Hi Peter the Rock, Enjoying your videos. I was at the site today, Wednesday 5th June and the 'London ' end of Dominique is now on the landward pier with the next segment ready loaded to place. I visited 'all' your vantage points to take my own photos and spotted the car in the lane...a fisherman I presume. Also went to the 'traffic lights'. The lights automatically changed as I approached from the North side but I had to press the button on the South side for the lights to change to green. Having said all of that I have to say that good as all the videos and photos are they do not do justice to the amazing sights of Dominique and the viaduct approaches. I would urge any of your subscribers / viewers to get down there as soon as possible as I don't thick that Dominique will be in place for much longer.

The start of the video where it says "dogs must be on a lead" is quite apt considering the amount of lost dogs there seems to be around there. The whole structure does look really impressive now these sections have been built, it reminds me of the M25 bridge in Chorleywood where you can stand underneath it which you indeed did in one of your videos. Im sure the centrfugal force on the bridge must be enormous when the trains go over it. Im sure this spot will forever be called Peter the Rock span.

Impressive indeed, well worth what ever it costs 🏁

Yes Peter great fun. Eventually when the two traffic lights become obsolete or misused, and removed along with the GUC "duck feeding" perch and roadway, will then your Southern access to Dominique peering be curtailed. I surmise the only other Southern viewing would be by passenger on nearby non-HS 100mph trains "hurtling" by on the old line to the south ? So these may be the last languidly days sneeking about slowly under Dominique's skirts; she will be a fond memory now enshrined here. Thank You what viewing pleasure for us train afficionado. You are solidly our well grounded man on the scene.

Impressive structure and impressive engineering.

Flattered, Sir Rock of Uxbridge 👍 I think Dews Lane should be your next port of call. You'll get a great view from there as the Dom comes in to land. The Hillingdon Outdoor Activity Centre is still open for deliveries so disguise yourself as a delivery bloke. Tuck a canoe under your arm or something. Keep 'em coming.

The camera sees you and everything else as an object. It is programmed to change the lights if it sees a moving object above a certain size. Although you are a moving object, you do not satisfy the size criteria, and therefore the lights do not change. On the subject of nights at the equator: 'Been there and yes; it gets dark between 6 and 7 PM every day, as well as getting light between 6 and 7 AM every morning. The segment has notches down the side because it is a Spanish segment; as in "buenos notches". By the accent you used I'd say that it was designed in Somerset... Cornwall even. - The West Country residents must have been overjoyed to find that there was, at long last, work available in their area.

At the crossing of the Grand Union canal we see the buttress piers each side of the canal these act as shock absorbers and spread the load of the trains if they have to break from 185 mph, this load on the viaduct could be up to 9,000 tonnes horizontally... From the HS2 big book.....

Money invested for the future and spent on skilled workmen and women.