Construction starts on HS2’s Birmingham Curzon Street Station
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- HS2 has started construction on the landmark Birmingham Curzon Street Station - a new rail hub that will play a vital role in the long-term economic future of the West Midlands.
Birmingham Curzon Street Station, which will be net zero carbon in operation, will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the 19th Century.
Starting this January, major earthworks will be prepared on site for piling and foundations work in the Spring, with construction of the main station building due to start in the Summer.
During construction itself, hundreds of jobs will be created, including an estimated 100 new entrant roles, new apprenticeship positions and Restart scheme opportunities for unemployed people.
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0:00 Intro
0:05 Andy Street reacts
0:18 Job creation
0:36 Regeneration in Birmingham
0:57 Local connectivity
1:17 The design of the station
1:30 A sustainable station
1:39 Outro
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Exciting development for Birmingham. A game changer. Great update. Why are we not building hs2 to the north. The government has made a massive mistake. We don't need a link northwards via the existing network we need a new high-speed line to create capacity and efficiency for the future generations.
Cos government don't like us northern they think we lazy thick and stupid.. considering train were build up here in the North West of England
@@janettetaylor8760 Sorry Janette but forgive me reminding you of the billions being spent on Northern Rail Trans Pennine Upgrade and other projects. GBR headquarters are going to be in Derby,
Stop playing the northern victim .....
The decision to halt the northern legs was down to an exploding budget. However this Mayor and Andy Burnham and others have put together a package to get it back in place.
On capacity just the leg to Birmingham will make a massive difference but I agree HS2 must go to Manchester and, as it happens, Leeds.
If the cost had been kept under control and on budget by HS2, it would still be coming to the north! Only one company (HS2 Ltd) and one government (Tories) to blame for that!
@@simonbaxter8001 hang on fellah. So why are the Tories toi blame? They started the whole project, got the Bills through Parliament and gave the whole thing funding.
Labour actually created HS2 Ltd in 2009 but as usual had big ideas but no money or plan. Yes I agree HS2 Ltd need to answer some serious questions but the Government have had nothing to do with it once the Bill to authorise it became law.
Nice try at the politics but make sure you get your facts right.
I’m a southern Englishman. But, I think the north deserves even more investment. To cut the project short to what it could be is the wrong decision imo.
A downside the north could end up paying southern beer prices.
As another southerner I agree fully.
A southerner an I agree
As a Northerner it is a disgrace that HS2 did not start in Manchester. It would have been built to Birmingham now. The 32 miles of tunnels and vanity in the home counties have killed investment for the North again.
@@tommcmanamon8327 Starting at Manchester may have given it more chance of it being finished.
But I don’t agree that tunnels under the Chiltern Hills are a vanity project.
This should now be called HS1.5 as a continuous reminder to the British public of Sunak an Harper’s short sighted cancellation of the remainder of the project.😡
Very clear explanations.
Keep up the good work😂
Thanks H S 2
Happy everything is moving on 🎉
Looks like it's going to be a lovely station👍
It will be the biggest and newest terminal station in Europe when it opens
Good work lads
Can't wait to hop on a high speed train from Brum Town to Old Oak Common.
It is going to Euston now
I can't wait to see what type of trains we can get hopfully the H5 or JR 500 style shinkansen.
Curzon Street railway station a monument to the Victorian drive to unite the Capitol of the UK London with its industrial heart. I'm more than pleased to see it wasn't demolished as the Euston station end of two Bookends was as I often went by in the 1960's and 70's seeing it boarded up and neglected.
i so hope this route goes into Train Sim World one day
0:58 that looks like a WTC trident except with four tines.
Needs better integration with Moor Street next door for local services. Moor Street link to Camp Hill line also needs to be built for services south of Birmingham.
'Moor Street link to Camp Hill line also needs to be built for services south of Birmingham.'
The planned Bordesley Chords have entered the chat
When Birmingham Curzon Street Station opens there will be un upgrade to Birmingham Moor street station bringing new lines into Moor Street Station and the Camp Hill line is being included which will form a Midland Rail Hub in Birmingham City Centre
And what about a link to New St station? How will that work?
I thought it was supposed to start like 5 years ago?
Planning system, darling; planning system/objections/environment/added cost...
Crossrail was delayed by several years and government didn't want HS2 started until Crossrail was completed.
This could have been build in the last century if the UK had a government that was more forward thinking. The French have proved that high speed rail works. The Japanese have proved that high speed rail works. The UK is mostly dominated by a political party that claims that no other party can manage money, gets elected and then invests as little money as possible in public services.
So long as British voters keep voting for a party that does as little as possible, and has a Treasury that always demands that any project that actually goes ahead is cut down to the bone, projects like HS2 will always overrun.
It doesn't help that our dominant party tries to turn people from one area against other areas, and plays a "Cancel X and Fund Y" card on a regular basis, when that is not actually how funding works. We need British people to accept that all the things that need doing need to be done and that we need to get on and get things improved as fast as possible, instead of having people waste decades proposing projects and then cancelling them "because they are too expensive". If the public good suggests the thing needs doing, it should be done.
HS2 has been delayed by a government that wanted to reduce the number of platforms at Euston, so that oversight development could be increased. That should not have happened.
Congrates great news ! Now whats the eta for Leeds?
Hopefully reinstated
Interested to watch the progress of this.
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One correction for mayor of Birmingham…. His own city’s terminus of Snow Hill was built during the 1980s.
Yes it was there before but it was bulldozed in the 1970s and replaced with a new station in the 80s
So not technically correct…
Err, I would hesitate to compare Snow Hill (having commuted through it in the 2000s and 2010s as anything other than a glorified bus-shelter (and not even that on a truly windy &rainy Brum Monday morning!!) - but I *do* see your technical point.
Snow Hill not a main line station, so technically correct.
And anouther correction, Andy Street is NOT the Mayor of Birmingham, Birmingham has a Lord Mayor like other towns and Cities in the West Midlands, Andy Street is the Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority not Birmingham.
@@mrglide7078 Birmingham Snow Hill is a Mainline Station as Chiltern Trains operate from Snow Hill on it's service to London Marylabone using class 68 locos and Mk3 push pull coaches
@@peterwilliamallen1063 indeed, but not an intercity route like WCML and ECML
@HS2LTD this is an awesome and amazing project for the country.
You really really need to complete it up to Crewe and then the link can be built for Manchester later, as per usual the counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, as well as NE Wales have to rely on an over crowded West Coast Mainline.
Loby the government and get them to listen to the leaders of the West Midlands/Manchester/Liverpool and the shite counties north of Birmingham.
Technicality, Mr Street. Moor St was a terminus and was built between 1909 and 1914. That being the 20th century.
Birmingham Moor Street is now as Andy Street is on about now a through station as well as a Terminus with new platforms on the line into Snow Hill Station and was rebuilt between 2002 and 2003
@@peterwilliamallen1063 he says this will be the first terminus built since the 19th century. Its pedantic to point out, but... that's who I am.
@@iamadamowen Well it is the first major new City terminal Railway station built since the 19th Century so what is padantic about that !!!
@@peterwilliamallen1063 1914 is the 20th century though
@@iamadamowen He is on about Birmingham Curzon Street Station being the first Terminus Station built since the 20th Century and the fact that Birmingham Moor Street Station will be upgraded and connected to Birmingham Curzon Street Station so making a new Midland Rail Hub
I want to see that second line go to Manchester which bypasses Birmingham
The 'second line' (which it isn't btw) is still being built as far as Handsacre, and then joining WCML. It will still be possible to bypass B'ham using HS2 trains.
Good for Birmingham. It would have been good for Manchester, Leeds etc too. Anyone heard any more mention of ‘Network North’ since the Tory Party conference? Nope, didnt think so 😂
The only two cities in the uk to be linked with high speed rail are London and Birmingham 😂
The other city that is linked is London to Paris
Uk has the highest rail fairs and oldest infrastructure in Europe lol
It's so bad that with a massive chunk of land we still ended up not going for the below surface station option and will be stuck with the non upgradable above ground station forever instead.
Indeed, they can tunnel through fields in the Cotswolds but not through the second largest city in the UK, kinda tells you something doesn’t it?
@gorgu08 would cost a lot more to tunnel under a city than tunelling under a field. Think of all the services diversions that would be required
@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg....and yet the UK govmt does it with ease in London
@gorgu08 I wouldn't say tunnelling under London is easy. I worked on the Crossrail Project working for the company that did the tunnelling to the western section between Paddington and Liverpool Street. Deep piled foundations to high rise buildings, gas, water, power, data,drainage systems all in the way. And at Farringdon the ground changes from clay to water bearing gravel requiring pumping concrete into the ground to solidify the gravel. And tunnelling from Old Oak Common to Euston, if they ever build the Euston Link, will have the same problems.
If the tickets are cheap, people will come. Otherwise, forget it
A huge arched roof... But a very small amount of glass and light getting through - it looks like it could end up dingy under that roof, like the King's Cross passenger extension, rather than bright and light St Pancras.
Probably because they are planning at some point to cover it in solar panels.
The curtain walls will provide plenty of light and as the comment above mentions they're taking the opportunity to include solar panels on the roof
HS2 must be fully built
Both eastern and western legs
The Eastern leg to Leeds & the Northern leg from Birmingham to Manchester are long gone & WON'T be reinstated by a Labour government which is excellent news as this monstrous, vanity project is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britains biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@CRIMSONANT1 couldn’t have put it better thank you
@@NathanGautrey.. you assume correctly!
Because of the major unreliability of timetables & ludicrous ticket prices on the rail network, domestic flights are rapidly increasing & this is the reason why.
Friend of mine had to travel to London from Newcastle at very short notice for a business meeting.
Train from Newcastle to Kings Cross - 3.5 hours .. £314.
Flight from Newcastle to Heathrow - 1.2 hours .. £120.
Guess which method of transport he chose?
@@NathanGautrey .. I admire your sarcasm but HS2 certainly WON'T "improve the situation".
Research shows that even if this monstrous vanity project had been built in full, traffic on the M40 & M1 would have reduced by less than 1%.
HS2 itself will NEVER be carbon neutral in its proposed 120 year lifetime & the environmental damage already caused through middle England is nothing short of criminal.
Only now, is the corruption & lies of this massive white elephant being exposed .. read this from one report:-
The UK government was kept in the dark regarding the genuine expenses associated with HS2. Elected members were therefore unaware of the true (higher) costs when voting on legislation pertinent to the project. One of the outraged insiders went so far as to label the affair as a “fraud against the British people”.
The whistleblowers from HS2 Ltd, the company overseeing the high-speed rail project, assert that senior management orchestrated efforts to downplay the true costs of HS2. These insiders claim they were instructed to deceive about the financial position, with the intention of securing continued funding worth billions.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Sorry but living in Newcastle Brown Ale Land James you are not keeping up with the HS2 story are you, in the last few days both the Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority Andy Street and the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham have joined forces and have contacted the UK Government looking into resurrecting the HS2 link to Manchester and using private capital and the UK Government are looking into it. When HS2 is complete you will relise it is not an eppic vanity project
we need to get moving on this job,you are no where near it
I'm all for HS2 and think it should be carried on all the way to Scotland. But things like "gleaming terminus"... "high end, innovative construction and engineering" ... "huge arched roof"... "one of the most sustainable railway stations in the world" is why this railway is so unbelievably expensive. A big part of the reason railways are so much cheaper to build in Scandinavia (not known for its low costs or low wages) is because they use modular station designs, modular lineside features, modular and repeatable stuff that can be rolled out. These renders are beautiful and I can't wait to see the station, but not everything we do in this country needs to pretend that we have the same budget as they have in Saudi Arabia or China or wherever.
Ok then, name me another new terminus we've built recently in the UK. The only other one is Belfast Grand Central, and that's still under construction. We don't have modular parts precisely because we don't have the foresight to plan years into the future and get on with building. That lack of foresight is the same reason why HS2 is slowly being cancelled bit by little bit. Hopefully we'll be able to do enough to stop the London Euston line from getting cancelled, but it's definitely next on the chopping block.
this whole hs2 project reminds me of playing minecraft youre just making it up as you go along... going to euston, not going to euston, going to leeds, not going to leeds. absolute shambles
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I am a big fan of high speed rail, but I do wish that Curzon Street Station had been sunk into the ground, instead of being built up in the air as a terminal station. Birmingham is not at the edge of Great Britain. It's in the middle of Great Britain. There are other urban areas to the north, south, west and east of Birmingham.
Victorian politicians refused to allow railway lines to be built through London and we ended up with multiple terminal stations around the centre of London, that make it excessively difficult for people who do not want to go to London to get through London.
It took about a hundred years for Crossrail to actually get built, so that people did not have to get off of trains at Paddington and trek over to Liverpool Street to get onto another train.
Future Brits will be bemoaning the fact that Curzon Street Station is eating up capacity on the high speed network. Eventually we will have high speed trains that come into Birmingham from the Eurotunnel, and that continue on to Scotland.
Curzon Street Station is awesome. But it is also a repeat of the mistake made with London stations like Paddington and Euston. The long-term plan for Birmingham should be for Birmingham to have zero terminal stations. Every railway line that comes in one side of Birmingham should join up to a line on the other side of Birmingham.
More money should have been built on Curzon Street Station so that it could have served as a through station. And HS2 should have been built through London - not to London - so that European people could have taken Eurostar trains to the Birmingham NEC.
Was this always going to be a terminus station if HS2 was going north? Think this would be short sighted, and Andy Street just shows how out of touch he is with the truth that HS2 is a failure to deliver the full vision of high speed rail to both the midlands and the north.
Yes it was. A through station would not work unless it was sited somewhere over at Water Orton.
It was always going to be a terminal station as HS2 trains would not fit into the congested Birmingham New Street Station and only Birmingham to London, Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland will use it, trains from London to Manchester and the North will by pas Birmingham and Andy Street has been the best West Midland Mayor we have had and he knows how good HS2 will be for Birmingham and the West Midlands.
The high speed rail line in Bharat (aka India) from Mumbai to Ahmedabad (500km) will probably open before this London to Birmingham (200km) line in the UK.
If Curzon Street station were to be built 400 meters to the south west of where it is being built then New Street, Curzon Street and Moor Street stations could all be merged into one complex. Instead, passengers will have to drag their luggage though the centre of Birmingham to transfer between services from Curzon and New Street stations. The transfer options between HS2 and the classic railway in and around Birmingham, including the people mover between Birmingham International and Birmingham Interchange are truly dreadful.
I thought the west concourse was right next to Moor Street and then you have the East Concourse on new canal street.
Moor Street is set to be redeveloped as part of the Midlands Rail Hub, where a new footbridge, accessible directly from the platforms, will be constructed to take passengers to the main entrance of Curzon Street
The West Midlands Metro is also being extended to Birmingham Curzon Street Station from Bull Street in the City Centre which also connects to Birmingham New Street Station via Bull Street West Midlands Metro tram stop.
Birmingham Curzon Street Station is approximately 15 minute walk from Moor Street Station.
The West Midlands Metro doesn't serve these 2 Train Stations directly from one station to the other.
So you would have to make a short walk from Curzon Street Station to Moor Street Station.
This is from some one who knows Birmingham City Centre extremely well as i was born & raised in the City.
@@maz4304 This should hopefully reduce the walking distance from Curzon Street Station to Moor Street Station if it is true.
@aw34565 just feels like this is an odd to have ago at the distance between stations as most platforms are over 200 meters long for intercity trains so you have to drag you bag that distance to get on the train. the distance you've said does not seem right as from what I've seen the entrance to Curzon Street is less than 200 meters
Not sure about the merits of building a dead end station. I suppose it was planned when HS2 was going to be a network...
There was no other way they could build this station but as a dead end terminus station.
Should have started up north and worked its way down. Would have been better decision when starting this project. Now we just got another train going down to London but only at the outskirts of it. What a waste of money.
Why do people say " it should of been started in the North and worked it's way down " if it was built like that it would not of got as far as it is now. HS2 is being constructed at sites along the whole of it's route from London working North, from Birmingham constructing North to Handsacre in Staffordshire and the WCML and South to London plus loads of construction sites between Birmingham and London
Superb, capital investment is what we need in this country, remember this project provides well paid skilled jobs into the economy and will leave a legacy, which if completed will help the country in the future.
Avoiding the insane mistakes of the past ... that should be the way, but not scrapping hs2 to the north.
Carnt even empty the bins around the city and clean the streets, but can waste money on a useless project to line pockets
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Birmingham City Council is not paying for HS2, this is the Mayor of the West Midlaands combined Authority not Birmingham and it is the West Midland sorting out HS2 and yes the bins do get emptied every week in Birmingham
@@peterwilliamallen1063 every week 🤣
@@skysyourlimit I am afraid so, Birmingham City Council empties normal house hold waste wheeley bins every week and recycling bins every fourtnight 👍👍 So what has HS2 got to do with Birmingham City Council
Corruption at it's finest
High end indeed....That's why it overspent. If the project was more functionality than grandiose opulence then it would have succeeded. Did Zaha Hadid or Norman Foster design the toilets?
No they didn't.
I would hardly describe the station as 'grandiose opulence' 😂 It looks pretty functional to me. Unless they're going to build it using Italian marble and 24ct gold. Which is highly unlikely
What a waste of time. Thanks for nothing. Yours, the North.
I didn't, thanks.@@NathanGautrey
@@NathanGautrey Yup. We all got what they voted for, which leads us neatly back to my original post.
All the money wasted in this project. That’s what I see. Time and money down the drain.
People see what they want to see
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@@LENNOXofficialmusic HS2 is absolutely nothing to do with the council. Don't be so daft
@@LENNOXofficialmusic well that's good, because there is nothing here worthy of any debate. Your comment is irrelevant to the subject matter. Did you post on the wrong thread?
@@mrglide7078 The section of HS2 in Birmingham is being backed by the West Midlands combined Transport Authority as part of the West Midland County Council who's Mayor is Andy Street
all the money spent just to get a london - birmingham line is stupid
Of course it is. Nothing to do with capacity. Nada. Zilch
Not just Birmingham to London but to Manchester and Scotland as well
Waste of money, should of invested in local infrastructure
Superb
More like high end bull sh*t
What a waste of money which would have been better spent elsewhere
Such as?
@@mrglide7078 the clue is in what I’ve already said pal
Most of the brainwashed people who have commented on this video are way way off with what is really happening
The whole project was only set up so that the crooked government could earn some votes which was full of lies
So to cut a very long story short the money would have been better spent elsewhere
NHS education immigration upgrading our existing network all without trashing our irreplaceable woodlands
Don’t bother asking any more as people like u and me are worlds apart because I care more about our countryside than u
Let’s just tarmac over everything and maybe we could have concrete trees with USB ports that give out blue tooth phone charge pads