Thanks to Paul for this excellent video. Interesting how the HS2 site is just a mudbath in places but in others you can see the completed formation emerging.
Wow, that was a surprising 180 degree turn and twenty mile jump from Welsh Road to Greatworth! I feel sure that those trees at the edge of Halse Copse on top of the cutting won't be staying, sad to say. We can of course console ourselves that this railway will be an enormous benefit to the region, particularly Thorpe Mandeville! I note the permanent destruction of the watercourse crossed at 9.12. HS2 will have to answer for that
Wider than just two tracks, if you look closely a lot is being done to sink the railway below “field level” to reduce the visual and sound impact on the local environment. This needs sloped embankments.
Possibly because drones are a relatively new invention. Imagine if they had been around when the motorway network was being constructed with six or eight lanes - much wider than HS2 - plus sprawling junctions and service areas.
@@RalphFreeman-ok5ofStephenson lived before the age of environmental awareness. Much of what you can see in these videos is the extensive earthworks to sink the railway into the landscape plus the huge areas of mitigation planting - new woodland, grassland and habitat formation.
Thanks to Paul for this excellent video. Interesting how the HS2 site is just a mudbath in places but in others you can see the completed formation emerging.
Wow, that was a surprising 180 degree turn and twenty mile jump from Welsh Road to Greatworth! I feel sure that those trees at the edge of Halse Copse on top of the cutting won't be staying, sad to say. We can of course console ourselves that this railway will be an enormous benefit to the region, particularly Thorpe Mandeville! I note the permanent destruction of the watercourse crossed at 9.12. HS2 will have to answer for that
Remind me just how wide is the railway?
Wider than just two tracks, if you look closely a lot is being done to sink the railway below “field level” to reduce the visual and sound impact on the local environment. This needs sloped embankments.
I have never know so much destruction of the countryside
Yes it's a massive mess
@@paulcgburrows7267Moving all the earth must cost a fortune. Maybe they need to look how Robert Stephenson built railways ?
Possibly because drones are a relatively new invention. Imagine if they had been around when the motorway network was being constructed with six or eight lanes - much wider than HS2 - plus sprawling junctions and service areas.
@@RalphFreeman-ok5ofStephenson lived before the age of environmental awareness. Much of what you can see in these videos is the extensive earthworks to sink the railway into the landscape plus the huge areas of mitigation planting - new woodland, grassland and habitat formation.