High Speed 1: The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL)

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- In the previous video, we talked about the Channel Tunnel which represents the first and only physical connection of continental Europe and Great Britain.
Now, we continue this series with the story about the high-speed rail line connecting the Channel Tunnel and London.
A proposal for a high-speed line similar to those in continental Europe was recognized by policymakers in Great Britain as early as 1971. However, the construction of the line was not authorized by the Parliament next two and a half decades, until the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act from 1996.
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link was later rebranded as High Speed 1, which is the name by which this project is well-known to the public today.
It is quite interesting in general, but especially from the perspective of planning, procurement of works, issues with financing, and organization and restructuring of concessionaire (London & Continental Railways) - which has all been discussed in detail in this video.
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@Notthecobracommander 3 жыл бұрын

It took a while but we got there eventually. Less than 3 hours from London to Paris is a very good time and faster than using the airports. Not to mention the view from the window excluding the tunnels of course.

@raphaelamor 3 жыл бұрын

I have travelled many times on the Eurostar before as well as after the opening of the HS 1. It was like day and night. Before the opening the train never travelled anything remotely close to 160 km/h. In fact, I do not think it even reached 100 Km/h (60 mph). It literally crawled through south London!! After opening one just flies through the Kent countryside as in Europe - Amazing and wonderful.

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

We are now working on a video on the effects of the Eurotunnel and HS1. We will try to show this comment of yours through facts and figures.

@matpk 3 жыл бұрын

@@RailwaysExplained Just get HS2 done by 2023

@FabianEason 3 жыл бұрын

It reached 100mph briefly between sevenoaks and tonbridge southbound only due to the gradient, then for a decent stretch between tonbridge and ashford, and then again between ashford and sandling. Acceleration was painfully slow. Eurostar is so smooth at those speeds it might not have felt like 100mph.

@marlbankian 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing that anything gets built

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

You are right.

@bokhans 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t they give the money to their donors instead?

@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 3 жыл бұрын

Ironic that the UK invented the railways but had to get the French to help them get into the high speed era.

@josef596 2 жыл бұрын

The people with the brains that made our country great are long gone.

@cameroncook2048 11 ай бұрын

That is completely not true. Britain started high-speed rail services 5 years before France's.

@KingFinnch Ай бұрын

@@cameroncook2048entirely depends on what you call high speed: 186mph is widely considered the minimum for high speed, but the UK was the first to reach 125mph, and 140mph

@JamesBD05 25 күн бұрын

Just an English thing. We invent, and let others tinker and improve.

@wishywish025 3 жыл бұрын

UK Gov : Let's not spend taxpayer's money to build national infrastructure Also UK Gov : Let's use that taxpayer's money to bail out private companies that mismanaged their risks Still UK Gov : Let's sell those nationalised infrastructure so that pension funds could get their returns *sighs in the sound of trains*

@enemyofthestatewearein7945 2 жыл бұрын

TLDR; let's hide our national debt in the private sector, it worked for Enron didn't it? :D On the plus side, Tony Blair will surely go down in history as the greatest UK leader ever, in continuing this ideological screw-up to the point that the lie was no longer sustainable and even the Tories seem to have abandoned it...

@iman2341 3 жыл бұрын

Good lord. “Unacceptable” for the UK gov to spend public money on public transport infrastructure. I do despair at this country sometimes.

@weenisw 3 жыл бұрын

It’s ok, if you’re ever frustrated just look to the USA and you’ll feel much better

@francishuddy9462 5 ай бұрын

@@weenisw USA Evil Empire spends $Trillions (of fake money) on weapons ... not railways!

@dzaki8331 3 жыл бұрын

I love how all of your videos always have subtitle

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ☺️

@MATTY110981 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I use to live in St. Pancras and HS1 completely changed the area mainly for the positive

@FabianEason 3 жыл бұрын

Correction regards tunnels - the downs tunnel has a speed limit of 300km/h, the Ashford one is 270km/h. Only the London tunnels on phase 2 have a significant top speed reduction to 230km/h.

@lindavainomae3489 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another informative video - I had no idea how complex the history of the HS1 is. I love your videos - a must for rail fans! :)

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@viewwwwer 3 жыл бұрын

Just another example of continental Europe's positive influence on the UK.

@ZRHTrainspotter 3 жыл бұрын

Now gone thanks to brexit

@KasabianFan44 3 жыл бұрын

But of course the British had to screw it up because “ew, immigrants”.

@MTNLproductions 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@grahamsmith9541 3 жыл бұрын

@@ZRHTrainspotter Not gone still in use mainly by service other than Eurostar.

@ZRHTrainspotter 3 жыл бұрын

@@grahamsmith9541 yes but brexit ruined it

@rexsoloman6874 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know the history of this line, so this whole video as the project kept going into the 2000s I was worried that the line would be delayed by the GFC. I was actually getting kinda tense toward the end until you said the line was finished in 2007, just before the GFC. 😄 I felt like I was listening to a story. Informative video though.

@MrSvatantra 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir, It was very informative video. Please do continue your endeavours. Regards from India.

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@rahadityap2375 2 жыл бұрын

Ironic the LGV Nord, A france high speed rail line connect paris to the channel tunnel rail link are cost just €1.9 bilion for 333 km long and constructed in just 4 years from 1989 to 1993 and the line was already planned since 1983 While in other hand, High Speed 1 with just 100 km link that already planned since 1970 are need for almost 20 years for planning and aproval by British Parliament while construction was commenced on 1994 aproved by british parliament, initial that line will be operational on 1997, and then cause the project to much intervents by corrupt politician, Many times it was suspended and the line was opened on 2007 and entirely are completed on 2010 and it cost over £9.3 bilion alone or almost 40 years to operate by just one damn line

@unjustifiablyneglectedtopi8293 3 жыл бұрын

Good job Railways Explained! 👏

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks UNT 😊

@Trainviking 3 жыл бұрын

As always, a great video.

@francishuddy9462 5 ай бұрын

At 8' 15" and 8' 30" that is unmistakably Tonbridge railway station, Kent.

@mattevans4377 3 жыл бұрын

And then the UK government took all the credit for the achievement, despite dragging their feet during the project......

@dibujodecroquis1684 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Keep up the work!

@peterrobinson6872 3 жыл бұрын

The contractual and financial aspects of HS1 could have been dealt with quite thoroughly in less than 2 minutes. It should not have made up the bulk of the story.

@FromtheWindowSeat 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting - thanks!

@ironmantrains 3 жыл бұрын

By the way HS1 isn't the first railway built in Britain in over 100 years, nor is it Britain's first high-speed railway, that title belongs to the Selby Diversion. Gareth Dennis has made a #RailNatter proving why HS1 is not Britain's first high-speed railway. Also when the original plans for the CTRL were drawn up the line would've gone through the south and into Waterloo. Also the CTRL was meant to have 8 through platforms built underneath Kings Cross station allowing trains to go from Paris and Brussels to London, Birmingham, Manchester and beyond. 4 platforms were intended for Eurostars, 2 for Network SouthEast domestic high-speed services (the planned predecessor to today's Javelins) and 2 for Thameslink.

@Tealice1 3 жыл бұрын

Not entirely correct. Yeah, HS1 was, of course not the first railway built after one hundred years of stagnation, I don't quite get what was meant by that. Maybe it was referring to main lines, though I'm not quite sure if that's true. But the Selby Diversion is definitely not a high-speed railway. Because, according to Wikipedia, it's maximum permissible speed is only about 200 km/h which is 50 kmh/h short of being considered high-speed.

@ironmantrains 3 жыл бұрын

@@Tealice1 I'd say it fits in the 'upgraded existing main line' category of high-speed, because existing main lines upgraded to 200km/h or more are considered 'fast' or high speed to some degree, but not dedicated high speed. However, the majority of trains using the Selby Diversion are express trains.

@ironmantrains 3 жыл бұрын

@@Tealice1 Also what you need to bear in mind is that when the Selby Diversion was built, the only other high speed lines in existence were the Shinkansen and the LGV Sud-Est. The Selby Diversion was built as a non-electrified high speed line, as at the time the IC125s were the high speed trains of Britain. The thing that most people forget is that the HST is diesel powered, not electric. That's where the Selby Diversion initially carved out a niche for itself.

@Tealice1 3 жыл бұрын

@@ironmantrains I don't see why it should be considered a upgraded line. As far as I know it was built from the ground up and did not follow any existing route. Even then it would just barely pass as high speed. But if you insist, I think there is argument to be made about the intended use, which was indeed, to serve as a high speed line.

@ironmantrains 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tealice1 The alignment was actually built for 270km/h operations so while it's not happening today it's still a high speed railway. Also the Selby Diversion was built to divert the high-speed ECML away from Selby where coal mining would've meant speed restrictions for the then new HSTs in operation, totally undoing all of the new benefits that they brought to the ECML.

@seandelabear9632 3 жыл бұрын

Well done... Great as always ;)

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ☺️

@oerrukhsfgkh1612 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@dawydd8421 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always and finaly i get why HS2;)

@adamwnt 3 жыл бұрын

been following you for a couple of months and decided to subscribe, your work is very accurate and insightful, keep doing what you're doing and can't wait for more. Greetings from Poland. Ps: I believe you are a Slav like me judging by your accent (your English is excellent btw). Just a curiosity. Anyways, thumbs up my friend 👍🏻

@Tealice1 3 жыл бұрын

They (the three guys working on Railways Explained) are, as far as I know, all from Serbia.

@adamwnt 3 жыл бұрын

@@Tealice1 thanks for replying 👍🏻

@atmajadipha2144 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing work man. but Can you make video detail about how freight train work at euro tunnel. I mean like what freight train can be use at eurotunnel, wagon, locomotif from UK to Euro.

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

We are now working on a video on the effects of the Eurotunnel, HS1 and TGV through facts and figures about traffic performance. You can expect that video soon on our channel.

@jlracerzz1329 3 жыл бұрын

will you be making a video about HS2?

@RailwaysExplained 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, HS2 will be soon

@jermainetrainallen6416 3 жыл бұрын

Great video about a great feat of engineering in the UK. I can't wait for the HS2 (High Speed 2) video. You could also do another video on HS3 or Northern Powerhouse Rail as it's often called.

@Difdauf 2 жыл бұрын

"Great feat of engineering" ? did you really look the video, looks like a massive failure of mismanagement to me.

@mattw9764 3 жыл бұрын

The madness of neoliberal funding and infrastructure project management.

@Parthochatt 3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys can you make a video on how railway lines are designed for certain speed ? Like some lines are designed for 200 km/h, some are designed for 300 km/h so what are the differences in design of tracks or other things that bring about this speed increasw

@oerrukhsfgkh1612 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@johngordon1175 Жыл бұрын

If implemented correctly railways are safer and quicker for moving a significant amount of people around the world, the main inhibitors would be governmental or financial on behalf of a small group of people.

@ceapalata 3 жыл бұрын

Same protests on hs2... :)))

@cliffwoodbury5319 3 жыл бұрын

with the conpletion of HS2 and other future HS projects there will be increases in ridership at the completion of every project

@chiuwong4057 3 жыл бұрын

your video is great, but i would expect some more mention on the engineering and operational aspects, rather than heavily on contractual und organisational ones.

@francishuddy9462 5 ай бұрын

There's no way any train on the old Folkestone to London railway ever reached speeds higher than 70mph. Impossible. Forget any nonsense about 100mph between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge. What, 100mph passing through Dunton Green, and Hildenborough stations??

@TheWarrior1256 3 жыл бұрын

noice

@FallOfTheLiving 3 жыл бұрын

Holy clusterfuck batman

@AndrewG1989 3 жыл бұрын

And HS2 will also be 300km/h once completed.

@jermainetrainallen6416 3 жыл бұрын

HS2 will actually be built to 360kph standards and it will be possible to upgrade it to 400kph but the trains will operate at 330kph routinely.

@herlescraft 2 жыл бұрын

Hs2 is a nice project... Maybe too nice, I'm all for gradual improvements rather than building everything at once as you run the risk of delaying everything if something has problems

@xerexon2k 2 жыл бұрын

hard to believe the UK gov is working for their citizens.

@pedrofelippe8716 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a reason why the channel tunnel has a speed limit? I'd like to know why.

@CreatorPolar 2 жыл бұрын

Mostly for safety, a train going 300km/h in a lonely undersea tunnel having an accident wouldn’t be good publicity for your new shiny train line

@herlescraft 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the resources needed to make a long tunnel with 300km/h infrastructure Don't justify the reduced trip time or capacity, in Italy and France the Turin-lyon project if I'm not mistaken is either 200 or 250km/h and it's new

@grahamsmith9541 3 жыл бұрын

This video is false in that it creates the impression that HS1 is just for Eurostar. It is used by more Southeastern high speed Javelin trains per hour than Eurostar trains. It is also used by freight trains.

@MrJimheeren 3 жыл бұрын

You didn’t watch the whole video didn’t you

@grahamsmith9541 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrJimheeren yes. What makes you think I didn't?

@grahamsmith9541 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrJimheeren I have just rewatched the video. Freight is briefly mentioned at 3:38. At 5:24 it mentions having to mix with commuter trains. Showing normal southeastern commuter trains To or from Charing Cross/Victoria. That can only run on the 750V DC third rail. Not the 25KV AC overhead HS1 system. Eurostar did not mix with those once HS1 opend fully. As I said in my first comment no mention of the Southeastern Javelin trains. That use HS1 to and from St.Pancras International. According to Office of Rail and Road data. For the year 2019/2020. There were 55,090 timetabled Southeastern Javelin services on HS1 to or from St.Pancras International. But only 17,594 timetabled Eurostar trains.

@Mocha-hy3sd 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry may I know sir ....Is there any high speed train network which is conecting major cities in UK, such as from London to Edinburg/Glasgow/Birmingham/Leeds/Wales etc, thank you

@1001speedster Жыл бұрын

They're actually constructing it at the moment, it's called High Speed 2

@56independent42 16 күн бұрын

@@1001speedster well barely and they seem to be listening only to those against it

@trock7542 2 жыл бұрын

Why does everybody think High Speed Rail is so great if it’s not financially sustainable? I think High Speed rail is awesome technology but if its nit financially viable then it’s like an illusion…

@herlescraft 2 жыл бұрын

American freeways aren't financially viable either but almost nobody points this out. Infrastructure as a whole is there to induce demand, one can try to reduce expenses by good planning but if the aim is to connect places and disincentives the use of cars it can be pushed in to unprofittability if the results are deemed worth it

@trock7542 2 жыл бұрын

@@herlescraft very tru