Birmingham's HS2, Coleshill area looking towards curdworth ,wishaw sorry it's silent

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3 ай бұрын

The HS2 railway then moves into a tunnel emerging east of the A452, before heading south at Castle Vale towards London.  Within Birmingham, we will be building one tunnel at Bromford, two viaducts at Saltley and the River Tame, and a major depot at Washwood Heath. Three more viaducts through Digbeth and the new HS2 Curzon Street

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@Daniel-S1 3 ай бұрын

Thanks + it would be interesting to see Coleshill railway station in relation to these works and the surrounding area so anyone travelling from Coleshill to Brum could have some perspective.

@carguyuk7525 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting to see construction. Shame we wont see trains for a long time.

@garthcox4307 2 ай бұрын

I'm dreading the M42 road closures when they span the motorway. Living near the triangle plus the junction where the truncated east mids section will still be started, there are HS2 roadworks in all directions. Ill be gutted if the truncated east mids spur goes into Kingsbury water park, a lot of damage for nothing. The plans still appear to show that as this phase. The M42 is something like 12 lanes at that point, it will take some bridging!

@ncooper8438 2 ай бұрын

Any stats on the number of local people currently employed on the project? My guess is there won't be many due to the use of large civil engineering contract firms.

@user-gj7ew2sm5u 2 ай бұрын

Only got to wait another 10 years for a train. Great

@carguyuk7525 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately you are probably right. It's certainly not going to be open this side of 2032. What government sponsored project is ever on time and on budget, let alone offering value to the tax payer.

@willhemmings 2 ай бұрын

Drone footage of this project has the look of distress, of something crying out for help

@curtisducati 2 ай бұрын

What a MESS ! UK building omg , for a train we don't want or need , too many backhanders to the Tories I think to get the contract

@garthcox4307 2 ай бұрын

@curtisducati it takes strength to cancel a project when circumstances change. Continuing was a sign of weakness and possibly brown envelopes too!

@garthcox4307 2 ай бұрын

In my view they should have spent the money upgrading and reopening railways across the whole country, the contractors would atill get work and there would be more benefit. Madness! It would have cost peanuts relatively to reopen the great central as say a 100mph freight route if capacity is the issue.

@tommcmanamon8327 3 ай бұрын

32 miles of tunnels and vanity bridges through the home counties are the reason why this project is so over budget. HS2 is only HALF a job. The 20 million in the North have been ignored again. Levelling up in the this country is a JOKE.

@gorgu08 3 ай бұрын

Perfectly true it is like an episode of yes minister where they tunnel through the countryside and build overground in the cities apart from London ofcourse, lol pathetic!

@peterwilliamallen1063 2 ай бұрын

No it is the NIMBY people of the Cotswolds that forced this situation.

@gorgu08 2 ай бұрын

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I think we are saying the same thing the south gets the gold plated solution to keep them sweet and the north pays for it with. A cancelled project

@curtisducati 2 ай бұрын

Ends at Birmingham hahaha like the Brummies can afford a ticket at £250 each way lol

@peterwilliamallen1063 2 ай бұрын

@@curtisducati Who has said it will be £250 each way, you by the sounds of it as no fare prices have been announced yet and people who use Avanti West Coast train service on the West Coast route to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland won't have much choice but use HS2 trains as 99% of the Avanti West Coast Hi speed train services from these places will be using the HS2 route and not the existing WCML route and it does not end in Birmingham just the Birmingham spur and trains for the North will carry on to Handsacre in Staffordshire where they will join the WCML and sorry to disapoint you but there are loads of well off people living in Birmingham just the fact is you know didly squatt about Birmingham

@bommer2 3 ай бұрын

When HS2 was agreed to by Govt I doubt they had any idea of the enormous scale of the project.

@curtisducati 2 ай бұрын

I bet the Tories got millions in backhanders to get the contract ...

@user-gj7ew2sm5u 2 ай бұрын

Apparently it's cost every tax payer 2k each once they have spent 71 million

@paulcgburrows7267 2 ай бұрын

Blimey that's a fact thank for likeing the short

@normansmart7502 2 ай бұрын

Total waste of money only the very rich or business people will be able to afford the prices

@peterwilliamallen1063 Ай бұрын

No HS2 will be for ordinary pasengers as all hi speed services currently travelling on the present WCML will when HS2 opens be trvelling on HS2 at these trains will transfer to the HS2 route

@michalstepanek9155 3 ай бұрын

Wasting of money, train tickets are already insanely expensive, trains are unreliable, constant strikes. What a joke. They should use the money to sort out first normal trains and then go for high speed.