That's fine thanks just footage with no area reference needed from me

Bromford Tunnel not Bramford

so so biggist white elephant ever London to Birmingham might save you 20 mins

Trillions?

@@paulcgburrows7267 40 mins sunshine, get it right ;-)

@@paulcgburrows7267 If you think that why are you doing a vidio on it, and it saves 40 mins each way from Birmingham to London not 20 mins bringing the time down from 90 mins to 50 mins

Thank you kindly

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Glad you enjoyed it

It was Richard only 15 of us it was full on mental one of Ashby,s biggest ever events to date .................and we are go for 25 m8

Sorry about music not my choice either

No Washwood Heath is durectly below the picture, what you are looking at is Saltley Viaduct and in the Distace are parts of Saltley and Birmingham City Centre

No it is Saltley and Saltley Viaduct with the Birminggham to Derby line at far right following the route of the Spine road, I live near here and travel on our local Bus Services past here regularily, buttom left is the Saltley Trading Estate and past Saltley Viaduct is wehere the old Saltley Engine Sheds were. This Viaduct and the one before it Aston Church Road are due to be replaced by steel structures shortly

Not about Speed per se but putting long distance Inter City traffic onto a dedicated line to free up capacity on the existing routes. IMO HS2 should have traversed the Whole of England following the Line of the Pennines north of Birmingham with branches off West to Liverpool and Manchester, Carlisle and Glasgow, East to Nottingham, Hull/York and Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. It should have extended North to the Central Belt of Scotland (at least). The original concept was minimalist to say the very least. The lies pedalled by @stophs2 were outrageous. Deutsche Bundesbahn got it right in the 1980s/90s by building the North-South Route (Hamburg- ) Hannover - Fulda - Würzburg - Nürnberg (- München) which has allowed extensive expansion of local and City-rail services along the Route.

@@JohnLavender i agree, absolutely.

To be exact the time saving on HS2 will amount to at least 40 mins both ways not 20 mins as you state.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Oh good heavens people! Is it not clear that I am making a jibe against an utterly hopeless government that should be covering the country in futuristic transportation networks but can only imagine a new stretch from London to Birmingham, an already relatively well served route?

@@teebeedahbow Well then it seems you haven't done your reserch on HS2, the reason it is being built is because yhey have tried twice now to upgrade the West Coast Mainline from Crewe to London Euston and failed twice causing wide spread disruption, cancellations and temporay closure of the line leadin to the only alternative to build a new Hi speed line known as HS2 which will allow Inter City trains to trvel at 225 mph and free up capacity on the existing WCML for other passenger services and freight trains and the WCML route out of Birmingham is on two tracks used by multiple Train Companies and a speed of arround 90 MPH, yes there are two routes to London from Birmingham, one from B/Hsm Snow Hill o London Marylebone by Chilton Trains taking arround 2 hours and the WCML service out of a congested Birmingham New Street Station that take 90 mins, HS 2 is replacing this service and will take 50 mis from Birmingham to London

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

It is Hams Hall on the edge of Coleshill and Water Orton, HS2 goes no where near Kingsbury which is 6 miles away from this spot

@@peterwilliamallen1063 perhaps google HS2 Kingsbury compound because that’s where you was flying 😂

@@buzzindrones Actually I live in the area and try looking on Google Earth, this depot is no where near Kingsbury Villiage, it on Kingsbury Road, Marston nearer Hams Hall to be precise

​@peterwilliamallen1063 it's barely a mile from kingsbury water park, so about 2 miles from kingsbury village, off the a4097 kingsbury road. I drive past it all the time and wouldn't call it hams hall, thats more a446 Coleshill way. What's the official name of the site?

@@garthcox4307 But sorry to say it is not KINGSBURY, try looking at Kinsbury villiage there is no sighn of this site, it is more nearer to Hms Hall and yes I do live locally

Blimey that's a fact thank for likeing the short

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.

So is Birmingham mentioned in the Doomsday Book like many ld towns and Villiages

Coleshill is old but Curdworth is the oldest recorded settlement in the West Midlands 😉

@@leftmono1016 not the point...so much history being destroyed for the sake of a white elephant

@@leftmono1016 Both Coleshill and Curdworth are not technicaly in the West Midlands, they are in Warwickshire. The term West Midlands is a new term for an area set up in 1971 which was the West Midlands Metropolitan area which Borders up to Warwickshire Staffordshire and Worcestershire the whole area being called the Midlands. I live in Birminghm West Midlands and at Water Orton you leave the West Midlands and enter the County of Warwickshire where both Coleshill and Curdworth are and also Birmingham also known as Bermingham or Beomingaham goes right back to before Anglo Saxon times and was mentioned in the Doomsday Book as being worth £1.00

@@darrin2382 - I don’t disagree on that.

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

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

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.

Think they are !

Yes, they're for the delta junction. Each segment takes around 26m3 concrete. If you look at 0.10 secs, bottom of the screen there is a yellow concrete pump. We discharge the concrete into there and it is pumped under the ground to the segment factory. I think it's approx 8000 segments being made.

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!

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

@@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

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

@@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

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

Good job only a few people thought the same about the London to Birmingham Railway in the 1830s! HS2 will go all the way to Manchester.

God James you punative muttering arises again, it is moving on in leaps and bounds and you did not nswer the last essage I sent you that they are now about to start boring the railwy tunnels from London OOC to Euston ready foe when they strat building Euston HS2 station. Compared to the rest of your past cooments you sound very subdued or has your medication run out. When HS2 is up and running what other rubbish are you going to moane about.

​@@peterwilliamallen1063on the contrary, I replied to your tunnel boring comment in great detail .. maybe a trip to Specsavers is required!

@@CRIMSONANT1 Well like some comments on You tube it never arrived, !!

@@peterwilliamallen1063 .. More embarrassment! A new HQ for the Government’s flagship “Great British Railways” (GBR) body will open in Derby tomorrow - just as the UK’s biggest train factory in the city faces closure. Less than a mile from the site where the organisation is opening its interim base, the Alston train factory is on the brink of being closed after failing to fill an 18-month gap in its orders & before it has even made a single HS2 train!

So whats your problem mate

It will also take lorries off the road

I have a caa commercial licence A2C of C all rules in order ,visual line of sight kept with a strode fitted to be safe under 400 feet thanks for asking 😀

Just to mention back In 2009 a in ception we were under a labour government Mr Brown

It can't go underground in Birmingham as the site being used is in the City Centre and on the surface and would of cost more and taken longer to build, also the station is not all on a viaduct most being on the ground most of the viaduct is to bring the line in over other railway lines comming into Birmingham, Birmingham has got Better, a brand new state of the art terminal station to complment Birmingham New Street Station

Thanks for the sub!