HS2 Burton Green Tunnel, Warwickshire

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@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

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@timhanser1943 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant construction. Is it too early to say whether we are ahead or behind schedule? I’m Hoping Labour can resurrect the Manchester and Leeds leg together with a new line from Leeds to Manchester via a new station at Bradford with private sector finance and government giving them an index linked return. Maybe at a reduced speed spec but capacity improvement. Here’s hoping , infrastructure is the only way to level up . Thanks.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

It was originally supposed to open in 2026, now there's an opening window of 2029-2033, so they've given themselves a bit of slack. Euston may not open until 2040.

@chrisbuxton1958 5 ай бұрын

Never going to happen because there’s no money.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

@@chrisbuxton1958 CapEx does not work like household finances

@mikehindson-evans159 5 ай бұрын

A useful update and explanation. Thanks.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you found it informative 🙂

@MrGreatplum 5 ай бұрын

Great explanation- I think that once this is done, there should be some enhancements for the local community

@caramelldansen2204 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn't it be "Burton Green green tunnel", then? 🤔

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

Yeah 🤣

@williamhuang8309 5 ай бұрын

even worse than Battersea Power station tube station

@jermainetrainallen6416 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the vid. Keep it up👍

@ukroadsandtransport 5 ай бұрын

Good one Chris, i would have watched it earlier but KZbin decided to tell me it just came out when it was 6+ days ago

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

KZbin being rubbish at highlighting new videos lately

@ukroadsandtransport 5 ай бұрын

@@Rail_Focus I hope it doesn't effect your earnings

@Tobberz 5 ай бұрын

The new Government has refused to commit to re-starting HS2, but here's hoping that they'll work it out. I can see it being re-implemented at reduced speeds etc for budgetary reasons....

@DavidShepheard 5 ай бұрын

Nice to see this green tunnel and the new walkway under the road are going to improve this village and turn what was an abandoned railway cutting into parkland. This country has become far to obsessed with "reducing costs". We should be "getting the best value" out of HS2. And that is exactly what is being done here. The former railway cutting is being restored to ground level, so that the local village can have parkland next to it, instead of a big hole. And the new crossing under the road will reduce the number of kids that get knocked down crossing that road. We need to build high speed rail all the way to Glasgow and Edinburgh and probably beyond. And we need to build high speed rail all the way to Cornwall, Cardiff, North Wales and maybe even a tunnel to the Republic of Ireland. And there are going to be a bunch of anti-railway campaigners all the way telling local that high-speed railway projects "destroy the countryside". Every awesome site there is on the HS1 route is evidence that railways do not have to be the enemy of people in the countryside. And places like the Burton Green green tunnel, when finished, are going to add to that evidence. Think, for a moment on the cheap alternative. A bridge over a big slot in the ground, with people complaining about loosing their footpath for ages. And the first time there is a crash on the bridge you could have a lorry dropping down onto the HS2 railway and causing a train crash. This relatively small and relatively cheap park is a one off cost that widens that road bridge so much that it would be totally impossible for a road vehicle to accidentally get onto the railway. I look forward to this thing being finished and some railway focused KZbinrs coming to this park to show us the improvements to Burton Green. Maybe the ends of the park will make good places for people to do high-speed train spotting. I think it is worth every penny of investment.

@JamesBrown-zu8iv 5 ай бұрын

> 0:35 - Sweet Caroline BTM!😂

@gkcdavis 5 ай бұрын

Why is such an expensive tunnel being built in such a remote area? I could understand if this were to make it feasible to build through a high density area, but ultimately this could have just been a a surface level railway.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

This is probably the least remote of the 5 green tunnels. It cuts right through the middle of the village

@gkcdavis 5 ай бұрын

@@Rail_Focus seems like a massive spend for such a short section or route though? The other ones you speak of must be even more wasteful if there is nothing around! To be clear I am massively pro HS2, but worry that huge spend on things like this has held back its proper completion to the rest of the northern cities, which could have brought far greater economic benefits and helped rebalance our country.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

@gkcdavis No doubt placating local opponents has added to the cost of HS2 and justification for some of the green tunnels is questionable, but I think this one is possibly the most justifiable.

@davecooper3238 5 ай бұрын

Perhaps try visiting Burton Green on the edge of Coventry. It’s not at all remote.

@petitkruger2175 5 ай бұрын

Would just big high-tech sound barriers reduce the same amount of sound, like some sections of the above ground Japanese Shinkansen have? They would definitely be wayyyyyy cheaper. More ugly yes, but a sacrifice you could make to save money and build more train line

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

Others have pointed out there was already a partial cutting there, but I imagine it would be up to the standard of a modern high capacity railway, which has the potential to be used by 18 trains per hour in each direction. So sometimes engineering solutions are justifiable.

@tommercer1406 5 ай бұрын

This is a perfect example of why HS2 costs have ballooned so much, this could just be a cutting with no cover but nimbyism has driven the line underground, requiring huge amounts of extra work and excessive cost. So silly!

@AndrewRoberts11 5 ай бұрын

It was a cutting, of the old Junction Railway, that runs to Curson Street Birmingham, and was used as a cycle path and park for a few decades (there's many a video of the line and cycle route before HS2 started its reworking). If they were to have simply reinstated the track, Varsity Line / East-West Rail style, there could have been another line between London and Birmingham, that would have added capacity AND served the communities along the corridor of the, Beeching cut, old Junction and Central Mainline railways, rather than bypass the old stations, and likely for no more than £5bn, but limited to speeds below 125 MPH / 200 kph. Services on the 60 mile Oxford to Bedford, via Bletchley (Milton Keynes) section of the Varsity line are due to resume at the end of this year, the reinstatement of the tracks, signalling and some new stations, to serve the bodies living along the corridor, has so far cost £2bn. HS2 is purely about offering a theoretical 400kph service between central London and Birmingham, hence the over-engineered solutions, and £70bn phase ONE bill, and likely a £3 HS2 phase ONE surcharge on EVERY Network Rail ticket sold across the UK, for fifty years, to cover the capital costs, of a line that's forecast to have six million annual ridders by 2038/9. Personally i'd heap the costs on the ridders of the line, rather than penalise all rail users, as the rail community will surely be happy to pay four grand for a first class return between Birmingham and Birmingham, so as to not burden the public at large, as not freetards.

@Rail_Focus 5 ай бұрын

This is one of the most justifiable green tunnels. Cuts right through a village

@tommercer1406 5 ай бұрын

@@Rail_Focus not really, there was already a cutting there for the historic railway between Kenilworth and Berkswell. it's not like houses were demolished here for the HS2 alignment and it's being built back over.

@cmclewee9518 3 ай бұрын

I am all for HS2, but the problem with all this construction is that the AI generated images of what they think it will look like will be far from the truth. It will take years, if not decades, to look like those images, trees don't grow overnight, and they will not provide support to replace trees that die after planting. Look at other areas of HS2 where planting has already occurred and half the trees are dead or dying. The destruction of the habitats where they have stored the spoil will probably never recover.

@Rail_Focus 3 ай бұрын

The thing with trees is they can be replanted. But I've seen plenty of successful mitigation sites with healthy trees. HS2 are going to great lengths to ensure there's no net less.