HS2 moves first huge Delta Junction viaduct section over M42/M6 link road
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- HS2 has moved the first huge viaduct section into place over the motorway network in North Warwickshire, marking a milestone for the project’s Delta Junction as HS2 reaches peak construction in the region.
Contractors working for HS2 have used a specialist push-pull technique to move the 84 metre, 300 tonne steel viaduct section into place over the westbound link road between the M6 and M42 near Coleshill.
This is the first of two moves to install the deck for HS2’s ‘East Link Viaduct’, which is part of the triangular Delta Junction. The second operation in April will create the full 158 metre long composite deck over both westbound and eastbound motorway link roads. Further work, including in-situ concrete deck works and parapets installation will be undertaken to complete the structure.
It was delivered by specialist steelwork company @victorbuycksteelconstruction, working on behalf of HS2’s main works contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV). Using a push-pull jacking system which gives greater flexibility during the launch operation, it was the first time VBSC have used their specially designed technique in the UK.
The team completed the move ahead of schedule in a total of 11.5 hours during a weekend closure of the motorway link roads. Working in close collaboration with National Highways, the roads were re-opened at 2.35am on Sunday morning.
Before the end of this year, a similar two-stage operation will move the identical ‘West Link Viaduct’ which runs parallel to the East Link Viaduct.
This section of the triangular Delta Junction enables high speed trains to travel between London, Interchange Station in Solihull and Birmingham Curzon Street Station.
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So proud to have been apart of the project since November, I welded the sections of the bridge together on site and helped with the launch. 😁
Now we know who to blame if those welds fail!
@@DavidKnowles0 😂😂😂😂 everything is tested by an external professional testing house. All is good. 👍
Well done chap. Thanks for helping move our country forwards.
Great job, Oggy! On to the next ones ;-)
@@victorbuycksteelconstruction big push on the next splices, better up my wages 😂😂😂
They really seem to be progressing, I hope it opens in 2029 as opposed to 2033.
It opening 2029 would be a huge coup for the project, of cause people will argue it not really open because the Euston part isn't complete.
2029 would be great! Let’s hope they start construction of the interchange station soon as it’s the last major construction piece not past the groundwork phase
Government sources now stating that the first trains won't be running until at least 2045 .. ELEVEN years from now!
HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
I see the comment about poor PR that was trying to reply has been removed, however I think it hit the nail on the head.
HS2 has always been very poorly explained.
People of Birmingham (correctly) state they don’t need to get to Birmingham quicker, they need more local services.
Anyone that travels through new st would quickly tell you that ain’t adding more tracks in and out of the place.
What HS2 SHOULD have focussed on in when being represented was how would free up capacity in places like New St by taking Intercity traffic out of New St.
Places like Manchester, London, Leeds, Sheffield even Scotland could alll have been served out of Curzon St using HS2 and then head up the north west and north eastern legs dropping out onto the WCML and ECML further up. This also true for other locations that HS2 would reach.
As such trains for there could run from Curzon St and thus be removed from New St.
By freeing up that capacity and with slower trains can have more slots as don’t have to worry about slowing down the Intercity then can provide that capacity for more local train services and even freight.
That can then take lorries off the road network as well.
Parents live in Marston Green and seems that there trains are always being held up as the Intercity is given priority. Again remove the need for some of the Intercity through there and the local services not affected as badly as won’t have to delay for the Euston Services.
But guess not as eye catching as xx minutes off the time to London, which with all they delays and extra costs put on he phase 1 by the NIMBY’s has the costs spiral out of control.
When the M42 was built through Kingsbury Water Park it was going to devastate the area however the place is thriving still and the wildlife there, the bird hides where can go observe the birds still there etc because the wildlife still there.
Even the M3 by Winchester then other then the landscape recovered, he’s you have he gap but the vegetation etc established itself and green again.
HS2 Cost have spiral out of control because the nimbys brigade demanded a tunnel under the Chiltern Hills, When all could have been dealt with and done cheaply if the contractor and government had ignore the scaremongers and chopped down those fews trees in it path, How did the chiltern Hills residents cope when the M42 ripped through there land??
@@scottpeacock5492 They were exactly the same. Which is why the M40 took so long in the design phase from Oxford - Wycombe. Again, not a single projected 'irreparable damage' warning proved to be true despite many £millions being added to the cost of the build.
People who argue against high speed rail intentionally do not admit that high speed rail is about moving our current InterCity trains off of the existing railway network, to get rid of the "fast - slow - fast - slow" pattern. Instead they pretend it's all about "Londoners going somewhere a few minutes faster". So we are often having propaganda rather than an actual discussion. And HS2 Limited just isn't set up to deal with a propaganda wave by car lobbyists.
The real problem is that people who do not travel on trains do not really understand about the stopping distance needed between trains, so they just can't understand why a mixed traffic railway is a massive timetabling problem, unless that is explained to them. If the government had put out a public information film showing milk floats being driven up motorways, with high performance cars needing to wait, so that they could chase the milk floats at 70 miles per hour (but not catch up) I think that motorists would understand that was a bonkers way to manage a motorway. Our daily trains operate "clock face timetabling" (which means the same times every hour) so imagine that if we have milk floats driving from Birmingham to Glasgow, with one Porche chasing every milk float, and you have the sort of headache that timetable experts have to wrangle with every year. If motorists were given that sort of model, they might then understand why it is the express trains that are causing a problem for the commuter trains and why "getting rid of the express trains" helps anyone in a commuter train.
Once people understand that InterCity trains blight the network, it's a lot easier to understand why a high speed rail project (that puts them onto a different line) is much better than decades of widening existing lines (which would cause multiple weekend closures and demolishing buildings in cities that are near the existing lines).
The Victoria Line, on London Underground, got called "the 90 second railway" in a talk by a previous manager. And TfL have been pushing towards one train arriving at a station every ninty seconds. Compare that to places outside London where people have one train an hour or even one train every two hours. A lot of that is down to the need to leave the railway "empty" behind a stopping service, so that the express train can travel at full speed. Get rid of the express trains and we no longer need the big gaps. We only need the small gaps that slower trains need between them.
Unfortunately nobody understands how much headway a slower train needs on our existing railway network. A bunch of milk floats driving one behind the other on a motorway, in a public information film could easily make motorists understand the concept though. "Get rid of the Porche and you can have much more milk floats" is an easier concept to grasp. For the exact details, you need to be looking at the local areas, the design of junctions and they types of trains. (Most people don't understand that diesel trains are a bigger problem than electric trains, capacity wise. Again, that's something a public information film could address, to explain why railway electrification is vital.)
We would still need investment in local railways though. And HS2 Limited can not promise a future government will commit to that. Unfortunately, we have a very stupid government system that wants to outsource "funding" to external companies (instead of just investing directly) and that's much less cost efficient than having a rolling program of railway building, where we set up a number of devolved transport authorities managed by the local government in the cities of England (and let Scotland and Wales do what they want to do) so that elected officials can create things similar to London Underground, London Overground and Merseyrail and lower car dependency (and pollution) in their regions, as fast as possible.
Right now, all the Train Operating Companies in England are controlled directly by Westminster, instead of being controlled by local voters. And the corrupt ROSCO system means that they do not own their own trains and instead have to rent trains from companies that have been exporting vast amounts of money out of the system.
The 777 trains that Merseyrail has started to use have been brought in alongside a program that saw non-standard railway platforms fixed to the correct height, and that has meant that Liverpool is becoming a much more accessible city than it was before. It's probably better than London (on a per-station basis) now. Every city in England can have that sort of improvement, if we can just separate out the national "InterCity" network from the local network.
If we switch from putting a ton of cash into the pockets of ROSCO shareholders, to evaluating how much investment individual cities, like Manchester, need to be able to "catch up with London Transport" and just throw lots of investment at those places, we will automatically be lowering things like climate change issues, pollution, road deaths, the speed at which potholes are created by vehicle tires slapping the roads and all sorts of other things that are caused by high car dependancy.
We shouldn't just be looking towards HS2 opening. We need to look towards maximising the capacity that HS2 will unlock. And that needs to be done in the cities on and around the HS2 route. HS2 is a vital step towards improving our railway network. But it is just one step. And we need to have cross-party support for democratising local transport and giving every English city control of how people can get to work (and how late in the evening or night busses are going to run).
Its a white elephant, a vanity project we could have done so much on the network with this money
@@stephenholmes1036 Sorry to ask but what would be your alternative solution to increasing capacity on our rail network? The solution needs to be future proof so we already know that 'upgrading' existing lines only works for so long before it's needed again. Like adding new lanes to a motorway, we all know how disruptive that can be.
There's a lot of very interesting engineering going into HS2, I hope it'll be fully completed (i.e. Phase 2 onwards) in my lifetime
High speed rail really needs to connect Edinburgh, Glasgow and Cardiff to the Eurotunnel. I hope it's not too long before we get a government that works towards reducing air flights and motorway use.
We dont want it up north. I like the countryside being left alone.
@@oddities-whatnotI wouldn't be surprised if there were similar grumblings when the original railway lines were built, or when the M6 / A74(M) / M74 and M1 / A1(M) were built...
@@DavidShepheard No Domestic Rail Line will connect to HS1 there is no call from passengers using trains from through out the UK to the EU as there are to many regulations for trains going through the Channel Tunnel and it was tried in the 70's and failed and cancelled, may reduce Motorwy Use but you will never reduce flying due to it's quickness
So nice seeing this project come together, the work will pay off
Don't be ridiculous a white elephant to save 20 minutes
@@stephenholmes1036 HS2 is not about saving time - please do catch up!!
@thorley1969 when i want patronising I'll speak to my children and what do you do on the railway?
@@stephenholmes1036 Sounds like a lot more than you.
@@thorley1969.. the sensible people HAVE "caught up" & can safely say that HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.
Only now is the blatant corruption of HS2 Ltd being exposed which will hopefully trigger a public enquiry & only then will you HS2 fanboys realise you've been led down the garden path for the last 7 years.
It is a shame this will not go right up to Scotland on both coasts this is what the UK needs.
Incredible engineering 👏
We could have done so much for the network yet blow it on this!
@@stephenholmes1036 yeah probably,but it's an amazing project.
Brilliant and cheesy peas. Well done fellas!
Much as its good so see HS2 coming on slowly, I personally think the billions spent on this could have gone towards opening some closed lines which would benefit more people.
The problem with reopening closed lines, is that we do not have enough capacity in city terminal stations. That's why much of the country (outside London) has one train per hour or one train every two hours.
In Birmingham, HS2 is going to be moving InterCity trains out of Birmingham New Street and into Birmingham Curzon Street. That means all the slots currently taken up by those trains can be donated to local services.
And that means you can either have higher frequencies on the existing commuter lines or open up a closed branchline.
@DavidShepheard patronising drivel what are you a project manager? We could reopen lines its just people like you won't listen to experienced railway staff.
Ive 33 years experience and disagree with everything you ever say.
@@stephenholmes1036 the problem with reopening old lines is that much of the old track bed has been built on so you would need to bulldoze quite a lot of buildings to achieve this.
@@stephenholmes1036 Well if you had that many years experience on the Railways you would know that it would cost a hell of a lot of money and time and disruption to upgrade other line's and reinstate old closed lines, it is cheaper and easier to build from new. The WCML has been upgraded twice now and in both cases has failed hence the building of HS2
@@peterwilliamallen1063You're deluded pal.
People say to me you work on hs2 i thought that was scrapped lol not a chance hopefully this job will see me out till i retire until you see the size of this job with your own eyes you will never understand
going to ask was another on the opposite side of the road
so how long did take to put the steel together and welded,
2 weld seams on that section, couple of weeks to weld, dress, test and clean each join. Don't know about how long to manufacture the actual bridge though. I'm on site myself so I know about the site side of things
Can't believe how much HS2 has been watered-down....grow some balls the UK Government and just get it done
The rest of what was taken away will eventually need to be added back. And then, they will be adding to an operational railway, so there will be disruption to service.
@@DavidShepheard Nothing is planned to add to the HS2 line in the future
Better to cut the losses now - we don't need it and never have. Cancel it before even more taxpayer money is pissed down the drain.
@@garrett69 You may not want it but many people do and you are talking about future generations and their travel requirements and if in the dys of the Stephensons and Rocket people talked like you we would not have railway system in this country, so YES we do require HS2.
I wonder if maybe when laber come in to power they might uncancel the northern half of hs2
It is already being disgussed by the Mayor of the West Midlands and Greater Manchester
@@peterwilliamallen1063 .. *DISCUSSED .. not "disgussed" 😉
*LABOUR .. not "laber".
Sir Keir Starmer said in an interview last month that if Labour win the next election, they WOULDN'T revive the Northern Leg as .. "it's not possible to do HS2 as the government have blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled,".
Which is excellent news as HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure in half a century.
Lets stop calling the section to Crewe HS2 A and call it the Stoke bypass.
An outskirts of London to Birmingham railway…. how Victorian 😂
The West Coast Mainline is more Victorian than a modern railway. You won't see no steam engine running on them, Welcome to the 21st Century.
It will Run from London Euston to Birmingham Curzon Street in the Center of Birmingham
It's about time someone pulled the plug on this HS2 cock up - a total waste of taxpayer money that could have been better spent elsewhere.
A 19th Century infrastructure project for the 21st Century. Just what our country needs: an expensive white elephant consuming the countryside.
The Irish built 100 miles of British motorway and 196 bridges in just 18 months when technology was hardly existent. Feel I need to say no more.
But they didn't have to worry about health and safety rules as well as all the environmental issues!!🤔🤔🤔🤔
Boris Johnson made this happen 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧great job!
no he didnt, he sliced it in half and then watered it down even further
What a ridiculous waste of borrowed money on top of borrowed money that we are burdening future generations with. Anyone involved in this vanity project at any level should be ashamed of themselves.
So what do you call the Motorways then
As a railway man of 33 years service i despair at this white elephant. We could have reinstated lines, put back in loops and curves, reopened stations.
Yet we have blown it on this vanity project of 100 miles. Laughable utterly laughable
Well as a Railwayman you don't know much then do you about the infrastructure of Railways
Another expensive cycle path.
I totally admire the engineering and science of this project. But it is now a colossal waste of money as it stops at Birmingham. The billions would be better spent on the road infrastructure.
atleast the southern bit of the west coast main line will be a bit less overcrowded now 🤷
A better solution would be to just build the rest of it!
I absolutely agree and have been saying this for ages. The shear destruction around the village of Water Orton is awful, I was bought up there in the 50’s and 60’s and I’m so saddened
No, no more roads please. Just build the rest of the line, maybe for a lower speed to save a bit on costs. Also build the link to HS1. That way we would get full value for the colossal investment that has be made on the bit that is being built.
Birmingham will boom .