Congrats to everyone involved! I look forward to riding it, and to seeing you build new railways north of Birmingham. Hopefully our government realise the value of your expertise soon.
Fantastic!! Well done HS2!! I've been an amateur 'groundling' filming the development for the last 18 months in over 100 HS2 videos now, looking for interest or humour. You have provided me and countless others with a wonderful experience, and a wonderful viaduct! Good for you!!!
I second that, Steve. 'No need for the spirit level, Fred.' Classic! So you were parked up on Harvil Road for the topping out? Well done for keeping the camera so steady over that distance 👍
Its still a construction site. The bare bridge is complete. But is now handed over to another team to put track and overhead lines and signaling systems in place.
@@cwmbc The phasing is such that they _could_ create a safe pause between the OLE and track and signaling work for a weekend or so for a public event. It'd possibly introduce some delays to sequence it that way, but there's ways to make even an active work site safe for public tour during times when work isn't actually ongoing. They don't have to, and they probably wont, but they could.
I know what goes into making family day happen with factory tours at places I work at and it's by no means trivial, but the staff found it valuable to do every year or two to have the chance to show off what we did and where we worked to family.
Incredible news. I remember thinking about what the Colne Valley would look like in the future a few years ago before construction had properly started. Well here we are!
And looking further into the future (within a decade of HS2 opening), this concrete monstrosity will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
It's a real shame that the concrete will discolour over the years, but the design and over all layout is pretty futuristic stuff. A fantastic bit of engineering. 😍
Within 20 years (not 200), this monstrous vanity project will be remarked on by people wondering why on earth billions of pounds were wasted on a massive white elephant that's of absolutely NO benefit whatsoever.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Think you should build yourself a time machine and travel to the year 2324, i like to know what demand for travel will be up on your return to the present 🤣
Excellent stuff. I hope you can get the roadways, compounds etc all removed and tidied up as soon as possible to show that actually HS2 isn't one gigantic permanent scar, but just looks like a railway line like the others.
When the next stage of construction begins the Contractor will want his own compound. There are track beds, track, overhead power cabling, and signage still to install at some stage in the future and that might be carried out by more than 1 contractor and each one will want a compound. Those works could be installed a long-time into the future as they will be common to the entire length of the railway and they may be coordinated together.
@@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg yeah, HS1 p-way was focussed on one compound near Ashford (long since gone and virtually impossible to see where it was). I assume that most of the p-way for HS2 is from rail connected sites. This should limit the amount of haul road use, but as you say I expect there'll be a need for a lot of it until it opens.
Stunningly beautiful & at 100m longer than the Tay Bridge, now Britain’s longest rail bridge, at least it will be once some tracks are laid! But 1st, a load of parapet / noise barrier pc panels to be installed; I desperately hope they don’t hide the trains from the view or the view from the (passengers on the) trains!!
You'll see plenty, trains are much taller than they look because people forget when stepping on to them that the platform is two feet above the tracks, and then depending on the train you go up another foot and a half of stairs to get to the aisle. The windows will be high above those little concrete walls.
The one guy stated 'internationally significant'. Well it certainly should be, but the last treeasonous government crippled it badly. Will the current government finish it off, or will they do what should be done, what is needed, and reinstate the whole thing back to life?
@@kenwilkins8237 20 minutes waste of your life then hey, it take me 10 minutes to walk between London St Pancras to London Kings Cross. Don't let facts get in the way of your fluff and nonsense, People will catch that train where the train goes.
It will be the longest railway viaduct when it eventually has trains running on it. It does look good for a modern civil engineering design. Crack on and get those trains running.
HS2 ltd are really cracking on with the building work, Hopefully HS2 will be open early as 2029 or even early at this rate. I just hope Labour Government get Phase 2a and 2b reinstated to Manchester and Leeds as land has not been sold off.
It may look like it does now for some time. The contracts for the track, overhead power lines and signage might be coordinated to be installed in parallel with the rest of the railway. Many other areas are still in the early civil engineering stage and if they are coordinated together it might be 2 or 3 years before we see any further changes giving an overall 2029 completion date. Or longer if the other phases experience further delays.
Not in the medium term - but hopefully the government can at least raise Phase 2 from cancelled to mothballed - i.e. keep the alignment protected from development pending finalisation of how to get it financed.
@@mittfhStop HS2 we're correct,it should never have been given the go ahead,thanks BoZo for spaffing hundreds of billions of tax payers money on a complete white Elephant. 😢
@@paxundpeace9970 There is a proposal from the Mayors for a PFI variation on Phase 2, keeping the same alignment but with a ballast tracked rather than a continuous concrete slab, and therefore a design speed of 180mph (so similar to HS1) rather than 220+mph, which their back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest could be 25-40% cheaper so more likely to attract private finance. However, what's missing from that is that there'd likely be even more companies wanting to make a decent return on expenditure. Maybe it would be better to raise the money to build a proper Phase 2 by dedicated government bonds, streamline the planning process (or design it from the outset to have as few tunnels / viaducts as possible, regardless of what local MPs think) then during construction, keep a lid on the number of contracts / contractors involved (each of whom will, of course, seek to profit from the works), allocate a fixed contingency margin and make it abundantly clear it can only be dipped into in exceptional circumstances. Maybe offer the enticement of the Eastern leg or NPR in future if contractors can deliver high spec and minimal use of contingency funds - heck, maybe even have them on retainer for general network maintenance.
HS1 have prove a success with paying costumers, So will HS2 as they will not have other opition to use HS2 as all those High Speed trains currently running on West Coast mainline will transfer to the new line at launch.
20 years🙄 China has built 2,500kms of high speed rail in less time than that and HS2 isn’t even finished. It’s a national embarrassment. Proud!!! You should be ashamed.
What a total waste of money. This money should have been used to upgrade and reinstate many of the Uk's trunk routes, Freeing up capacity on the network and not on this white elephant.
Years late and billions over budget and they still want to brag about it for pats on the back and medals. Yea! .yet the feeding frenzy continue unabated.
The majority of people who are building this railway by a huge proportion are native british men, and you couldn't even bother to interview one of them for this video. Disgusting.
In the opinion of many the HS2 is a total waste of cash. Would have been a better use of cash to use the Great Central Trackbed as a more value for money option
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb The route was planned many years before contractors got involved, so that's not a factor (doing the GC would probably have costed more anyway). The GC route is unsuitable due to the following: (a) no London terminus; (b) route used by the London Underground and Chiltern Railways as far as Aylesbury. [(a) and (b) mean a big part of the HS2 expense, including this viaduct, the new London stations, and the Chilterns tunnel, would be needed even if using the GC further North] (c) Further north the line does not go anywhere near Birmingham, Crewe or Manchester, so does not relieve the pressure at these 'at capacity' stations and their suburban lines which are also full; plus journey times would not be significantly improved - e.g. Birmingham - Coventry would need 4 tracking which would cost a bomb and require lots of demolition, plus Birmingham New Street would need rebuilding at track level - out of the question (d) the GC passes through many smaller towns and villages such as Brackley, Rugby, Lutterworth, etc, where trains would not be stopping but large scale demolition would be needed / extra tunnelling; (e) The GC loading gauge was not large enough (despite the myths) for European style double decker trains, so any remaining bridges would need to be re-built. (f) the GC is not straight enough to enable high speed running
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb I have seen another rail expert on TH-cam who disagrees with you. The extra capacity in/out Birmingham will improve services from mid Wales to Birmingham. He uses the example of Aberystwyth, where his parents live and says it will greatly improve the services from there.
@@JohnHoward-wc9kk not going to Carmarthen or Bangor, dare I mention Aberystwyth to Lampeter. The cash squandered on HS2 would have been better spent opening Beeching closed routes
It is well needed as 40 million passengers commute in and out of London every year, Demand for rail back up to 95% since the end of Pandemic, Your are the in minority.
Of course it's fucking needed, we're the only major European nation without high speed rail, we're turning into a backwards hellhole like the US (as was always the Tory plan).
Im all for celebrating milestones, but this whole project is later than its been running, let that sink in, the delays on the project are longer than the working time already put it, every time a member of staff turns up, you slip further behind, the projects been scaled back so it can hit its targets and here we are, celebrating a nothing achievement on a massively over budget and time project. Whole fucking project needs scrapping. Whole fucking thing. Complete waste of ££££
All motorways should be scrapped according to your arrogancy, HS2 is being built for future proof for the next generation, There is no more room for anymore trains to run on the West Coast Mainline, Those Avanti High Speed trains will transfer to the new line to free up space for more local and regional services. Upgrading the West Coast mainline will become a nightmare as there will have be demolition work leading to people losing their businesses and homes. Years of replacement buses.
@@krashd Whole thing is perfectly app for someone who's not yet 40 holds 2 proper degrees and a dozen more equivs, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science and Networking Degrees, Cisco and MS Certified Professional, and as someone who has actually worked on the UK's rail network, hell i was set to be on this job, i wanted no part of what was always gonna be a shit show, so i retired 2 years ago and aint looked back. Me and my Boat are very happy :)
@@JohnHoward-wc9kk Boris gets no credit for this like all his achievements he just tacks his name on it was the labour government in 2009 that created HS2 the Tories then spent the next decade fiddling with it until it was completely broken expensive and fails what labour planned for it to do
@@carguyuk7525 Pointless? Hardly. A great deal has been learnt with the building of this section and I'm certain it will not end at Brum. The UK's second largets city is now served with the relevant rail connection to enhance both to itself but also to enhance the speed of journeys from there and will accrue so many other advantages to the rail distribution to elsewhere in the North. Of course when the money becomes available and the obvious benefits that materialise from this present infrastructure, there will be a definite move to progressing HS2 to its original designed future.
Well done great work so how long before they turn it into a motorway 🤔that was a laugh saying that they did this for the environment yes I’m the one who has to let the side down and I’m sorry but as people have said it’s a complete waste of money the easiest way the government could get there money back would be to turn it into a toll motorway because that’s all the government is good at no when people need help up north the government will say we got no money yet they can find money when it comes to London it’s like since they can’t swing a cat because of that much in London let’s dig tunnels don’t worry about the subsidence above or the money sorry I’d better stop here before I really do upset someone but I’m sorry yes it looks great but at what cost 😔😔😔😞😞🥹
The easiest way the government will recoup the costs is by opening it, as has been stated many times over, and which will be proven in a few years when it does open - then people like you will realise, hopefully, the detrimental effect you have on this country every time you vote Tory. Did you know that almost 60% of our entire Navy is sitting around the country in dry dock thanks to 14 years of Tory incompetence?
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Congrats to everyone involved! I look forward to riding it, and to seeing you build new railways north of Birmingham. Hopefully our government realise the value of your expertise soon.
It will happen though I am disappointed with that they did to the eastern leg.
Fantastic!! Well done HS2!! I've been an amateur 'groundling' filming the development for the last 18 months in over 100 HS2 videos now, looking for interest or humour. You have provided me and countless others with a wonderful experience, and a wonderful viaduct! Good for you!!!
A fantastic piece of engineering and design that has been achieved.... well done to everyone who worked on it..👍👍👍👍
I second that, Steve. 'No need for the spirit level, Fred.' Classic! So you were parked up on Harvil Road for the topping out? Well done for keeping the camera so steady over that distance 👍
To say I've had a very small part in helping build this is mind blowing 🤯 and an honour
This is fabulous. Well done guys.
Can we do an open public day when we get to walk the length of the viaduct?
This would be really cool.
Its still a construction site. The bare bridge is complete. But is now handed over to another team to put track and overhead lines and signaling systems in place.
In the same way you won't be able to walk through the Chiltern tunnels or take a ride in a tunnel boring machine.
@@cwmbc The phasing is such that they _could_ create a safe pause between the OLE and track and signaling work for a weekend or so for a public event. It'd possibly introduce some delays to sequence it that way, but there's ways to make even an active work site safe for public tour during times when work isn't actually ongoing. They don't have to, and they probably wont, but they could.
I know what goes into making family day happen with factory tours at places I work at and it's by no means trivial, but the staff found it valuable to do every year or two to have the chance to show off what we did and where we worked to family.
Incredible news. I remember thinking about what the Colne Valley would look like in the future a few years ago before construction had properly started. Well here we are!
And looking further into the future (within a decade of HS2 opening), this concrete monstrosity will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path.
HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
Looks so beautiful on the landscape! Wow!
Congratulations to everyone involved!
It's a real shame that the concrete will discolour over the years, but the design and over all layout is pretty futuristic stuff. A fantastic bit of engineering. 😍
Fantastic. This will be remarked on in 200 years even. Great stuff.
Within 20 years (not 200), this monstrous vanity project will be remarked on by people wondering why on earth billions of pounds were wasted on a massive white elephant that's of absolutely NO benefit whatsoever.
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Not a fan, then‽
@@CRIMSONANT1 Think you should build yourself a time machine and travel to the year 2324, i like to know what demand for travel will be up on your return to the present 🤣
@@JP_TaVeryMuch.. nope, & I'm in the majority .. opinion polls regularly show that 85% of the public are against this monstrous vanity project 😉
@@scottpeacock5492.. what an absolutely LUDICROUS analogy 😂
What an incredible achievement, congratulations everyone involved,it really is engineering at its finest 👍👌
Congratulations. Looks absolutely amazing and fantastic.
Excellent stuff. I hope you can get the roadways, compounds etc all removed and tidied up as soon as possible to show that actually HS2 isn't one gigantic permanent scar, but just looks like a railway line like the others.
When the next stage of construction begins the Contractor will want his own compound. There are track beds, track, overhead power cabling, and signage still to install at some stage in the future and that might be carried out by more than 1 contractor and each one will want a compound. Those works could be installed a long-time into the future as they will be common to the entire length of the railway and they may be coordinated together.
@@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg yeah, HS1 p-way was focussed on one compound near Ashford (long since gone and virtually impossible to see where it was). I assume that most of the p-way for HS2 is from rail connected sites. This should limit the amount of haul road use, but as you say I expect there'll be a need for a lot of it until it opens.
Stunningly beautiful & at 100m longer than the Tay Bridge, now Britain’s longest rail bridge, at least it will be once some tracks are laid! But 1st, a load of parapet / noise barrier pc panels to be installed; I desperately hope they don’t hide the trains from the view or the view from the (passengers on the) trains!!
I believe it will be a glass noise barrier
Not the longest.
@@wdielwlairajmd really ? That would indeed be quite special.
It looks stunning
It's lovely, well done. Looks like you won't see much out of the window of the train though.
You'll see plenty, trains are much taller than they look because people forget when stepping on to them that the platform is two feet above the tracks, and then depending on the train you go up another foot and a half of stairs to get to the aisle. The windows will be high above those little concrete walls.
Congratulations to everyone involved
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
A thing of beauty.
With all this bridge work happening in the UK how hard would it be to send some spares over to the Great Central to close the gap?
The one guy stated 'internationally significant'. Well it certainly should be, but the last treeasonous government crippled it badly. Will the current government finish it off, or will they do what should be done, what is needed, and reinstate the whole thing back to life?
This probably only a section of phase 1 of HS1.
Still it's value got deminished a lot.
Dat a noice bridge mate
Fantastic bit of engineering.
Great achievement!
Well done!
Looks amazing 👍👍👍
Technically it’s just a bridge, it wont become a railway until all the railway infrastructure has been installed and trains are running.
Great engineering, but in what sense is it longer than the 6km London Bridge-Greenwich viaduct?
This is so cool!!!
Magnificent engineering
Congratulations to all concerned fantastic 😊
WOW. The comments section is so clean. No racist comments. No hate for Indians.
Longest - no way. The greenwich viaduct, built in 1836, is 6 Km long.
Indeed you are correct
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Excellent.... hope the 20 mins saved on the journey was worth it....
It won't save 20 minutes, it takes 20 minutes to walk from Birmingham Curzon st to Birmingham New strreet 😊😊😊😊What a waste.
In 2033 if you are very lucky
@@kenwilkins8237 20 minutes waste of your life then hey, it take me 10 minutes to walk between London St Pancras to London Kings Cross. Don't let facts get in the way of your fluff and nonsense, People will catch that train where the train goes.
Estimated concrete for this train line?
It will be the longest railway viaduct when it eventually has trains running on it. It does look good for a modern civil engineering design. Crack on and get those trains running.
HS2 ltd are really cracking on with the building work, Hopefully HS2 will be open early as 2029 or even early at this rate. I just hope Labour Government get Phase 2a and 2b reinstated to Manchester and Leeds as land has not been sold off.
It may look like it does now for some time. The contracts for the track, overhead power lines and signage might be coordinated to be installed in parallel with the rest of the railway. Many other areas are still in the early civil engineering stage and if they are coordinated together it might be 2 or 3 years before we see any further changes giving an overall 2029 completion date. Or longer if the other phases experience further delays.
Good Job
Well done guys, Will it have a open day
wow!
He’s an Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi❤
Great work guys, it looks beautiful
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that's quite a gap between the last sections to squeeze the last chuck into, how does that get closed?
I think they will build formwork in situ and fill the gap with concrete.
No more nails
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2 years? I'd see a doctor about that
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Just a shame HS2 isn't going to do what it set out to do
Not in the medium term - but hopefully the government can at least raise Phase 2 from cancelled to mothballed - i.e. keep the alignment protected from development pending finalisation of how to get it financed.
@@mittfhStop HS2 we're correct,it should never have been given the go ahead,thanks BoZo for spaffing hundreds of billions of tax payers money on a complete white Elephant. 😢
@@mittfhits already billions down the drains.
They would probably need to reorder or recontract it for at least twice as much.
@@paxundpeace9970 There is a proposal from the Mayors for a PFI variation on Phase 2, keeping the same alignment but with a ballast tracked rather than a continuous concrete slab, and therefore a design speed of 180mph (so similar to HS1) rather than 220+mph, which their back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest could be 25-40% cheaper so more likely to attract private finance. However, what's missing from that is that there'd likely be even more companies wanting to make a decent return on expenditure. Maybe it would be better to raise the money to build a proper Phase 2 by dedicated government bonds, streamline the planning process (or design it from the outset to have as few tunnels / viaducts as possible, regardless of what local MPs think) then during construction, keep a lid on the number of contracts / contractors involved (each of whom will, of course, seek to profit from the works), allocate a fixed contingency margin and make it abundantly clear it can only be dipped into in exceptional circumstances. Maybe offer the enticement of the Eastern leg or NPR in future if contractors can deliver high spec and minimal use of contingency funds - heck, maybe even have them on retainer for general network maintenance.
Nice.
3.3 km is the longest railway bridge in The Uk?
have to say it is not a railway brigde is it, there is no track down yet,i expect it will be other 2 yrs before you are done
Surely it can't be the longest railway bridge until a train goes over it?!
It is not the longest by a long long way.
Nobody said it was.....
Why the fk will it increase river capacity
Proud of how you’ve looked after the environment, with that much concrete ploughing through areas of beauty?! The brainwashing is strong!
the question is will it ever see a train with paying passengers
HS1 have prove a success with paying costumers, So will HS2 as they will not have other opition to use HS2 as all those High Speed trains currently running on West Coast mainline will transfer to the new line at launch.
Great, we can get to Birmingham that 'little' bit faster - what a waste of time and money.
20 years🙄 China has built 2,500kms of high speed rail in less time than that and HS2 isn’t even finished. It’s a national embarrassment. Proud!!!
You should be ashamed.
What a total waste of money. This money should have been used to upgrade and reinstate many of the Uk's trunk routes, Freeing up capacity on the network and not on this white elephant.
What a total waste of money to build a bridge which destroys the natural beauty of an area and pollutes it constantly.
Years late and billions over budget and they still want to brag about it for pats on the back and medals. Yea! .yet the feeding frenzy continue unabated.
Oh fantastic news, just think it’s roughly cost every person in the UK around £1,000….pathetic, just pathetic
The conservative government had 18 different Ministers of rail that's pathetic.
Don’t you mean England? The rest of the UK is not included!!
Show everyone all the trees lakes, outdoor activity centres, fisheries, homes, farms,nature reserves, footpaths you destroyed
Elon's hypertunnel would have been cheaper and better.
HS2 is a total waste of money
These ridiculous gatherings of site personnel, all back-slapping & self-congratulatory is embarrassing to see... Just get on with the work...🙄
Insane money pit....Why are we building it ?
The majority of people who are building this railway by a huge proportion are native british men, and you couldn't even bother to interview one of them for this video. Disgusting.
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Utter engineering failure of a project
London to Birmingham what a joke 😅😅😅
40 Billion over Budget DISGRACEFUL 👎🇬🇧
40 billion over budget but still a 400 billion economic benefit
40 billion seem cheap now a days and everyone paying taxes for this line, Did you complain when the Elizabeth line in London was being built??
People only complain about the cost because they have been misled into thinking the budget must be the right price and therefore we are being conned.
And the rest,I believe it will be nearer a Trillion once the White Elephant is finished.
In the opinion of many the HS2 is a total waste of cash.
Would have been a better use of cash to use the Great Central Trackbed as a more value for money option
Which just goes to show that you (and "the many") have no understanding of the project whatsoever.
The reasons for not using the Grand Central trackbed have been set out countless times!
@@wdielwlairajmd simply the contractors couldn’t make as much money from the Great Central Route
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb The route was planned many years before contractors got involved, so that's not a factor (doing the GC would probably have costed more anyway). The GC route is unsuitable due to the following: (a) no London terminus; (b) route used by the London Underground and Chiltern Railways as far as Aylesbury. [(a) and (b) mean a big part of the HS2 expense, including this viaduct, the new London stations, and the Chilterns tunnel, would be needed even if using the GC further North] (c) Further north the line does not go anywhere near Birmingham, Crewe or Manchester, so does not relieve the pressure at these 'at capacity' stations and their suburban lines which are also full; plus journey times would not be significantly improved - e.g. Birmingham - Coventry would need 4 tracking which would cost a bomb and require lots of demolition, plus Birmingham New Street would need rebuilding at track level - out of the question (d) the GC passes through many smaller towns and villages such as Brackley, Rugby, Lutterworth, etc, where trains would not be stopping but large scale demolition would be needed / extra tunnelling; (e) The GC loading gauge was not large enough (despite the myths) for European style double decker trains, so any remaining bridges would need to be re-built. (f) the GC is not straight enough to enable high speed running
What a waste of MONEY 💴 NO QUICKER TO EUSTON 🤬🤬
But it does provide much needed capacity. It just needs to go where it was originally intended to now
@@jamesglover9034no capacity increase for the north and absolutely nothing for Wales
Capacity, my dear boy, capacity
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb I have seen another rail expert on TH-cam who disagrees with you. The extra capacity in/out Birmingham will improve services from mid Wales to Birmingham. He uses the example of Aberystwyth, where his parents live and says it will greatly improve the services from there.
@@JohnHoward-wc9kk not going to Carmarthen or Bangor, dare I mention Aberystwyth to Lampeter. The cash squandered on HS2 would have been better spent opening Beeching closed routes
HS2 What a total waste of time effort and money. On a project that isn't needed
It is well needed as 40 million passengers commute in and out of London every year, Demand for rail back up to 95% since the end of Pandemic, Your are the in minority.
Of course it's fucking needed, we're the only major European nation without high speed rail, we're turning into a backwards hellhole like the US (as was always the Tory plan).
BOJO
Im all for celebrating milestones, but this whole project is later than its been running, let that sink in, the delays on the project are longer than the working time already put it, every time a member of staff turns up, you slip further behind, the projects been scaled back so it can hit its targets and here we are, celebrating a nothing achievement on a massively over budget and time project. Whole fucking project needs scrapping. Whole fucking thing. Complete waste of ££££
All motorways should be scrapped according to your arrogancy, HS2 is being built for future proof for the next generation, There is no more room for anymore trains to run on the West Coast Mainline, Those Avanti High Speed trains will transfer to the new line to free up space for more local and regional services. Upgrading the West Coast mainline will become a nightmare as there will have be demolition work leading to people losing their businesses and homes. Years of replacement buses.
The first part of your name is apt.
@@krashd Whole thing is perfectly app for someone who's not yet 40 holds 2 proper degrees and a dozen more equivs, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science and Networking Degrees, Cisco and MS Certified Professional, and as someone who has actually worked on the UK's rail network, hell i was set to be on this job, i wanted no part of what was always gonna be a shit show, so i retired 2 years ago and aint looked back. Me and my Boat are very happy :)
Such a great looking bridge, maybe when we get another conservative government we can start planning more great projects for the country
Err, HS2 was a Labour government idea...
What? The tories and their typical shortsightedness were the ones who cancelled the rest of it!
That would be the same Conservative Party that axed this 'great' project down to a stump of its original intention? Right...
@@martinkeene But it was Boris Johnson as PM who gave the project the Go Ahead.
@@JohnHoward-wc9kk Boris gets no credit for this like all his achievements he just tacks his name on it was the labour government in 2009 that created HS2 the Tories then spent the next decade fiddling with it until it was completely broken expensive and fails what labour planned for it to do
What a waste of time, money and effort.
Need phase 2 to link to the north, otherwise it is all a bit pointless.
Pindie by name and Pindie by mentality....there is always at least one gainsayer, what a misery.
@@carguyuk7525 Pointless?
Hardly.
A great deal has been learnt with the building of this section and I'm certain it will not end at Brum.
The UK's second largets city is now served with the relevant rail connection to enhance both to itself but also to enhance the speed of journeys from there and will accrue so many other advantages to the rail distribution to elsewhere in the North.
Of course when the money becomes available and the obvious benefits that materialise from this present infrastructure, there will be a definite move to progressing HS2 to its original designed future.
Can’t wait for it to open, so the work force can go on strike 🤔
Well done great work so how long before they turn it into a motorway 🤔that was a laugh saying that they did this for the environment yes I’m the one who has to let the side down and I’m sorry but as people have said it’s a complete waste of money the easiest way the government could get there money back would be to turn it into a toll motorway because that’s all the government is good at no when people need help up north the government will say we got no money yet they can find money when it comes to London it’s like since they can’t swing a cat because of that much in London let’s dig tunnels don’t worry about the subsidence above or the money sorry I’d better stop here before I really do upset someone but I’m sorry yes it looks great but at what cost 😔😔😔😞😞🥹
The easiest way the government will recoup the costs is by opening it, as has been stated many times over, and which will be proven in a few years when it does open - then people like you will realise, hopefully, the detrimental effect you have on this country every time you vote Tory. Did you know that almost 60% of our entire Navy is sitting around the country in dry dock thanks to 14 years of Tory incompetence?