East West Rail and HS2 Works at Calvert and Steeple Claydon

[@joginns778]

The large concrete bridge at the start of your drone over fly, is that the bridge where HS 2 widened the track bed and embankment for the possibility of the Aylesbury line being put back at a later. Stage,i read on the news EWR has got the funds to fast track bletchley to Bedford, your drone work is brilliant thanks for the update it went a bit quiet for a while, so much appreciated thank you,

[@masekwm]

Hi, the first bridge is where there will be 4 lines made up of HS2 and EWR, as the drone approaches the bridge I believe the maintenance depot will be on the left. Thank you for your comment, I hope to get more footage over the coming months.

[@joginns778]

@@masekwm thank you , your very informative, have you done any drone work where finmere station was, and where a new bridge crosses over the Buckingham to croughton main road thank you for your time Jo,

[@masekwm]

Hi Jo, I've not, our plan is to follow the HS2 works as best we can so will take a look that way over the coming weeks. We want to get to the new "green bridge" at Turweston soon.

[@joginns778]

@@masekwm thank you you've been very helpful,

[@adrianpeters2413]

Do hs2 trains cross over the east west line to get to the marshalling yards??? By a point system , if so absolutely English bollocks again , cheap skates at best ... only on the island a what !!!!!!

[@barryamorris]

You really should put a soundtrack to these silent drone videos

[@masekwm]

Thanks for the feedback, had people say the opposite! Will try and add some audio as agree it’s boring being silent

[@bazza945]

A Bridge to Anywhere?

[@gillianwyatt3577]

I haven't the faintest idea of what's going on and I'm local at Quainton...couldn't someone have done some running commentary 😮

[@DaveSeville-sf1ku]

You can volunteer 😅

[@jerryhayes9497]

It all looks a bit of a mess and confusing 😞.... But im sure it will be obvious when its finally finished 😜😅

[@cannyexplorer5357]

If they had just put all that money into updating the original rail network we would have a great railway system including new lines in the southwest too. This has turn out to be the biggest white elephant ever.

[@1chish]

You seem unaware that this is where HS2 crosses East West Rail. An entirely brand new railway line easing traffic from the South West to the East Coast. So what you decry is actually being done right there. Clearly you don't know how " updating the original rail network" has been tried before and failed for the simple reason you have to keep a working railway working. The WCML was put through nearly a decade of disruption to increase capacity and line speed to 140 MPH. It was never achieved and the budget ran out of control. That Main Line is still only 125 MPH and then only with tilting trains. As for the rest? I guess you haven't heard of Northern Powerhouse Rail or the Trans Pennine Upgrades to name two? I sense some jealousy as well which is never a good trait. Although the South West has benefitted from some serious infrastructure improvements and new hybrid trains and will get new trains and services around Bristol. We in East Anglia would like more spent here but there just isn't the justification. However whether we like it or not the vast majority of rail, airline and car traffic is North / South. That you resorted to that tired old trope 'biggest white elephant ever' says so much about your lack of facts or knowledge.

[@gwilymselwood]

No -it’s absolutely required infrastructure

[@CRIMSONANT1]

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

[@CRIMSONANT1]

​@@gwilymselwood.. so "absolutely required" that most of this monstrous vanity project has already been scrapped & within a decade of opening, (in about 50 years time given the current rate of progress), what's left, (London - Birmingham) will be nothing more then a glorified cycle path.

[@EdgyNumber1]

Such a ridiculous nonsense comment. EWR is in place to take passengers off lines heading into London on the CML, WCML and the MML. This frees up passenger capacity from Bedford, Bletchley and Oxford, provoding a direct link between those stations. You are so hideously uninformed and frankly too lazy to do any research. Agree that the 'white elephant' phrase is a lazy comment from those too ignorant to understand why these lines need to be built.