Thanks again for another great video. It’s great to see this progress and the start of the landscaping over completed sections. Your videos are going to form an important historical record.
Another great update - thanks! They have been busy moving the soil around - will be fascinating to see this in a year or so when it is complete and the landscape has been restored! Although it's a busy mess at the moment I think this is going to look fantastic when complete.
32 miles of tunnels through now where, and vanity bridges are the reason HS2 has huge cost over runs. HS2 is only half a job now. 20 million in the North has been ignored again. It should have started in the North. Unfortunately it is now a white elephant.
Yep. It's a completely unnecessary project and it was, of course,devised by Labour. We already have 2 good railways to Birmingham and people prefer their cars in the north. We could be paying down our national debt with this money.
The Tories turned the whole project into one of their schemes to transfer taxpayers money into corporate bank accounts, this time the beneficiaries are civil engineering companies! Would be interesting to see how many Tory MPs have shares or second jobs with the companies involved!
Too bad its all a waste because of the idiot prime minister. It's gone from exactly what we all dreamed off, to a ultra expensive intercity between Birmingham and London... and lets face it... no one wants to go to Birmingham.
Thanks for posting, a great record of the work on the Copthall Tunnel and Harvil Road upgrade and diversion. Can I take a screenshot at 2.37 and use it in an update on the new road? I will post a link to this and your TH-cam videos.
@@SIMONC256 Yes it's all open and very smart, the old railway bridge was a pinch point for all the HGVs that use Skip lane. I can work out what the large concrete structure is to the left hand side of the alignment as you leave the tunnel/ new road heading North....
People do like to make a fuss whenever we try and build important new green infrastructure in this country. Perhaps they’d like to continue living in the dark ages. Amazing how many people think that hs2 is all about reducing journey times and not about freeing up space on a choked Victorian rail network.
@@user-mm4ek2oh9t Strange username. Well, the government has made the biggest fuss by cancelling 65% of HS2. How are you going to increase capacity around Manchester and Leeds when the new line only goes to Birmingham?
I agree with you that the government has committed the biggest crime possible by cancelling the most important legs of HS2. It was only ever going to work if it linked the cities above london. If the original remit had been “build a high speed shuttle from a small town to the west of london to a new station in birmingham which does nothing to increase capacity on the already choked network and certainly doesn’t help us northeners” then I’m not sure anyone would have voted for it. Why would they? It’s a hair rain scheme that costs a lot and delivers nothing. Whilst I love watching these progress videos from all the drone operators HS2 is now nothing that will serve me or give the country the much needed infrastructure and capacity boost so desperately needed. Sorry if I took your message the wrong way btw
I'm all for high-speed rail but you have to agree that HS2 is massively over-engineered. The designers and engineers seem to have been given a blank cheque, never mind all the consultants and environmental advisors getting their share too. It seems like the 90s was probably the best time for any country to build out high-speed infrastructure. All of this is to shave maybe 30 minutes off of certain train journeys to a city that nobody wants to visit or live in anymore. HS2 would've had a better business case if it bypassed Birmingham all together and just headed straight for Manchester, Leeds & beyond!
'All of this is to shave maybe 30 minutes off of certain train journeys to a city that nobody wants to visit or live in anymore.' That old trope - the gift that keeps giving. Time saving will be 20 minutes. Incidentally. 'HS2 would've had a better business case if it bypassed Birmingham all together and just headed straight for Manchester, Leeds & beyond!' Birmingham Curzon Street can be bypassed by going straight on instead of left at Water Orton. No, it would not have made a better business case to completely bypass a city region of over 3 million people.
Its not on purpose. Government red tape and strict environmental regulation means it can't just be cheaply laid above ground like in France and Germany. The government should have dealt with this before it got this far.
Massive waste of taxpayer money, we could have upgraded the chiltern mainline to 100mph for a fraction of the cost. Rishi should have cancelled the lot.
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Wow, lots of progress on the back-filling!
Thanks again for another great video. It’s great to see this progress and the start of the landscaping over completed sections. Your videos are going to form an important historical record.
Another great update - thanks! They have been busy moving the soil around - will be fascinating to see this in a year or so when it is complete and the landscape has been restored! Although it's a busy mess at the moment I think this is going to look fantastic when complete.
Great video as usual Simon, thanks a lot and pls keep them coming!
32 miles of tunnels through now where, and vanity bridges are the reason HS2 has huge cost over runs. HS2 is only half a job now. 20 million in the North has been ignored again. It should have started in the North. Unfortunately it is now a white elephant.
Yep. It's a completely unnecessary project and it was, of course,devised by Labour. We already have 2 good railways to Birmingham and people prefer their cars in the north. We could be paying down our national debt with this money.
The Tories turned the whole project into one of their schemes to transfer taxpayers money into corporate bank accounts, this time the beneficiaries are civil engineering companies!
Would be interesting to see how many Tory MPs have shares or second jobs with the companies involved!
Too bad its all a waste because of the idiot prime minister. It's gone from exactly what we all dreamed off, to a ultra expensive intercity between Birmingham and London... and lets face it... no one wants to go to Birmingham.
Thanks for posting, a great record of the work on the Copthall Tunnel and Harvil Road upgrade and diversion. Can I take a screenshot at 2.37 and use it in an update on the new road? I will post a link to this and your TH-cam videos.
hi, yes feel free to take any screen shots, all my videos are free for anyone to use
I'm going back up there on Sunday, I think they have finished the new road so will get some video of that
@@SIMONC256 Yes it's all open and very smart, the old railway bridge was a pinch point for all the HGVs that use Skip lane.
I can work out what the large concrete structure is to the left hand side of the alignment as you leave the tunnel/ new road heading North....
Why not do a mix of progress over the year, it would be really good to see
I remember when this was all trees and mushroom fields. I now have to go further and further out to get my psyllies, which is bad for the environment.
so you haven't seen the hs2 mushroom factory, will upload this soon,...
People do like to make a fuss whenever we try and build important new green infrastructure in this country. Perhaps they’d like to continue living in the dark ages. Amazing how many people think that hs2 is all about reducing journey times and not about freeing up space on a choked Victorian rail network.
@@user-mm4ek2oh9t Strange username. Well, the government has made the biggest fuss by cancelling 65% of HS2.
How are you going to increase capacity around Manchester and Leeds when the new line only goes to Birmingham?
You can get antibiotics for that !
I agree with you that the government has committed the biggest crime possible by cancelling the most important legs of HS2. It was only ever going to work if it linked the cities above london. If the original remit had been “build a high speed shuttle from a small town to the west of london to a new station in birmingham which does nothing to increase capacity on the already choked network and certainly doesn’t help us northeners” then I’m not sure anyone would have voted for it. Why would they? It’s a hair rain scheme that costs a lot and delivers nothing. Whilst I love watching these progress videos from all the drone operators HS2 is now nothing that will serve me or give the country the much needed infrastructure and capacity boost so desperately needed.
Sorry if I took your message the wrong way btw
What a failure this will be god knows how much a ticket will be to get to central London slower than the WCML
I'm all for high-speed rail but you have to agree that HS2 is massively over-engineered. The designers and engineers seem to have been given a blank cheque, never mind all the consultants and environmental advisors getting their share too. It seems like the 90s was probably the best time for any country to build out high-speed infrastructure. All of this is to shave maybe 30 minutes off of certain train journeys to a city that nobody wants to visit or live in anymore. HS2 would've had a better business case if it bypassed Birmingham all together and just headed straight for Manchester, Leeds & beyond!
'All of this is to shave maybe 30 minutes off of certain train journeys to a city that nobody wants to visit or live in anymore.'
That old trope - the gift that keeps giving.
Time saving will be 20 minutes. Incidentally.
'HS2 would've had a better business case if it bypassed Birmingham all together and just headed straight for Manchester, Leeds & beyond!'
Birmingham Curzon Street can be bypassed by going straight on instead of left at Water Orton.
No, it would not have made a better business case to completely bypass a city region of over 3 million people.
Its not on purpose. Government red tape and strict environmental regulation means it can't just be cheaply laid above ground like in France and Germany. The government should have dealt with this before it got this far.
Massive waste of taxpayer money, we could have upgraded the chiltern mainline to 100mph for a fraction of the cost. Rishi should have cancelled the lot.