Thank you, there are many videos out there but this gives a lovely overview over a long distance and we can pause and get a good look at the structures being built. Great!
I have tried to do a flight like this but could never get it organised. sadly for me, I don’t know any pilots who’d take me, nor do I have a license. but here you went and did it, and filmed it. thanks! great video. great day for it, too.
Progressing? The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped. The disaster that is Euston station - "on hold" for two years & even if it gets the go-ahead from Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the upcoming budget, won't continue until next year & won't be operational until 2042 at the earliest. Man, that's some "progress". HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising. When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this. The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight. This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money. And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?
@@sirjohng1I've done a bit of maths and according to various websites, £5.5m in 1838, the date of birth of the London to Birmingham railway, equates nowadays to £704.5m. Not really worth doing, since the only things that are the same in the comparison are the two city's names and the term "railway." Even the mighty Pound has gone through err.., the change.
Looking good as construction progresses. In a year or so, when most of the new over bridges are completed and local roads are re-aligned to use them, we will really be able to see the trace of the line. The finished line will have a track width of 14 metres I believe, so the areas of land currently used for storage, haul roads, etc will be re-instated and start greening over.
If only more people could still see the northern southern divide. I am 57 & it has always been like this. They have just cancelled the duelling of A1 again north of Newcastle. My grandfather was pushing for this & he died in 1992. Unbelievable that this still goes on & politicians still want our votes.
Further to my rambling word overburden, can I just suggest that next time you deliver us with a companion video to this'un showing progress made, you delight us all the more with details of where we're flying over and certain infrastructure to look out for? For example, here at 10:45, even though I was pretty sure that I knew its name, it still took me too long to find The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre near eponymous Quainton Road private railway et al. A simple caption tucked in the corner would have been humbly appreciated. Thank you.
So it's alright to have a polluting motorway driven through the countryside, but not an electric railway. Let's just spend pots of money and extend the Underground instead.
I've always thought flying over how depressing it looks from above. Limited opportunity for land based wildlife to cross from east to west, hundreds of metres of scarred landscape to either side of the tracks. Hopefully nature recovers once it's done.
Why is there so much disturbance to the left and right of where the tracks will be? Why are all these pond like things being produced? Great video btw 👌
When you concrete the ground there is less space for water to be absorbed. This can increase risk of flooding from rain. Balancing ponds provide a safe area for water to accumulate to counteract this.
I'm hoping you have plans for another flight in the coming months for a follow up trip _ 🙏 _ we get to see the progress on sections that don't get seen _ excellent _ enjoyed💯_ do another one 👏
Dunno if it's been done by design or chance but congratulations! Half way through and my gamble to put the video into warp speed (x2) right from the start is even now continuing to pay off with the added bonus of the music just about staying on the right side of the line between bearable and cartoon mice à la style Disné mille neuf cents trente trois. As you might say. In a perfect world, there would be a companion version of this video with a split screen showing various maps of the area flown over. In a possible future edition of it, if such were to be made, as well as being an engaging way to display the much vaunted progress down the line, it would be all the moreso if it included a lot more information on what we are seeing in front of us. Topping that off would be captions with info on landmarks and places the line passes through, coupled with the cherry on the top bonus of captions with info on the infrastructure you show us. The whole thing is a marvel of modern engineering and your archetypal dispassionate bystander ought to find it hard not to wonder at the wonders which keep flying by. Be they tunnels, bridges, viaducts or earthworks, they keep coming. Indeed it is equally hard not to wonder at the immensity of the scar it's created at this midpoint, the most visible and unsettingly extensive apparent disregard by humanity for mother earth! Agree with them or not, the naysayers, nimbys and general doomsayers who voice their views on the line (and now I come to think of it, the people on the opposing side of the argument engaged in praising it too) are patently wasting their time. Whichever end of the seesaw you choose to sit on, time to get things off your chest and possibly make a difference, is very much long gone. It's right here before your very eyes! Take the pent up ρι55εΔ off - ness you harbour in your heart and proove your worth to your cause by learning about one of any number of pending projects around the globe, especially if it can be tarred with the brush of the "unthinking thrust through virgin flora in the name of progress" accusation. Then your bleating can more respectfully and correctly be termed environmental concerns and changes may result. Good luck and good ruminating!
I'm really struggling to understand what I am looking at here. I saw a tunnel exit then there's just ground-works. At one point there is railway track but the plane veers off from that and goes along the ground-works beside it. It almost looks like there are no rails laid yet. Is that right?
That's correct, rails have not yet been laid. Groundwork is still being completed to prepare the route for the concrete bed that the rails will sit on. Because they have to lay a thick bed of concrete to support trains travelling so fast, the environment local to the tracks needs to be adjusted. This includes creating ponds to safely drain rainwater and the reinforcing of embankments. The tracks that you see north of Aylesbury are part of the original Grand Central Railway mainline (closed by the Beeching Axe), which HS2 runs parallel to in places
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising. When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this. The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight. This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money. And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?
All passengers will be required to sign an agreement that the 30 minutes saved will be used for the good of humankind and not wasted waiting friend to collect them or being in a taxi line etc.
Nice to see the extent of the devastation and inconvenience required to inflate politicians egos and serve their donors. I appreciate the effort you have put in. FYI, you incorrectly labelled Little Missenden and the tunnel shaft area nearby. Gt. Missenden is a few miles further NW.
Thanks for the info. They were just general area labels and cant be edited in situ in the video. However, i have amended the chapter index in the description.
A vanity project, well it is sort of but why not, most developed countries have modern high speed railways or are in the process of building one or more, it's important to have new infrastructure and it keeps the country up to date with the latest techniques and advances in construction.
Just build some stations so people can use the thing , utter nonsense that it needs to be so fast , far less energy required to run it slower , and put some stations with good car parks and travel links so commuters can use it and it would start to make sense
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00:00-01:09 Amersham
00:14 Amersham Ventilation Shaft
01:10-02:17 Little Missenden
01:12 Little Missenden Ventilation Shaft
02:14 Chesham Road Vent Shaft
02:18-04:54 South Heath Chiltern Tunnel Exit
02:40 Chiltern Tunnel North Portal
02:44 South Heath Cutting
02:56 Footpath GMI/12 Overbridge
03:06 Footpath GMI/2 Overbridge
03:35 Bowood Lane Drop Inlet Culvert
03:40 Bowood Lane Overbridge
03:48 Wendover Dean Viaduct (deck slide completed Aug 2024)
04:18 Rocky Lane Underbridge
04:24 Small Dean Viaduct
04:55-06:39 Wendover
04:55 Wendover Green Tunnel
05:40 B4009 Nash Lee Road Overbridge
05:58 Footpath ELL/20 Overbridge
06:15 Risborough Road Underpass
06:28 Footpath SMA/9 Overbridge
06:34 Aylesbury South Cutting
06:38 A4010 Stoke Mandeville Bypass Overbridge
06:40-12:59 Aylesbury
06:44 Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Rail Overbridge (opened Oct 2023)
07:28 Sedrup North Culvert
07:40 A418 Oxford Road Overbridge (will open Nov 2024)
07:58 Footpath SBH/32 Overbridge
08:10 Whaddon Hill Cutting
08:26 Thame Valley Viaduct (reached halfway point May 2024)
08:48 Putlowes Overbridge
09:02 Bridleway FMA/1 Overbridge
09:18 Fleet Marston Culvert
09:24 Cranwell Farm Culver
09:34 Waddesdon South Cutting
09:44 A41 Bicester Road Overbridge (opened Sep-Oct 2024)
10:26 Waddesdon North Cutting
10:38 Little Manor Holding Culvert
10:42 Needles Farm Overbridge
10:58 Station Road Overbridge
11:12 Doddershall No. 1 Culvert
11:20 Bridleway QUA/28A Overbridge
11:28 Doddershall No. 4 Culvert
11:32 Doddershall No. 6 Culvert
11:32 Doddershall No. 7 Culvert
11:35 Footpath QUA/26 Underbridge
11:35 Woods Drop Inlet Culvert
11:42 Edgcott Road Overbridge (deck slide completed Jul 2024)
11:48 Adam's Underbridge
12:04 Bridleway QUA/36 Green Overbridge
12:14 Bridleway GUN/28 Green Overbridge
12:30 Footpath CAG/2 Underbridge
12:30 Greatmoor No. 4 Culvert
12:30 Muxwell Brook Culvert
12:38 Sheephouse Wood Mitigation Structure
12:48 Footpath SCL/13 Green Overbridge
13:00-18:04 Calvert
13:02 Calvert Green Overbridge
13:12 Calvert Sidings Overbridge
13:18 School Hill Green Overbridge
13:40 East-West Rail Overbridge (completed Nov 2023)
13:42 Charndon Lodge Underbridge (completed end 2023)
13:52 Perry Hill Overbridge (road realignment starting Oct 2024)
14:00 West Street Overbridge
14:26 Twyford Viaduct
14:42 Restricted Byway PBI/5A Overbridge
14:48 Twyford Cutting
14:58 Godington East Viaduct
15:08 Godington West Viaduct
15:32 Footpath CHW/18 Overbridge
15:38 Chetwode Cutting
15:44 School End Overbridge
15:58 Barton Hartshorn Culvert
16:18 Newton Purcell Culvert
16:22 A4421 Buckingham Road Overbridge
16:54 A421 London Road Overbridge
17:12 Featherbed Lane Overbridge
17:28 Mixbury Culvert
17:34 Bridleway 303/4 Overbridge
17:35 Westbury Viaduct (deck slide completed Mar 2024)
18:00 Turweston Cutting
18:05-23:34 Turweston Airfield/Brackley
18:06 A422 Brackley Road Overbridge
18:26 Turweston Green Overbridge (crossbeams started being laid Oct 2024)
18:40 Turweston Viaduct
18:55 A43 Oxford Road Overbridge
19:05 Brackley South Cutting
19:34 Radstone Road Overbridge
19:44 Bridleway AX18 Overbridge
19:48 Brackley North Cutting
20:06 Footpath AN22 Overbridge
20:12 Greatworth South Cutting
20:24 Bridleway AN37 Overbridge
20:40 Bridleway AN14 Overbridge
21:06 Greatworth Green Tunnel
21:40 Thorpe Mandeville Cutting
21:50 Lower Thorpe Viaduct
22:14 Culworth Grounds Culvert
22:16 Culworth Grounds Overbridge
22:20 Lower Thorpe North Cutting
22:26 Bridleway AG9 Overbridge
22:26 Chipping Warden Green Tunnel
22:45 Bridleway AG10 Overbridge
22:56 Edgcote Viaduct
23:35-28:19 Chipping Warden
24:26 Highfurlong Brook Viaduct (completed Sep 2024)
24:45 Claydon Road Overbridge
25:05 Cedars Farm Culvert
25:07 Cedars Farm Overbridge
25:10 Nursery Site Canal Feeder Culvert
25:24 Banbury Road Overbridge (Boddington)
25:58 Footpath SM101 Green Overbridge
26:04 Boddington Cutting
26:08 Oxford Canal Culvert
26:14 Footpath SM116a Underpass
26:22 Oxford Canal Viaduct
26:46 Lower Radbourne South Viaduct
26:56 Lower Radbourne North Viaduct
27:08 Lower Radbourne Farm Overbridge
27:15 Ladbroke Grove Farm Overbridge
27:38 Ladbroke Culvert
27:46 Windmill Lane Green Overbridge
28:18 A423 Banbury Road Overbridge
28:20-29:04 Southam
28:25 Southam Culvert
28:34 B4451 Kineton Road Overbridge
28:54 River Itchen Viaduct
29:02 Long Itchington Wood Green Tunnel
29:05-32:45 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel
29:10 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel (bores completed Mar 2023)
29:42 Long Itchington Wood North Portal
29:46 Ufton Wood Cutting
29:55 Longhole Viaduct
30:08 Welsh Road Underbridge
30:15 Offchurch Cutting
30:32 B4455 Fosse Way Overbridge
30:42 Offchurch Greenway Green Overbridge
30:52 Hunningham Road Overbridge
31:06 Footpath W129y Overbridge
31:20 River Leam Viaduct
31:45 Cubbington Retaining Wall
31:58 B4453 Rugby Road Overbridge
32:04 Cubbington Cutting
32:12 Coventry Road Overbridge
Thank You !
Thanks for this video, one of the best I've seen for this project!
Thanks
Thank you, there are many videos out there but this gives a lovely overview over a long distance and we can pause and get a good look at the structures being built. Great!
I'd been wondering for a while how much of the route had broken ground - this is just what I needed!
Someone else did the same thing on the California high speed railway project. You guys are the GOAT. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.
I have tried to do a flight like this but could never get it organised.
sadly for me, I don’t know any pilots who’d take me, nor do I have a license. but here you went and did it, and filmed it.
thanks! great video. great day for it, too.
Thanks for the vid. Good to see progress from the air like this
What a pleasant and well produced video - thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting to see the work from that height. A whole new perspective. Nice one 👍
great to see the 1 year update, thanks
Thanks, its actually 2 years. I'm putting together the videos for comparison, publish next month.
If only more people could see this proof that the project is very much progressing
Progressing? The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped. The disaster that is Euston station - "on hold" for two years & even if it gets the go-ahead from Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the upcoming budget, won't continue until next year & won't be operational until 2042 at the earliest. Man, that's some "progress".
HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising.
When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this.
The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight.
This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.
And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?
@@sirjohng1I've done a bit of maths and according to various websites, £5.5m in 1838, the date of birth of the London to Birmingham railway, equates nowadays to £704.5m.
Not really worth doing, since the only things that are the same in the comparison are the two city's names and the term "railway." Even the mighty Pound has gone through err.., the change.
It’s only 20 years and 50billion over budget. But because you played soothing music over this video I’m no longer angry.
@@sirjohng1Britain invented trains and now its too expensive for them to build one lols
Looking good as construction progresses. In a year or so, when most of the new over bridges are completed and local roads are re-aligned to use them, we will really be able to see the trace of the line. The finished line will have a track width of 14 metres I believe, so the areas of land currently used for storage, haul roads, etc will be re-instated and start greening over.
Your drone is so big it creates an Umbra of its own...best eclipse since august 1999...
Is that the old GCR line running in parallel at 14.35 ???
If only more people could still see the northern southern divide. I am 57 & it has always been like this. They have just cancelled the duelling of A1 again north of Newcastle. My grandfather was pushing for this & he died in 1992. Unbelievable that this still goes on & politicians still want our votes.
Further to my rambling word overburden, can I just suggest that next time you deliver us with a companion video to this'un showing progress made, you delight us all the more with details of where we're flying over and certain infrastructure to look out for?
For example, here at 10:45, even though I was pretty sure that I knew its name, it still took me too long to find
The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
near eponymous Quainton Road private railway et al.
A simple caption tucked in the corner would have been humbly appreciated.
Thank you.
A white elephant,but it's happening.
Great to see the progress, thanks for posting, do another in a year..?....
Was the pilot deliberately trying to track the line of route with the shadow of the aircraft - or was that just a happy accident!
It was a fluke, only noticed myself when editing, but it does give a good representation of the speed. 🙂
Amazing video I’m
Travelling down to work on the project end of month.
What would the ground speed of the shadow be?
It would vary with the wind but around 110mph
In the time it has taken to get this far for HS2, China has built 1000s of km of high speed railway.
So it's alright to have a polluting motorway driven through the countryside, but not an electric railway. Let's just spend pots of money and extend the Underground instead.
The underground, the most polluted place in London.
I've always thought flying over how depressing it looks from above. Limited opportunity for land based wildlife to cross from east to west, hundreds of metres of scarred landscape to either side of the tracks. Hopefully nature recovers once it's done.
There's dozens of green bridges! They just aren't complete yet
Why is there so much disturbance to the left and right of where the tracks will be? Why are all these pond like things being produced? Great video btw 👌
They look like balancing ponds to catch the rainwater. The scheme gets BREAMM environmental points for installing them.
When you concrete the ground there is less space for water to be absorbed. This can increase risk of flooding from rain. Balancing ponds provide a safe area for water to accumulate to counteract this.
This is awesome. What camera and mount did you use to capture this? Or is it built into the plane?
Thanks. Its a GoPro 12 on custom mount.
I'm hoping you have plans for another flight in the coming months for a follow up trip _ 🙏 _ we get to see the progress on sections that don't get seen _ excellent _ enjoyed💯_ do another one 👏
Hi, We did one two years ago and i am in the process of doing a comparison video..... watch this space.
Dunno if it's been done by design or chance but congratulations! Half way through and my gamble to put the video into warp speed (x2) right from the start is even now continuing to pay off with the added bonus of the music just about staying on the right side of the line between bearable and cartoon mice à la style Disné mille neuf cents trente trois. As you might say.
In a perfect world, there would be a companion version of this video with a split screen showing various maps of the area flown over.
In a possible future edition of it, if such were to be made, as well as being an engaging way to display the much vaunted progress down the line, it would be all the moreso if it included a lot more information on what we are seeing in front of us. Topping that off would be captions with info on landmarks and places the line passes through, coupled with the cherry on the top bonus of captions with info on the infrastructure you show us.
The whole thing is a marvel of modern engineering and your archetypal dispassionate bystander ought to find it hard not to wonder at the wonders which keep flying by. Be they tunnels, bridges, viaducts or earthworks, they keep coming.
Indeed it is equally hard not to wonder at the immensity of the scar it's created at this midpoint, the most visible and unsettingly extensive apparent disregard by humanity for mother earth!
Agree with them or not, the naysayers, nimbys and general doomsayers who voice their views on the line (and now I come to think of it, the people on the opposing side of the argument engaged in praising it too) are patently wasting their time.
Whichever end of the seesaw you choose to sit on, time to get things off your chest and possibly make a difference, is very much long gone.
It's right here before your very eyes! Take the pent up ρι55εΔ off - ness you harbour in your heart and proove your worth to your cause by learning about one of any number of pending projects around the globe, especially if it can be tarred with the brush of the
"unthinking thrust through virgin flora in the name of progress"
accusation. Then your bleating can more respectfully and correctly be termed environmental concerns and changes may result.
Good luck and good ruminating!
Be nice to do this every few months to show progress and the differences over time.
Can I come for a ride next time please?
I'm really struggling to understand what I am looking at here. I saw a tunnel exit then there's just ground-works. At one point there is railway track but the plane veers off from that and goes along the ground-works beside it. It almost looks like there are no rails laid yet. Is that right?
That's correct, rails have not yet been laid. Groundwork is still being completed to prepare the route for the concrete bed that the rails will sit on. Because they have to lay a thick bed of concrete to support trains travelling so fast, the environment local to the tracks needs to be adjusted. This includes creating ponds to safely drain rainwater and the reinforcing of embankments.
The tracks that you see north of Aylesbury are part of the original Grand Central Railway mainline (closed by the Beeching Axe), which HS2 runs parallel to in places
Aaaah tunnels under what let’s face it is a bunch of fields….You. Could. Not. Make. It. Up.
Got to appease all those Tory-voting bankers and managers round there 👍
The tunneling that next to warehouse is even funnier.
All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising.
When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this.
The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight.
This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.
And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?
Thankyou for your opinion
All passengers will be required to sign an agreement that the 30 minutes saved will be used for the good of humankind and not wasted waiting friend to collect them or being in a taxi line etc.
The whole point is to have NO FREIGHT. The freight on other lines will be unimpeded by passenger services and that's how the capacity improves.
Nice to see the extent of the devastation and inconvenience required to inflate politicians egos and serve their donors. I appreciate the effort you have put in.
FYI, you incorrectly labelled Little Missenden and the tunnel shaft area nearby. Gt. Missenden is a few miles further NW.
Thanks for the info. They were just general area labels and cant be edited in situ in the video. However, i have amended the chapter index in the description.
Nice video but... What a mess and what a waste of money HS2 is.
The Whole Thing Is A Complete And Utter Waste Of Money That Could Have Been Spent Better Elsewhere A Vanity Project.
A vanity project, well it is sort of but why not, most developed countries have modern high speed railways or are in the process of building one or more, it's important to have new infrastructure and it keeps the country up to date with the latest techniques and advances in construction.
HS2, Terrible waste of money, for so very little return
Just build some stations so people can use the thing , utter nonsense that it needs to be so fast , far less energy required to run it slower , and put some stations with good car parks and travel links so commuters can use it and it would start to make sense
Horrific, pointless environmental vandalism.
Exactly!!
Thankyou for your opinion
Fantastic protection of the environment by moving travel onto electric rail instead of polluting vehicles.
Can clearly see where all the money has been wasted