When the great Victorian engineers such as Isambard K Brunel built the railways we are using today I have no doubt they also had their detractors. Fortunately for us they persevered. Keep going guys until you reach Manchester.
@CRIMSONANT1
16 күн бұрын
@@chrisswann-z2o .. the Victorian engineers persevered because the railways were groundbreaking at the time of the industrial revolution & totally changed the way that people & freight were transported around the country. HS2 literally has NO benefit whatsoever & I've got some bad news for you .. the new Labour government have already stated they have NO plans to revive any of the scrapped sections of this monstrous vanity project .. 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.
@Sarge084
15 күн бұрын
I've heard of Brunel, but who's this Percy Vere you mentioned?!
@CRIMSONANT1
15 күн бұрын
@@chrisswann-z2o .. the Victorian engineers "persevered" because they were working during the industrial revolution - the railway was a new concept & would transform the way that people & freight could be moved around the country. HS2 is of NO benefit whatsoever & you can kiss goodbye to it ever reaching Manchester .. the Labour government have NO plans to revive any of the scrapped sections .. in a recent interview, Sir Keir Starmer said "it's not possible 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.
@PaganPriestUK1234
12 күн бұрын
😆😆
@CiaraNITuathail-ty8zn
10 күн бұрын
Thinking about gay men again eh @@PaganPriestUK1234
@LindaCox-hb5dv
17 күн бұрын
My son has worked for HS2 for 10 years and I'm so proud of all of it. Just wish i was young enough to see it all completed. It's a fascinating project.
@CRIMSONANT1
16 күн бұрын
@@LindaCox-hb5dv .. given the current rate of progress & the number of sections being cancelled, it's hardly likely that your son will even be alive when (or if), if its ever completed 😉
@LindaCox-hb5dv
15 күн бұрын
@CRIMSONANT1 Why do you have to be so critical?
@CRIMSONANT1
15 күн бұрын
@@LindaCox-hb5dv .. because HS2 is a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds & an environmental disaster of epic proportions .. that answer your question? 😉
@AB-hu2uw
13 күн бұрын
Mate 😂 @@CRIMSONANT1
@StukovM1g
10 күн бұрын
@@LindaCox-hb5dv I am a civil engineer in the UK. I think the industry is fantastic, it is that this country doesn't have the political will to see HS2 through to completion.
@richardsherwood2003
17 күн бұрын
Well done guys! legacy for the next generations
@NeonNion
17 күн бұрын
The only legacy we're giving to future generations is a wrecked planet. All thanks to human caused biodiversity & climate crisis, which megaprojects like HS2 does nothing to alleviate (they do the opposite)
@RichardBacon-h5x
17 күн бұрын
Well done, keep up the great work. Future generations will praise you for sure.
@CRIMSONANT1
17 күн бұрын
Haha .. future generations will look back on this monstrous vanity project & wonder why we wasted billions of pounds on a massive white elephant that will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path within a decade of opening.
@ep1981
17 күн бұрын
@@CRIMSONANT1 Is that what today's generation make of the Great Western line, or the ECML, or the WCML? Those stupid Victorians shouldn't have bothered, right?
@CRIMSONANT1
17 күн бұрын
@@ep1981 .. those " stupid Victorians" built the railways during the industrial revolution .. they revolutionised the way that people & goods could be transported around the country. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@hx0d
16 күн бұрын
@@CRIMSONANT1 that's what they said about Crossrail 🤡
@theotryhard8651
17 күн бұрын
nice work lads, go to leeds next!
@porkpie2884
17 күн бұрын
I'm most impressed by how TBM's know where they are
@Umar_1994_
8 күн бұрын
They cost on average 15 million
@porkpie2884
8 күн бұрын
@@Umar_1994_ I thought they'd be more expensive than that.
@user-my6ec2vz4k
12 күн бұрын
Like other parts of HS2, a great piece of engineering. Why dont the media and people in general celibrate it more instead of knocking it. Keep up the good work.
@ShadowJester-jg2gs
12 күн бұрын
Initially estimated at £37 billion in 2009, the cost of the HS2 project has now increased to an expected £100 billion by the time it’s fully completed. When the line is eventually operational, ticket prices are likely to be significantly high to recoup the massive construction costs. Despite this, the line will have just four major stops-two in London and two in Birmingham-limiting its direct benefits to only a small portion of the population. In fact, this line will only benifit around 15% of the UK's population. Meanwhile, other essential services and infrastructure across the country risk being overlooked as resources are diverted to this costly line.
@1chish
17 күн бұрын
When the armchair engineers complain about costs THIS is why HS2n is so expensive. Over half the route is in tunnel to reduce its impact on local areas. people say 'Oh france does it cheaper!' Well yes because they have 2 1/2 times the land area the UK has with a similar population so there is more open land to build on and they aren't too bothered about turfing people out of homes and running the line on the surface.
@SchindleList
17 күн бұрын
Also France does clever accounting they don’t put station costs in the costs so we see the all in price the French public see only the cost of the line not the other peripherals
@1chish
17 күн бұрын
@@SchindleList Excellent point. I believe all the pre build design, property purchase and 'civils' costs are taken by one Government department while the actual track is done by another. Again only showing part of the true costs.
@chrismoyler
16 күн бұрын
Please remember that the French compensated land owners at valuation plus 10% The UK Government used nefarious London firms to screw property owners down to a false low value, effectively stealing from them. Utterly disgraceful!!
@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg
16 күн бұрын
And the same goes for other Countries in Europe and in China. The Chinese only publish the cost of the track. The Danes only publish the cost of the track and stations. We publish the cost of everything, including compulsory purchase orders of land, planning requirements, existing infrastructure diversions, design fees, tunnels, bridges, embankments, dealing with contaminated ground etc etc. So it is impossible to do a cost comparison.
@njp9554
16 күн бұрын
Why as a Northern is my taxes going on this that isn't gonna benefit me 😂
@PLuMUK54
17 күн бұрын
The Bromford West Portal is only a 6 minute walk from my house, yet there is no sign of all of this work. I am glad that I am retired, though, as the route that I used to use to get to work is soon to close for 14 months. It must have cost a fortune to inform everyone. Last week, I received a letter in the post. It was printed on top quality paper and included several sheets. They must have sent out thousands of letters.
@jermainetrainallen6416
10 күн бұрын
A lot of the work is hidden away quite well
@janeknight3597
17 күн бұрын
You guys are amazing.
@shaunwest3612
17 күн бұрын
Congratulations, just incredible engineering and work 😀👌👍
@jasonseaneccleston2329
17 күн бұрын
AND I DIDNT HEAR A THING, SLEEPING AT NIGHT. THOUGH THE TUNNEL IS A FAIR LENGTH FROM THE ESTATE HERE IN BROMFORD. GREAT ENGINEERING.
@ritamaria4857
15 күн бұрын
Well done HS2 team🎉
@maryobamudi1874
16 күн бұрын
Proud of the work you are doing. Well done
@nige-g
17 күн бұрын
Well done, everyone.
@the-real-iandavid
17 күн бұрын
Fascinating!
@prathameshdesai6647
16 күн бұрын
Great work!! TBM works seem very interesting. I wonder how it will look when the project is completed and would everyone be able to grasp the scale of the project.
@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg
13 күн бұрын
Most people can't grasp the scale of the project now.
@sandytaylor8622
16 күн бұрын
A fantastic major piece of engineering work. The skills involved are amazing. If only our stupid Tory politicians had kept their noses out, we could look to a journey through to Euston & St Pancras and then on into Europe! That is what HS2 should be doing. When a High Speed line was first proposed between Birmingham and London it was dreamt to be fast connection through the Chunnel to Paris and onwards! There was a platform at New Street Station which was allocated for just such a train! If only we could have remodelled New Street so that HS2 was underground on a 2 level station and then HS2 was tunnelled up to Manchester etc! Just look at Antwerp Station for example to see what a multi level station is like with national, regional and international lines on separate levels! Birmingham really would have been the centre of the UK then! What a sad missed opportunity!
@simondean7631
17 күн бұрын
Any chance of any updates on what's happening with the B4114 Birmingham Road near Coleshill? Small fry in comparison, but I drive through every day and mesmerised by daily changes of earth moving, section constructions, it looks like a new bridge will be constructed soon? Will the new road be covered over and the old road reinstated in a different position?
@ben437
17 күн бұрын
Search for a video called HS2 Flythrough, At 3.25 you can see the renderings for it. 4 tracks viaducts, embankments, River cole and Manor drive redirected etc
@charlottelarimore9261
3 күн бұрын
I believe when its complete the trains might be abit big for the tunnels (it kinda looks small like pipes)
@Teerifficgolf
12 күн бұрын
This is all confusing. At coleshill it looks like the track will be on stilts but they are digging a tunnel here, is there really that much height difference?
@PlayBoi3x
12 күн бұрын
Half way, i am sorry but when it this supposed to come online?
@beckham417
6 күн бұрын
Forget the north though 😢
@willhemmings
16 күн бұрын
Congratulations to HS2. I may be critical, but I have to admit - I couldn't dig that tunnel. No. But I have seen the sections and no way can that tunnel descend under Park Hall Wood without huge discomfort to passengers. Believe me; just look at the difference in elevation between the s.e portal and the River Tame. Well of course HS2 has a confident answer for everyone - the trains will run down that slope at 30mph
@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg
13 күн бұрын
You should have seen the tunnelling on Crossrail. The company I worked for won the contract to build the tunnels, underground station platform concourses and subways on the western section from Paddington to Liveroool Street. The tunnel boring machines can only build the tunnels, not the station platform concourse or subways. They were all built from an underground access, nothing accessed from street level. And the ground changed from clay to water bearing gravel at Farringdon. . And a,spokesman for Transport for London said they didn't realise crossrail was such a complex project.
@DavidKnowles0
17 күн бұрын
the digger you can see at 6.15 looks utterly ridiculous and like it shouldn't work.
@Abhi-fx3gb
15 күн бұрын
reach the north
@AlexKavanagh-hj5vu
3 күн бұрын
Nimbys ruining everything like normal
@cblairrrr2048
3 күн бұрын
Fix the roads ruined by 4 tonne cars rather than making trainlines to brumtown
@Matrix-tz5yc
15 күн бұрын
UK was the superpower controlling 1/4 of the world. the main reason was the train. now UK had the slowest train. now HS2 had a chance to before the most fastest train, faster then China magnet bullet train. but still slow?
@sandersson2813
15 күн бұрын
I laugh at UK engineering. Come to Norway, we will show you how to build a tunnel and not take 19 years to do 200m.
@pwithnall
5 күн бұрын
The geology and population density of Norway are quite different from Birmingham, which affects how easy it is to build tunnels.
@sandersson2813
5 күн бұрын
@@pwithnall What are you on about? The population density of the location of this Birmingham tunnel is irrelevant given that the government have the power to compulsory purchase AND it's already in a rural area. The geology of Norway is largely incredibly hard igneous rock, and can go in excess of 300m BELOW sea level. Technically the Norwegian tunnels, which may also contain junctions AND roundabouts to other tunnels are CONSIDERABLY more challenging from a technical standpoint.
@beeniemen
15 күн бұрын
Vinci in charge French are good Engineer
@ILIKEPIE90712
2 күн бұрын
Japan would have build three hs2s in the time it’s taken us to they this far. Useless
@normansmart7502
4 күн бұрын
White elephant always be running in debt
@Christine-n4t
2 күн бұрын
WHAT A WASTE !
@knightwraith346
8 күн бұрын
You should take notes from Japan. They would have built it all years ago. Utter shambles from the UK. Such a waste of my tax money.
@Trevor_Austin
17 күн бұрын
An expensive, useless railway between almost Euston and almost Birmingham. Got it. I’m so pleased for us all to have such an expensive vanity project.
@daranphilipson1025
17 күн бұрын
You need to cry a little louder I don’t think they can hear you.
@hangmanhands5826
17 күн бұрын
It’s useless because people keep holding it back our railways are at capacity and we desperately need new lines it basically has to go to Crewe otherwise it’s almost pointless
@gorgu08
17 күн бұрын
I am so happy people like you will continually be proven wrong over the next three decades as the high speed network expands and directly contributes to the productivity and wealth creation of the UK
@CRIMSONANT1
17 күн бұрын
@@gorgu08.. haha, defo the funniest (& most incorrect) comment of the day 🤣
@Sam-uo8ki
16 күн бұрын
Dry your eyes Trev
@TheLb080680
16 күн бұрын
Id love to be part of this project more. Ive been involved in some culvert work around Birmingham but would love to be part of this tunneling work.
@cblairrrr2048
3 күн бұрын
Fix the roads ruined by 4 tonne cars rather than making trainlines to brumtown
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