. And smaller projects couldn't deliver the benefits hs2 can, because our railway network is almost at capacity, with it being difficult to cram more trains in, in most places. To give the same benefits, these projects would have to completely rebuild some of the current railway network. I'm not saying that these projects aren't useful, because they clearly are, but just need to supplement the large projects (hs2 / hs3.) Look at other countries with high speed rail, at first there was a large movement against it, but now it forms a vital part of the rail systems. Look at Japan
United Kingdom Of Great Britain London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh is the best city in the world, The first railroad built in Great Britain to use steam locomotives was the Stockton and Darlington, opened in 1825. It used a steam locomotive built by George Stephenson and was practical only for hauling minerals. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830, was the first modern railroad, UK modern Train railway boost business forever.
Actually it goes, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester in population size of the Cities. Do not know why Manchester is given so much importance in the tings being the 6th largest City in the UK plus HS2 is a Birmingham centered Rail Project having the largest Terminus on the route at Birmingham Curzon Street and both the HQ of HS2 ltd and the HQ of the train operator that will operate trains on the HS2 route, Avanti West Coast based in Birmingham
We have the technology and expertise to build a ten mile tunnel for a new railway, why cannot it be used to put some of the roads that blight London and other cities into tunnels ?
The Catesby Tunnel, of the abandoned Great Central Mainline, and just North of a section of that abandoned track, that may be reused by HS2, is now a 2.7km indoor vehicle test track.
@@nickhale2900 Cheese and Wine storage would be far more useful, acceptable, and profitable, as it will take generations to fill the 3.2m cubic meters, of the HS2 tunnel bores, with nuclear waste. As they only produce 3,000 tonnes of that globally, each year, while there are 6 million tonnes of Cheddar alone, that need somewhere to mature. You'd also be able to resell your storage, every 12 to 18 months :)
There is always one naysayer looking to belittle anything done in the UK. I mean why? Just why? As it happens HS2 is the biggest infrastructure project in Europe.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
I believe the tory gov aimed much of the contracts to Chinese companies. Great. Mind you they sold HS1....all profits from that are owned by Canadian teachers pension fund. Thanks guys
considering the vast skills gap that exists in the UK and lack of homegrown expertise on high speed rail isn't really surprising or a problem in this case, merit and the final product is more important than their passport
How far down are you in the tunnel from the end of it then now are you any house then or woods then or road now or railway line then or near a school then today
The TBMs are currently between Whielden Lane and Gore Hill on the outskirts of Amersham. They both have about 7,500 metres to go before emerging at South Heath.
@@vinniesuperstar8923 there's always people doing less than they could normally, so they can do more if other people fail to do so. It's that way with almost all somewhat large projects, because you want to avoid a project being delayed by individuals
@@vinniesuperstar8923 Random question, do you work in the construction sector? Even on smaller projects its never all on the head of one or two people, that doesnt mean they sit around all day either. If we did PM stuff to the bone like that people would moan when it is delayed and overspends
Incorrect there. More people are using the rail network than ever before. Ridership has doubled in the past 20 years, and even with covid people are now traveling again and so it will continue to increase. Take the new Crossrail in London. Has 1 million users per week. Is that nobody using it? And what about the south wales metro plan? Longer more frequent new trains, and why do you think that is? What about all the new stations being built around britain (there will be 21 new ones within the next 2 years) why would they build them if there was no demand. Just becuase you may not use the railways, doesn't mean others don't.
The trains will be EV, and will increase capacity, taking both cars and trucks (via freight) off of roads, causing an easing of the burden on our existing infrastructure
Just look anywhere, people are going back to work. HS2 unlocks massive capacity improvements on the current network. Ridership has doubled in the past 20 years, and even with covid people are now traveling again and so it will continue to increase, and so new projects are needed to allow more people to use the railways. Take the new Crossrail in London. Has 1 million users per week. Is that nobody using it? And what about the south wales metro plan? Longer more frequent new trains, and why do you think that is? And what about any restored railways that now offer connections to the centre of cities. Take the Dartmoor line...
OK yes you are doing a good job but remember the channel tunnel was amazing challenge compared to what you are doing and remember Isambard Kingdom Brunei constructed tunnels for trains hell of a long time ago .
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
@HM... sorry I don't buy that, they could off spent that money on grading the current network and now you will have a two tia one for the plebs and one for the rich that us the taxpayer will pay for come on 20 min for that amount of money.
@@HM...333 This contradicts HS2 information given out in 2009, which stated that Express inter City trains would continue to run, although with a reduced frequency.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 yes, by taking most of them off, it allows the large scale benefits to the rest of the network. There will always be a few high speed trains on the west coast mainline to serve the places not served by hs2
@@stephennoble the current network will be used mainly for commuter trains (some long distance trains, but a lot less) The west coast mainline is one of the busiest in the uk, and will have fewer high speed trains, the reaming ones to serve the places on the wcml and not on hs2 and will be a lot less frequent. Upgrading the current network won't offer the benefits of hs2, which is why the engineers and railway experts have designed it this way.Politics have reduced it down, but it can still offer massive imrpovements. Unless all the anti HS2 protesters have suddenly become engineering experts!
I don’t know if it’s just me but I predict this white elephant will end up costing nearer £150 billion and it will be late. Sunak talks about levelling up then spends this money to transport people south 30 minutes quicker. I think they should have spent around £50 billion on lines up North and getting higher paid jobs up there. The last thing we need is more CEOs and Managing Directors travelling first class down to London at taxpayer’s expense
1. the point of HS2 isn't saving a few people 30 minutes on trips to London, the point is to remove all the express services from the existing mainlines and thus making space for many many more local services on those lines. A new highspeed line is the most cost effective way to increase capacity. This is also the reason Japan built the Shinkansen: capacity. 2. Yeah, Sunak is effing everything up. The Tories have been doing so for HS2 for years now. Chopping of much-needed parts to save money in the short term but that will make the money that is invested pay way less dividend. It's less value for money every downgrade it gets. The real long-term savings would be from daring to invest more. Commit fully to the full HS2, and commit fully to HS3 (aka Northern Powerhouse Rail).
Its not just you, there are a lot of other clueless people out there. 1) HS2 is nothing to do with Sunak.2) Its not just about being 30 minutes quicker, if that were the only reason then it would be ridiculous. 3) Higher paid jobs wont go up north, its too cold and wet. And full of northerners.
@@GustavSvard Oh look a bloody Socialist expert joins us. Errr .... Forgive me but while Labour had the grand idea in 2009 who started HS2? The Tories who got the Bill passed in 2017. Who has funded HS2? The Tories. And who is delivering HS2? The Tories. And all despite a 2 year global pandemic, global recession and inflation and a war in Europe. Obviously the billions spent to support people when COVID hit will reduce the amount of cash available for every aspect of Government spending. But HS2 is being delivered in full. Yes even the Eastern leg when a new route is defined and approved to Leeds. This was not scheduled to reach Leeds until 2040 anyway. And you need to do better research. Try reading more than the Socialist Worker. Northern Powerhouse Rail IS being delivered. The necessary enabling first phase known as the 'Trans Pennine Route Upgrade' from Manchester to York is already underway and is costing £11 Bn. Funded by the Tories. Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recommitted the government to delivering High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and East West Rail during his statement to the House of Commons last November. As you were no doubt engrossed reading 'The European' you possibly missed that Gustav. However I totally agree with your first point that HS2 is about capacity not just speed. Sadly the NIMBYS always peddle their deliberate ignorance.
@@GustavSvard So the point of "High Speed 2" is not speed ?. If it were normal speed the tracks would be less expensive, the rolling stock would be less expensive, of course it is about speed, the Uk is trying to show off to other countries around the world that we too can have fast railways for the elite. It certainly is not being built for the majority. That much money could have been spread around the country linking places that do not even have decent links. It reminds me of broadband where everyone wants to go faster but do not know why, they can download enough music overnight that they would be dead before they listened to it all. Government would do us all a favour and end it at Birmingham and rethink where the money would be better spent.
Well I hate the HS2 what an utter complete kibosh. ...dug up the same peice of road 5 times in last 6 months the same spot traffic carnage every time devastated the countryside waste of money
Because of some roadworks on a small section of road, Matt doesn’t think huge chunks of capacity should be unlocked across the entire west coast mainline so more freight and commuter services can run for the next decades. I would rather be held up in some temporary roadworks than battling a lifetime of congested roads full of diesel polluting lorries…..
And GG don't care about anything else but his own needs it doesn't matter that 40 ancient wood lands are being destroyed or mature oaks being ripped out the ground full of birds with nests or that small ponds are being filled in so more amphibians in the area or that most of the small trees that have been planted have died during last summers drought or anything else that's being destroyed along the path of the HS2 without mentioning the 140 Decibels of noise pollution none of that matters does it GG
Stupid, plain wrong project. Let me warn you: dont go down the express-road in railway-policy! We did this in Germany and now the commuters are falling appart because all these express-railway projects eat up a insane ammount of funding like for exaple 20 Bn. for one single line to the east that of course outside of politics noone needs and noone has asked for. Put it into economically-important commuters. You wont just get a nice return of investment but also overall improving the lives of many people and not just a few.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
If you are a young civil engineer at the start of your career then you don’t want to be working on this project. Having a total white elephant like hs2 on you personal statement is going to poison your future career. That’s why many good engineers left the project.
The hole area around the M25 could of been built up and levelled off creating new runways terminals parking and services. There is no scope with this project it’s literally got tunnel vision! Everything could of been utilised to create more money helping keep costs down and of the tax payer.
The whole thing is an engineering wonder but it is all a waste of money and should be scrapped. It is going to be years late and billions over budget. It's only saving grace is that it all makes work for the working man.
It isn't a waste of money. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
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Great work. As a Eurostar Driver I watched with great interest as HS1 was being built.
The work sites did create a lot of mess all along the route BUT once construction finished and those work sites were cleared away, and landscaping began, very quickly the line merged into the Kent countryside and today it's hard to imagine how it looked during construction.
Lessons learned from building HS1 are being incorporated and improved for HS2.
As a regular long-distance walker in Kent I have NEVER thought of HS1 as merging into the countryside. In many places you can only describe it as an eyesore. There are no longer any stations to board a train to Europe so like HS2 there's no benefits for locals only negatives.
@@barryjatkinsonwhy don’t they stop at anywhere in Kent anymore
Fantastic engineering, but......Imagine, instead of under minor hills in Buckinghamshire, they'd built a 10 mile long bored tunnel to the middle of Manchester to join up initially with the WCML, then HS2 when its built. Improving connections to Manchester and freeing up capacity on crowded north west lines. Oh well, too late now.....
They should do both
Are you suggesting a HighSpeed line that has all trains go quickly in a straight tunnel through Manchester on their way north?
Maybe the same for Birmingham?
Bigger investment, bigger dividend.
It could happen, but the country will need to come up with about 100 billion quid to pay for it.
Because most of Westminster believes Manchester to be a fictional place, like Narnia or Oz. They're only just coming to terms with the existence of Birmingham, hence these intrepid explorers building a railroad roughly in the direction of where they think it is. Who knows if they'll ever make it, the shadowlands outside the M25 are infamously unforgiving...
@@dietcab-kem6142 I assume they are, a bored tunnel to Manchester city centre was always part of HS2. Its the order and priority of what they do that I thinks is all messed up. The FIRST thing I would have built is tunnels into Leeds and Manchester and initially link them to the existing intercity network. Even if HS2 was subsequently cancelled before anything else was done, these tunnels would serve a crucial purpose for a century to come. You can't say the same for a tunnel under the Chilterns...
amazing engineering, it will be good to upgrade our Victorian railway. this will benefit future generations
An excellent update - thank you. In the manner of "Le Walk" - through the Channel Tunnel for charity between construction end and service commencement 30 years ago - is there any thought of a "Charity Walk" through the Chiltern Tunnel(s) once the "boring bit" has been completed?
Beautiful work, a real project in our lifetime that will serve the British people for centuries and improve the quality of life of people in the UK. Lowering emissions, raising capacity, lowering the cost of freight, taking trucks and lorries off our motorways, lowering the time taken to travel across the country too.
Truly infrastructure like this is one of the noblest ways to spend tax layer money, and most effective methods of redistributing wealth
Not the most effective methods of redistributing wealth but everything else I agree with
How many years overdue will it be. And how many billions over cost?
Many, and many.
Regardless of what you put into those tunnels, this tunnelling is literally the white heat of engineering! So exciting!
Great Engineering work, didn’t understand more than 3 words she spoke though.
Music too loud..Didnt get anything she said.
Please make UK proud of HS2 keep up your good hardwork we are all counting on you.
Well that won't happen, the trains will still be far, far slower than those of many other nations. 20 years ago I went on one of France's TGV's - far faster than the trains proposed for use on this route. It's an embarrassment of massive proportions.
Okay I can see why it costs so much. It makes sense. Woiii! I didn’t know it was like that.
Amazing progress and I hope that all the hard work will be appreciated in the long run. We have to do this project to ensure that the UK remains current and viable. Vehicles have to be taken off the roads and both passengers and goods have to be transported by rail in the future. HS2 will free up the WCML for goods and provide a brilliant passenger experience.
Great to see so many British people employed on the project
She sounded like she might have been French...
Great video need more like this thanks for sharing
According to the Daily Telegraph infrastructure constructions in the UK cost 8 times more than identical constructions in Europe.
Awesome 👌 keep up the good work 👏
Update - not for much longer ie white elephant shot 🍾🍾🍾🍾
Very impressive ... so much better than politics and current affairs. Get 'er done! $0.02
Aimed at the Westminster cost cutters - but if you can plan such a long tunnel under the Chilterns then surely one into Manchester to minimise disrupting a major non-London city should've been firmly on that plan as well (?)
32m-34m a day? Wow
Cost cutters = not thinking money grows on trees?
Some times I see why London acts as if its the only place in the UK, its the only place with good schools.
@@mememachine5244 It grows in the investment banks oh so closely tied to those in Westminster… There’s plenty to go around, but it never will.
Thanks for the update :)
Incredible engineering 👌
Amazing!
Really nice information Ben and Congratulations HS2. Bimal Dai you looks great too 😊
Amazing construction/engineering job. Well done to all.
Ps it occurred to me, could these same tunnels also carry cables for super fast gigabyte broadband cable to the northern regions etc.
and people think they can stop HS2. LOL. thanks for the video. inspiring
Thanks for the update .
Should the tunnel go all the way from Euston, to other side of cotswolds meaning less properties destroyed?
Yes, the entire network should be buried beneath ground. 😮
Notice how the chilterns gets a lovely long tunnel through the countryside but in Birmingham and Manchester where the tunnels are really needs they have to put up with ugly turn back viaducts, so much for levelling up, you could not make this shit up….!
Actually only one tunnel is required in Birmingham which is being built, the Bromford Tunnel, the rest of the way from Washwood Heath into Birmingham HS2 uses ex Railway Land and old industrial waste land and requires a viaduct to get into Curzon Street Station. What is a " Turn back" there is no such thing in Railway Terminology, the Rail " TERMINUS" you are on about will be a modern looking Station and ends in a Terminus as it can not go any further due to the City Center called Birmingham Curzon street station.
Wow! Amazing project. Great video.
We did deep level gold mining shafts to 4500m deep and later to 6K deep.
HS2 is for fairies!
If you make more I'm sure I will watch it
I'd be interested to know how you know where you are at all times and how you guide the TBMs to keep the machines on target.
Fricken lasers, mate! No, really...
Undoubtedly an engineering marvel but can anyone answer this? Who on earth is going to use this vastly expensive service? I mean truthfully the contractors and investors must be shitting themselves at the prospect of this project being a complete flop or even more likely scrapped altogether before the insanely heavy costs start to take hold. It's a vanity project that our gov't have literally bulldozed through but haven't made allowances for being hit by
a pandemic and now a cost of living crisis which has completely moved the goalposts. £150bn + is not going to generate anywhere near the growth expected instead it will add to a high cost low value Britain
+ c £8 billion a year running costs - government own figure.
What a waste of time effort and money
HS2 don't care about their employee's - im currently one of them, There is no way to climb the ladder here
To work inside the tunnel, you have to be born in Donegal in Ireland, or be connected with 'TGT' Tommy Gallagher Tunnelling
Just remind me - how much time will be saved on a Journey from central Manchester to central London and how much will a ticket cost me?
The main benefit of HS2 aren't speed improvements. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
@@HM...333 There won't be any benefits because people won't use it for the same reasons they don't use the trains now. They are not reliable and they are far too expensive. Last time I enquired to go from Boston to Winchester was over 200 quid return for 2 of us, I would have to park the car and risk it being vandalised because thieves love station car parks. Then I would have had to get a taxi at the other end. Even at 20 mpg it was cheaper, easier and faster to take the car. I didn't have to worry about industrial action, cancellations or the nutter with a tin of spam claiming it to be an atom bomb. Engineers can't fix that.
@@davidpowell3691 The reliability will be able to be improved. take transpennine express, however their problems have been caused doesn't matter. If hs3 was built, all the local services which get stuck behind and massively effected by the longer distance trains will be able to run more efficiently and more frequently. that's how railways work. And on the price front, hs2 has never set out to solve that. That is the job of other projects (Great British railways..) When all of the big projects work together, they allow for a much improved and more efficient network, that's why the railway experts designed hs2 to be the way it should be, even if politics have since got in the way
@@HM...333 the clue is in the name - high speed 2 - it fails at that first hurdle. The French TGV's of 30 years ago are faster than the trains that will run on hs2. with the proposed cost of tickets and the minimal benefit it has with regards to journey times the whole thing is an embarrassing white elephant.
@@davidpowell3691 So are you trying to say, that a scheme where Britain can catch up is a bad thing. Take crossrail, the french have had something very similar for a long time now, but that isn't a failure, and that cost a lot, but massively successful. These projects have the benefit of journey time, but they unlock massive capacity upgrades which will be the largest benefits, unless you don't want that to happen. Also any upgrades to the current network would have to be done the wcml, mml, and ecml to match the benefits. As well as other smaller sites that would need the work, it would all add up to more than the cost of HS2. Not my words, but proven by engineers and designers and railway planners.
Its like watching Chinese construction in ultra slow motion
Incredible waste of money when the rest of the network is crying out for investment.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. Hs2 allows massive improvements to the current network.
HS2 is a complete waste of money.
Thanks for the update but I cant understand what the girl is saying.
Bow down to NIBY'S? It's a good job they didn't exist in history or we would still be living in the stone age.
Fire? In my cave? I'll eat my meat raw and full of parasites just like my father!
*nimby
Didn’t exist in history? Have you seen how the railways in the uk look? Not a straight line to be seen! Gotta avoid all those country estates
@@fndjfgsdk well, to be fair, they have to account for gradient etc too.
So true, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!
How many m³ of concrete is used in this tunnel ?
A lot
Fewer than in previous traditional constructions. Also, a design life of 120 years mandates some serious engineering input.
@mikehindson-evans159 .. HS2 claims it will encourage modal shift from cars and air and be “net zero carbon from 2035,” only 5 years after opening.
In fact, its own assessment says that “over the construction and the first 60 years of operation of HS2, it is likely that carbon savings will be less than the carbon emissions.”
Only 4% of HS2 passengers would previously have travelled by car and only 1% would have flown, while 26% will be new journeys.
At this rate, it will be well into the 22nd century, not 2035, before Phase 1 of the scheme has covered the 6.5 metric tonnes of carbon equivalent created in its construction.
Per pound spent, literally almost any other public transport project imaginable could achieve greater modal shift & CO2 reduction than HS2 - and that it takes vast sums away from such projects is another of its environmental harms.
And all this is based on the published costs and calculations of benefits, which have not changed for 3 years or more. In that time, the true position has become worse. Covid has further undermined HS2’s already weak strategic rationale: to free space on existing lines for more local & commuter services - this is no longer necessary.
Since the pandemic began, significant and probably permanent changes in working patterns have seen rail commuting plateau at around 70% of pre-covid levels. Business travel, HS2’s core direct market, is also down.
nik Planned journey times on the new line have quietly increased, reducing the value of time saved, integral to the business case.
As the benefits of HS2 have fallen, its costs have risen further. The Financial Times recently reported that an internal review by its deputy chair, Jon Thompson, finds that Phase 1 of the project, from London to the West Midlands, will run “many billions” further over budget, is “very unlikely” to meet its £40.3bn target cost & has only a 50% chance of meeting its upper envelope of £44.6bn (at 2019 prices), including contingency.
HS2’s costs will rise very significantly above even this when 2022 inflation, now at 18% in the construction sector, is added.
HS2 Ltd’s management has drifted. The organisation has been without a chair for the last 15 months.
It's nothing more than an environmental disaster of epic proportions.
Excellent news that the Eastern leg & the Golborne link have now been cancelled & fingers crossed, the rest of this monstrous vanity project will never see the light of day.
@@mathiasvries I'm not sure honestly, 5m³ seems like too much
You did not tell us where the tunnel runs. A map would have been helpful.
waste of money
This project has to be one the biggest waste of tax payers money in this country’s history.
I support HS2 but can't help wondering how many lightweights are making a great living on the back of this project.
There's no getting away from the fact that the huge amounts of money being spent on this would have been better spent elsewhere. It is impossible to justify.
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
@HM... this response is given all the time, but it doesn't bear close examination. Think about the amount of money again. Less destructive and more efficient, smaller projects would do a better job. Thank you for confirming that my regular London to Coventry journey will be slower with HS2.
@@barryjatkinson This response is given all the time by the rail experts, the ones who actually know how beneficial this project can be. And smaller projects couldn't deliver the benefits hs2 can, because our railway network is almost at capacity, with it being difficult to cram more trains in, in most places. To give the same benefits, these projects would have to completely rebuild some of the current railway network. I'm not saying that these projects aren't useful, because they clearly are, but just need to supplement the large projects (hs2 / hs3.) Look at other countries with high speed rail, at first there was a large movement against it, but now it forms a vital part of the rail systems. Look at Japan
What the hell is she saying? Is it English?
Meanwhile in Ireland the country struggles to fill in potholes
No potholes in England though. Oh, hang on...
What hasHS2 got to do with Ireland, get in touch with Brussels to get your potholes filled in
United Kingdom Of Great Britain London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh is the best city in the world, The first railroad built in Great Britain to use steam locomotives was the Stockton and Darlington, opened in 1825. It used a steam locomotive built by George Stephenson and was practical only for hauling minerals. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830, was the first modern railroad, UK modern Train railway boost business forever.
Actually it goes, London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester in population size of the Cities. Do not know why Manchester is given so much importance in the tings being the 6th largest City in the UK plus HS2 is a Birmingham centered Rail Project having the largest Terminus on the route at Birmingham Curzon Street and both the HQ of HS2 ltd and the HQ of the train operator that will operate trains on the HS2 route, Avanti West Coast based in Birmingham
We have the technology and expertise to build a ten mile tunnel for a new railway, why cannot it be used to put some of the roads that blight London and other cities into tunnels ?
don't see how this is an ' update ' ..... you only spoke of the operation/s
Progress you've made?? You've done faff mate just got in the way most of the time I reckons
What will it be used for when HS2 gets cancelled?
You poor misguided soul.
The Catesby Tunnel, of the abandoned Great Central Mainline, and just North of a section of that abandoned track, that may be reused by HS2, is now a 2.7km indoor vehicle test track.
Other countries nuclear waste!
@@nickhale2900 Cheese and Wine storage would be far more useful, acceptable, and profitable, as it will take generations to fill the 3.2m cubic meters, of the HS2 tunnel bores, with nuclear waste. As they only produce 3,000 tonnes of that globally, each year, while there are 6 million tonnes of Cheddar alone, that need somewhere to mature. You'd also be able to resell your storage, every 12 to 18 months :)
Not a hundred men and pick and shovel lol ..and a load of wood to hold it up
Durry Treatment Plant.
Pre-blast factory
This is fantastic but if these were really necessary Stephenson and Brunel would have incorporated such in their respective works.
They did but a mad looney called Beeching threw it away.
Just like a smaller version of the humongous Swiss one .
There is always one naysayer looking to belittle anything done in the UK.
I mean why? Just why?
As it happens HS2 is the biggest infrastructure project in Europe.
Amazing engineering but what a catastrophic waste of money. 😡
Interesting engineering. I wasn't good at deciphering the thick French accent ...
Stupid project ruined the local area to save mere minutes 😂
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
HS2 has not ruined any local area, in Birmingham it is actually rejuvenating old railway land and redundant industrial land with in the City.
Can’t understand a word she’s saying.
When this project is completed it will be 30 years out of date
Source?
YT Judges: 8, 8
YT Head Judges: 10, 7
Not much point if it doesn’t reach Euston
£300bn white elephant, bin it today and upgrade the entire network cheaper.
How many different Nationalities are employed by HS2?
What % of them were born in the UK?
I believe the tory gov aimed much of the contracts to Chinese companies. Great. Mind you they sold HS1....all profits from that are owned by Canadian teachers pension fund.
Thanks guys
In our post brexit utopia surely they are all of good english stock ?
considering the vast skills gap that exists in the UK and lack of homegrown expertise on high speed rail isn't really surprising or a problem in this case, merit and the final product is more important than their passport
@@gs425 The process to sell the concession was started under Labour in 2009 🤷
@@elpresso1983 That doesn't change the fact that later govenments have doubled down on various dubious decisions 'started' by other govenments
Turn the music down, cant hear a word she says.
,,Destroying mother earth this will also be CROWDED IN TIME .
How far down are you in the tunnel from the end of it then now are you any house then or woods then or road now or railway line then or near a school then today
The TBMs are currently between Whielden Lane and Gore Hill on the outskirts of Amersham. They both have about 7,500 metres to go before emerging at South Heath.
Blimey, mate. I bet you understood every word the lady said.
Very hard to follow the woman's accent.
Can you hear the tmb outside the tunnel if you were above ground in a trent then do you have a toilet on the tbm then now
I wonder what these two people actually contribute to the building of the tunnel and would work grind to a halt if they didn't show up one day?
No project of this size should grind to a half if two people decided to go on holiday or film a video for a day.
@@DavidKnowles0 so there's plenty more people employed who don't seem to contribute anything then?
@@vinniesuperstar8923 there's always people doing less than they could normally, so they can do more if other people fail to do so. It's that way with almost all somewhat large projects, because you want to avoid a project being delayed by individuals
Vinnie. Don't be silly...😖
@@vinniesuperstar8923 Random question, do you work in the construction sector? Even on smaller projects its never all on the head of one or two people, that doesnt mean they sit around all day either. If we did PM stuff to the bone like that people would moan when it is delayed and overspends
Let's hope Putin doesn't launch.
This is a pointless project wasting millions of taxpayers pounds... know one uses trains enymore
Incorrect there. More people are using the rail network than ever before. Ridership has doubled in the past 20 years, and even with covid people are now traveling again and so it will continue to increase. Take the new Crossrail in London. Has 1 million users per week. Is that nobody using it? And what about the south wales metro plan? Longer more frequent new trains, and why do you think that is? What about all the new stations being built around britain (there will be 21 new ones within the next 2 years) why would they build them if there was no demand. Just becuase you may not use the railways, doesn't mean others don't.
what a waste of money when we need ev infrastructure and new base power generation
Electric cars are an attempt from the automotive industry to not lose it's lock control over our lives, they will not solve anything
The trains will be EV, and will increase capacity, taking both cars and trucks (via freight) off of roads, causing an easing of the burden on our existing infrastructure
EVs are not going to be our salvation.
@@leming400 So more people out of work?
Just look anywhere, people are going back to work. HS2 unlocks massive capacity improvements on the current network. Ridership has doubled in the past 20 years, and even with covid people are now traveling again and so it will continue to increase, and so new projects are needed to allow more people to use the railways. Take the new Crossrail in London. Has 1 million users per week. Is that nobody using it? And what about the south wales metro plan? Longer more frequent new trains, and why do you think that is? And what about any restored railways that now offer connections to the centre of cities. Take the Dartmoor line...
OK yes you are doing a good job but remember the channel tunnel was amazing challenge compared to what you are doing and remember Isambard Kingdom Brunei constructed tunnels for trains hell of a long time ago .
His longest tunnel was less than two miles long. It took three years to complete. This machine can cover that distance in 90 days.
HS2 haters ,New Elizabeth Line over a Million passengers per week .So much for Working from Home.
HS2 what a waste of taxpayer money for 20 minutes 😒 that Joe public will never use 🙄
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
@HM... sorry I don't buy that, they could off spent that money on grading the current network and now you will have a two tia one for the plebs and one for the rich that us the taxpayer will pay for come on 20 min for that amount of money.
@@HM...333 This contradicts HS2 information given out in 2009, which stated that Express inter City trains would continue to run, although with a reduced frequency.
@@edwardtreadwell3859 yes, by taking most of them off, it allows the large scale benefits to the rest of the network. There will always be a few high speed trains on the west coast mainline to serve the places not served by hs2
@@stephennoble the current network will be used mainly for commuter trains (some long distance trains, but a lot less) The west coast mainline is one of the busiest in the uk, and will have fewer high speed trains, the reaming ones to serve the places on the wcml and not on hs2 and will be a lot less frequent. Upgrading the current network won't offer the benefits of hs2, which is why the engineers and railway experts have designed it this way.Politics have reduced it down, but it can still offer massive imrpovements. Unless all the anti HS2 protesters have suddenly become engineering experts!
I don’t know if it’s just me but I predict this white elephant will end up costing nearer £150 billion and it will be late. Sunak talks about levelling up then spends this money to transport people south 30 minutes quicker. I think they should have spent around £50 billion on lines up North and getting higher paid jobs up there. The last thing we need is more CEOs and Managing Directors travelling first class down to London at taxpayer’s expense
1. the point of HS2 isn't saving a few people 30 minutes on trips to London, the point is to remove all the express services from the existing mainlines and thus making space for many many more local services on those lines. A new highspeed line is the most cost effective way to increase capacity. This is also the reason Japan built the Shinkansen: capacity.
2. Yeah, Sunak is effing everything up. The Tories have been doing so for HS2 for years now. Chopping of much-needed parts to save money in the short term but that will make the money that is invested pay way less dividend. It's less value for money every downgrade it gets. The real long-term savings would be from daring to invest more. Commit fully to the full HS2, and commit fully to HS3 (aka Northern Powerhouse Rail).
Its not just you, there are a lot of other clueless people out there. 1) HS2 is nothing to do with Sunak.2) Its not just about being 30 minutes quicker, if that were the only reason then it would be ridiculous. 3) Higher paid jobs wont go up north, its too cold and wet. And full of northerners.
@@GustavSvard also to increase freight capacity on the mainline to reduce freight on the roads
@@GustavSvard Oh look a bloody Socialist expert joins us.
Errr .... Forgive me but while Labour had the grand idea in 2009 who started HS2? The Tories who got the Bill passed in 2017. Who has funded HS2? The Tories. And who is delivering HS2? The Tories. And all despite a 2 year global pandemic, global recession and inflation and a war in Europe.
Obviously the billions spent to support people when COVID hit will reduce the amount of cash available for every aspect of Government spending. But HS2 is being delivered in full. Yes even the Eastern leg when a new route is defined and approved to Leeds. This was not scheduled to reach Leeds until 2040 anyway.
And you need to do better research. Try reading more than the Socialist Worker. Northern Powerhouse Rail IS being delivered. The necessary enabling first phase known as the 'Trans Pennine Route Upgrade' from Manchester to York is already underway and is costing £11 Bn. Funded by the Tories.
Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt recommitted the government to delivering High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and East West Rail during his statement to the House of Commons last November. As you were no doubt engrossed reading 'The European' you possibly missed that Gustav.
However I totally agree with your first point that HS2 is about capacity not just speed. Sadly the NIMBYS always peddle their deliberate ignorance.
@@GustavSvard So the point of "High Speed 2" is not speed ?. If it were normal speed the tracks would be less expensive, the rolling stock would be less expensive, of course it is about speed, the Uk is trying to show off to other countries around the world that we too can have fast railways for the elite. It certainly is not being built for the majority. That much money could have been spread around the country linking places that do not even have decent links. It reminds me of broadband where everyone wants to go faster but do not know why, they can download enough music overnight that they would be dead before they listened to it all. Government would do us all a favour and end it at Birmingham and rethink where the money would be better spent.
Well I hate the HS2 what an utter complete kibosh. ...dug up the same peice of road 5 times in last 6 months the same spot traffic carnage every time devastated the countryside waste of money
Because of some roadworks on a small section of road, Matt doesn’t think huge chunks of capacity should be unlocked across the entire west coast mainline so more freight and commuter services can run for the next decades.
I would rather be held up in some temporary roadworks than battling a lifetime of congested roads full of diesel polluting lorries…..
And GG don't care about anything else but his own needs it doesn't matter that 40 ancient wood lands are being destroyed or mature oaks being ripped out the ground full of birds with nests or that small ponds are being filled in so more amphibians in the area or that most of the small trees that have been planted have died during last summers drought or anything else that's being destroyed along the path of the HS2 without mentioning the 140 Decibels of noise pollution none of that matters does it GG
You poor misguided soul.
Well said. Same where i live. Contractors vehicles using undesignated roads and causing potholes galore.
@@mattgoodchild8215 Absolutely right!. It's the same story all along the route. Devastation on an epic scale.
Stupid, plain wrong project.
Let me warn you: dont go down the express-road in railway-policy!
We did this in Germany and now the commuters are falling appart because all these express-railway projects eat up a insane ammount of funding like for exaple 20 Bn. for one single line to the east that of course outside of politics noone needs and noone has asked for.
Put it into economically-important commuters. You wont just get a nice return of investment but also overall improving the lives of many people and not just a few.
I think you need to understand that we don't do common sense here in the UK anymore
Well then you clearly don't understand the point of HS2. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can.
If you are a young civil engineer at the start of your career then you don’t want to be working on this project. Having a total white elephant like hs2 on you personal statement is going to poison your future career. That’s why many good engineers left the project.
Jackanory jackanory...
@@Nick-ye5kk the only stories being told here are the lies and misinformation put out by hs2 backed up by its PR team who patrol these comments
Lmao. We are in the 21st century now Simon, not the first.
Oh dear, Dopey has missed out on some of his meds!
@@petermorris3665 ikr
The hole area around the M25 could of been built up and levelled off creating new runways terminals parking and services. There is no scope with this project it’s literally got tunnel vision! Everything could of been utilised to create more money helping keep costs down and of the tax payer.
The whole thing is an engineering wonder but it is all a waste of money and should be scrapped. It is going to be years late and billions over budget. It's only saving grace is that it all makes work for the working man.
It isn't a waste of money. It allows the fast trains to be taken of the current network, allowing for more commuter and regional trains, which otherwise couldn't operate, and has been proven by engineers to be the best solution to the problems on the current network, and no half baked cheaper solution would bring the full benefits that HS2 can. It will allow rail improvements all across the country, like a domino effect
Great engineering. terrible waste of money.