Blimey! That blue car at 1:36 must be doing 90-100mph. Someone get his number. EW Railway looking very tidy - embankments nicely grassed and bridges weathered to their final shade of 'rustic', not rusty, brown. Whereas the rails are actually rusting while they await the first train wheels to pass over them. With the benefit of hindsight, why they ever abandoned this line is a mystery. Now, it's going to be extremely costly to make it reach Cambridge once again. HS2 trackbed is still a mess but that's to be expected and we're used to it by now. More great footage, QM ... Keep 'em coming 👍
Impressive terra forming !!! What a change from before this all started !!!! One day the rail link to aylesbury will be built ...I HOPE.... this is so english .... lets have a new rail link built and not finish the job.. incredable but not for this island in any way ... great views here ....know/ knew!!! Ha ha ..the area well ...shame about the curtailment of some nice walks along the old railwzy line ..arff ...arff ❤
I think a link from Aylesbury to Milton Keynes would be very good. Hopefully the HS2 works will have solid foundations/ groundworks to easily enable future track laying for the Aylesbury link.
At 3.23 the start of the formation embankment for the Aylesbury link is visible. It has always been planned to build most of it, ie past Calvert to Quainton Road, later on in the HS2 project’s timescales.,
Wow Great progress going on here with East West Rail Meets HS2, Really looking forward to travelling on East West line to Oxford from Bletchley next years and fuck the naysayers who say the Railways are ruining the countryside when they are polluting the countryside travelling on their motorways, The Railways was their first before Ernest Marple and Dr Richard Beeching interfere.
East West Rail project started way after the planning work for HS2 and yet its nearly finished where as the HS2 work is not even close to start of track laying, How can HS2 be so slow in doing the Civils compared to EW rail
To be fair, this is only the Bicester/Bedford section. The trackbed was already there, if in need of widening and condolidating; probably the biggest job was building the new Winslow station The Bedford/Cambridge section has yet to get off the drawing board.
If you look at some videos of this junction 10, 5, 2, 1 year back you'll see they simply cleared, re ballasted, relayed, and signalled the abandoned Varsity line, while the Great Central Main line, HS2 follows up to the Warwickshire border, is seen being ripped up, the old stations and bridges demolished, the trackbed excavated down several meters, the spoil dumped all over the place, as at some point they may want to run 250 mph (400 Kph) services on the reinstated line, thats when they don't simply bypass or tunnel under a town the old line stopped at. If they had just elected to reinstate the Great Central Mainline, to add capacity, and utility to those who had not had a service in 40 years, we may have had trains running up the GCML as far as Leicester by now, (the Leicester to Nottingham stretch of the GCML is a steam heritage railway, through nottingham the trackbed is used for trams, and there's some housing been built between Nottingham and Sheffield, and Sheffield and Manchester. The old Junction railway into Birmingham could also have been relayed with little effort. Though the old lines are too curvy for services above 140 mph / 225 kph.
@AndrewRoberts11 I used to live in Steeple Claydon so know it well. The line saw occasional use as a diversion from the West Coast mainline at Bletchley if there were problems between there and Euston. And of course trains from everywhichwhere brought rubbish up to Calvert via the single track GCR route from Aylesbury
Blimey! That blue car at 1:36 must be doing 90-100mph. Someone get his number. EW Railway looking very tidy - embankments nicely grassed and bridges weathered to their final shade of 'rustic', not rusty, brown. Whereas the rails are actually rusting while they await the first train wheels to pass over them.
With the benefit of hindsight, why they ever abandoned this line is a mystery. Now, it's going to be extremely costly to make it reach Cambridge once again.
HS2 trackbed is still a mess but that's to be expected and we're used to it by now.
More great footage, QM ... Keep 'em coming 👍
Impressive terra forming !!! What a change from before this all started !!!! One day the rail link to aylesbury will be built ...I HOPE.... this is so english .... lets have a new rail link built and not finish the job.. incredable but not for this island in any way ... great views here ....know/ knew!!! Ha ha ..the area well ...shame about the curtailment of some nice walks along the old railwzy line ..arff ...arff ❤
I think a link from Aylesbury to Milton Keynes would be very good. Hopefully the HS2 works will have solid foundations/ groundworks to easily enable future track laying for the Aylesbury link.
At 3.23 the start of the formation embankment for the Aylesbury link is visible. It has always been planned to build most of it, ie past Calvert to Quainton Road, later on in the HS2 project’s timescales.,
cracking footage
Wow Great progress going on here with East West Rail Meets HS2, Really looking forward to travelling on East West line to Oxford from Bletchley next years and fuck the naysayers who say the Railways are ruining the countryside when they are polluting the countryside travelling on their motorways, The Railways was their first before Ernest Marple and Dr Richard Beeching interfere.
East West Rail project started way after the planning work for HS2 and yet its nearly finished where as the HS2 work is not even close to start of track laying, How can HS2 be so slow in doing the Civils compared to EW rail
To be fair, this is only the Bicester/Bedford section. The trackbed was already there, if in need of widening and condolidating; probably the biggest job was building the new Winslow station
The Bedford/Cambridge section has yet to get off the drawing board.
If you look at some videos of this junction 10, 5, 2, 1 year back you'll see they simply cleared, re ballasted, relayed, and signalled the abandoned Varsity line, while the Great Central Main line, HS2 follows up to the Warwickshire border, is seen being ripped up, the old stations and bridges demolished, the trackbed excavated down several meters, the spoil dumped all over the place, as at some point they may want to run 250 mph (400 Kph) services on the reinstated line, thats when they don't simply bypass or tunnel under a town the old line stopped at. If they had just elected to reinstate the Great Central Mainline, to add capacity, and utility to those who had not had a service in 40 years, we may have had trains running up the GCML as far as Leicester by now, (the Leicester to Nottingham stretch of the GCML is a steam heritage railway, through nottingham the trackbed is used for trams, and there's some housing been built between Nottingham and Sheffield, and Sheffield and Manchester. The old Junction railway into Birmingham could also have been relayed with little effort. Though the old lines are too curvy for services above 140 mph / 225 kph.
@AndrewRoberts11 I used to live in Steeple Claydon so know it well. The line saw occasional use as a diversion from the West Coast mainline at Bletchley if there were problems between there and Euston. And of course trains from everywhichwhere brought rubbish up to Calvert via the single track GCR route from Aylesbury