HS2 in 4K from Amersham to Birmingham at 100 mph by Air. 13th Sept 2024

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  • @ChucklesEMTB
    @ChucklesEMTB 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Thanks for this video, one of the best I've seen for this project!

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks

  • @isaac.raskin
    @isaac.raskin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    00:00-01:09 Amersham
    00:14 Amersham Ventilation Shaft
    01:10-02:17 Little Missenden
    01:12 Little Missenden Ventilation Shaft
    02:14 Chesham Road Vent Shaft
    02:18-04:54 South Heath Chiltern Tunnel Exit
    02:40 Chiltern Tunnel North Portal
    02:44 South Heath Cutting
    02:56 Footpath GMI/12 Overbridge
    03:06 Footpath GMI/2 Overbridge
    03:35 Bowood Lane Drop Inlet Culvert
    03:40 Bowood Lane Overbridge
    03:48 Wendover Dean Viaduct (deck slide completed Aug 2024)
    04:18 Rocky Lane Underbridge
    04:24 Small Dean Viaduct
    04:55-06:39 Wendover
    04:55 Wendover Green Tunnel
    05:40 B4009 Nash Lee Road Overbridge
    05:58 Footpath ELL/20 Overbridge
    06:15 Risborough Road Underpass
    06:28 Footpath SMA/9 Overbridge
    06:34 Aylesbury South Cutting
    06:38 A4010 Stoke Mandeville Bypass Overbridge
    06:40-12:59 Aylesbury
    06:44 Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Rail Overbridge (opened Oct 2023)
    07:28 Sedrup North Culvert
    07:40 A418 Oxford Road Overbridge (will open Nov 2024)
    07:58 Footpath SBH/32 Overbridge
    08:10 Whaddon Hill Cutting
    08:26 Thame Valley Viaduct (reached halfway point May 2024)
    08:48 Putlowes Overbridge
    09:02 Bridleway FMA/1 Overbridge
    09:18 Fleet Marston Culvert
    09:24 Cranwell Farm Culver
    09:34 Waddesdon South Cutting
    09:44 A41 Bicester Road Overbridge (opened Sep-Oct 2024)
    10:26 Waddesdon North Cutting
    10:38 Little Manor Holding Culvert
    10:42 Needles Farm Overbridge
    10:58 Station Road Overbridge
    11:12 Doddershall No. 1 Culvert
    11:20 Bridleway QUA/28A Overbridge
    11:28 Doddershall No. 4 Culvert
    11:32 Doddershall No. 6 Culvert
    11:32 Doddershall No. 7 Culvert
    11:35 Footpath QUA/26 Underbridge
    11:35 Woods Drop Inlet Culvert
    11:42 Edgcott Road Overbridge (deck slide completed Jul 2024)
    11:48 Adam's Underbridge
    12:04 Bridleway QUA/36 Green Overbridge
    12:14 Bridleway GUN/28 Green Overbridge
    12:30 Footpath CAG/2 Underbridge
    12:30 Greatmoor No. 4 Culvert
    12:30 Muxwell Brook Culvert
    12:38 Sheephouse Wood Mitigation Structure
    12:48 Footpath SCL/13 Green Overbridge
    13:00-18:04 Calvert
    13:02 Calvert Green Overbridge
    13:12 Calvert Sidings Overbridge
    13:18 School Hill Green Overbridge
    13:40 East-West Rail Overbridge (completed Nov 2023)
    13:42 Charndon Lodge Underbridge (completed end 2023)
    13:52 Perry Hill Overbridge (road realignment starting Oct 2024)
    14:00 West Street Overbridge
    14:26 Twyford Viaduct
    14:42 Restricted Byway PBI/5A Overbridge
    14:48 Twyford Cutting
    14:58 Godington East Viaduct
    15:08 Godington West Viaduct
    15:32 Footpath CHW/18 Overbridge
    15:38 Chetwode Cutting
    15:44 School End Overbridge
    15:58 Barton Hartshorn Culvert
    16:18 Newton Purcell Culvert
    16:22 A4421 Buckingham Road Overbridge
    16:54 A421 London Road Overbridge
    17:12 Featherbed Lane Overbridge
    17:28 Mixbury Culvert
    17:34 Bridleway 303/4 Overbridge
    17:35 Westbury Viaduct (deck slide completed Mar 2024)
    18:00 Turweston Cutting
    18:05-23:34 Turweston Airfield/Brackley
    18:06 A422 Brackley Road Overbridge
    18:26 Turweston Green Overbridge (crossbeams started being laid Oct 2024)
    18:40 Turweston Viaduct
    18:55 A43 Oxford Road Overbridge
    19:05 Brackley South Cutting
    19:34 Radstone Road Overbridge
    19:44 Bridleway AX18 Overbridge
    19:48 Brackley North Cutting
    20:06 Footpath AN22 Overbridge
    20:12 Greatworth South Cutting
    20:24 Bridleway AN37 Overbridge
    20:40 Bridleway AN14 Overbridge
    21:06 Greatworth Green Tunnel
    21:40 Thorpe Mandeville Cutting
    21:50 Lower Thorpe Viaduct
    22:14 Culworth Grounds Culvert
    22:16 Culworth Grounds Overbridge
    22:20 Lower Thorpe North Cutting
    22:26 Bridleway AG9 Overbridge
    22:26 Chipping Warden Green Tunnel
    22:45 Bridleway AG10 Overbridge
    22:56 Edgcote Viaduct
    23:35-28:19 Chipping Warden
    24:26 Highfurlong Brook Viaduct (completed Sep 2024)
    24:45 Claydon Road Overbridge
    25:05 Cedars Farm Culvert
    25:07 Cedars Farm Overbridge
    25:10 Nursery Site Canal Feeder Culvert
    25:24 Banbury Road Overbridge (Boddington)
    25:58 Footpath SM101 Green Overbridge
    26:04 Boddington Cutting
    26:08 Oxford Canal Culvert
    26:14 Footpath SM116a Underpass
    26:22 Oxford Canal Viaduct
    26:46 Lower Radbourne South Viaduct
    26:56 Lower Radbourne North Viaduct
    27:08 Lower Radbourne Farm Overbridge
    27:15 Ladbroke Grove Farm Overbridge
    27:38 Ladbroke Culvert
    27:46 Windmill Lane Green Overbridge
    28:18 A423 Banbury Road Overbridge
    28:20-29:04 Southam
    28:25 Southam Culvert
    28:34 B4451 Kineton Road Overbridge
    28:54 River Itchen Viaduct
    29:02 Long Itchington Wood Green Tunnel
    29:05-32:45 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel
    29:10 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel (bores completed Mar 2023)
    29:42 Long Itchington Wood North Portal
    29:46 Ufton Wood Cutting
    29:55 Longhole Viaduct
    30:08 Welsh Road Underbridge
    30:15 Offchurch Cutting
    30:32 B4455 Fosse Way Overbridge
    30:42 Offchurch Greenway Green Overbridge
    30:52 Hunningham Road Overbridge
    31:06 Footpath W129y Overbridge
    31:20 River Leam Viaduct
    31:45 Cubbington Retaining Wall
    31:58 B4453 Rugby Road Overbridge
    32:04 Cubbington Cutting
    32:12 Coventry Road Overbridge

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank You !

  • @TheRailwayDrone
    @TheRailwayDrone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Someone else did the same thing on the California high speed railway project. You guys are the GOAT. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

  • @21michaelhill
    @21michaelhill หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, there are many videos out there but this gives a lovely overview over a long distance and we can pause and get a good look at the structures being built. Great!

  • @Inkyminkyzizwoz
    @Inkyminkyzizwoz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'd been wondering for a while how much of the route had broken ground - this is just what I needed!

  • @TheSmizen
    @TheSmizen 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have tried to do a flight like this but could never get it organised.
    sadly for me, I don’t know any pilots who’d take me, nor do I have a license. but here you went and did it, and filmed it.
    thanks! great video. great day for it, too.

  • @jermainetrainallen6416
    @jermainetrainallen6416 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for the vid. Good to see progress from the air like this

  • @DaveFiggley
    @DaveFiggley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very interesting to see the work from that height. A whole new perspective. Nice one 👍

  • @steffenfrost995
    @steffenfrost995 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a pleasant and well produced video - thank you!

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @JohnHoward-wc9kk
    @JohnHoward-wc9kk 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Looking good as construction progresses. In a year or so, when most of the new over bridges are completed and local roads are re-aligned to use them, we will really be able to see the trace of the line. The finished line will have a track width of 14 metres I believe, so the areas of land currently used for storage, haul roads, etc will be re-instated and start greening over.

  • @dennismate
    @dennismate หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    great to see the 1 year update, thanks

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks, its actually 2 years. I'm putting together the videos for comparison, publish next month.

  • @garyh1572
    @garyh1572 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is that the old GCR line running in parallel at 14.35 ???

  • @Adam-nb6im
    @Adam-nb6im 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    If only more people could see this proof that the project is very much progressing

    • @CRIMSONANT1
      @CRIMSONANT1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Progressing? The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped. The disaster that is Euston station - "on hold" for two years & even if it gets the go-ahead from Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the upcoming budget, won't continue until next year & won't be operational until 2042 at the earliest. Man, that's some "progress".
      HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

    • @sirjohng1
      @sirjohng1 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.
      And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?

    • @JP_TaVeryMuch
      @JP_TaVeryMuch หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@sirjohng1I've done a bit of maths and according to various websites, £5.5m in 1838, the date of birth of the London to Birmingham railway, equates nowadays to £704.5m.
      Not really worth doing, since the only things that are the same in the comparison are the two city's names and the term "railway." Even the mighty Pound has gone through err.., the change.

    • @EatMe-b7r
      @EatMe-b7r หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s only 20 years and 50billion over budget. But because you played soothing music over this video I’m no longer angry.

    • @EatMe-b7r
      @EatMe-b7r หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sirjohng1Britain invented trains and now its too expensive for them to build one lols

  • @Jonny_The_Organism
    @Jonny_The_Organism หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your drone is so big it creates an Umbra of its own...best eclipse since august 1999...

  • @JP_TaVeryMuch
    @JP_TaVeryMuch หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Further to my rambling word overburden, can I just suggest that next time you deliver us with a companion video to this'un showing progress made, you delight us all the more with details of where we're flying over and certain infrastructure to look out for?
    For example, here at 10:45, even though I was pretty sure that I knew its name, it still took me too long to find
    The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
    near eponymous Quainton Road private railway et al.
    A simple caption tucked in the corner would have been humbly appreciated.
    Thank you.

  • @davecardboard9567
    @davecardboard9567 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Was the pilot deliberately trying to track the line of route with the shadow of the aircraft - or was that just a happy accident!

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was a fluke, only noticed myself when editing, but it does give a good representation of the speed. 🙂

    • @jonnyrobcr
      @jonnyrobcr หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazing video I’m
      Travelling down to work on the project end of month.
      What would the ground speed of the shadow be?

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  หลายเดือนก่อน

      It would vary with the wind but around 110mph

  • @benwherlock9869
    @benwherlock9869 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Why is there so much disturbance to the left and right of where the tracks will be? Why are all these pond like things being produced? Great video btw 👌

    • @TrevorWilliams-fq8mg
      @TrevorWilliams-fq8mg หลายเดือนก่อน

      They look like balancing ponds to catch the rainwater. The scheme gets BREAMM environmental points for installing them.

    • @Vectorspace000
      @Vectorspace000 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When you concrete the ground there is less space for water to be absorbed. This can increase risk of flooding from rain. Balancing ponds provide a safe area for water to accumulate to counteract this.

  • @StephenWalker42
    @StephenWalker42 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great to see the progress, thanks for posting, do another in a year..?....

  • @Senna-xi1gr
    @Senna-xi1gr หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If only more people could still see the northern southern divide. I am 57 & it has always been like this. They have just cancelled the duelling of A1 again north of Newcastle. My grandfather was pushing for this & he died in 1992. Unbelievable that this still goes on & politicians still want our votes.

  • @ash93331
    @ash93331 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is awesome. What camera and mount did you use to capture this? Or is it built into the plane?

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks. Its a GoPro 12 on custom mount.

  • @Michael-61-n3l
    @Michael-61-n3l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm hoping you have plans for another flight in the coming months for a follow up trip _ 🙏 _ we get to see the progress on sections that don't get seen _ excellent _ enjoyed💯_ do another one 👏

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi, We did one two years ago and i am in the process of doing a comparison video..... watch this space.

  • @jondavies9347
    @jondavies9347 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A white elephant,but it's happening.

  • @leetaylor444
    @leetaylor444 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In the time it has taken to get this far for HS2, China has built 1000s of km of high speed railway.

  • @craigmarchington7793
    @craigmarchington7793 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can I come for a ride next time please?

  • @JP_TaVeryMuch
    @JP_TaVeryMuch หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dunno if it's been done by design or chance but congratulations! Half way through and my gamble to put the video into warp speed (x2) right from the start is even now continuing to pay off with the added bonus of the music just about staying on the right side of the line between bearable and cartoon mice à la style Disné mille neuf cents trente trois. As you might say.
    In a perfect world, there would be a companion version of this video with a split screen showing various maps of the area flown over.
    In a possible future edition of it, if such were to be made, as well as being an engaging way to display the much vaunted progress down the line, it would be all the moreso if it included a lot more information on what we are seeing in front of us. Topping that off would be captions with info on landmarks and places the line passes through, coupled with the cherry on the top bonus of captions with info on the infrastructure you show us.
    The whole thing is a marvel of modern engineering and your archetypal dispassionate bystander ought to find it hard not to wonder at the wonders which keep flying by. Be they tunnels, bridges, viaducts or earthworks, they keep coming.
    Indeed it is equally hard not to wonder at the immensity of the scar it's created at this midpoint, the most visible and unsettingly extensive apparent disregard by humanity for mother earth!
    Agree with them or not, the naysayers, nimbys and general doomsayers who voice their views on the line (and now I come to think of it, the people on the opposing side of the argument engaged in praising it too) are patently wasting their time.
    Whichever end of the seesaw you choose to sit on, time to get things off your chest and possibly make a difference, is very much long gone.
    It's right here before your very eyes! Take the pent up ρι55εΔ off - ness you harbour in your heart and proove your worth to your cause by learning about one of any number of pending projects around the globe, especially if it can be tarred with the brush of the
    "unthinking thrust through virgin flora in the name of progress"
    accusation. Then your bleating can more respectfully and correctly be termed environmental concerns and changes may result.
    Good luck and good ruminating!

  • @DigitalDiabloUK
    @DigitalDiabloUK หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've always thought flying over how depressing it looks from above. Limited opportunity for land based wildlife to cross from east to west, hundreds of metres of scarred landscape to either side of the tracks. Hopefully nature recovers once it's done.

    • @JT-nr2ss
      @JT-nr2ss หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There's dozens of green bridges! They just aren't complete yet

  • @ClarkeDesign
    @ClarkeDesign หลายเดือนก่อน

    Be nice to do this every few months to show progress and the differences over time.

  • @donkeytrousers
    @donkeytrousers หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm really struggling to understand what I am looking at here. I saw a tunnel exit then there's just ground-works. At one point there is railway track but the plane veers off from that and goes along the ground-works beside it. It almost looks like there are no rails laid yet. Is that right?

    • @86pp73
      @86pp73 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's correct, rails have not yet been laid. Groundwork is still being completed to prepare the route for the concrete bed that the rails will sit on. Because they have to lay a thick bed of concrete to support trains travelling so fast, the environment local to the tracks needs to be adjusted. This includes creating ponds to safely drain rainwater and the reinforcing of embankments.
      The tracks that you see north of Aylesbury are part of the original Grand Central Railway mainline (closed by the Beeching Axe), which HS2 runs parallel to in places

  • @batman51
    @batman51 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    So it's alright to have a polluting motorway driven through the countryside, but not an electric railway. Let's just spend pots of money and extend the Underground instead.

    • @sirjohng1
      @sirjohng1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The underground, the most polluted place in London.

  • @gorgu08
    @gorgu08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Aaaah tunnels under what let’s face it is a bunch of fields….You. Could. Not. Make. It. Up.

    • @86pp73
      @86pp73 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Got to appease all those Tory-voting bankers and managers round there 👍

    • @DavidKnowles0
      @DavidKnowles0 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The tunneling that next to warehouse is even funnier.

  • @sirjohng1
    @sirjohng1 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.
    And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?

    • @mrglide7078
      @mrglide7078 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thankyou for your opinion

    • @garybrindle6715
      @garybrindle6715 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      All passengers will be required to sign an agreement that the 30 minutes saved will be used for the good of humankind and not wasted waiting friend to collect them or being in a taxi line etc.

    • @timmurphy5541
      @timmurphy5541 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The whole point is to have NO FREIGHT. The freight on other lines will be unimpeded by passenger services and that's how the capacity improves.

  • @baldyslapnut.
    @baldyslapnut. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nice to see the extent of the devastation and inconvenience required to inflate politicians egos and serve their donors. I appreciate the effort you have put in.
    FYI, you incorrectly labelled Little Missenden and the tunnel shaft area nearby. Gt. Missenden is a few miles further NW.

    • @hyelms
      @hyelms  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks for the info. They were just general area labels and cant be edited in situ in the video. However, i have amended the chapter index in the description.

  • @Zippo4
    @Zippo4 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nice video but... What a mess and what a waste of money HS2 is.

  • @Alex-c9s9l
    @Alex-c9s9l หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Whole Thing Is A Complete And Utter Waste Of Money That Could Have Been Spent Better Elsewhere A Vanity Project.

    • @21michaelhill
      @21michaelhill หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A vanity project, well it is sort of but why not, most developed countries have modern high speed railways or are in the process of building one or more, it's important to have new infrastructure and it keeps the country up to date with the latest techniques and advances in construction.

  • @aG-hy5ec
    @aG-hy5ec หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just build some stations so people can use the thing , utter nonsense that it needs to be so fast , far less energy required to run it slower , and put some stations with good car parks and travel links so commuters can use it and it would start to make sense

  • @wellreally5854
    @wellreally5854 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    HS2, Terrible waste of money, for so very little return

  • @stevem-h3562
    @stevem-h3562 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Horrific, pointless environmental vandalism.

    • @davedgibson
      @davedgibson หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly!!

    • @mrglide7078
      @mrglide7078 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thankyou for your opinion

    • @timmurphy5541
      @timmurphy5541 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fantastic protection of the environment by moving travel onto electric rail instead of polluting vehicles.

  • @davidowen7793
    @davidowen7793 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can clearly see where all the money has been wasted