HS2 is Great Britain’s new high-speed railway. Once operational, HS2’s British-built bullet trains will provide zero-carbon journeys between the UK’s two largest cities, Birmingham and London, with services continuing on to Manchester, the North West and Scotland using the conventional railway network, cutting journey times.
By better connecting Britain’s biggest economic centres and catalysing plans for inner-city regeneration, HS2 will open up opportunities for the creation of thousands of new jobs and homes as well as driving transformative economic growth.
Construction of the line is well underway, with 30,000 jobs supported by the project and over 3,200 UK-based businesses helping to build it.
Comprising 140-miles of track, four new state-of-the art stations, two depots, 32 miles of tunnel, and 130 bridges, HS2 will leave a legacy of environmentally responsible travel, economic regeneration and technological innovation for generations to come.
Don't let those environmental protests hinder you from dedicating for the construction. I'm sure the appropriate measures were taken and done as best as possible to decrease damage to the environment and to grow the new better one. Some people just love to take good stuff down for the slightest of reasons.
Please connect the project to Leeds and other nothern cities. The key benefit of this project in the first place was to help the economy of those cities. Cutting them off like that was a great loss of opportunity for the prosperity of the UK. Even though if the cost would be higher, for the long-term benefit, it is completely understandable and worthy of investing to it's full potential.
Please do your best work. Thank you for driving the project forward. HS2 shall be very beneficial for the UK economy, for all people of economic status alike.
It's great to see the progress being made. As someone who used to travel from Manchester to London quite often, I am pleased with this new development. While some people may complain about the cost, it will pay off in the long run and benefit our country.
Why does the building of this 2 track railway line take and spoil so much land? Photographs of the construction of the Great Central line from Nottinghamshire to London 125 years ago show that far less land was used and this was done with less machinery and more quickly than HS2.
Going to save a few minutes of a journey between Birmingham and somewhere outside London……..feckin genius! I imagine Sunak and co have some mates making an utter mint out of our tax money on this shambles of a project.
Interesting to know how they spread the load through the foundations of all those solid concrete pre-cast piers and decking, given that tbe land the viaduct traverses is well water-saturated "Bottom - land" (Mostly. Clays.?) of the Vale of Aylesbury. Lots of deep piles down to the chalk ? Or does the structure effectively float on the clay.?
I am very much a suporter of the railways, but why is this taking so long and being so destructive. I have watched many of these updates and so far have not seen 1 metre of track in place. Brunel built the GW mainline in a fraction of the time you are taking to build HS2, and he did it without all the mechanical equipment you have at your disposal. HS2 is a 2 track line.and not as long as the GW mainline so why is it taking so long. There are only 4 stations on this line so even that is not an excuse and 1 of those already exists. Far too much being spent on building roads and factories along the route which will not remain after the build. What are you going to do to all the brown field land you have created that will not form part of the railway and will need millions of pounds to clean up.
HS2 claims the route will 'require gentle gradients to deliver a comfortable journey.' Wrong. The gradient in the Chiltern Tunnel from Great Missenden to South Heath will be extremely uncomfortable; the gradient westwards off the Delta junction down to the valley of the River Tame will be so uncomfortable that the passengers will probably need vomit bags. As for the discourse on slope ratios, consider the cutting through the spur at Culworth. And in response to HS2's much lauded claim that more than half the route will be below surface, what a great misfortune that one of the finest historic landscapes in Warwickshire, the plain at Wormleighton, will be sliced through diagonally by the railway on an embankment
Gradients do not cause passenger discomfort - certainly not HS2 gradients, which are limited to 3.5% maximum. The maximum gradient through the Chiltern Tunnel is 3% (1 in 33) at the north end. What causes motion sickness is vertical curvature. The amount of vertical curvature allowable varies with speed so the south end of the tunnel has 37,500m radius curvature whereas the north end increases that to 40,000m. That reflects an increase in linespeed from 320kph to 360kph. The French TGV has ruling gradients of 3.5% and it is noticeable when trains go from an ascending to descending gradient. That might be a roller coaster in railway terms but I doubt it causes any motion sickness.
At 1:07 I was expecting an explanation on how they're going to deal with flooding - today, for instance, the West Coast Main Line was closed after being flooded.
Terrible useless idea benefitting nobody but the construction industry and the government. The devastation to the countryside has been monumental. I have lived in the area since 2001 and watched with horror the disruption and damage to the land and the roads. HS2 employees just doing whatever they want with clipboard in hand tearing down copses in private gardens. Beautiful trees cut and nature reserves cut through. Shame
Because there is no leg to the north and Scotland. HS2 ends just after Birmingham where it will merge with existing mainline (Similar to HS1 at Ashford and Ebbsfleet)
Spent all that money so some exceedingly whiny people in the southern countryside won't see it, now millions more in the North will never get to see it too!!
I haven't got the slightest interest in travelling at HS2 speeds, preferring existing 125 style trains that allow travellers to enjoy the passing landscape and changing weather and sky en route. I reckon most travellers prioritise low-priced journeys and aren't likely to switch to high speed and high-cost rail travel
Unfortunely passengers will have no choice but to switch to the new High Speed 2 line as those Avantie trains or whoever the next franchise Holder will run the service as those intercity service will switch to the new High Speed line off the West Coast Mainline.
@@jayjay9610.. there are no "capacity issues" on the existing network. HS2 Ltd have been hoodwinking the public & the government since day one of this monstrous vanity project & all their lies & corruption have recently been exposed. Senior executives shredded documents & used misleading projections to ensure that billions of pounds kept flowing into the project. Whistleblowers claim they were told by bosses to lie about the project & were sacked after speaking out. They say the government wasn't informed of the real cost of HS2, all while voting on laws that approved Its construction. Take the WCML for instance .. arguments that it's "full to capacity" rely on a discredited, out of date forecasting model which overestimates long distance passenger growth & isn't used for anything anymore except to justify HS2. Network Rail's "New Lines Programme Capacity Analysis" shows that WCML capacity is kept artificially low by private operators wanting to maximise profits. A DfT analysis shows that in peak hours leaving Euston, WCML trains were loaded at just 52.2%.
@@scottpeacock5492actually it will only be the HS2 train sets that go into the new track, the current Avanti rolling stock will still use the old WCML south of hansacre😊
yada yada yada, people were roaring at Crossrail for being one too, yet its already pretty much paid for itself, nimbys only think about themselves and short term benefit
Just to add: There is no climate crisis! So no need to save carbon! The world needs more CO2 not less. Trees and plants absorb it and give out oxygen! Without oxygen all life on earth dies out!
@@barryamorris You are the one that needs to learn basic science with that secondary school knowledge of yours First of all: The population of plants and trees across the planet is massively decreasing overall, meaning that less photosynthesis occurs, even though the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing. This results in a lot of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Second of all, increasing the amount of carbon dioxide won't be helpful to plants, as they can only handle a specific amount of carbon dioxide. Excess Carbon Dioxide and water is left out of the plant if it is unable to be stored, and this deteriorates the growth of the plant, as the plant is receiving too much oxygen in a very small surface area resulting in loss of leaf tissue. Third of all, plants are far from the biggest producer of oxygen in the world. Plankton in the ocean produce much larger amounts of oxygen than all forests on this planet, so even if plants stopped producing oxygen it wouldn't be the end of humanity. Fourth of all, the climate crisis is not just to do with carbon dioxide. It's to do with other gasses such as methane and Nitrogen Oxide, which is terrible for the environment and plants.
@@___-000 I suggest you back to school. The earth has got substantially greener due to the increase in CO2. Plus plants don’t absorb oxygen, they absorb CO2. There is no climate crisis!
@@barryamorris well done for pointing out the one small error in a word usage. But unfortunately, my point still stands. There is still a climate crisis. If the world is becoming greener, then let's keep it that way or make it even better. The climate crisis is still relevant.
@@DavidKnowles0.. Labour will win the general election & Sir Keir Starmer, in a January interview, stated categorically that he wouldn't revive the Northern leg, saying .. "it wasn't possible to do as the tory government had 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.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Yup. Definitely not worth over £130 billion. At least if it ran up to Manchester before merging with WCML then fine. But if it's only up to Birmingham then it will only cut journey times by a small unecessary amount
@@tomhoworth1685 few years back I went to a live demo which was set up by north Warwickshire council to demonstrate just how loud the train was going to be as it passes through the village of water Orton they used sound engineers with a big PA system and it was bloody loud a 140 decibels loud so I think your wrong pal and you can take your sarcasm stuff it in your pipe and smoke it 👍🏼have a lovely day although your probably the sort of person that’s always right yeah?
I'm very impressed by the "cutting inside an embankment" approach. The anti-railway campaigners have been complaining about the width of HS2, but this makes for a sound screen that looks more like a hillside than a big block of concrete. And the cutting at the top should make it easier to get green bridges across the railway, so that wildlife can go across the HS2 route, without intruding onto the tracks.
Although, with motorways everywhere, mostly unscreened and with constant road 'hum' (I should know, I live half a mile from a raised dual carriageway!), does anyone really hate the very brief sound of an electric train swoosh? It won't even clack as there are no joints in the rails and few points to run over.
Another great promo/explainer video. I feel like these should have been released years ago so that people actually understood all the work going into the project.
Those who complain don't want to understand. They know nothing about the construction industry, how or why HS2 is being procured the way it is or why it costs what it does. They just want to complain thinking they have all the answers.
