Greater West Programme, Wales - Time-Lapse
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- Highlights of the electrification work of the Bristol to Cardiff line over the last couple of years. Projects included installation of overhead line equipment in Chipping Sodbury tunnel, Patchway tunnel and the Severn tunnel. Supporting masts were also installed on the open track in between the tunnels.
Various bridges had to be replace to allow for the extra height needed for the electrified trains. Three in Magor were replaced - Rogiet, Llandevenney and Huggets, Bridge Street in Newport and Splott Road in Cardiff. Newport Station was completely overhauled and de-vegetation took place in the Patchway Gap.
So much amazing work done by the boys and girls working days and nights to make the network what it should be. A massive thank you to you all. Your work will make a positive difference for generations.
Very cool timelapse. The comptuer modelling of the different stations was pretty impressive too.
Thanks. Network Rail did the modeling and I edited it in amongst the time lapse footage.
It's always sad to see old bridges and buildings get demolished. ☹
@Wet vegetables No, the new one doesn't look better at all. It's a box of concrete. The old ones are dangerous, but they have brick arcs and they can reproduce them with new materials and they won't do it. That's the saddest part.
The British finally started the electrification of their rail !
Cyka Blin. Well we started but cancelled to pay the DUP votes. Thanks Theresa.....
Happy Christmas orange army 😀 Looking forward to seeing lots more infrastructure work in 2020 👍🏻 Thanks Stevie 😎
It is a shame to see the old Victorian bridges being dismantled and taken away.
We owe it to the Victorians for giving us the train.
The bridges should have been repaired and left as a mark of respect.
Saying that, time and tide waits for no man and we have to keep moving forward and with that - I am impressed with the video in how it shows you how advanced our engineering skills have become.
What would have once taken many years to complete - can now be done in a fraction of the time.
I am impressed with what we can achieve and what we have achieved.
I love to sit and wonder sometimes and think about what we will be doing in 1000 years from now?
The future looks very exciting indeed.
There was no need to repair them, they were just not large enough to accomodate extra space needed for electrification.
Very nice video and very worthwhile project. Still confused as to why it's taken nearly ten years to electrify one medium distance route. In Scotland we are electrifying everything at a significantly increased pace. Glasgow Edinburgh via Falkirk is 80km, shotts line, Cumberland line, Paisley canal, Stirling and alloa. All done in under five years. No need for messy bi modes either. And with no serious budget overruns.
Well, it’s probably because you have a properly thought out rolling programme for electrification instead of the stupid stop-start attitude in England and Wales.
@@GarethJonesPilipala I would agree although even that is at least 50 years overdue. Switzerland was fully electrified in the 50s...
drawingboard82
Yes, although Switzerland is probably an unfair example as it’s so far ahead of any other country (apart, perhaps for Japan). Some of the former East European countries have very ambitious electrification plans. Slovakia, for example, has electrified many lines but they have benefited from being a special development area within the EU and have had massive financial assistance.
@@GarethJonesPilipala true. Italy or south Africa might be better examples
Gareth Jones what's a former eastern European country? Have th countries moved westward?
Awesome. Great inspiration for me as I'm on the path to Civil Engineering myself. Shame the Severn Tunnel insists on making itself a problem as usual and the electrification won't be making it all the way to Swansea. I think it's a crying shame that GWR has ended up needing to use bi-mode IETs and is now operating many classes of the same family.
Thanks. Yes, I suppose things change so quickly that once you're half-way through a big scheme, the goal posts are moved and then things get cut short
Modern civil engineering is the fine triple arch bridge that was removed in favour of a pre cast concrete lego bridge. I gave up calling myself a civil engineer. In the end the train gets go the west in a comparable time to the diesel one. The whole project seems pointless to me. Unless of course you follow the money which most likely leads to the globalist EU.
Can we all *please* agree that after Brexit we can stop moaning about how the EU is the cause of all our woes, when the woes continue to come apace... nothing like sitting on your arse complaining rather than getting out there and changing your world in your own small ways.
@@OkenWS im not moaning but merely observing. And just because someone doesn't feel the need to take on the might of the eu doesnt make them any less of a person. But this isn't a brexit issue. This is a statement of fact. After all the work the train arrives in roughly the same time.
@@gulag8735 With lower emissions. The real issue here is not improvements but upgrading worn out kit. Track, switches, signals and rolling stock are decades old and a lot of the network needs replacing. I'm not laying the blame on any party or government , I just wish people would stop giving Network Rail a kicking for not only doing the upgrade work but also rectifying the lack of basic maintenance that Railtrack failed to deliver. Ultimately we'll have a safer, smother railway. How the various parties choose to operate it is down to them but at least the infrastructure will be sound.
These men are heroes! Finally bringing the decades long diesel nightmare to an end. 😊
Wow beautiful technology .
🙀 thought I was watching the Chinese build infrastructure IN REAL TIME, then I realised it was in ffwd. Doh!
Great video!!
Shame to see such an old bridge get destroyed and replaced by one that will start falling apart in about a year, if not less!
Should go all the way to Swansea. You could then travel without a change from Norwich to Swansea by 25Kv overhead. But they will not allow it.
please tell me what track is playing ..?
I would thing a third rail system would be easier and cheaper. But they may need the cantenary system for compatibility.
third rails can't carry that high voltages as cantenary systems, so you have less power available in total.
Third rail is 769 volts dc
And overhead is 25kv ac
www.railforums.co.uk/threads/25kv-ac-vs-750v-dc.99783/
Enjoyable
SLR camera or standard high res cctv camera ?
Hi Jasbinder. DSLRs, yes
Can someone show this to India to show them picking up heavy things means a really heavy crane!
It's a shame so many old bridges were demolished for the electrification projects.
The many old bridges are leading to gauging problems with rolling stock. People want and deserve better, more comgortable journeys and some of the older bridges are settling and reducing clearances between hard bits and the trains. The new bridges aren't pretty but road and rail users expect minimum disruption to their journeys. The cast concrete bridges go up in an incredibly short amount of time; to replace a brick built bridge would take many months if you could find enough competent Brickies. (Not a slight on Brickies by the way, it's just there aren't enough of them to cover building houses and civils)
Nice video. Personally I think they should have just used a 3rd rail and added fences. Would have been quicker, cheaper and looked a whole lot better.
Yeah. More ugly poles and wires.
I'd agree that third rail is less intrusive visually, but it's never used with line speeds over 100 mph. It also requires more substations because the sections are shorter. Overhead lines don't always look too bad but word has it that the GW electrification was over-engineered, thus it's rather heavy appearance (compared to, say, the ECML or high speed lines in Europe, where the gantries are less bulky.) According to a recent RIA report, all this could have been avoided had we had a more consistent electrification policy, but the politically-driven stop-start process of rail funding in the UK meant that it was over 20 years since the last major electrification project and some of the know-how had been lost.
@@tinkertaylor6965 It is actually easier to use a 3rd Rail for high speed trains as you have the weight of the train which can push on the mechanism, such as used on some test lines. Unfortunately, it is deadly.
@@10p6 That should read 'South Western Main Line', not 'mail' line.
Never seen a high speed third rail track personally. Always overhead.
Destroying Bridges like that is not a good thing
Surely they could hve lowered the tracks instead of destroy the old bridges?
@@dougie8010 don't know what the answer is but destroying them just seems wrong
I’m a Bricky and hardly no trowels would know how to build a bridge like that. It’s a lost art that has now gone
@@dougie8010 Brunel's Great Western runs pretty much level the whole route. He'd turn in his grave if he thought generations later people would rather dip the track (and risk flooding) than build a new bridge.
@@dougie8010 flooding
Not sure destroying those bridges was necessary at all... Good stuff other than that
Aucune considération pour les ouvrages d'art des siècles passés !
Stops far too early!
Very entertaining. Who said British engineering ain't what it used to be?
Me! Concrete precast off site aint a brick triple arch bridge. Bet the concrete will need servicing in 50 years.
@@gulag8735 Good point. Like your username.
Thanks now I hate modern infrastructure even more. Everything concrete looks horrid.