Great to see what was an unusable site due to decades of contamination being cleaned out and put to great use. Good for the environment and local jobs.
Speaking of the environment, are you aware that HS2 Ltd have already incurred numerous fines for multiple breaches of environmental issues? Thousands of trees planted along the route in Warwickshire where the vast majority perished due to lack of aftercare. The pollution of streams, rivers & other waterways with toxic chemicals. The bulldozing of mile upon mile of hedgerows containing nesting birds when they specifically said they'd wait until the nesting season was over.. the list goes on. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@1chish Troulble is when it was a car building site, LDV was took over by the Russians and it was run into the ground until it closed. Like wise qith the MCW factory building Buses and Trains, Alstom took it over and closed it at least it be back as a Railway maintainance site with people working there when it opens
@@peterwilliamallen1063 While GAZ did have a go for a couple of years I think you will find it was the Chinese who grabbed LDV and carted all the presses off to China to set up a line to build the new Maxus van there. Sadly we are now importing LDV vans from China ... You couldn't make it up.
It's so great seeing the UK build such an impressive and grand megaproject. I live in the USA, and seeing the HS2 being built is inspiring. I hope one day the USA is able to realize better and more sustainable transit options.
I always wondered how this was done, now I know, thank you! This was wasteland turned to good use and providing decent jobs. Upskilling and reskilling is the future hope. Taxpayer money is always needed to kick start, HS2 is a very good example. Greater Birmingham will flourish.
I believe this is where the Bus manufacturer MCW (Metro Cammell Weymann) used to be located. They used to produce Double Decker buses here in the 1970s - 1980s called 'MetroBus. The company went Defunct in 1989. So it was some time ago (at least 34 years ago). At least the land is being used again after it's been properly fully de-contaminated.
The majority of the far end of the site was the old Metro Cammel factory up on Common Lane, but the main area where a lot of the contamination was used to be called The Wolseley factory. But i remember it more when we used call it Drews Lane Sherpa. Which later became Leyland Daf or LDV. I grew up in Ward End & almost all of my dad's friends either worked at Drews Lane or at Metro Cammell. :-)
@@1chish so if you think that in 20 years time the UK will be populated with over 100 million people with loads more rail loads more roads no countryside left at all pollution toxic air to breathe then that’s great that’s the answer then is it people like you are selfish and brainwashed with tunnel vision As a species we are heading towards disaster So I for one look at the bigger picture Dude The money spent would have been better spent elsewhere upgrading our existing rail network just like France on the NHS education and immigration the HS2 is an utter and complete waste of time and taxpayers money
@@EdgyNumber1 The Midland Metro is a god send for public transport between Birmingham and Wlverhmpton with Trams totaly full in most cases so definately not a waste of money
And where do you think the money came from to build these motorways, over 60 years we had for roads development and nothing for public who needs public transport, not everyone can drive and that the facts.
In 20 years time people will be looking back wondering how we managed without it. Same with Crossrail, same with the M25, same with the Channel Tunnel. People moan like fuck whilst it’s being built, but once it’s finished can’t imagine us being without it.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 HS2 was meant to run from London Euston - Birmingham Curzon St/Manchester Piccadilly/Leeds with links at Ulleskelf,Handsacre,Golborne and one south of Sheffield. However, the Leeds leg was curtailed to East Midlands parkway following the Integrated rail report in 2021, then the Golborne Spur link followed in 2022. 2023 saw Rishi Sunak announce the cancellation of the legs to Manchester/Crewe and East Midlands Parkway, leaving the Euston (Though this is up in the air) or Old Oak Common - Birmingham Curzon St/Handsacre stretch (Former Phase 1) as the only bits of HS2 left post 2023, though some meetings have allegedly gone on between Mark Harper,Andy Burnham and Andy Street about a proposed privately funded link to around Stockport to go with Northern Powerhouse rail, as that might happen it seems, though I wouldn't hold you breath on it.
The link to HS1 was cut in 2014. They have had spent a decade chopping bits and now their moans about the remaining bit not being economically sound, it comical really.@@Dinoteddi
The biggest gravy train for contractors….oh and don’t forget politicians who are directors/silent directors helping themselves also! I see banks of earth movers doing nothing…..at what cost each per day! I was out to dinner and sat next to a supplier who said they double their prices…….just about sums up any government contract! Absolute waste of money that should have been spent elsewhere!
Surely there should have been a massive housing project on this vast site? Where are the passengers going to come from if Birmingham doesn't do something to solve its housing crisis? The maintenance depot could be stuck out somewhere cheap in the countryside like they've done at Calvert. Must be plenty of land on the abandoned bit of HS2 to the north that could be re-purposed to a depot, leaving the UK's second city to put the land to a more valuable use.
What are you rabbiting on about, there are thousands of houses arrond this site in the heart of Birmingham and this is a perfect site for this factory as it is right along side the HS2 line into Curzon Street Station, and what are you on about of where are the passengers going to come from, so simple tha same people that use the Avanti Train services from Birmingham New Street now as these servies will transfer to the HS2 route
@@KingFinnch so the land to the north of Birmingham has been purchased to create a nature reserve and was never for HS2? I'll have a look around to see if another pinhead for you to dance on can be found.
@@peterwilliamallen1063.. yes, where are the passengers going to come from? 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 an average of 96,000 per day, perhaps you could explain where the extra 504,000 are suddenly going to materialise from?
