LoL! What? Years behind schedule, over-budget, and those 2-3 piers is great progress??? What an absolute joke! Looks like competing with the US for HSR!
@@Gershw1nn.. it WON'T because the new Labour government have already stated they have NO plans whatsoever to revive the Northern leg. In a recent interview, Sir Keir Starmer said .. "it's not possible to do as the Tory government have blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled" which is excellent news as HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@gooddypma green method of public transport that can connect both domestic and international city centres within a few hours maximum, moving triple the number of people a plane can. But yeah I’m daft
We are a densely populated country with a very strict environmental red tape. This makes construction projects more expensive but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue them.
@@kinocchio , I agree that we should but it isn't realistic. At the end of the day, the reason the UK is declining is we don't build enough infrastructure. There is nothing wrong with better infrastructure. I am willing to pay more tax if it means going into these amazing projects that will get our railway system back to the 21st century.
@@inbb510Excuses at its finest! Maybe instead of interfering with other countries local politics & not sticking our nose will go a long way. Instead of blindly following the US diktat, we could have invested money wasted in wars that weren't ours would have helped. And we aren't that UK that had sh!t load of money, we are now scrapping through.
I'm really glad to see this coming along, although I would have preferred for the government to have paid for Curzon Street Station to be a sunken box station with the line continuing under Birmingham and taking trains further north. Choosing terminal stations (instead of investing slightly more for through stations) is the big mistake that was made in London. It took 100 years of dithering before Paddington and Liverpool Street were connected up by Crossrail. Birmingham is not at the edge of the UK. There is no logical reason to build a new terminal station there.
Ground conditions (geology, buildings, subterannean infrastructure) would make it horrendously expensive to tunnel a new railway underneath Birmingham city centre - a lot, lot more expensive than what is being built right now. The London tube network was possible because the tunnels are bored through stable clay, which is also relatively cheap to tunnel through. But note that the tube does not extend much south of the River Thames, because the rock-types there are much less easy to tunnel through (hard chalk and unstable gravel). Birmingham centre lies on porous sandstone and pebble beds, both of which make tunnels very difficult to bore and to keep stable and dry. Note that Curzon Street, where the HS2 terminal station is being built was the original terminus of the newly-built London - Birmingham railway in 1838. They stopped the railway there precisely because of the difficulty and expense of building a station in the centre of town (the centre of Brum is on a plateau, not in a river valley). For this reason, the existing New Street station wasn't built until 1854. The topography of the hilly city centre means that the station had to be constructed in a cutting with severe space constraints, approached in all directions by expensive tunnels. It was difficult and expensive enough to do this then, when the city was smaller and there were no tall buildings whose foundations had to be avoided. Imagine the difficulty and cost of boring more tunnels through the centre now - that would almost certainly blow the budget for HS2!
To me,as an ex BR employee is the lack of connectivity with Birmingham's 2 Major Stations,l live in Shrewsbury and for me the time taken to connect at Curzon Street is a disincentive to use HS2. This is not a Rail Industry project,it is a National Infrastructure project,l have no idea who chose the route, experienced rail operators l knew would have used the M1/M6 route to reach Birmingham, not the Chiltern route,which l felt at the time was a very expensive suicide note,serving no one and costing a fortune.
@@keithmason7481 HS2 does not use the Chilten Route to reach Birmingham it follows the M^ and Asto Expressway into the City Centre and follows no set route from Birmingham to London. You do not actually require to walk between New Street and Curzon Street as there will be an Interchange at Birmingham International Station
HS2 gives me M6 toll vibes, something for the rich that doesn't really get used much and barely makes any sense, having said that ,the raised sections with trains flying along at 200Mph will look pretty sick :)
I don't know why this Bridge has been nick named Bellingham Bridge as Jude Bellingham is not a Brummie, he was born in Stourbridge in Dudley Metropolitaan County West Midlands and only played for Birmingham City
That’s a bit pedantic Peter. If Birmingham has any gravitas as a growing city known globally, you include the whole metropolitan area, like we do in the other great cities around the world. And if that’s the standard we set, then Bellingham is most definitely from Birmingham.
@@ArtieFufkin546 Well mate that is how wrong you are, Birmingham is the Second Largest City in the UK with it's population of 1.5 million Citizens and is known world wide for Cadburuy Chocolate, Jaguar Cars. It's Canals. It's Jewelery Quarter, The Bull Ring Centre Tolkien and loads more things and does not include the Whole Metropolitan Area known as the West Midlands which includes 2 other Cities other than Birmingham, the Cities of Wolverhampton and Coventry and towns such Solihull and a load of Black Country Towns that like Birmingham are a part of the West Midlands but do not call them selves as Brummies or a part of Birmingham all being independent towns and Cities with thir own Councils and Mayors, Stourbridge where Jude Bellingham lived is about 14 miles from the Birmingham Boundry so no it is not a part of Birmingham and Jude Bellingham is not there for a Brummy like myself, so sorry mate he IS NOT from Birmingham as Stourbridge is not a part of Birmingham. To be a Brummy or from Birmingham you have to be born or live in Birmingham not 14 miles away in a different town and I am not being padantic but realistic.
@@ArtieFufkin546 Not being pendantic, Jude Bellingham was not born in Birmingham so is not a Brummie, he was Born and lived in a small Black country Town called Stourbridge 14 miles away from Birmingham and started his Football there at a Small local Football team and the only connection with Birmingham was that he played for Birmingham City some time ago, it is like calling some one from Coventry a Brummie, plus has any one asked him if he wants a Viaduct named after him as it is not a bridge t is a modern Viaduct and it has not been officially named y Network Rail or Birmingham City Council and he has no affiliation to Birmingham at all and sorry to be most definately from Birmingham you have to live with in the City of Birmingham not 14 miles away in another Town
Don’t worry mush you ent paying for anything and I’m well Happy as a share holder in both railway company and the construction company so my vote will count but not your. BOOM
Because It's nothing to do with him being a Brummie or not.Its because the bridge location is close to Birmingham city's stadium and Bellingham cane from Birmingham city and is a big fan of the club.
You'll have to dream I'm afraid as the new Labour government have NO plans whatsoever to revive the scrapped sections of this massive white elephant. In a recent interview, Sir Keir Starmer said.. "it's not possible to do as the Tory government have blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled" which is excellent news as HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
Interesting to hear a Civil Engineer refer to celebrating construction of the last pier, where in Structural building engineering this is known as topping out. Useful update on the Birmingham siding for Phase 1, at a time Sir Peter Hendy and Jurgen Meir are deciding how much of HS2 to revive as it is essential in delivering the nationwide increase in capacity of the 21st Century railway.
No - Coreten / Core Ten weathering steel is designed to last a long time without coatings. Overall, the lifecycle costs can be lower, especially considering this span oversails the main rail corridor into Birmingham (safe access would be costly).
no railway line ever recouped it's costs with ticket sales, the only way rail companies ever made money in the past was through the increased land value around the line and through freight
There's an overall long-term economic benefit locally, regionally and nationally to having improved transport infrastructure. The London tube network never made a huge return on the investment, but no one would doubt the huge positive economic impact it has had on London as a whole over the last 100 years. Nobody today worries about how much it cost then. But we would worry about the cost of losing such infrastructure.
Please formally name it Bellingham Bridge! Next, the brilliant cross-party idea of the two regional Mayors of raising private finance and building a workable, no-frills ( and no NIMBY gold plating as on the Birmingham to London section with miles of costly tunnelling to appease a few Tory MPs and farmers ) Birmingham to Mancherster via Crewe HS2. The people and the equipment are ready and the civil engineering, on paper, doesn't look hard, the land for the route is owned as the Tories didn't have time to sabotage ever building this phase by selling it off ( they lifted the safeguarding but that can and should be put back now ) and this makes the whole HS2 plan far more viable financially.
That's the section north to Manchester. However, the section from London Old Oak Common to Birmingham Curzon Street and the existing West Coast Mainline at Handsacre is still going ahead. The section from Euston to Old Oak Common is currently paused but hopefully that gets the go ahead in the near future
@@jermainetrainallen6416 The section from OOC to Euston is now being constructed and the tunneling machines are now boring out the tunnel between OOC and Euston
@@peterwilliamallen1063 The TBMs for the OOC to Euston section haven't yet been delivered. The current plan is for the TBMs to be delivered later this year before the eastern end of the OOC box is sealed, hopefully only temporarily. Therefore, the eastern end can be ready for construction of the tunnel and the rest of the OOC station can be built seperately. It is still paused as of now.
@@jermainetrainallen6416 You need to read up on it a bit as the first TBNM is starting to tunnel from OOC to London Euston as per HS2 ltd, it is the second TBNM that has not been dilivered yet and the service tunnel has been completed, the reason, OOC was not desighned as a terminal station and HS2 ltd told the UK Government that the tunnels require boring as once OOC is in operation then it could not go ahead. I suggest you look at more official HS2 ltd videos like I do and you will get more info on HS2 construction
@@finnyoungman2674 6 metres cubed against 6 cubic metres. The first one is 36 cubic metres, the second one is 6 cubic metres. The same with area. It is the grammar of English Language, which is not taught correctly these days.
@@johnawalker9261 Clearly English and mathematics aren't your strongest points either. They are the same. A cubic meter is equal to 1000 liter (one thousand liter). It is represented by the symbol m3 or meter cube. Cubic meter is an SI unit of volume, when a cube has length equal to 1 meter. Since a cube has all its sides equal, therefore the volume of cube is equal to: V = length x breadth x width V = 1m x 1m x 1m V = 1 m3 or 1 cubic meter I think a trained and qualified civil engineer knows her units of work far better than some random armchair grammar Nazi.
@@johnawalker9261 What I see is someone who either does not have a grasp of basic terminology or sees he was proven wrong and so is now floundering around trying to 'score a point'. I just gave you the full mathematical definition and the way a cubic meter is represented by the symbol m3 or meter cube. To fabricate anything else is a waste of time.
Not true. In London they knocked down a number of residential streets next to Euston station, so that the station could be expanded west of where it previously ended. And then the last government cancelled the station that was going to be built where the demolished buildings are.
@@DavidShepheard Euston HS2 was not cancelled. Its whole funding business plan was challenged. HS2 is still building into Euston. What may not happen is the above ground development.
Spiralling costs (billions over budget) and ever increasing environmental disasters for a gravy train that will be outdated and over capacitated on its completion It just don’t add up
@@peterwilliamallen1063 fair play yes maybe it will and a great step forward to humanity But how about looking at it another way that our children and their children won’t no what it’s like to see a fox or an amphibian or a fish or insect because we have pushed it all away from our own progress not giving a hoot mostly and a newly planted sapling along side a track producing 140 decibels of noise pollution is hardly a 500 year old ancient oak woodland is it We as a species are on burn out which nobody can deny I understand anyones views but I think we would all agree that we need to give something back As usual I will get a lot of flack for this but I won’t b sending a reply if anyone gets fresh Any way have a good day we just all wonna b happy because we are just mortal eh!!
HS2 isn't just about faster intercity passenger travel. It also also has the benefit of freeing up capacity on the highly congested existing West Coast Main Line. This will allow the WCML to accommodate more frequent local (stopping) services, which will be of great benefit to local communities. It will also allow more rail freight services to operate on the route, which will take polluting trucks off the road. These benefits would be even more marked if the northern part of HS2 hadn't been axed.
A brand new motorway/dual carriageway would damage nature more than a new high speed line FYI. Also the emmisions from trains are fsr less than a motorway, so in the end theyre more environmentally friendly 👍🏾
@@rankedcitizen.. haha, quoting directly from HS2 Ltd's "perfect world" scenario .. love it! The truth is, HS2 will NEVER be "environmentally friendly" during the entire course of it's projected 120 year lifespan.
@@qasimmir7117 So what is it then, plastic fields, cows and sheep, every bit of the UK Country side is natural and most has not changed in 100's of years with oak tree's 100's of years old and buildings dating back to the 1600's at least
The people of Birmingham deserve to have a new dedicated InterCity station to take as many trains out of Birmingham Curzon Street as possible, so that more commuter trains can go into Birmingham Curzon Street. The people of Birmingham are tax payers too. And they work hard. And they deserve to have a better service on their commuter trains, so that the area can become less car dependant and local pollution can go down. It's been over eighty years since London had the New Works program and London Underground was changed from a disrunctional railway to one with better capacity. Birmingham deserves the same. Other cities in the UK do too. The fastest way to improve commuter services in UK cities is to move the InterCity services off of the existing mainlines, so that the mainlines can be used to run more frequent stopping services. This isn't the only thing that Birmingham needs, so HS2 has to be followed up with other investment, but Birmingham Curzon Street is going to totally rehabilitate Birmingham New Street and give the older station a large number of train slots to play with.
@@scottpeacock5492 Yeah but it have cost us £100bn to build a train track from London to Birmingham, it should be all over the UK for £100bn not from London to Birmingham. I feel we have been ripped off.
@@chris01479 Please provide us with your costing analysis to demonstrate how you feel you've been ripped off and that it 'should be all over the UK' for 100bn A summary will be fine. Ta
@@d.mfrost6801.. HS2 will be a passenger only rail service when it eventually opens (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress) .. it WON'T carry freight!
@@CRIMSONANT1 One objective of HS2 was to increase capacity on the West Coast mainline by taking the intercity passenger trains. Thus making more routes for the slower freight traffic on the WCML.
@@daviddearden6372 .. sadly, an "objective" that will NEVER come to fruition .. as comprehensive research has shown. All these "perfect world" scenarios spouted by HS2 Ltd have been false from day one .. as the blatant corruption that's recently been exposed has revealed. Misleading projections to ensure billions of pounds kept flowing into the project. Whistleblowers claim they were told by bosses to lie about the project’s cost & were sacked after speaking out. They say the government wasn't informed of the real cost of HS2 for years, all while voting on laws that approved its construction.
@@d.mfrost6801 That’s not what it will be used for. If anything, I’d rather leave the freight on the trucks & conventional rails and use HS2 for passengers since the cars take up higher numbers in traffic.
Really shaping up, ignore the press and keep moving forward.
It’s a total white elephant and not even going as far as it should do. Adding to the immense national debt for this is truly madness.
Looks great , all concrete mess perfect for shity Birmingham and £250 a ticket to use the Train , pointless waste of money
@@curtisducati they could have just given everyone £1600 each to buy travel instead . Bargain.
Ignor the other two comments, they are aged people with no lives
@@ThatTrainGuy123 do you think it is value for money?
Great to see the progress in Birmingham.
3 new pillers is great progress 😂
LoL! What? Years behind schedule, over-budget, and those 2-3 piers is great progress??? What an absolute joke! Looks like competing with the US for HSR!
Really hope this incentivises more HS construction further North in due course.
it will - investment in rail will save the economy
@@Gershw1nn.. it WON'T because the new Labour government have already stated they have NO plans whatsoever to revive the Northern leg.
In a recent interview, Sir Keir Starmer said .. "it's not possible to do as the Tory government have blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled" which is excellent news as HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
Don’t be daft.
@@gooddypma green method of public transport that can connect both domestic and international city centres within a few hours maximum, moving triple the number of people a plane can. But yeah I’m daft
@@Gershw1nn we can’t afford it as a country. They will never come north of Birmingham.
Hopefully Kier pulls his finger out and pushes go on actually finsishing the whole project.
Well, he has only been in power nine days, but I am hopeful!
It has already cost a ridiculous amount of money. It's a disaster.
Will be fantastic once completed, and hopefully carried on up north.
Jude Bellingham 🔥🔥
Other countries would have finished this project years ago and for a lot less money.
We are a densely populated country with a very strict environmental red tape.
This makes construction projects more expensive but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue them.
@@inbb510 maybe we should look at getting rid of all the red tape
@@kinocchio , I agree that we should but it isn't realistic.
At the end of the day, the reason the UK is declining is we don't build enough infrastructure.
There is nothing wrong with better infrastructure. I am willing to pay more tax if it means going into these amazing projects that will get our railway system back to the 21st century.
@@kinocchio yeah that would work well....not!
@@inbb510Excuses at its finest! Maybe instead of interfering with other countries local politics & not sticking our nose will go a long way.
Instead of blindly following the US diktat, we could have invested money wasted in wars that weren't ours would have helped. And we aren't that UK that had sh!t load of money, we are now scrapping through.
Keep it going guys, Modern uk infrustuctor here we come
I'm really glad to see this coming along, although I would have preferred for the government to have paid for Curzon Street Station to be a sunken box station with the line continuing under Birmingham and taking trains further north.
Choosing terminal stations (instead of investing slightly more for through stations) is the big mistake that was made in London. It took 100 years of dithering before Paddington and Liverpool Street were connected up by Crossrail. Birmingham is not at the edge of the UK. There is no logical reason to build a new terminal station there.
There is no way this line would of gone under Birmingham City Centre
to westminster birmingham unfortunately is at the edge of the uk, anywhere north of it doesn't seem to matter to them in any capacity
Ground conditions (geology, buildings, subterannean infrastructure) would make it horrendously expensive to tunnel a new railway underneath Birmingham city centre - a lot, lot more expensive than what is being built right now. The London tube network was possible because the tunnels are bored through stable clay, which is also relatively cheap to tunnel through. But note that the tube does not extend much south of the River Thames, because the rock-types there are much less easy to tunnel through (hard chalk and unstable gravel). Birmingham centre lies on porous sandstone and pebble beds, both of which make tunnels very difficult to bore and to keep stable and dry.
Note that Curzon Street, where the HS2 terminal station is being built was the original terminus of the newly-built London - Birmingham railway in 1838. They stopped the railway there precisely because of the difficulty and expense of building a station in the centre of town (the centre of Brum is on a plateau, not in a river valley). For this reason, the existing New Street station wasn't built until 1854. The topography of the hilly city centre means that the station had to be constructed in a cutting with severe space constraints, approached in all directions by expensive tunnels. It was difficult and expensive enough to do this then, when the city was smaller and there were no tall buildings whose foundations had to be avoided. Imagine the difficulty and cost of boring more tunnels through the centre now - that would almost certainly blow the budget for HS2!
To me,as an ex BR employee is the lack of connectivity with Birmingham's 2 Major Stations,l live in Shrewsbury and for me the time taken to connect at Curzon Street is a disincentive to use HS2.
This is not a Rail Industry project,it is a National Infrastructure project,l have no idea who chose the route, experienced rail operators l knew would have used the M1/M6 route to reach Birmingham, not the Chiltern route,which l felt at the time was a very expensive suicide note,serving no one and costing a fortune.
@@keithmason7481 HS2 does not use the Chilten Route to reach Birmingham it follows the M^ and Asto Expressway into the City Centre and follows no set route from Birmingham to London. You do not actually require to walk between New Street and Curzon Street as there will be an Interchange at Birmingham International Station
Amazing ❤
Has anyone asked Bellingham if actually wants a bridge named after him?
I doubt he'd say no as he is from Birmingham.
I hope it doesn't emulate his failure in the Euros!
HS2 gives me M6 toll vibes, something for the rich that doesn't really get used much and barely makes any sense, having said that ,the raised sections with trains flying along at 200Mph will look pretty sick :)
I don't know why this Bridge has been nick named Bellingham Bridge as Jude Bellingham is not a Brummie, he was born in Stourbridge in Dudley Metropolitaan County West Midlands and only played for Birmingham City
That’s a bit pedantic Peter. If Birmingham has any gravitas as a growing city known globally, you include the whole metropolitan area, like we do in the other great cities around the world. And if that’s the standard we set, then Bellingham is most definitely from Birmingham.
@@ArtieFufkin546 Well mate that is how wrong you are, Birmingham is the Second Largest City in the UK with it's population of 1.5 million Citizens and is known world wide for Cadburuy Chocolate, Jaguar Cars. It's Canals. It's Jewelery Quarter, The Bull Ring Centre Tolkien and loads more things and does not include the Whole Metropolitan Area known as the West Midlands which includes 2 other Cities other than Birmingham, the Cities of Wolverhampton and Coventry and towns such Solihull and a load of Black Country Towns that like Birmingham are a part of the West Midlands but do not call them selves as Brummies or a part of Birmingham all being independent towns and Cities with thir own Councils and Mayors, Stourbridge where Jude Bellingham lived is about 14 miles from the Birmingham Boundry so no it is not a part of Birmingham and Jude Bellingham is not there for a Brummy like myself, so sorry mate he IS NOT from Birmingham as Stourbridge is not a part of Birmingham. To be a Brummy or from Birmingham you have to be born or live in Birmingham not 14 miles away in a different town and I am not being padantic but realistic.
@@ArtieFufkin546 Not being pendantic, Jude Bellingham was not born in Birmingham so is not a Brummie, he was Born and lived in a small Black country Town called Stourbridge 14 miles away from Birmingham and started his Football there at a Small local Football team and the only connection with Birmingham was that he played for Birmingham City some time ago, it is like calling some one from Coventry a Brummie, plus has any one asked him if he wants a Viaduct named after him as it is not a bridge t is a modern Viaduct and it has not been officially named y Network Rail or Birmingham City Council and he has no affiliation to Birmingham at all and sorry to be most definately from Birmingham you have to live with in the City of Birmingham not 14 miles away in another Town
Don’t worry mush you ent paying for anything and I’m well Happy as a share holder in both railway company and the construction company so my vote will count but not your. BOOM
Because It's nothing to do with him being a Brummie or not.Its because the bridge location is close to Birmingham city's stadium and Bellingham cane from Birmingham city and is a big fan of the club.
I pray Labour can finish the whole project to Scotland.
You'll have to dream I'm afraid as the new Labour government have NO plans whatsoever to revive the scrapped sections of this massive white elephant.
In a recent interview, Sir Keir Starmer said.. "it's not possible to do as the Tory government have blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled" which is excellent news as HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
It’s a shame the tories dropped the ball and put this project into the ground
They put the country into the ground. Hope to see the complete HS2 project revived.
@@trader548 I highly doubt it, it would be a money pit, maybe in several decades time
Interesting to hear a Civil Engineer refer to celebrating construction of the last pier, where in Structural building engineering this is known as topping out.
Useful update on the Birmingham siding for Phase 1, at a time Sir Peter Hendy and Jurgen Meir are deciding how much of HS2 to revive as it is essential in delivering the nationwide increase in capacity of the 21st Century railway.
Icl that looks like a great bridge
Awesome..................🤩🤩🤩🤩
Amazing how a bridge is named after the greatest English player of all times JUDE BELLIGOLLLL
Do you actually mould the piers on site on top of each section...?
Lovely elegent concrete piers - but attoped with rusty steel frames - ??cost cutting?
No - Coreten / Core Ten weathering steel is designed to last a long time without coatings. Overall, the lifecycle costs can be lower, especially considering this span oversails the main rail corridor into Birmingham (safe access would be costly).
the rust protects the steel, also, it looks cool
Jude Bellingham
Superb
It is pretty much an engineering masterpiece. It's just a shame that it'll never recoup its costs.
no railway line ever recouped it's costs with ticket sales, the only way rail companies ever made money in the past was through the increased land value around the line and through freight
There's an overall long-term economic benefit locally, regionally and nationally to having improved transport infrastructure. The London tube network never made a huge return on the investment, but no one would doubt the huge positive economic impact it has had on London as a whole over the last 100 years. Nobody today worries about how much it cost then. But we would worry about the cost of losing such infrastructure.
Please formally name it Bellingham Bridge!
Next, the brilliant cross-party idea of the two regional Mayors of raising private finance and building a workable, no-frills ( and no NIMBY gold plating as on the Birmingham to London section with miles of costly tunnelling to appease a few Tory MPs and farmers ) Birmingham to Mancherster via Crewe HS2.
The people and the equipment are ready and the civil engineering, on paper, doesn't look hard, the land for the route is owned as the Tories didn't have time to sabotage ever building this phase by selling it off ( they lifted the safeguarding but that can and should be put back now ) and this makes the whole HS2 plan far more viable financially.
I ❤ UK 🇬🇧
Is They mean Jude Bellingham the rm player?
I thought it was cancelled or is that just the other planned section?
That's the section north to Manchester. However, the section from London Old Oak Common to Birmingham Curzon Street and the existing West Coast Mainline at Handsacre is still going ahead. The section from Euston to Old Oak Common is currently paused but hopefully that gets the go ahead in the near future
@@jermainetrainallen6416 The section from OOC to Euston is now being constructed and the tunneling machines are now boring out the tunnel between OOC and Euston
@@peterwilliamallen1063 The TBMs for the OOC to Euston section haven't yet been delivered. The current plan is for the TBMs to be delivered later this year before the eastern end of the OOC box is sealed, hopefully only temporarily. Therefore, the eastern end can be ready for construction of the tunnel and the rest of the OOC station can be built seperately. It is still paused as of now.
@@jermainetrainallen6416 You need to read up on it a bit as the first TBNM is starting to tunnel from OOC to London Euston as per HS2 ltd, it is the second TBNM that has not been dilivered yet and the service tunnel has been completed, the reason, OOC was not desighned as a terminal station and HS2 ltd told the UK Government that the tunnels require boring as once OOC is in operation then it could not go ahead. I suggest you look at more official HS2 ltd videos like I do and you will get more info on HS2 construction
@@jermainetrainallen6416it has received funding to proceed
What about rest of the country?
Slowely its crucial that UK is building HS2 cuz of development of building technology in Fast Rails...🍃🌱🌿☘🍀🍂🌼🍁🌺🦕🌍🇭🇷🇪🇺🍇🍌🦋🍓🥦🌽🌲☀️❤
Another clever lady
Why not go through the arches
Because obviously they are too small and at the wrong angle.
Another one who can’t say a volume or area correctly. She said metres cubed instead of cubic metres. There is a big difference.
Would you like to enlighten us on that difference because both have the same volume
@@finnyoungman2674 6 metres cubed against 6 cubic metres. The first one is 36 cubic metres, the second one is 6 cubic metres. The same with area. It is the grammar of English Language, which is not taught correctly these days.
@@johnawalker9261 Clearly English and mathematics aren't your strongest points either. They are the same. A cubic meter is equal to 1000 liter (one thousand liter). It is represented by the symbol m3 or meter cube. Cubic meter is an SI unit of volume, when a cube has length equal to 1 meter. Since a cube has all its sides equal, therefore the volume of cube is equal to:
V = length x breadth x width
V = 1m x 1m x 1m
V = 1 m3 or 1 cubic meter
I think a trained and qualified civil engineer knows her units of work far better than some random armchair grammar Nazi.
@@1chish6 cubed is 216, which is saying 6 metres cubed not 6 cubic metres. Can you now see the difference?
@@johnawalker9261 What I see is someone who either does not have a grasp of basic terminology or sees he was proven wrong and so is now floundering around trying to 'score a point'.
I just gave you the full mathematical definition and the way a cubic meter is represented by the symbol m3 or meter cube. To fabricate anything else is a waste of time.
I hope it doesn't emulate his failure in the Euros!
Waste of money.
It shouldn’t have cost so much but it did thanks to ancient planning laws, corruption, and NIMBY’s.
@@qasimmir7117 Yes, indeed.
50 Billion over Budget so far 😂👎🏴
Thanks to the country’s own NIMBYs.
In London, you tunnel. In Birmingham you create a concrete wasteland.
Nope. HS2 tunnelling is happening right here in Birmingham as we speak.
Not true. In London they knocked down a number of residential streets next to Euston station, so that the station could be expanded west of where it previously ended. And then the last government cancelled the station that was going to be built where the demolished buildings are.
@@DavidShepheard Euston HS2 was not cancelled. Its whole funding business plan was challenged. HS2 is still building into Euston. What may not happen is the above ground development.
@@1chish How long it will take them to finish to build a train track from London to Birmingham??
@@1chish Old Oak Common is where its going to terminate. Your Euston dream is buried sonny.
Spiralling costs (billions over budget) and ever increasing environmental disasters for a gravy train that will be outdated and over capacitated on its completion
It just don’t add up
Do some reserch as HS2 will be the fastest route in Europe when it opens and will not be outdated when it opens either
@@peterwilliamallen1063 fair play yes maybe it will and a great step forward to humanity
But how about looking at it another way that our children and their children won’t no what it’s like to see a fox or an amphibian or a fish or insect because we have pushed it all away from our own progress not giving a hoot mostly and a newly planted sapling along side a track producing 140 decibels of noise pollution is hardly a 500 year old ancient oak woodland is it
We as a species are on burn out which nobody can deny
I understand anyones views but I think we would all agree that we need to give something back
As usual I will get a lot of flack for this but I won’t b sending a reply if anyone gets fresh
Any way have a good day we just all wonna b happy because we are just mortal eh!!
HS2 isn't just about faster intercity passenger travel. It also also has the benefit of freeing up capacity on the highly congested existing West Coast Main Line. This will allow the WCML to accommodate more frequent local (stopping) services, which will be of great benefit to local communities. It will also allow more rail freight services to operate on the route, which will take polluting trucks off the road. These benefits would be even more marked if the northern part of HS2 hadn't been axed.
Shame on you HS2 - destroyers of so much Nature
Typical Nimby, the UK's Motor Way network has destroyed more of Nature than HS2
A brand new motorway/dual carriageway would damage nature more than a new high speed line FYI. Also the emmisions from trains are fsr less than a motorway, so in the end theyre more environmentally friendly 👍🏾
@@rankedcitizen.. haha, quoting directly from HS2 Ltd's "perfect world" scenario .. love it!
The truth is, HS2 will NEVER be "environmentally friendly" during the entire course of it's projected 120 year lifespan.
There is very little of the English countryside that is actually natural. Not the farms, not the empty fields, not even the forests.
@@qasimmir7117 So what is it then, plastic fields, cows and sheep, every bit of the UK Country side is natural and most has not changed in 100's of years with oak tree's 100's of years old and buildings dating back to the 1600's at least
Bellingham bridge is so cringe
It's a shame it is weathered steel as it will just look like a rusty viaduct in time. 🙁
bridge design looks ugly
Absolute...... WASTE*
Complete waste of tax payers money.
Wow, thanks for sharing . Do you have HS2 in your notifications just so you can be the first to post that?
I think you need a better hobby mate 😂
HS2 far more eviromentally friendly and better for the environment than building more roads for the cars!! shaggers.
The people of Birmingham deserve to have a new dedicated InterCity station to take as many trains out of Birmingham Curzon Street as possible, so that more commuter trains can go into Birmingham Curzon Street.
The people of Birmingham are tax payers too. And they work hard. And they deserve to have a better service on their commuter trains, so that the area can become less car dependant and local pollution can go down. It's been over eighty years since London had the New Works program and London Underground was changed from a disrunctional railway to one with better capacity. Birmingham deserves the same. Other cities in the UK do too.
The fastest way to improve commuter services in UK cities is to move the InterCity services off of the existing mainlines, so that the mainlines can be used to run more frequent stopping services.
This isn't the only thing that Birmingham needs, so HS2 has to be followed up with other investment, but Birmingham Curzon Street is going to totally rehabilitate Birmingham New Street and give the older station a large number of train slots to play with.
@@scottpeacock5492 Yeah but it have cost us £100bn to build a train track from London to Birmingham, it should be all over the UK for £100bn not from London to Birmingham. I feel we have been ripped off.
@@chris01479 Please provide us with your costing analysis to demonstrate how you feel you've been ripped off and that it 'should be all over the UK' for 100bn
A summary will be fine. Ta
Good video but why so short @hs2uk
Hahahaha. 😂😂😂😂😂
Total waste of money , billions wasted on a train we will never use
But it will be used for freight and take lorries off the roads, which is what Railways were actually constructed for....
@@d.mfrost6801.. HS2 will be a passenger only rail service when it eventually opens (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress) .. it WON'T carry freight!
@@CRIMSONANT1 One objective of HS2 was to increase capacity on the West Coast mainline by taking the intercity passenger trains. Thus making more routes for the slower freight traffic on the WCML.
@@daviddearden6372 .. sadly, an "objective" that will NEVER come to fruition .. as comprehensive research has shown.
All these "perfect world" scenarios spouted by HS2 Ltd have been false from day one .. as the blatant corruption that's recently been exposed has revealed.
Misleading projections to ensure billions of pounds kept flowing into the project.
Whistleblowers claim they were told by bosses to lie about the project’s cost & were sacked after speaking out. They say the government wasn't informed of the real cost of HS2 for years, all while voting on laws that approved its construction.
@@d.mfrost6801
That’s not what it will be used for. If anything, I’d rather leave the freight on the trucks & conventional rails and use HS2 for passengers since the cars take up higher numbers in traffic.