HS2 Birmingham's Curzon Street Station amazing progress 2024

HS2 Birmingham's Curzon Street Station.
A total of 26 piers, between 5-6m tall, have also been built to carry the viaduct, with four huge steel tripods currently under construction to support the viaduct over Digbeth Canal.

[@geoffreydingle2410]

This is a fantastic project but why oh why is it hidden from view with high solid panels so preventing it from view from street level. We should be proud of the works not hide them away. How about the odd viewing panel so we can see what is going on.

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

Security.

[@jeremiahscanlon5047]

It's a CDM site. First requirement of a CDM site is secure the perimiter and control access and egress.
I have walked past that site and there are viewing portals (observation holes) every now and then.

[@timhanser1943]

Boom time for Birmingham 👍

[@gorgu08]

Did you hear the one about the railway where they tunnelled through the countryside and built the train above ground in the cities? 🤦

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

So where else in Birmingham City Centre could this massive terminal station be built, definately not underground

[@gorgu08]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 didn’t say they should build the station underground said the line should be tunnelled into the city centre to leave above ground for developement

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@gorgu08 I don't think you have visited Birmingham, they cant tunnel under the City and because of the City Centre buildings they cant build a station in the City Centre hence the developement of Curzon Street Station

[@gorgu08]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 if they can tunnel under London with. Its sewerage system and a myriad of undergrounds they can tunnel under Birmingham, my Nan used to live in Telford so have been to Brum many times

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@gorgu08 So you have been to Brum so many times, I actually live in Birmingham. The difference between Birmingham and London iss that London is built on thick Clay and Birmingham is built on Sandstone and Clay is easier to tunnel through and support and there is no requirement to tunnel under Birmingham City Centre with the upheaval it would cause just for a station, where as there is a perfect site at Curzon Street where the station is now and it's main entrance is on Moor Street Queenswy in the City Centre with perfect access which you would not have i the pedestrian area of Birmingham City Centre other wise Birmingham New Street would of been built in a tunnel under the City Centre instead of in a cutting

[@normhanson981]

Thanks .

[@paulcgburrows7267]

You're welcome!

[@rufdymond]

Wow I had no idea that they were building the railway on a viaduct in Birmingham….thats a poor effort, a typical of this country. If you’re going to do something do it properly, that line should be underground. I remember Manchester complaining about this before the line was cancelled…Birmingham should have demanded better.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It can't go underground in Birmingham as the site being used is in the City Centre and on the surface and would of cost more and taken longer to build, also the station is not all on a viaduct most being on the ground most of the viaduct is to bring the line in over other railway lines comming into Birmingham, Birmingham has got Better, a brand new state of the art terminal station to complment Birmingham New Street Station

[@Glennupton91]

They got funding for the old station yet ?

[@user-gj7ew2sm5u]

I watched a TV programme earlier and it took the Victorians 4 years to build a railway with bridges ,cuttings, Over a marsh etc etc with only hand tools, donkeys and explosives. HS2 must have been going for that long, when the trains going to be running ?

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

How big was the railway? How many planning conditions were there to comply with? What was the Form of Contract ? How many method statements had to be agreed to ? What was the method of payment ? What were the health and safety regulations ? How detailed was the procurement and construction programme?

[@user-gj7ew2sm5u]

In those days powerful land owners could prevent railways and before that cannals going through their land. Not like now compulsory purchases everywhere. Didn't have masses of cement on tap, no huge earth movers, diggers , tunneling machines. All done with manpower and plenty of beer at the end of the day lol

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

And people died in their droves. The world we live in now is much more complex but which would you prefer to live in ?

[@user-gj7ew2sm5u]

You keep on going about now. Death through child birth, work, illness was much higher then . You still haven't said when trains from Digbeth (which isn't central Birmingham Birmingham) to Common Green is it, somewhere an hour from central London will run.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@user-gj7ew2sm5u First as a Brummie Digbeth is just on the edge of the City Centre of Birmingham and trains will never travel from Digbeth, the HS2 terminus at Curzon Street Station which is in Birmingham City Centre with it's main entrance on Moor Street Queensway next door to Birmingham Moor Street Station and opposit the Bull Ring Shopping Centre and the Primark Store and will terminate at London Euston Station

[@corneliuscornia3189]

All that money just to get "faster"to Birmingham!??😊😊

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

So whats your problem mate

[@d.mfrost6801]

It will also take lorries off the road