Euston gets HS2 ready creating a new tunnel for London Underground infrastructure

[@rbesfe]

kudos to the production team for this channel, I think public communication around public projects often gets overlooked and the quality here is fantastic!

[@cameronallan5624]

i think its something that the Crossrail teams in its latter years (before completion of the project) also did really well with.

[@aphexHQ]

Big fans of Rob, and big fans of Euston Station - great work by a stellar team!

[@petervaughan6854]

LoL @ “it was like threading an eye through a needle” 😅 that’s not quite the saying, but we knew what you meant to say

[@RJSRdg]

Yes, should be "threading a needle through the eye of a camel".... ;-)

[@old_duffers_chuffers]

Yet another great video, I just wish there were more and more often

[@kingdomofportugal-brazil]

Excited for HS2 if it opens!

[@Nooticus]

if...?? weird guy

[@Garner84]

@@Nooticus Literally, it will open. IDK what people like him are thinking, that 100 Billion is just gonna go missing 😂😂

[@Nooticus]

@@Garner84 some people are just delusional until the end! (but possibly this commenter just didnt use the correct word if English isn't their native language?)

[@kingdomofportugal-brazil]

@@Garner84 There are many people opposed to HS2 including climate activists. Although it is on track to open, the UK has many issues which could delay its opening. Crossrail already took 4 more years and millions more pounds to construct and fully open. The Cost of Living crisis for example is making many more people unable to afford basic commodities such as warmth or food. Overall I think that HS2 is on track to open but it has received a lot of criticism and opposition.

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

I just can’t get myself excited over a London Birmingham vanity project

[@iwasborn8470]

I never understood why they didn't cut Euston and connected HS2 to HS1, but great video, awesome progress!

[@Scottish_Transport_Explorer]

London St Pancras international wouldn't have enough room for both HS1 & HS2 services, and don't forget about the midland mainline as well, It makes more sense to rebuild Euston so it can support both WCML & HS2 services.

[@anthonyharris2359]

I personally would have done both. Maybe in an extra phase after the northern Phase 2. Durning Phase 1, lay the foundations for the extension to take place and then in a phase 3 connect the two lines together and give the trains the ability to connect at St. Pancras and/or stop at Stratford.

[@davidty2006]

something something something probs cost.

[@Gaiaphage]

hs1 goes internationally, if you were to connect them then you would need a passport to use hs2

[@nathan_scofield_ynwa]

Will likely be a people mover between Euston and St Pancras. Otherwise stations such as crewe would have to have passport checks and all.

[@AquaPholic]

Used to work at Euston glad it’s getting a makeover bravo

[@joe-vl3nd]

About time the old one was a bit dodgey... 👍🇬🇧

[@gareth4592]

Euston is the last main station in London that needed a major revamp.....glad to see this being done

[@theancientsancients1769]

I'm confused! Are they demolishing and building a brand new station or it's same station just upgraded?

[@Spacebug111]

@@theancientsancients1769upgraded I believe

[@sctrains3687]

Looks decent whereabouts does the new tunnel link to the old tunnel that’s the only thing i can’t figure out

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

I needed to know why don’t they dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so they extend the new abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into six cars per units and also having three Accessible Toilets on that six cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXC, and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers? A Stock Train and also having 8 Disabled Toilets 🚽 on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. Oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build a brand-new underground train station so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford and could they extend the DLR? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Six carriages three accessible toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to create more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique minor no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 16 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those fascinating Journeys Please!!! oh, can you make all of those Coal Boxes’ 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us, passengers!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these very important Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

[@theancientsancients1769]

They should rename the Station as London Elizabeth station

[@Listenerandlearner870]

Will there still be a link between Euston and Euston Square ?

[@AquaPholic]

Yes

[@nishjohal27]

IMPACT EQUIPMENT IS THE 🐐

[@jamescollins3647]

Just curious, is all of that heat being reclaimed?

[@Garner84]

Definitely, on Crossrail there is measures to transform the heat energy into more electricity 👍👍

[@jamescollins3647]

@@Garner84 I do like to hear that sort of thing being done.

[@jimlondon1]

Pity the government bottled it and put the whole thing on hold.

[@johnrussell3961]

We will only have 2 high speed lines…..and they don’t use the same station. Meanwhile Germant is investing millions in turning Stuttgart into Europes mega hub for high speed railways.

[@MrOasis316]

It’s more than enough when it’s fully done the north the midlands and the south will all be connected with Scotland as well. That’s perfect for our tiny little island.

[@kellymoses8566]

The UK seems to over-invest in London infrastructure at the cost of the rest of the country.

[@simonlloyd74sl]

Great video, bu threading an eye through a needle?

[@simong-uk]

You obviously don't realise how difficult it actually is to thread an eye through a needle, even a tiny eye from a little fish . . . it's bloody hard ! In comparison, threading the eye of a needle is really very easy ;-)

[@rjjcms1]

Threading an eye through a needle is a messy process if not done correctly.

[@rjjcms1]

It may be my age,but I'm finding the ostensibly simple task of threading a needle far more difficult and frustrating than I used to. If I could do so more quickly and easily,for starters I'd do a whole load of repair jobs,especially on holed pockets and on my many pairs of jeans,etc. that would be perfectly wearable if they hadn't have developed rips in the wrong places.

[@stevens6547]

Its amazing how much uk taxpayers cash is spent in london, no wonder the rest of the country ends up with a few crumbs. A couple of extra buses in the evenings if we're lucky

[@CHEESYhairyGASH]

What's the magic word?

[@andrei19238]

London pays for the rest of the uk Maybe that’s why it’s all spent there Which might make a cycle ?

[@stevens6547]

@@andrei19238 utter guff, the rest of the uk subsidises the place to the hilt. Remind me again how much TfL begged off the government, was it two or three billion ? My taxes by the way.

[@1chish]

Steven Soft Lad the vast majority of taxpayer funding on HS2 is being spent 'North of Watford' (to use a catchphrase). "A few crumbs"? Really. ONE station in Birmingham is costing £250 Mn and employing 1,000 people to build it. ONE station. Some crumbs there Soft Lad. So this video is about Euston. So what? It is PART of a massive project that has far more investment going on in Birmingham, Manchester, Crewe, Leeds and all the rest than in bloody London. And that is before Northern Powerhouse Rail. Stop sounding like Nicola Sturgeon and start appreciating what taxpayers in the rest of the country are doing for YOU. You're welcome.

[@ianslade22]

Are they seriously going to build a Crossrail 2 station here? Is Crossrail 2 ever going to happen

[@AquaPholic]

What you think this video is 🙄

[@mossychops]

Should have finished the British Library first, Books stored in Birmingham?

[@trainspotteruk9291]

I always think London euston underground station wasn’t the best and too small. kings cross st pancras underground station is better

[@davidty2006]

ngl why don't they connect euston with kings cross? Or is 800 meters too far for an interchange?

[@kingdomofportugal-brazil]

I think they are going to if they build Crossrail 2

[@iman2341]

@@kingdomofportugal-brazil The construction of the CR2 station would have included a travellator connecting into the Thameslink station at St Pancras currently. With CR2 on hold it will likely be best to use the new walking route being built or take the Underground the single stop from Euston to KXSP.

[@davidty2006]

@@kingdomofportugal-brazil Current Cross rail is interesting. You can walk from Barbican to Farringdon from just the lizzie line platform alone.

[@terryjimfletcher]

@@kingdomofportugal-brazil they can't even build HS2, so I hope they never build Crossrail 2 if they've put two fingers up to Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham, Bradford and the rest of the North.

[@cb8608]

To be completed in 3025

[@haidershami8346]

i think it would completed by then mate but i do agree that are delays

[@N32-o2n]

Hopefully the costs of time and money in building HS2 will not be in vain. I hope and pray that the building of HS2 in Britain will be a springboard for more high-speed lines elsewhere, say 140mph and 186mph lines. Can hyperloop technology be safely implemented on existing and new railway lines to help Britain's railways across the whole country? On matters of other railway lines in Britain, the West Coast Main Line and East Coast Main Line need more passing loops built, and in the south of England, the Portsmouth Direct Line would benefit from the building of a few extra passing loops, such as between Havant and Petersfield, Petersfield and the three-track and three-platform layout at Haslemere, and between Haslemere and Guildford where land allows, and some passing loops between Guildford and Woking. Building these passing loops will allow faster trains to overtake slower ones, and for passenger trains in general to overtake freight trains, and would allow improved service to all stations along the line. X

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

Dream on, the cash spent on this London - Birmingham vanity project would have been better spent on rail projects around the whole country.

[@andrei19238]

Hyperloop doesn’t exist it’s a scam

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

As I stand on my local station in the North of England waiting for my 1 train per hour I really appreciate this spending in the South - not!!!! I suppose the Welsh who want to travel by rail from North Wales to South Wales remaining inside their country will also appreciate this spending of cash in the South of england- not. Also the Scots living in Galashiels and Howick who would like to travel South without going via Edinburgh with the associated extra travel costs travelling north will also appreciate this spending in the South of england- not.

[@RJSRdg]

The idea of going from North to South Wales is geographically impractical - yes, they could reopen Bangor-Afon Wen and Aberystwyth-Carmarthen, but it would still be much, much slower than going via the existing route. That's even before you allow for the fact that the route would be single track most of the way, and that the existing Cambrian Coast part of the route is vulnerable to the effects of the sea in places. Add to that, that if someone in North Wales wants to go to a big city for something, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham are all much closer than Cardiff. The North-South Wales route is grounded more in thinly-veiled racism than in any practicality.

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

@@RJSRdg the Welsh north south route it is not grounded in racism. Most Costal Routes anywhere do have problems but they are not insurmountable. Only the section north from Aberystwyth to Afon Wen is alongside the costal and is in use daily. The times from Bangor / Holyhead to Aberystwyth would be quicker using the reopened route, increasing options for travellers and using less fuel. Yes most of the route would be single track but many km of single track inter city routes in Switzerland are the norm and speed is maintained. Closer to home the Scottish Boarders Railway has long sections of single track and that was dismissed at the concept stage by London as a ‘white elephant’, they were famously proved wrong. It’s not all about HS2, the only thing HS2 is building is resentment in many areas of the uk where rail infrastructure needs to be improved.

[@stevens6547]

HS2 is all about improving train services to and from london, it never was about anywhere else in the country

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

@@stevens6547 to and from Birmingham you mean. NEF - HS2 is that the best we can do. Outlines how the cash could be better spent country wide than this London - Birmingham vanity project.

[@stevenmcguinness4751]

Imagine moaning about a project that’s linking Britains 2 biggest Cities, by comparing it to rural areas 😂 This project is linking 12million people, that’s more than Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland combined.

[@andyhooper2416]

I'm a massive rail infrastructure fan but I just can't watch HS2 stuff because I think it's fundamentally a badly conceived project.

[@1chish]

And yet you still watched and commented ... D'UH! 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@davidcarthy9077]

I've seen variations of this video umpteen times in the last few years for rail projects in London. Are they actively trying to rub it in the faces of the rest of the population or do they genuinely have zero self awareness. 🤔

[@Garner84]

Hehehe, do you mean cos it's all in London or... I understand, well I don't cause I live there. But I do feel sorry for anyone who lives up north, left behind and failed by successive governments🙃

[@davidcarthy9077]

@@Garner84 that was exactly the point. Not only do they consistently axe infrastructure spending in the rest of the UK. They then heavily publicise the fact that London is seemingly immune from the cuts. The integrated rail plan should be renamed "remember the election we just voted for us in? Well we lied.....again"

[@davidcarthy9077]

@@john_something_or_other HS2 once the Manchester leg is inevitably cut will be yet another London commuter line. "Have a good cry"... how old are you child?

[@MegaBILLYBOB66]

Waste of money, train going nowhere.

[@johnrussell3961]

They are building south to north as it’s nothing more than a line for high speed London commuting. They have worked out that Birmingham is the furthest north commuting is possible,

[@rjjcms1]

I suppose so,but at the height of the property market rippling out from London a colleague in a Watford office in the late 80s boom bought a house in Lincolnshire with her husband,and they commuted down from there every day! They weren't the only ones to be driven out that far then. As someone who liked to keep a commute within half an hour,I thought this was total madness. The early 90s property crash put an end to all that.

[@stevenmcguinness4751]

Nowhere? Someone doesn’t know UK Geography. It’s literally linking the UK’s 2 biggest Cities together.

[@readit945]

biggest waste of money ever

[@stevendellow9505]

a terrible waste of energy and very destructive use of environmental resources like fossil fuels and materials. A massive encouragement for further expansion and an absolute lie on reduction of carbon. The action of expansion projects will always be a negative and expensive effect on quality of life that'll always require excessive controls on freedom and how we live. More fearmongering will be required in future and controls bordering on communism will be needed to allow more and more expansion like this to create overpaid jobs necessary to live in a high maintenance concrete and steel environment. demonising carbon is an imbicilic way to force expansion that's causing exponential inflation to support overpaid jobs. look at hs2 salaries and make sure you're sitting down and remember all the jobs are extremely easy.

[@MattBDG]

Stop reading comics lad

[@stevendellow9505]

@@MattBDG You really have got problems if you think hs2 and what it leads to is a good way to sustain civilised society. I don't know what your referring to as comical, all , part or everything but clearly you don't analyse very deeply and treat this is trivial concern with no consequences. Paying high wages for destructive high consumption jobs where no expense is spared all cloaked in imotive double talk shows aggressive protection of and expensive gravy train that we all pay for and only benefits a tiny minority of what can only be described as plebs.

[@nativenewlondoner]

I’ll take a bag of whatever Steve Dellow has been smoking.

[@stevendellow9505]

@@nativenewlondoner You could join hs2 as they're probably making roll ups in £50 notes. Its a big waste of money although judging by comments the excitement is so great nothing else is needed. Can't understand how this creates such a buzz.

[@stevendellow9505]

@@malcolmdavis3282 We don't have to build endless motorways as our environment is already over exploited. Also tactics have changed rapidly and too quickly for business greed to accept. Its clear business has and society is far move sustainable and effective if supply and labour chains are kept local so its rapidly going to phase out high energy or long distance travel. Spending unimaginable sums of money on a system that has to be heavily used to justify its existence is absolute madness and a waste of energy, environment and time. As you must realise unimaginable amounts of fossil fuels and materials have already been wasted on this and the fossil fuels can never be replaced. Demonise them all you like but you'll never hide their amazing value and the criminal waste being created on this project. This is a project that has a money trail designed to support some of the highest maintenance businesses in the world like consultancies, IT corporations, construction corporations, finance and so on . Its feeding growth in a colossal highly paid burden that's incredibly high maintenance to feed and totally unsustainable. In other words to survive growth and pressure to support it means absolute compliance from everything is required to maintain it. This means everything, manufacturing, food supply, health, energy supply, pensions will have to revolve around extensive infrastructure to survive. Rapid growth on printed, borrowed or taxation money is already proving to be an inflationary disaster we'll never have the resources or ability to cover. Stoking crisis after crisis can only work for a short while in the grand scheme of things but eventually the pack of card will tumble.

[@mrzombiezlay]

Hs2 the flop cus all the train drivers etc want a pay rise so wont get one cus of hs2

[@mickbmx]

not really bothered about supporting London, as London had a English minority.

[@Garner84]

typical

[@mickbmx]

@@Garner84 same way I don’t care about American projects or French projects. The majority of people in London aren’t British. They’re foreign.

[@davidty2006]

@@mickbmx that must include you then.

[@mickbmx]

@@davidty2006 sadly for you no. My family in Britain go back 10,000 years.

[@davidty2006]

@@mickbmx Just remember anyone from outside of london is classed as a foreigner in londno.

[@williamparker3765]

What a complete and utter waste of time and money, something that this country cannot afford, just to get somewhere in the midlands or the north a few minutes earlier, and if the rail strikes continue what about the few minutes you are going to save when you haven't got a train to travel on, it should never had been started

[@Seagull81006]

it is not about time saving though, it is about freeing capacity on the west coast mainline to allow more frequent commuter trains and freight trains to run along it

[@iman2341]

Tell me you dont know what HS2 is for without actually saying it^^^^

[@Seagull81006]

@@iman2341 well it is actually one of thereasons for it. Not to mention it aiding the whole 0 carbon emissions aim as well as "levelling up" due to the job created due to it as well as numerous other things.

[@GIOGS]

Sound to me like William would rather not take thousands of diesel polluting lorries off the road each year through the freeing up of rail freight capacity on the west coast mainline. Don’t be like William.

[@nw5835]

Thank God we don't all think like you otherwise the country would never move forward, however I'm glad you watched the video.