@@StephenWalker42 that was quite the adventure!

Oops I was a bit out with the time as in the Time Tunnel you can lose a year or two, but there we go the final chunk of segment is in thanks to Fred 😂😂😂.... and Billy...

Great lateral thinking there Dave, especially for a man of your age!! Haha

@@PetertheRock. Thanks, dear. By my back-of-a-Rizla-packet reckoning I've got ten years on you, Lord Rock. So let's have less of the ageist jibes, if you wouldn't mind 😄

Cycle Path Guy strikes again. Put a sock in it, mate. We heard you the first time. Go back to climbing motorway gantries or combing Swampy's hair. What's left of it.

@@DaveFiggley Good one Dave

@@thorley1969 Ha. I thought so. I wonder why it's been bounced?

Thank you for following us Domimiquers....we will keep on keeping on.....

Many thanks for the mention! I'll do my best!

Thank you, Carlos, it has been fun and interesting, I love the interesting tube content.....if you are on Facebook join us,,, use the link in the comments...

February 2025 the MV Dali is back at sea after repairs...

Thank you Carlos, I do enjoy my visits, and am privileged to record the process for others to see...

February 2025 the MV Dali is back at sea after repairs...

It's the American accent, it should be the Dali....

Just a joke. Don't take it personally.

@@JoeLinux2000 I hear you, but Baltimore is very thin skinned after so many years of being a Step Child to the arrogance of Washington DC.

Yes, agreed, I hope posting it up to Utube will preserve it...

I also take a interest in Wikipedia and hope to be able to contribute photos to that soon....

HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Oh, is that Fred on the 🔵 blue 🍒 cherry picker...😊

Thanks Dave, yes that pier doesn't look strong enough to take a strong wind as they have in Hong Kong, you must have been scary for Dominique to be put through that...😊

Hi Peter, thanks for the comments, I do know that the breaking force of the trains if they have to reduce speed has to be resisted by the viaduct, so the two pairs either side of the canal, 20 and 19 are designed to do that....

What a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. Within a decade of opening (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), this concrete monstrosity will be nothing more than a glorified cycle path. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

@@CRIMSONANT1 Some evidence to support your contention would have been handy. The hyperbolic '50 years time' in particular could have been usefully justified.

​@@SWRural-fk2ub.. what was originally planned as a "green, high speed" railway to link the South with the North & beyond has now been reduced to nothing more than a shuttle service between west London & Birmingham .. fact. Look at Euston station .. put "on hold" for two years & will only be completed if private investment can be found & even if that happens, won't become operational until at least 2041. The blatant corruption within HS2 Ltd that's recently been exposed has revealed that the public & the government have been lied to since day one of this disastrous white elephant. Senior executives shredded documents & used totally misleading projections to ensure billions of pounds kept flowing into the project. Whistleblowers claim they were told by bosses to lie about the project’s cost & were sacked after speaking out. They say the government wasn't informed of the real cost of HS2 all while voting on laws that approved its construction. Arguments that the WCML is "full to capacity" rely on a discredited, out of date forecasting model which overestimates long distance passenger growth & isn't used for anything anymore except to justify the monstrous vanity project that is HS2. Network Rail's "New Lines Programme Capacity Analysis" shows that WCML capacity is kept artificially low by private operators wanting to maximise profits. A DfT analysis shows that in peak hours leaving Euston, WCML trains were loaded at just 52.2%. Then there's the environment .. are you aware that HS2 Ltd have already incurred numerous fines for multiple breaches of environmental issues? Thousands of trees planted along the route in Warwickshire where the vast majority perished because of a lack of aftercare. The pollution of streams, rivers & other waterways with toxic chemicals. The bulldozing of mile upon mile of hedgerows containing nesting birds when they specifically promised to wait until the nesting season was over.. the list goes on. This disaster of a railway should NEVER have been given the go-ahead as it's been nothing but a cash cow since day one & continues to be so.

Thanks Peter for the comment, interesting questions, as we live in the UK the engineers don't have to worry about hot and cold weather, we just call it rubbish, weather and will result in minimum expansion and contraction...

I think the glue is part of the sticky problem of keeping the joint water tight, it forms a bond between the team of glue boys,white boiler suited heroes, Bostik Bob, BlueTack Ben, Loctite Larry and Gorilla Glue George....

Thank you SIMONC, I hope I haven't ruined the Mystique of Dominique..😊 The Hayes workshop manual was fun to do..👍👍👍...

We are certainly grateful for this amazing piece of engineering that has made the Colne Valley Viaduct possible to build. Thanks....

"ov"? the word is spelt "of". or are you trying to be hip and cool like the kids, while indulging in your train spotting hobby?

Yes I'm sure it will, it's an interesting mix of old and new engineering.....

This launching girder is circa 20 years old and was used in Hong Kong and Saudi prior to this project. It was shipped over.

It is going to stop. At Birmingham.

HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

yes, it is indeed going to stop at Birmingham, and at the other end, Old Oak Common. which means it'll be no quicker to get anywhere than it already takes to get anywhere! what a fantastic use of all our public money 👏

Yep! It's incredible.

Glad you enjoyed this, it is an amazing piece of kit, thanks for watching...

Thanks Peter, I just turned up and it was fortunate that they opened up the canal so I had a good view. So we now know that it moves after the 2 sections have been put on the pier and secured.....

Always a pleasure to see this, Steve!

Thank you for your kind comments, it is a piece of engineering history.... We have a Facebook group called the Colne Valley Collective if you are interested in the process and history of the Colne Valley....

Thank you for your comments, the whole cycle can take up to a week so I have not been able to do that, the contractors Aline would have had a good opportunity to do that time lapse thing when Dominique went past their site office in Moorhall Road last year, so we will see.

Agree, would be good to see an animation of some sort.

I have set up a Facebook group to share information on the viaduct.....facebook.com/groups/932647518871671/

Thanks for your comments, yes they do have to grout a small gap to each span. They also glue each segment to the last.... which is amazing.... It's taken me over 6 months to understand the process. I will post a link to a technical blog by the Permanent Way institute that Is interesting...