Argh, the "unaffordable ticket" mythology that has failed the Stop HS2 narrative time after time. Problem is more of a product actually generally leads to lower prices not higher ones.

I will.!

I can't tell if you've been misled or are actively trying to mislead, but that's a ridiculous straw man. HS2 is where all the long-distance trains are going to be moved from the WCML, meaning a far, far greater availability of seats for the current passengers (and those currently put off by prices and overcrowding). It's not going to be some kind of premium option running alongside the status quo.

it would be an interesting watch _ no doubt hs2 will do something but it'll be their very short video as usual _ something with some more detail would be good

April it gets pushed into position

As it's right next to Stoneleigh Park is it something to do with that, perhaps incorporating a road bridge and farm access either side, one bridge instead of three in close proximity??

It’s referred to as a “green overbridge” on the DfT drawings website, that means there’s a road down the middle and a continuous green strip either side for wildlife to cross the HS2 cutting. There are a few other examples of wide crossings combining roads and green strips, such as at Turweston and Calvert.

⁠@@Paul_707have you got a link to the Dft website. I struggle to find stuff about HS2 infrastructure projects.

@@badwolf506 sorry I didn’t see your reply sooner, but this should put you in the right place (Country North) and includes links to other sets of drawings: www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-plan-and-profile-maps-post-house-of-commons-select-committee-2016-country-north

"Spreading mud" is the least of your problems .. this monstrous vanity project is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

Shouting the same old regurgitated copy and paste in a echo chamber won't stop HS2 being built.

@Polarbear1-b6j .. hmm 🤔 So what was once deemed to be the world's most advanced rail service that was going to link the South with the Midlands then on to the North has now been reduced to nothing more than a commuter shuttle service between West London & Birmingham (a route that already has two fully functioning rail lines). The Golborne link - scrapped. The Eastern leg - scrapped. The Northern leg - scrapped. The disaster that is Euston station - "on hold" for two years & although now given the go-ahead , there's still no decisive plans for the design of the station which won't become operational until at least 2042! The whole sorry project has been a disaster since day one & continues to be so.

​​​@@CRIMSONANT1So classic compatible trains and Handsacre has passed you by, Euston Tunnels being dug, Elizabeth Line at Old Oak and quite a bit else. By all means oppose the need for HS2 but do it based on facts and attempts to change things in the real world rather than in echo chambers. Those two other routes, bursting at the seams with little or no capacity left to give. And on the WCML it's about to get worse at Bletchley and Roade.

And when you bear in mind notice to proceed was only given in April 2020 and in that time nearly a year of COVID restrictions slowed things up the pace has indeed been cracking.

Thank you

You were warned. You didn’t have use your time watching. Plus I don’t use Facebook. So it is fine for me.

I presume you mean “making a video” William James Sidis ? I for one really enjoy SkyViews channel as the content is second to none ! Unless there is a photographer on FB I’m unaware of? 😜

@@CamDale99 yes you presume correctly. What remarkable deduction skills you possess to make such presumptions. Your cryptography skills would put Alan Turing to shame. I would ask how you spotted such a complex and sophisticated spelling error but I imagine your process would blow my little mind.

@@davecooper3238 my apologies as my initial comment was unnecessary aggressive and unwarranted. I do not wish to disencourage anyone from making such videos as I am interested and clearly some time has been put in to editing the video. I merely meant to give constructive feedback as to why the videos were so short and singular in content. Please keep posting.

@@Celtic23 😂😂

Although it’s not entirely obvious on the HS2 website drawings, I think along this stretch between the two roads there’s to be a raised earth sound proofing barrier on either side of the track. So the culverts are connecting the floodplain outside a much wider footprint than just the tracks. At 2:04 you can see the idea beyond the bridge, where the grassed areas are present.

The preferred, fully-detailed, CEng drawings for each construction phase per location are found on the Gov UK site, rather than those on HS2. Most easily found by using your preferred search engine and key names, phrases, websites and file-types in quotes. Note that many of the drawings and discussions are pre-finalisation of the design. Local Parish websites also tend to have the latest news. Without mitigations, the trackside area approximately the width of those culverts was expected to experience: Daytime (0700-2300) >65 dB Night-time (2300-0700) >55 dB Additionally, the elevated bunds were also mitigation against loss of ecological habitat elsewhere: "2.2.4 To mitigate potential impacts on the newly identified population of great crested newt and its habitat, the B4451 Kineton Road overbridge construction compound will be relocated to the south of B4451 Kineton Road, west of the route (refer to map CT-05-085 in the SES3 and AP4 ES Volume 2 CFA16 Map Book). 2.2.5 Also, the area around the highways drainage pond (classified as landscape mitigation planting in the original scheme and SES scheme) and the land adjacent to Southam Industrial Estate, from which the B4451 Kineton Road overbridge construction compound will be relocated, will be used as an ecological mitigation area, primarily to support great crested newts (refer to map CT-06-085 in the SES3 and AP4 ES Volume 2 CFA16 Map Book). 2.2.6 Further detail about the extent of the potential future development has also been received. Therefore, this ecological mitigation area can be incorporated into the SES3 scheme without precluding the potential future development. 2.2.7 The extent of the ecological mitigation area (including the area around the drainage pond) will be approximately 1.06ha. 2.2.8 This ecological mitigation area will be available before construction starts in order to translocate any newts that might be affected by the scheme in this area."

@@41istair I’d normally look up the DfT site’s HS2 drawings for this sort of question, my mistake was simplifying it to “HS2 drawings” in my earlier reply.

There will have been changes throughout, it's just a lot of the work isn't so obvious particularly to those not having an engineering awareness. It was no different on a new road over river bridge near me.

The B4113 Stoneleigh Road is going to be slewed away from the National Agricultural Centre, whose entry road is going to be extended to a new roundabout roughly where the blue and white stripy thing is.

@@charliep1973 i thought the same. it needs it

HS2 isn't exactly going to be an interesting journey if it's mainly in tunnels.

@garthcox4307 it was, I recall, a single track coal line, which I walked up in 1979 after closure. Wholly inadequate for a highcapacity twintrack segment of the UK's new spine railway for the next 120 years.

Seems like the old nineteenth century “cut and cover”.

Not digging under a concrete slab. Firstly they cut slot trenches in the ground and filled them with concrete to create the tunnel walls. Crossbeams were then poured from wall to wall to brace the structure during excavation. Most of the soil has been lifted out vertically. The floor slab was next, followed by the internal dividing wall. The concrete roof will be next followed by the backfilling, and then the pretty part, the landscaping.

Would not those balancing ponds nearby be for the purpose of drainage ?. Some of these will be permenate.