Team work is always the best way forward was this bridge made of British steal? And a big hand clap to the company who manufactured the bridge beam's,@@nicklang7670
"Aye aye we will just lift that 1600 ton bridge, roll it over the railway and stick it on those piles" "Ready lads and lasses?" The advanced civil engineering on HS2 just gets better and better and its prototyping ideas for future projects.
Know the team well and they have been through hell with this bridge. Anyone can build a concrete structure in a brown field site the amount of services and proximity to network rail made this one a real challenge.
Thank goodness we are able to attract these big investors to take on these massive projects and employ and train our young people. (On the last count I believe we were still 60,000 able bodied engineers short of what we need already!) We must continue supporting all U.K. Technical colleges and apprenticeship schemes.
Certainly a wonderful piece of engineering (and once it is fully established and landscaped I’m sure it will be a beautiful asset to the whole community). Looking good already! 👍
@@philtucker1224 .. this concrete monstrosity will NEVER be "a beautiful asset to the whole community" .. in fact, within a decade of opening, it'll be nothing more than a glorified cycle path.
@@philtucker1224 .. nope, never been a fan of vanity projects that simply exist to throw money down the drain .. this massive white elephant only saw the light of day because it was deemed as a "we can build it so we will" monstrosity .. absolutely ZERO thought has been put into it & the blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed reveals that the public & the government have been lied to since day one .. senior management publishing misleading projections & "stats" to ensure that billions of pounds kept flowing into the project .. it's nothing but fraud on a gigantic scale.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Oh here you are again James Monks making stupid comments from your locked back bedroom about HS2 after taking the Pills, after you moaning for at least 4 years that the HS2 construction is a white Elephnt here is the truth of things I have been telling you about for years of near where I live in Birmingham, the Girder Bridge was moved into position the very same way as will this road bridge for the freight line from Aston to Stechford and in Birmingham why would we need another Cycle path, Grow up and Accept that the HS2 line is progessing very well indeed
@@peterwilliamallen1063 One thing I've learnt about James Monks is that he doesn't get out much and seems to be on a one man crusade to trash HS2 at every given opportunity. I've asked him multiple times what would be his preferred alternative at which point he crawls back under his rock and ignores the question. Meanwhile the rest of us will admire this wonderful project through to completion (hopefully in full).
please, please please, lobby the government to make sure the skills u've grown and nurtured are continued so the next time a bridge like this needs to be built, we have people with the skills to do so it doesn't cost a fuck tonne to retrain new people
Good that they are getting on with this vital increase in British railways capacity. Just need to make sure it gets into Euston, up to Manchester and Liverpool and beyond starting from Glasgow and a spur to Cardiff. This needs to be done in conjunction with a new northern rail network, and Cross rail 2, the Bakerloo and Northern line to Clapham Junction, and of course the West London orbital. Plan for the full electrification of GWR , alternative inland route in Devon and Cornwall and metro for Leeds and Birmingham Britain needs to move into 21st century rail infrastructure, and now we are no longer in the EU , all trains, rolling stock and locomotives manufactured in the UK. This is one of the ways to grow the economy and boost neglected British manufacturing.
@@KingFinnch.. even if the disaster that is Euston station was given the go-ahead to continue tomorrow, it's not expected to be operational until 2042 at the earliest - technology wise it'll be way out of date in 18 years time. The whole sorry project has been a disaster since day one & continues to be so. The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped. The blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed reveals that senior executives published misleading projections & falsified "stats" to ensure billions of pounds kept flowing into the project.. its nothing more than organised fraud on a gigantic scale. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@davidowen7793 COVID created that change in people’s lifestyles. A lot of big projects, (some of which were originally signed off up to ten years ago) are just not relevant anymore more…
The graphics are not shown for long enough, have to keep rewinding the video to understand whats going on. And why doesn't the presenter just say that its a road bridge to avoid confusion when showing pedestrians and cyclists.
Amazing. I’m not a fan of HS2 at all, but frankly this look like a proper railway job… can’t stand those darn concrete structures. Horrible. That said, congratulations, a ‘weathered steel’ look, brilliant and still cheaper than a road job.
why are you "not a fan" of HS2, what is wrong with it in your opinion? I think the worst about it is that the tories have cut most of the proposed route, would have been much more useful with the original plan. But that's still possible to achieve in the future
Well not so amazing, us locals have just found out this bridge is going totake 14 months to instlall causing untold misery with traffic jams and diversions just to install a new road bridge and deomolish the old one, yet the giant girder rail over rail bridge next to it was done over a long week end using the same method of installation, then you have Saltley Viaduct both major routes into Birmingham City Centre. Just cant see how a massive rail girder bridge over a railway line took about 5 days and a road bridge is going to take 14 months
True as they sensor people who say "waste of money" "infrastructure environmental damage" etc... Plus, the government owns the land, so if they protest, they will place them in a work camp.
Such negativity. Why not just celebrate the win this team just had? That’s the story he is telling. They acknowledge it’s over budget when I study this entire project. Move onwards and upwards. I’m from Australia and may not understand all the sensitivities around this project like a local however one thing I know for sure is that most if not all projects around the world are very difficult to cost beforehand as there are too many complexities (that often go against what the assumptions in the basic costings were). They’re not building a house! Wait until we finally build HSR in Australia 😂 it may never happen!!😂😂 I can guarantee it will cost many billions more than the original (low) estimates government tabled.
@JamesFFiT well said from down under. The unknowns you refer to in Britain are many and for some reason there are a lot of people here in the UK who think they are construction experts when they know nothing about the construction industry. Building a HSR in Ausrralia has fewer problems as most of the Country is undeveloped. Challenges will be setting-up temporary Contractor's townships along the way across the vast outback if they ever build a line from Perth to say Sydney or Melbourne. .
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.
First you cant have Freight trains running on a high speed Railway running trains at 225 MPH, next why does it need to be more than two tracks wide and when opened it will give better capacity on the WCML for Freight so no it is not a waste of tax payers money, new Motorways are.
Pride in his team ✓✓✓ It's amazing how rarely you hear that from bosses
We got to say we appreciate one another when we work side by side more.
Team work is always the best way forward was this bridge made of British steal? And a big hand clap to the company who manufactured the bridge beam's,@@nicklang7670
"Aye aye we will just lift that 1600 ton bridge, roll it over the railway and stick it on those piles"
"Ready lads and lasses?"
The advanced civil engineering on HS2 just gets better and better and its prototyping ideas for future projects.
That is going o take 14 months to install
Looks great. Can imagine this has been a very challenging piece of work. Well done to the team!
Know the team well and they have been through hell with this bridge. Anyone can build a concrete structure in a brown field site the amount of services and proximity to network rail made this one a real challenge.
Agreed.
the chinese would have finished it in half the time and at half the cost too probably!
@PeterPete you think so ? The Chinese can't build any faster than the Europeans.
Or any cheaper.
@@PeterPete go to china if you want that
Thank goodness we are able to attract these big investors to take on these massive projects and employ and train our young people. (On the last count I believe we were still 60,000 able bodied engineers short of what we need already!) We must continue supporting all U.K. Technical colleges and apprenticeship schemes.
Certainly a wonderful piece of engineering (and once it is fully established and landscaped I’m sure it will be a beautiful asset to the whole community). Looking good already! 👍
@@philtucker1224 .. this concrete monstrosity will NEVER be "a beautiful asset to the whole community" .. in fact, within a decade of opening, it'll be nothing more than a glorified cycle path.
@@CRIMSONANT1 You’re not a fan then Crimson? I thought it was a cycle path? Much safer for children surely?
@@philtucker1224 .. nope, never been a fan of vanity projects that simply exist to throw money down the drain .. this massive white elephant only saw the light of day because it was deemed as a "we can build it so we will" monstrosity .. absolutely ZERO thought has been put into it & the blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed reveals that the public & the government have been lied to since day one .. senior management publishing misleading projections & "stats" to ensure that billions of pounds kept flowing into the project .. it's nothing but fraud on a gigantic scale.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Oh here you are again James Monks making stupid comments from your locked back bedroom about HS2 after taking the Pills, after you moaning for at least 4 years that the HS2 construction is a white Elephnt here is the truth of things I have been telling you about for years of near where I live in Birmingham, the Girder Bridge was moved into position the very same way as will this road bridge for the freight line from Aston to Stechford and in Birmingham why would we need another Cycle path, Grow up and Accept that the HS2 line is progessing very well indeed
@@peterwilliamallen1063 One thing I've learnt about James Monks is that he doesn't get out much and seems to be on a one man crusade to trash HS2 at every given opportunity. I've asked him multiple times what would be his preferred alternative at which point he crawls back under his rock and ignores the question. Meanwhile the rest of us will admire this wonderful project through to completion (hopefully in full).
It’s a real shame that the second leg to Manchester got canned. Some amazing work going on and it would’ve been awesome to link three major UK cities.
Amazing, incredible job, congratulations 👍
please, please please, lobby the government to make sure the skills u've grown and nurtured are continued so the next time a bridge like this needs to be built, we have people with the skills to do so it doesn't cost a fuck tonne to retrain new people
Oops! Slight typo there I think Chris!
The infrastructure projects keep getting cut, lab following on from cons
Congratulations team very good team work
"in order to match the pallet into the existing area" 😂, and also a left handed hammer too!
Good that they are getting on with this vital increase in British railways capacity. Just need to make sure it gets into Euston, up to Manchester and Liverpool and beyond starting from Glasgow and a spur to Cardiff. This needs to be done in conjunction with a new northern rail network, and Cross rail 2, the Bakerloo and Northern line to Clapham Junction, and of course the West London orbital. Plan for the full electrification of GWR , alternative inland route in Devon and Cornwall and metro for Leeds and Birmingham
Britain needs to move into 21st century rail infrastructure, and now we are no longer in the EU , all trains, rolling stock and locomotives manufactured in the UK. This is one of the ways to grow the economy and boost neglected British manufacturing.
When will the whole project be open and HSR will be available for use?
2028-2030
@@KingFinnch.. even if the disaster that is Euston station was given the go-ahead to continue tomorrow, it's not expected to be operational until 2042 at the earliest - technology wise it'll be way out of date in 18 years time. The whole sorry project has been a disaster since day one & continues to be so.
The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped.
The blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed reveals that senior executives published misleading projections & falsified "stats" to ensure billions of pounds kept flowing into the project.. its nothing more than organised fraud on a gigantic scale.
HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
Check your local railway timetable to stay up to date.
Never they have already cancelled half of it, not that it was ever needed in the first place.
@@davidowen7793 COVID created that change in people’s lifestyles. A lot of big projects, (some of which were originally signed off up to ten years ago) are just not relevant anymore more…
The graphics are not shown for long enough, have to keep rewinding the video to understand whats going on. And why doesn't the presenter just say that its a road bridge to avoid confusion when showing pedestrians and cyclists.
it's a combined bridge. Road in the middle, pedestrians and cyclists on the sides. Utilities inside.
Amazing. I’m not a fan of HS2 at all, but frankly this look like a proper railway job… can’t stand those darn concrete structures. Horrible. That said, congratulations, a ‘weathered steel’ look, brilliant and still cheaper than a road job.
why are you "not a fan" of HS2, what is wrong with it in your opinion?
I think the worst about it is that the tories have cut most of the proposed route, would have been much more useful with the original plan. But that's still possible to achieve in the future
@@nicolasblume1046 we already had an ‘HS2’.
@@thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882 what do you mean?
what time all can be finished?
Not Clear on rail over rail bridge are the factories being Demolished to make way for new Railway alignment!
Those Factories are empty now and have beeb for years so will more than likely be demolished
Well not so amazing, us locals have just found out this bridge is going totake 14 months to instlall causing untold misery with traffic jams and diversions just to install a new road bridge and deomolish the old one, yet the giant girder rail over rail bridge next to it was done over a long week end using the same method of installation, then you have Saltley Viaduct both major routes into Birmingham City Centre. Just cant see how a massive rail girder bridge over a railway line took about 5 days and a road bridge is going to take 14 months
When can cyclists use it?
can't beat china!
True as they sensor people who say "waste of money" "infrastructure environmental damage" etc... Plus, the government owns the land, so if they protest, they will place them in a work camp.
Billions over Budget
Waste of money 👎🇬🇧
Such negativity. Why not just celebrate the win this team just had? That’s the story he is telling. They acknowledge it’s over budget when I study this entire project. Move onwards and upwards. I’m from Australia and may not understand all the sensitivities around this project like a local however one thing I know for sure is that most if not all projects around the world are very difficult to cost beforehand as there are too many complexities (that often go against what the assumptions in the basic costings were). They’re not building a house!
Wait until we finally build HSR in Australia 😂 it may never happen!!😂😂
I can guarantee it will cost many billions more than the original (low) estimates government tabled.
@@JamesFFiT this is a BOT mate.....
@@JamesFFiT because we need that money for other things ....hello
@@jasonking6892 What other things?
@JamesFFiT well said from down under. The unknowns you refer to in Britain are many and for some reason there are a lot of people here in the UK who think they are construction experts when they know nothing about the construction industry. Building a HSR in Ausrralia has fewer problems as most of the Country is undeveloped. Challenges will be setting-up temporary Contractor's townships along the way across the vast outback if they ever build a line from Perth to say Sydney or Melbourne. .
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.
First you cant have Freight trains running on a high speed Railway running trains at 225 MPH, next why does it need to be more than two tracks wide and when opened it will give better capacity on the WCML for Freight so no it is not a waste of tax payers money, new Motorways are.