Don’t worry about it. Like most great projects like this when the first stage is a really big success the next stages that are currently on hold will be built out.
Wonderful engineering. Shame the Government don't watch these videos as they would see the level of expertise we have with all these Civil Engineers which with the cancelling of the next stage of HS2 is at risk of this wonderful asset going to waste.
It's not about speed, its about freeing up capacity on the existing routes so everyone benefits. Speed is just a natural consequence of having a railway designed for this age rather than the 19th century!
Well done these two lads. great explanations of some advanced civil engineering. Good to see our young engineers are doing so well. Shame about the usual negativity on here from the usual people all trying to 'look clever'.
Hats off to the engineering of this project, its genuinely a marvel and a testament to those involved. But that aside, this project is just one huge 'up yours' to the north of England. We'll be running diesel trains, which will get even slower and with more breakdowns as they age without replacement, for the next 50 years, because of all this.
There is an incredible amount of engineering done that most people don't see. This clearly isn't just a normal railway line. The tunnels, the viaducts etc. The biggest failure is not to get all this great stuff onto a TV documentary the public can fully understand the scale of the engineering.
All of this fantastic engineering and scale only made sense if it was a massive nationwide service, which now it is not. As it stands now this is like having a billion pound bus stop.
The Tories totally hung you guys out to dry on this one. Instead of TfL taking on the cost of upgrading its infrastructure, it's been rolled into the budget for this project. Instead of HS2 being a not-quite-central-city project, the design insisted it be precisely that, to ruinous cost. It's almost as though, from the outset, the project has been set up to fail disastrously so nobody proposes such a thing again. The final slap in the face being the sale of land. Good for you for trying to actually drag our network into the modern era.
Yes, superb engineering. And pretty much excellent work all along HS2. Shame at the dreadful top level - above the HS2 head - decisions, yoyo direction and lack of leadership. This was always going to be expensive - original budgets tweaked purely to get through the reviews - but so much wasted by Westminster's direction.
So will my great great great grandchildren get to use it or have to wait for it still? And will it cost them a kidney and an eye for a one way ticket or no?
32 miles of tunnels and vanity bridges are the reasons for the cost over run. HS2 is now half a job. The 20 million in the North have been ignored once again. HS2 is a white elelphant.
The 20 minutes saved by using this line are then wasted trying to struggle with luggage onto the already crowded Elizabeth Line. And why didn't HS2 continue from HS1?
Brilliant engineering, but developed countries like Japan and France builded high speed lines around the eighties and the nineties... We are struggling to build it on bloody 2023 when costs are much higher and UK economy is lower.
Much better if HS2 had stuck to the original plan and used the Acton-Northolt railway line to get from OOC to West Ruislip instead of digging the eye wateringly expensive tunnel. HS2, the gold plated railway that became unaffordable.
Lord Adonis should be personally billed for selecting the most absurdly expensive option that has led to the massive cost over-runs, if the system was for capacity, the fastest option was unnecessary.
Worst of it is, no one in Birmingham wanted to get to a London terminal that's out on the edge of central London 10 minutes quicker anyone. Literally, NO ONE in Birmingham, wants or gives a toss about HS2.
It's embarrassing that Indonesia has their high speed rail decided and complete all in the time we've been arguing and cancelling most of HS2. Wonder if Mexico can finish before us. UK a Nation where the railway was born so behind in comparison to the rest of the world. Cancelled the rest of South Wales line improvements as well. Shocking useless politics with lack of innovation and infrastructure investments in the rest of the country. Only ticking the boxes for London with Jubilee line and now Crossrail, expansion of DLR as well.
It is not about the UK can't build HSR. They're just really like financing "inefficient projects". The problem is soaring cost to the point the project will eventually turns into garbage that wouldn't generate any benefits toward affected people and profitability for any companies which getting involved in this project.
@@willsbrewery3518 HS2 didn't fail. A combination of 3 + years of COVID changing peoples travel needs and inflation caused by its fallout killed the business case. Personally I think the Government tried to appease too many people with hugely expensive tunnels and cut and cover. But whatever.... I note its not the first time you have been 'planked' 🤣
Used to enjoy these videos and everything this stood for until the whole point of it was rendered useless because of the government cancelling the most important part of this project.
When you see what groundbreaking engineering is going into HS2 you can see where the massive budget is going . I’d say it’s value for money … absolutely mind blowing 👏🏽👏🏽🧱🧱👍🏼
The point of HS2 was to 'uprate' the existing network. It would have enabled more frequent local and regional rail on the existing track by removing the high speed services and the fact that the inter-city services got faster is really a bonus.
@@ds1868 its like they started amputating your leg then stopped halfway through the bone and went home as its end of shift and tossed a pack of tissues at you on the way out! At least get it to Euston, surely there's a few rubles sloshing around the Londongrad laundromat that could be redistributed to a worthy cause?
@@ds1868 Also there is the disruption caused around Euston for the past few years with all the building works in readiness for HS2. Now its completely pointless and another waste of money.
@@DeeEfSeaWell most of it is cancelled now and the money diverted to ROADS!! so well done everyone who campaigned against it from an environment perspective (sarcasm).
£55 billion to reduce an 80 minute train journey to 36 minutes. And it doesn't even terminate in central London so ironically that additional connection could take just as long using the existing transport network. Has to be the biggest waste of public money since.....the last one.
The original intent was to shift passengers from the current lines so that it would free up capacity for more local trains and freight. But yes, the government have sabotaged it constantly only to give themselves an excuse to cut it back to near uselessness.
Over budget and over price engineering need to be canceled soon after they can't hit specific rational point. Public money is not easy money for stupid contractors. This is literally how the first world doing silent corruption.
@@ds1868 Dear god not someone else feeling the need to use the 'E' word. No this is not embarrassing at all. its amazing engineering and will make future projects better. The fact it all cost more than expected is not these lads fault. Maybe if they hadn't tried to protect the environment so much with tunnels and viaducts and green projects and just cut through on land it would have saved billions.
Why? What they are doing is advanced massive civil engineering. We should be proud of it. My personal view is they were made to dig too many tunnels like this.
@@CheshireTomcat68 That is a sop to Northern politicians. If it had been started in Manchester (which I actually believe it should have been to stop that political chat) it would have got to Birmingham and been stopped. Because the London to Birmingham phase was the hugely expensive part. At least what will be built will release more paths on the WCML than if it had been north of Birmingham. COVID and its economic and inflationary fallout killed this project regardless of where it had started.
It should never have been started, the government now admit its old technology. What a waste of time and money. But more importantly what a shame for the trees already lost.
It’s not even remotely old technology. Countries across Europe, Asia, and now Africa have built or are currently building HSR lines, with newer lines built to similar specifications. Honestly you should be more concerned for the trees that get felled for road construction projects instead.
Really, it's a sign that whatever the question is going to be, the interviewee already has his answer rehearsed and ready to roll. A tactic used by those who don't understand the whole subject, but know how to sound as though they do!
Brilliant work, just a terrible waste having the rest of the line cancelled. Must be soul destroying for all the workers.
Thats what happens when there is blatant corruption.
Don’t worry about it. Like most great projects like this when the first stage is a really big success the next stages that are currently on hold will be built out.
@@damonclark3473I hope you're right, although that mostly depends on whether safeguarding measures are kept on Phase 2 to protect the route
@@damonclark3473At a much higher cost to taxpayers 🙄
@@damonclark3473I really hope you’re right but they’ve already started selling the land they acquired
I still wish it went to Manchester and Leeds
It will be
I agree it should continue to Leeds and Manchester
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Did you dream this in colour?
Wonderful engineering. Shame the Government don't watch these videos as they would see the level of expertise we have with all these Civil Engineers which with the cancelling of the next stage of HS2 is at risk of this wonderful asset going to waste.
Britain doesn't need fast rail, slow trains are perfectly fine for this country.
It's not about speed, its about freeing up capacity on the existing routes so everyone benefits. Speed is just a natural consequence of having a railway designed for this age rather than the 19th century!
more videos more often please, this is excellent stuff
Intelligent way to reduce the temperature of the station!
WOW!, just incredible engineering 👌
Fantastic job. Brilliant engineering!
I agree! Wish I was an engineer on huge projects like this, but at 47 its too late to retrain to a new industry
Well done these two lads. great explanations of some advanced civil engineering. Good to see our young engineers are doing so well.
Shame about the usual negativity on here from the usual people all trying to 'look clever'.
Really well explained what’s being done and why. Thanks!
Very informative. Longer and more videos please.
Very impressive. Well done.
Hats off to the engineering of this project, its genuinely a marvel and a testament to those involved. But that aside, this project is just one huge 'up yours' to the north of England. We'll be running diesel trains, which will get even slower and with more breakdowns as they age without replacement, for the next 50 years, because of all this.
Well done Rob now an agent!!
There is an incredible amount of engineering done that most people don't see. This clearly isn't just a normal railway line. The tunnels, the viaducts etc. The biggest failure is not to get all this great stuff onto a TV documentary the public can fully understand the scale of the engineering.
excellent. thank you for sharing this key infrastructure development !
All of this fantastic engineering and scale only made sense if it was a massive nationwide service, which now it is not. As it stands now this is like having a billion pound bus stop.
Good video and the crossover box appears well manufactured. However just a small issue the Eiffel tower contains no steel - Puddle iron.
They’re referring to the quantity in magnitude, not tot the material.
Listen again He said steel@@TheFirstConcorde
The Tories totally hung you guys out to dry on this one. Instead of TfL taking on the cost of upgrading its infrastructure, it's been rolled into the budget for this project. Instead of HS2 being a not-quite-central-city project, the design insisted it be precisely that, to ruinous cost. It's almost as though, from the outset, the project has been set up to fail disastrously so nobody proposes such a thing again. The final slap in the face being the sale of land.
Good for you for trying to actually drag our network into the modern era.
You can appreciate where the money has been committed to, this job is a massive feat of engineering.
Kudos! Incredible engineering. I do hope you used a bit more steel than is in the Eiffel Tower.
Yes, superb engineering. And pretty much excellent work all along HS2. Shame at the dreadful top level - above the HS2 head - decisions, yoyo direction and lack of leadership. This was always going to be expensive - original budgets tweaked purely to get through the reviews - but so much wasted by Westminster's direction.
Sorry to see hs2 goes and will not be finished
Are the new trains going to utilise regen braking? That would reduce the heat and wear and tear on the braking systems and reduce particulates.
5:10 woah octopus
I thought they already started flattening the land for the phase 2? So that was all for nothing?
when are tbm,s going to start
So will my great great great grandchildren get to use it or have to wait for it still?
And will it cost them a kidney and an eye for a one way ticket or no?
Big props to the engineers and everyone working on the project. I'm sorry the political circus of our country has failed you.
I hope they cas switch to the Elizabeth line
❤🇱🇨!!!
Seems just a massive white elephant now
32 miles of tunnels and vanity bridges are the reasons for the cost over run. HS2 is now half a job. The 20 million in the North have been ignored once again. HS2 is a white elelphant.
whyd sunglasses :)
The 20 minutes saved by using this line are then wasted trying to struggle with luggage onto the already crowded Elizabeth Line. And why didn't HS2 continue from HS1?
Brilliant engineering, but developed countries like Japan and France builded high speed lines around the eighties and the nineties... We are struggling to build it on bloody 2023 when costs are much higher and UK economy is lower.
Much better if HS2 had stuck to the original plan and used the Acton-Northolt railway line to get from OOC to West Ruislip instead of digging the eye wateringly expensive tunnel.
HS2, the gold plated railway that became unaffordable.
That was never part of a plan. Just an idea some people who knew nothing wanted because they thought it would be cheaper, it wouldn't have been.
Why wear dark glasses?
It's cool… I guess, better to cover your face when you're involved in failed project
Seems over engineered for a new train line to Birmingham!
Unelected prime minister making a decision on longterm infrastructure projects that fit the current agenda is shocking
One of the worst prime ministers in history
So just Birmingham to London now, fabulous, all this expense to save 20 minutes? journey time.
All people needed to was set off 20 minutes earlier ….
Brilliant work but what a waste of time considering it's no longer going on. We could have finished the country. A single trip to Birmingham? Wow! 😂
Lord Adonis should be personally billed for selecting the most absurdly expensive option that has led to the massive cost over-runs, if the system was for capacity, the fastest option was unnecessary.
Should never have started in London should have gone north to south it would never have been cancelled until it reached London
With all our heat generated why is it not reused for heat pumps
Politics of a dying party has cost us a future of a renewed public transport system.
no video acknowledging the reduction of HS2 to a London-Birmingham service lol, just carrying on as if nothing happened haha
Worst of it is, no one in Birmingham wanted to get to a London terminal that's out on the edge of central London 10 minutes quicker anyone. Literally, NO ONE in Birmingham, wants or gives a toss about HS2.
It's embarrassing that Indonesia has their high speed rail decided and complete all in the time we've been arguing and cancelling most of HS2. Wonder if Mexico can finish before us. UK a Nation where the railway was born so behind in comparison to the rest of the world. Cancelled the rest of South Wales line improvements as well. Shocking useless politics with lack of innovation and infrastructure investments in the rest of the country. Only ticking the boxes for London with Jubilee line and now Crossrail, expansion of DLR as well.
It is not about the UK can't build HSR. They're just really like financing "inefficient projects".
The problem is soaring cost to the point the project will eventually turns into garbage that wouldn't generate any benefits toward affected people and profitability for any companies which getting involved in this project.
Manchester wants its tax money back . . .
what is a sub agent anyway? Is there an agent above a sub agent and then a set of directors above that? No wonder they ran out of cash!
I am sure you thought was really clever. But sadly it just made you look a plank. Especially as the detail these two lads gave was superb.
@@1chish was genuinely interested tbh but meh nice response anyway
Been a while since I've been called a plank though, plenty of those around now mind since HS2 has failed in spectacular fashion.
@@willsbrewery3518 HS2 didn't fail. A combination of 3 + years of COVID changing peoples travel needs and inflation caused by its fallout killed the business case.
Personally I think the Government tried to appease too many people with hugely expensive tunnels and cut and cover. But whatever....
I note its not the first time you have been 'planked' 🤣
@@1chish be brexit no doubt as well as that always needs to be mentioned
It's all now pointless 😢
If i press like, do I get a free pair of tax payers sunglasses in winter during a storm?
Used to enjoy these videos and everything this stood for until the whole point of it was rendered useless because of the government cancelling the most important part of this project.
When you see what groundbreaking engineering is going into HS2 you can see where the massive budget is going . I’d say it’s value for money … absolutely mind blowing 👏🏽👏🏽🧱🧱👍🏼
I thought they cancelled this silly malarkey. No high speed rail in Britain!
A total write off following the review.
shame its completely pointless and that money could have been used to uprate the entire rail network.
The point of HS2 was to 'uprate' the existing network. It would have enabled more frequent local and regional rail on the existing track by removing the high speed services and the fact that the inter-city services got faster is really a bonus.
It should never have been started. There's no case for it.
Absolutely disgraceful this ever went ahead!!
London to Birmingham that's it waste of money 👎🇬🇧
What's the fucking point ?
Complete waste of time and money to connect a London suburb to Birmingham
Is Euston a London suburb?
Its not going to Euston funding is not available, Rishi said they can't afford it without private money @@femboichik
@femboichik Euston isn't guaranteed. Old Oak Common is and that's 6 miles from central Lobdon.
@@ds1868 its like they started amputating your leg then stopped halfway through the bone and went home as its end of shift and tossed a pack of tissues at you on the way out!
At least get it to Euston, surely there's a few rubles sloshing around the Londongrad laundromat that could be redistributed to a worthy cause?
@@ds1868 Also there is the disruption caused around Euston for the past few years with all the building works in readiness for HS2. Now its completely pointless and another waste of money.
The Engineering is amazing just a shame about the environmental impact it has had.
It's actually going to help the environment by taking more cars and lorry freight off the roads
@@DeeEfSeaWell most of it is cancelled now and the money diverted to ROADS!! so well done everyone who campaigned against it from an environment perspective (sarcasm).
What else you wanna use? Wood piling?
*What a waste of money!*
HS2 the biggest waste of money this Country has ever spent
£55 billion to reduce an 80 minute train journey to 36 minutes. And it doesn't even terminate in central London so ironically that additional connection could take just as long using the existing transport network. Has to be the biggest waste of public money since.....the last one.
The original intent was to shift passengers from the current lines so that it would free up capacity for more local trains and freight.
But yes, the government have sabotaged it constantly only to give themselves an excuse to cut it back to near uselessness.
The purpose of HS2 is to increase capacity on the railway. The journey time reduction is a bonus.
Over budget and over price engineering need to be canceled soon after they can't hit specific rational point. Public money is not easy money for stupid contractors. This is literally how the first world doing silent corruption.
I think HS2 Ltd should keep their mouths shut and their heads down at this point...
I'm surprised they are still posting. Total embarrassment. No wonder the Chief Exec resigned. Jumping the sinking ship.
@@ds1868 Dear god not someone else feeling the need to use the 'E' word.
No this is not embarrassing at all. its amazing engineering and will make future projects better.
The fact it all cost more than expected is not these lads fault. Maybe if they hadn't tried to protect the environment so much with tunnels and viaducts and green projects and just cut through on land it would have saved billions.
Why? What they are doing is advanced massive civil engineering. We should be proud of it. My personal view is they were made to dig too many tunnels like this.
@@1chish If they had started at the North end, it would have been completed.
@@CheshireTomcat68 That is a sop to Northern politicians. If it had been started in Manchester (which I actually believe it should have been to stop that political chat) it would have got to Birmingham and been stopped. Because the London to Birmingham phase was the hugely expensive part. At least what will be built will release more paths on the WCML than if it had been north of Birmingham.
COVID and its economic and inflationary fallout killed this project regardless of where it had started.
It should never have been started, the government now admit its old technology. What a waste of time and money. But more importantly what a shame for the trees already lost.
It’s not even remotely old technology. Countries across Europe, Asia, and now Africa have built or are currently building HSR lines, with newer lines built to similar specifications. Honestly you should be more concerned for the trees that get felled for road construction projects instead.
Says "so" a lot. Usually a sign of not really understanding.
Really, it's a sign that whatever the question is going to be, the interviewee already has his answer rehearsed and ready to roll. A tactic used by those who don't understand the whole subject, but know how to sound as though they do!