The stretches which require little or no civil engineering.

They can't start everything at once, it's done sequentially.

5 years to finish the track and Birmingham Curzon station, Washwood Heath, OOC, Interchange, and IMD. Probably 10 years from now to finish Euston station. No worries ! get it done ! Now we just have to wedge-in the full extension north to Crewe !!

It’s quite possible they are - done during Christmas period when the gwr main line was closed. Thanks

They are fairly recent, been in progress a few months I believe, but the freight line was in use for GWR diversions into Euston during the Christmas GWML closure.

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@@garthcox4307 650t mobile to build 600t crawler and a 150t mobile to dismantle the 650 ,

The concrete will need a few days to cure before they can lay the road surfaces.

@johnturner4400 they were respected and helped in any way possible trust me 👍🏻

Alas it can’t be avoided when you buy a house next door to a railway.

Thanks! We’ve been lucky with the dry settled weather. It would have been nice to see the huge beams being moved into place.. but it’s been interesting to see the progress. 👍

It’s turned out to be a more interesting subject than I had imagined! 🙏

The street name of the road that crosses the bridge is Agar Grove I believe, though with a couple more roads leading off it.

It depends on the drone type I use so always best to check. The sub 250g drones are generally less restrictive. Thanks for watching. 👍

It’s quite impressive to see such long coach trains, 16 I think. I’d love to try Eurostar, perhaps next year! 👍

Haha unfortunately I don’t think the figures are publicly available though I could be wrong! Thanks for watching.

They really aren’t! 😂😂😂😂

I doubt it but they have worked through the holidays. I expect that comes at a premium.

@ I’m a train driver, I’m working both days but only getting double time.

Utter nonsense of course, even if it was HS2 which you seem to have this confused with. Still just another armchair expert in a social media echo chamber.

That would be a great feature to have. 👍

@@1258-Eckhart I’m not sure the buzz of the drone motors would add to the scene.

Yes they are! I’m curious to know if the beams are flush with each other or whether there’s some infill taking place? 👍

Everyone has a role, sometimes many staff are required for short periods. Whatever way you look at this it's a complicated job in a very tight space. But social media is full of armchair experts.

When working on the weekend relay jobs, when they close the line. When it comes to removing or replacing ballast as an example, it is all machine work. But when it comes to replacing the sleepers and installing the new rail, we get busy, we welcome the periods when we can have a break, when working 12 hour shifts.

Only to the untrained eye , every man/woman played a major role trust me

​@@Polarbear1-b6jain't that the truth 👍🏻 if only they knew what it took to do this ,

The tunnels in the main footage are indeed just north of Agar Grove. 👍

Hi Simon I too recently had a look at railmaponline in this area. I think I still need to revisit to work out all the connections!

google map of the area maps.app.goo.gl/VsdP9yj5HGqZVoYbA

You’re welcome. It’ll be interesting to see if all goes to plan! 👍

​@stevetony6876 it did , not only to plan but ahead of schedule

The digger swinging past that building makes me a bit nervous!!

.....and on a bridge carrying a road which usually sees two very busy bus routes run.....

All planned out , don't panic, all in a days work 👍🏻👍🏻​@@stevetony6876

Camden I think though Islington border is close by.

Agar Grove and Murray st.with Camden Sq behind it.

I wasn’t expecting to see the Eurostar at that time! 👍

Drone operators will argue that they are free to fly their sub-250g drones wherever they feel..!

Yes…with the mainline suspended it was an opportunity to send up the drone! Thanks for watching!

amusing and wrong at the same time!

It’s stored in a side street, ready to go!

You’re welcome… it’s not an area I usually go to but I was curious to see what was going on! Thanks for watching.

Exactly this. What we have today are some of the oldest railway lines in the world pushed to their very limits. There's only so many upgrades we can make to the existing network before the inevitable conclusion that a new line is needed.

Wrong. Each person has a job to do. Just because you see someone standing still doesn’t mean he’s not engaged with the process.

It was interesting to see what was going on and looking at the old deck its clear why replacement was needed!

The 10 mile tunnel under the Chilterns completed in the spring. The above ground structure they’re building is separate to it AIUI.

Yes it’s about a mile north of the tunnel and there’s a few ‘smaller’ scale overbridges to build before Wendover. 👍

Align are the main Contractors - it's a joint venture partnership formed between Volker, Sir Robert McAlpine, and Bouyges. Biuyges are a French contractor, McAlpine a British contractor and Volker not sure, might be German. All of the main Contractors building the civil engineering contracts for HS2 are in various different joint ventures between them.

I think the Align contract might have ended at the northern face of the Chiltern tunnels. If so this contract is being built by a joint venture comprising Effiage (French), Ferrovial (Spanish), Kier (British), Bam (Dutch).

EKFB were originally contracted from just beyond the Chiltern North Portal (where the trackbed suddenly stops beyond the green landscaping for the portal buildings) to the Itchington Wood tunnel. However, it was taken from them and given to Align when it was clear they were under-performing and falling behind. You can see from the tunnel portal to Wendover green tunnel that very little (if any) earthworks have taken place. The viaducts that were already nearly finished remained with EKFB but the smaller scale bridges and earthworks were handed to Align instead. Looks like Align though are also still concentrating on finishing the tunnel portal site before moving on...

​@@ebsbrown4983Aha. So do you know what went wrong with EKFB ? I say this with some interest as I used to work for Kier.

Thanks! I agree. Some people cannot see beyond the disruptive construction works. 👍

Thanks for watching and your comment. 👍