HS2 completes first viaduct structures at Delta Junction
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- HS2 engineers have completed the final operation to move two railway viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire, making them the first viaduct structures to be built at Delta Junction.
The ‘push’ to move the 158-metre-long ‘West Link Viaduct’ into its final position over both westbound and eastbound motorway link roads.
HS2 Ltd, its main works contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) and National Highways collaborated to minimise disruption for people using the roads and enabling these engineering feats to take place.
The viaducts are part of a group of 13 viaducts which make up HS2’s triangular Delta Junction. This section of the railway enables high speed trains to travel between London, Interchange Station in Solihull and Birmingham Curzon Street Station.
In June, the first 84 metre section of the composite viaduct was moved to its halfway position. Since then, three further steel girders were welded to the back of the first section and 38 precast concrete slabs were installed to complete the 158-metre-long structure, which has now been moved over both link roads.
The parallel ‘East Link Viaduct’ was moved into place using an identical two-stage process during two weekend operations in February and April this year. This viaduct is currently being prepared to be brought into use as an internal haul road by the end of December, to move material from Bromford Tunnel to the Delta Junction, taking thousands of lorries off the local road network.
The four operations were delivered by a team of 25 people from specialist steelwork company Victor Buyck Steel Construction (VBSC), working on behalf of BBV, using a push-pull jacking system which gives greater flexibility during the launch operation.
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Awesome stuff. Still hoping the Leeds and Manchester legs are brought back in full.
Manchester, yes but quietly. Leeds leg is uncertain though.
There is talk of PFI for infrastructure. Come on Labour get it done to the cities of the north and East Midlands, and HS3 while you are at it , transport can transform.
I think eventually HS2 will inevitably be extended, likely after full service when they realise how good it is
With a through station in Manchester.
It will, unfortunately it will cost more due to Tories lack of vision
Cant wait for it to open!!
Great stuff. Lots of progress up and down the route which is fantastic to see. Hoping the new government puts on its 'long-term' glasses and finds a way to get HS2 up to Manchester/Liverpool, Leeds and beyond.
You were not in command of the facts regarding road protests. You got that wrong. I might think more highly of you if you could spell "Asian" and "behind" correctly.
Get an education.......
Why is the bridge split in two?
Why didn't they just rebuild all the old train networks they systematically destroyed since the 1960s, people could get anywhere in the country on the trains back then and it was all nationally owned
If it was that simple, we would not need an HS2. Sadly, many of those old lines are now housing or business estates… Or retail parks😊
Driving past, it looks like the northbound M6 side is higher than the support... I assume this is due to jacks that need removing still?
This used to be done in half the time
Amazing an achievement as this is, and hopefully being delivered safely. it looks horrible. Precast units, concrete and steel, never really pleasing to the eye. But a massive well done anyway. At least at A38 goes under the road and existing railway.
An astronomical waste of money
Which is likely what many people thought when the original WCML was built. The existing lines between London, Birmingham and Manchester are nearing full capacity, plus you have Express, Local and Freight all using the same lines. Quad tracking would be unfeasible. The bulk of the cost was tunnelling under London, the Chilterns, Long Itchington Wood and Washwood Heath to minimise property destruction, impacting on SSSIs, disruption to existing traffic and minimising visual impact.
A hideous scar on the landscape, ancient woodlands destroyed, farms split in two, nothing but lies, false promises and unending overspend. Two and a half times the cost of the original proposed budget and this is guaranteed to rise still further.
So what happens when they upgrade roads or build motorways. yep no one bats an eye lid yet build a railway it is the end of the world, get a life.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 to say that nobody bats an eyelid regarding new roads and motorways is incorrect. The M3 through Twyford Down resulted in massive protests but nobody listened. The A34 Newbury bypass also resulted in massive protests with camps on the ground and in the trees but they were beaten by the bailiffs and had to concede defeat. There have been numerous other protests about roads and motorways. I suggest you research and check you facts before posting. In addition, to end with a snide " get a life" comment demonstrates childishness and peurile behaviour. I have a life and a very good one. I am also in command of the facts regarding HS2 and stand by my comments.
@@flashcracker1 Yes get a life I suppose you are one of the flower people who think we should go back to using stage coaches and pack horse and carts, it is widely known as progress, the whole oEurope and many asin countries have these high speed rail ines, then why should the UK lag behined, if this happened when they were planning the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with people like your self, we would not have a rail network now, and also as Working on a Railway, my hobby is railways and living close to HS2 in Birmingham, I am too in command of facts regarding HS2.
A disgrace
0:46 those two guys on lunch break
Waste of money !
What a stupid waste of money.
The question to that is " why is it a stupid waste of momey"
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Cost double the money for half the line.
@@derekspitz9225 Why half the Line, it is being built in full apart from a 50 mile section from Handsacre to Manchester which still may be built and will be Europes fastest hi speed line and is worth every penny and if people stopped doing costly public enquiries it would not cost so much
@@peterwilliamallen1063 200 miles (phase 2a & 2b) will not be completed, as announce by the government in Oct 2023. That's actually over half, in terms of track miles. Like I said, a waste of money.
@@derekspitz9225 Distance from Handsacre to Manchester is arround 85 miles theonly bit that may not be completed, the section from Handacre and Birmingham to London Euston will be completed and no not a waste of money
I thought HS2 had a staff BBQ & party & PR opportunities every time they completed a structure...🙄🤔😉
Stunning work, congratulations 👌
It would have been much simpler and cheaper to put the whole thing underground for almost all of its route. No bridges over rivers, canals, road, other railroads or water, electricity or gas pipelines. Plus no lawyers.
No it wouldn’t. Tunnelling is the most expensive option.
@@ATH_Berkshire If you look at the costs per mile it seems tunnels are cheaper. Assuming the total cost is £70 billion and the track length is 140 miles. This gives a cost of £500 million per mile. The best figure I’ve come up with for tunnelling is £1 million per hundred feet. So given there are 5,000 feet in a mile it means the costs are much lower at £50 million per mile. Obviously the £70 billion includes stations but even these can’t be that great a cost to overcome the cheaper costs of the tunnel. In addition the engineering is easier and predictable and no lawyers are involved.
@@johnfrancis4401 If you tunnel under someone property lawyers WILL be involved.
@@boldford I don’t think so. In British law, you do not automatically own the earth and its resources below your property. In America you do. The case would only have merit if the tunnel damaged the house. Crossrail would not have been possible if what you assert is true. Thousands of properties were tunnelled under in London. Can you refer to any cases brought before the courts?
I think you will find lawyers would be involved. When the company I worked for built the tunnels on the western section of Crossrail there was a lot of underpinning carried out to the existing shallow foundations to the old buildings in Soho Square. Also just east of Tottenham Court Road there were deep piles to navigate which supported the Centre Point high rise building. And if you tunnel under an existing road, river or railway you need to go through a process to agree a method statement with the relevant statutory authority.
Complete waste of money 💴 not going into Euston Now etc 🤬Scar on the green belt trees 🌳 going 😱
Genuine question then. How would you solve the saturation issues on the WCML and M6?
People made the same complaints about the second runway at Manchester Airport, but the landscape and wildlife have actually recovered from it very well
@@mesnilman2327 Complete the proposed upgrades of the WCML and upgrade the Chiltern Mainline. Business travel is reducing as online meetings save time and money. The M6 issue is not really relevant here, as the majority of people who drive will never use the train, unless it is considerably cheaper, which HS2 won't be.
Mental patient
@@richardb3363Rubbish. Rail passenger numbers are more or less back to what they were before the pandemic, and people said the same when the telephone was invented!