Great to see progress continuing, along with the care to avoid disruption. Delivery of this major upgrade to UK railway capacity (which will be needed, without doubt, over the coming century) is going to become a benchmark for the work involved in box-ticking to get a piece of work started and delivered in this country nowadays.
Haha, what "capacity" would that be? HS2 Ltd state that to "break even" with a subsidy of 50/60%, they require 600,000 passengers travelling between London & Birmingham DAILY! Given that passenger numbers on this route have been declining by 4% per year for the last decade & now stand at 96,000 per day, perhaps you'd care to explain where the missing 504,000 are suddenly going to materialise from? Also, arguments that the WCML is "full to capacity" rely on a discredited, out of date forecasting model which overestimates long distance passenger growth & isn't used for anything anymore except to justify the monstrous vanity project that is 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%. Now that the blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd has recently been exposed, it's obvious that the public & the government have been lied to from day one regarding the costs of this massive white elephant. Within a decade of opening, (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), the whole sorry project will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path & all the sad, HS2 fanboys will be crying their eyes out 🤣
@@mrglide7078.. nope, I don't do "homework" for total strangers but here's a clue .. a well known search engine beginning with G will provide you with all the stats that you so desperately crave 😉
@@CRIMSONANT1 Still looking at the pre covid rail passengers figures for 2020 are we, think you need to do some reading sunshine, Rail passengers numbers are up by 20% this from the web site ORR Office for Rail and Roads A total of 417 million journeys were made by rail passengers in Great Britain in the latest quarter (1 October to 31 December 2023). This is a 20% increase on the 348 million journeys in the same quarter in the previous year (1 October to 31 December 2022). There were 1,570 million journeys in the year to 31 December 2023. This is a 20% increase on the 1,300 million journeys made in the previous 12 months (1 January to 31 December 2022). Figure 1 Passenger journeys have increased in nine of the last eleven quarters Passenger journeys, Great Britain, quarterly data, 1 April 2018 to 31 December 2023
Fail to mention the intersection of the A43 with the A5 at Towcester, which is basically the M1 relief road. Many lorries use the A5 to reach places like Magna Park
What a shame we have such short sighted politicians in power just now. Only concerned with their immediate possible political situation. Cancelling after Birmingham just shows what pathetic amateurs we currently have in charge. Yes, it’s expensive, yes it’s over budget, these things always are. But look at every other similar country to the UK and they just get on with these things. As it is, Britain will have high speed trains chugging along after Birmingham at push bike speed.
I saw this in one of the flyover videos a week or so back and wondered the same thing then….. how do they get back and forth in to the middle bit to work?
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.
Great to see progress being made. Just a shame the usual 'clowns' turn up in the comments section with the same old tired remarks and information pulled out from where the sun don't shine.
@@PeterUnwin-h1i You do realise that the money spent on HS2 would barely cover the weekly lunch bill of the NHS and no I have no affiliation to HS2. I just recognise what is good for the future of this country.
@@thorley1969 we don't even have a A&E department in Solihull, I would much prefer one of those, to a train that doesn't go anywhere. Not the centre of London or Birmingham
@@PeterUnwin-h1i HS2 is not a train that doesn't go anywhere. It takes inter city trains off of one of the most congested routes in Europe. I can fully sympathise with you about the lack of A&E but the NHS has been run down by successive governments. I would be quite happy to pay a bit more tax if it were to go directly to the NHS. Mismanagement is it's biggest problem and diverting funds from infrastructure projects isn't going to magically fix it.
@@thorley1969 no because you got change trains, so you might as well catch the existing trains that go to the location. Rather than digbeth, or green common or what ever its called outside London. Be better if they turned into a road now we driving EVs cannot see environmentally what benefit it has. We will just have to agree to disagree. Still like an A&E dept though lol
Would like to see another follow up video on this but without the annoying music and maybe you can do a collab with B1M because they do a very high production video.
Great video by the way HS2 people. Pity you take too much notice of the negative few who (as usual) spoil it for the rest of us with their inaccurate moaning and whining.
@@PeterUnwin-h1i high speed rail improves all of the stuff you mentioned. We can't improve our public services if we don't have the infrastructure to do so.
What a disgusting waste of public money when our roads and NHS are in a disgusting state. This stupid idea will only benefit a very few in the future but put thousands maybe millions into a few pockets.
@@MW6PNW I very much doubt that. Anyway, isn't the money 'saved' from not building the Northern phase of HS2 being used to repair lots of potholes? You should be celebrating
@@mrglide7078 Which will then need repairing again a few years down the road again all because people don't understand that the maintenance budget shouldn't be the same as new infrastructure budget. Infrastructure is one off cost, maintenance is a on going cost and we should collecting taxes and budgeting properly to repair them on a regularly basis anyway.
I heard going to be 10 years before a train even runs, so the company that was going to build the trains nealy went bust as its taking so long to build. Not suprized though watching the HS2 operations by me seems all very slow. Even motorway roadworks are quicker lol
You heard wrong. Hitachi Rail-Alstom were awarded the contract to build the trains in Dec 2021 and will be ready to roll out in 2027 with the first operational service between 2029-2033 Motorway/railway = apples/oranges
@@mrglide7078 that's not what the newspaper say. It was closing. The Government have had to give them work, build 10 trains to keep them ticking over. Check , I'm sure if you Google you find that's correct
HS2 is overdue. Capacity on the rail route to the north west needed to be increased in order to take more Lorrie’s off roads. Hopefully, a Labour administration will resurrect the project. The problem for HS2 was its initial over-specification - pandering to Tory MPs in Buckinghamshire - causing unnecessary tunnels to be built and lines running through hugely expensive cuttings. We need to invest in infrastructure and people who fail to realise this have their heads in the sand. We can’t afford to spend money on the NHS unless we have a productive economy.
Looks like a pretty steep bridge for the freight and other users of the Baynard's Green to Rothersthorpe link, requiring the contruction of four carrageway sections. Is there a model video that shows the A43 link design for the project, to confirm or deny what the drone footage and retained sections of the A43 imply?
What a waste ' typical tories deliberatly over pricing things ' this will cost a small fortune to use aswell ' over budgeting on steroids 💷💷💷💷💰💰💰 its supposed to give ' not take 🤣
Your ground workers said not even 2 months you were going OVER the A43. Genuine question, how are you managing this super construction project when so few contractors know what's going on?
Dear Lord fellah .... So some random labourer made a comment and you now take that as a policy statement which somehow calls into question the project's credibility? Struggling much?
@@1chish Whoa Keyboard Warrior! I'm not calling it into question. I think it's an amazing construction project. Don't get all defensive mate 🤣 It was a genuine question because genuine information is thin on the ground for certain areas of this project 🤦🏼♂️
Amazing how much corruption lies and deceit is involved in this slick video…dear HS2 have you got a figure of how much money has been wasted ? All business have waste….how much is yours so far ? How much has been spent so far ? How much will it take to complete ? If you do not respond to any of these above questions I can guarantee it’s because your involved in robbing the tax payer ….
HS2 is not going north, so there will be plenty of spare capacity on HS2. This would be a great site to build a "Brackley Parkway" intermediate station for a slower Javelin style stopping service on the railway.
