These projects are absolutely amazing. We've been following the progress at Turweston by drone and it's really very impressive. We'll be above this site soon! 👍🏼
5 comments so far and 3 have the usual cynical sarcasm from people who don't have a clue. Well done HS2. Finding new ways to do projects so others can follow and do a better job.
Not just the super slippery surface that is Teflon but you can bet that the local village shop ran out of Fairy Liquid too. Ahhh! Washing up liquid, the secret sauce of the construction industry.
@@cmmartti You might think that but the construction industry runs on the stuff. Further proof if required is celebrated in fact in other bridge section slides into position on other HS2 videos, no less. It's magic stuff!
i wonder if hs2 will rebuild or resurface the section of the a422 between brackley and westbury - all the lorries over the past couple years have caused the road surface to fail. theres at least two massive depressions the size of bathtubs where the ground beneath has shifted out to the side.
I love the way everyone spins "less carbon" but what it really means is the cherry off the massive sized whale cake of carbon being produced. But still "less carbon" ufff. How about enough spinning to make us sick and just build a trainline that means something useful already.
There is no 'spin' her at all. they designed a really clever way of building a viaduct and 60% reduction is massive. But clealry you think its 'clever' top mock it. I think your grandchildren will be a bit more appreciative of the efforts to reduce the carbon footprint in major projects like HS2. You seem to not really care about their future.
Actually this is the railway equivalent of a road bypass. It's designed to take InterCity trains off of three existing mainlines and put them onto a separate railway. Moving InterCity trains off of three existing mainlines means that more stopping services can go onto the existing mainlines instead. And that means more normal trains for normal people. Because the government has cut back on the Eastern Leg and now the Western Leg, those bits are going to need to be put back before we can get the full benefit in the West and East Midlands, but when Birmingham Curzon Street station opens every InterCity train that goes there will be one less InterCity train chugging up platform slots in Birmingham New Street. So that's more spaces for other trains to go through New Street and beyond. We spent a lot of time and money (and created carbon) building a motorway network that has a massive ongoing carbon cost and which causes car and lorry pollution across GB. But if we can free up capacity on our existing mainlines, we can have more trains for commuters and also slot in some extra freight trains between them. And every freight train can take dozens of HGVs off of our roads. Eventually, if we build enough new railways, get things electrified and move away from dirty electricity to zero carbon electricity, we can drastically clean up Britain's air quality and reduce our CO2 problem. Transport is our biggest problem, so anything we do to move passengers by electrified trains is the fastest way to make an impact. Even if we did construction the old way, the amount of problems our motorways cause mean that reducing motorway problems would pay back the carbon costs in a few years. So the fact that they are being smart is an improvement on that.
@@1chish.. HS2 will NOT cut carbon emissions. According to HS2 Ltd's own forecasts, even over it's projected lifetime of 120 years, it's overall construction & operation will cause carbon emissions of 1.49m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This represents just 1.18% of the UK's annual transport emissions. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@CRIMSONANT1 Ah yes how very clever. I see you have copy / pasted from The Guardian again. Always a risky practice! 😂 Those figures extrapolated the finite figures for HS2 construction vs lifetime use. When everyone else is using comparators. HS2 will save carbon emissions COMPARED to car, plane and diesel train use. But as you used The Guardian so shall I: HS2 can achieve 8g of carbon emissions per person per km. The same journey by car would generate 67g of emissions - and by plane, 170g. So here is the real question: How would YOU save emissions if you don't build electric rail systems to aid the travelling public? More roads? More airports? More busses on the same old roads? The numbers on travelling emissions above prove your views are not supported by facts.
@@1chish .. what you've failed to take into account is the blatant corruption that's recently been exposed by HS2 "whistleblowers". HS2 Ltd have been hoodwinking the public & the government basically from day one. Senior management orchestrated efforts to downplay the true costs of HS2. These insiders claim they were instructed to deceive about the financial position, with the intention of securing continued funding worth billions. As costs began to escalate, high-ranking officials purportedly resorted to extreme measures, including document shredding & the dismissal of dissenting voices, to shield the project from collapsing under the weight of its financial burden. HS2 Ltd state that to "break even" with a subsidy of 50/60%, they require 600,000 passengers travelling DAILY between London & Birmingham. Given that passenger numbers on this route have been declining by 4% per year for the last decade & now stand at approx 96,000 per day, perhaps you'd care to explain where the extra 504,000 are suddenly going to materialise from? Even if HS2 had been built in full, HS2 Ltd say that only 7% of people would have transferred from car - less than 2% of the M1’s traffic volume & only 6% would have transferred from air. Within a decade of opening, (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), the only part of HS2 that hasn't been scrapped will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path .. it really is the most horrendous white elephant this country has ever had to endure & future generations will look back in amazement & wonder why it was ever given the go ahead.
Watching it move is like watching paint dry. Why so many viaduct types on hs2. An alternative could have been an earth embankment with arches/culverts and flood storage areas, but i presume hs2 did not aquire enough land to allow this approach. The carbon measure and reduction is a bit of a nonsense. Still, it's impressive to see how it is being built. You would not want to trap your fingers when inserting the Teflon panels; this element of the works could be done more safely.
Actually earth embankments are a bit of a problem. If they get eroded the ground supporting the track can slide away. And, considering this viaduct is also a river crossing on a flood plain, the experts must have considered the risk of flood events carrying away soil and making a high speed derailment a possibility unacceptable. These folks do know what they are doing.
why the cynical sarcasm? Yes moving hundreds of tons of steel has to be done slowly. But they did speed it up for people like you As for building embankments on a flood plain ...... Oh My Lord .....🤦♂
@1chish what about if they made the embankments off of rocks and not muds? maybe they should put that little stream into a pipe instead and then it wouldn't flood there.
@@mikenewtonninja9379That would permanently damage the environment. The design for HS2 had to meet the strictest environmental regulations ever designed for an infrastructure project in the UK. Which means no permanent damage and where possible improvement of existing habitat. Though honestly just building embankments on a flood plain is a problem because no matter what you make them out of they'll erode away. Unless you want to just put a giant concrete block for the rails to run on. So yeah, bridges and viaducts are better where possible.
@@mikenewtonninja9379 That 'little stream' is the Great Ouse. A river that feeds a very big flood plain. Now I am no Civil Engineer but even I know that its not the embankment material that matters its what its built ON that counts. I also see the number of times railway embankments are washed away just by heavy rain. So I will go along with highly trained, very skilled people who have access to huge computer systems and decades of data. Clearly they should have asked you to join them with your massive knowledge ....
This is amazing, incredible work, congratulations everyone 👌👍
These projects are absolutely amazing. We've been following the progress at Turweston by drone and it's really very impressive.
We'll be above this site soon! 👍🏼
5 comments so far and 3 have the usual cynical sarcasm from people who don't have a clue.
Well done HS2. Finding new ways to do projects so others can follow and do a better job.
Not just the super slippery surface that is Teflon but you can bet that the local village shop ran out of Fairy Liquid too.
Ahhh! Washing up liquid, the secret sauce of the construction industry.
I highly doubt they were using dish soap as a lubricant.
@@cmmartti You might think that but the construction industry runs on the stuff.
Further proof if required is celebrated in fact in other bridge section slides into position on other HS2 videos, no less.
It's magic stuff!
Thanks for making this viaduct.
i wonder if hs2 will rebuild or resurface the section of the a422 between brackley and westbury - all the lorries over the past couple years have caused the road surface to fail. theres at least two massive depressions the size of bathtubs where the ground beneath has shifted out to the side.
Really amazing and thank you for taking time to show your wonderful work for us.
Less concrete and less steel, how does that impact the service life of the viaduct ?
Great information loving this project as a railfan hope this route goes to train sim world one day
Well done you guys, great job 👏
The line in Saudi Arabia will be completed quicker then the hs2
So beautiful that woman. ❤
Great engineering!
So sad and annoying that it stops in the Midlands. 20 million in the North have been ignored again. It should be renamed HS1.5
Its taking an awfully long time just to build one train line.
You know, it's an awfully long train line 😂
@@ZDtuechina builds the length of hs2 in a week
@@togo7022The UK is not building typical Chinese Tofu Dregg rail line.
@@davecooper3238like the raac concrete scandal lol
@@togo7022 Yep. It’s a scandal that it wasn’t replaced at or before the end of its design life.
I love the way everyone spins "less carbon" but what it really means is the cherry off the massive sized whale cake of carbon being produced. But still "less carbon" ufff. How about enough spinning to make us sick and just build a trainline that means something useful already.
There is no 'spin' her at all. they designed a really clever way of building a viaduct and 60% reduction is massive. But clealry you think its 'clever' top mock it.
I think your grandchildren will be a bit more appreciative of the efforts to reduce the carbon footprint in major projects like HS2. You seem to not really care about their future.
Actually this is the railway equivalent of a road bypass. It's designed to take InterCity trains off of three existing mainlines and put them onto a separate railway. Moving InterCity trains off of three existing mainlines means that more stopping services can go onto the existing mainlines instead. And that means more normal trains for normal people.
Because the government has cut back on the Eastern Leg and now the Western Leg, those bits are going to need to be put back before we can get the full benefit in the West and East Midlands, but when Birmingham Curzon Street station opens every InterCity train that goes there will be one less InterCity train chugging up platform slots in Birmingham New Street. So that's more spaces for other trains to go through New Street and beyond.
We spent a lot of time and money (and created carbon) building a motorway network that has a massive ongoing carbon cost and which causes car and lorry pollution across GB. But if we can free up capacity on our existing mainlines, we can have more trains for commuters and also slot in some extra freight trains between them. And every freight train can take dozens of HGVs off of our roads.
Eventually, if we build enough new railways, get things electrified and move away from dirty electricity to zero carbon electricity, we can drastically clean up Britain's air quality and reduce our CO2 problem. Transport is our biggest problem, so anything we do to move passengers by electrified trains is the fastest way to make an impact.
Even if we did construction the old way, the amount of problems our motorways cause mean that reducing motorway problems would pay back the carbon costs in a few years. So the fact that they are being smart is an improvement on that.
Shame east and west had to be cancelled sure that wouldn’t happen in Europe or China
Incredible. We'd have paid so much less and built it so much quicker if not for all those protesters and anarchists who can't see a project succeeds
Less carbon lol
Yes. So why the 'lol'?
@@1chish.. HS2 will NOT cut carbon emissions. According to HS2 Ltd's own forecasts, even over it's projected lifetime of 120 years, it's overall construction & operation will cause carbon emissions of 1.49m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
This represents just 1.18% of the UK's annual transport emissions.
HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
@@CRIMSONANT1 The viaduct is made from low carbon steel, it has nothing to do with emissions!
@@CRIMSONANT1 Ah yes how very clever. I see you have copy / pasted from The Guardian again. Always a risky practice! 😂
Those figures extrapolated the finite figures for HS2 construction vs lifetime use. When everyone else is using comparators.
HS2 will save carbon emissions COMPARED to car, plane and diesel train use. But as you used The Guardian so shall I:
HS2 can achieve 8g of carbon emissions per person per km. The same journey by car would generate 67g of emissions - and by plane, 170g.
So here is the real question: How would YOU save emissions if you don't build electric rail systems to aid the travelling public? More roads? More airports? More busses on the same old roads? The numbers on travelling emissions above prove your views are not supported by facts.
@@1chish .. what you've failed to take into account is the blatant corruption that's recently been exposed by HS2 "whistleblowers".
HS2 Ltd have been hoodwinking the public & the government basically from day one.
Senior management orchestrated efforts to downplay the true costs of HS2. These insiders claim they were instructed to deceive about the financial position, with the intention of securing continued funding worth billions.
As costs began to escalate, high-ranking officials purportedly resorted to extreme measures, including document shredding & the dismissal of dissenting voices, to shield the project from collapsing under the weight of its financial burden.
HS2 Ltd state that to "break even" with a subsidy of 50/60%, they require 600,000 passengers travelling DAILY between London & Birmingham.
Given that passenger numbers on this route have been declining by 4% per year for the last decade & now stand at approx 96,000 per day, perhaps you'd care to explain where the extra 504,000 are suddenly going to materialise from?
Even if HS2 had been built in full, HS2 Ltd say that only 7% of people would have transferred from car - less than 2% of the M1’s traffic volume & only 6% would have transferred from air.
Within a decade of opening, (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), the only part of HS2 that hasn't been scrapped will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path .. it really is the most horrendous white elephant this country has ever had to endure & future generations will look back in amazement & wonder why it was ever given the go ahead.
I don't give a shit how much carbon there is as long as they get it built.
Waste of taxpayers money.
Watching it move is like watching paint dry. Why so many viaduct types on hs2. An alternative could have been an earth embankment with arches/culverts and flood storage areas, but i presume hs2 did not aquire enough land to allow this approach. The carbon measure and reduction is a bit of a nonsense. Still, it's impressive to see how it is being built. You would not want to trap your fingers when inserting the Teflon panels; this element of the works could be done more safely.
Actually earth embankments are a bit of a problem. If they get eroded the ground supporting the track can slide away. And, considering this viaduct is also a river crossing on a flood plain, the experts must have considered the risk of flood events carrying away soil and making a high speed derailment a possibility unacceptable. These folks do know what they are doing.
why the cynical sarcasm? Yes moving hundreds of tons of steel has to be done slowly. But they did speed it up for people like you
As for building embankments on a flood plain ...... Oh My Lord .....🤦♂
@1chish what about if they made the embankments off of rocks and not muds? maybe they should put that little stream into a pipe instead and then it wouldn't flood there.
@@mikenewtonninja9379That would permanently damage the environment. The design for HS2 had to meet the strictest environmental regulations ever designed for an infrastructure project in the UK. Which means no permanent damage and where possible improvement of existing habitat.
Though honestly just building embankments on a flood plain is a problem because no matter what you make them out of they'll erode away. Unless you want to just put a giant concrete block for the rails to run on. So yeah, bridges and viaducts are better where possible.
@@mikenewtonninja9379 That 'little stream' is the Great Ouse. A river that feeds a very big flood plain.
Now I am no Civil Engineer but even I know that its not the embankment material that matters its what its built ON that counts. I also see the number of times railway embankments are washed away just by heavy rain.
So I will go along with highly trained, very skilled people who have access to huge computer systems and decades of data.
Clearly they should have asked you to join them with your massive knowledge ....