HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct

[@StephenWalker42]

You can see at 3.01 the start of the footpath that will pass under the viaduct at pier 1-2...a PROW...I can't wait to prow about down there...😊

[@StephenWalker42]

A great fly pass, lots of interesting stuff, what are the boxes at 3.20...??, and storage containers with no roofs... Dominique will get rusty..😃... More questions and answers... thanks for posting 👍👍👍👍

[@stevetony6876]

Yes a lot of questions… Dominique is definitely more than the sum of her parts! 👍

[@mikenelson8786]

You cannot make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Give them a chance to clean up.

[@wolfgangselle4307]

Exactly! Just wait and see when all the concrete work is done. Then they can really start to clean up the site and remove all the concrete related stuff. And then it will look much much better … and in 1 year it will look even much better. They started to clean up already.

[@Michael-61-n3l]

Exactly

[@RitaFarrow]

that dominique should be gone by now,what are they doing,,there is a railway to built,

[@peterjones3557]

Beautiful design, but such a horrible lot of clutter! Would the Victorians with their thousands of Navvies have made such a mess?

[@stevetony6876]

It appears the prospects for the project have improved. I can handle a bit of temporary clutter! Thanks for watching. 👍

[@simoncroft9792]

Yes they would with temporary villages, clay-pits and brickworks, limekilns to build their viaducts.

[@bobbuilder6669]

For interest..or not.. www.arct.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/chs-vol.11-pp.33-to-49.pdf The document discusses the extensive construction of railway embankments and cuttings in England from 1834 to 1841, a period that saw 660 miles of railway laid down across nine main lines. Key details include the methods of earthwork, organization, and challenges in early railway construction, focusing on the transportation and placement of vast quantities of excavated material. Engineers used methods like high end-tipping for faster embankment building, albeit with increased settling issues. The balance of cutting and filling reduced costs by minimizing material transport distance. Slips, or soil movements, particularly in clay-heavy areas, posed ongoing challenges that were sometimes mitigated with counterforts or slope adjustments. Despite these difficulties, early railway engineers managed unprecedented construction rates that shaped England’s railway network.

[@fndjfgsdk]

Hah, yes. They set up entire villages to house the workers cos cars weren't a thing. Significantly more mess than an aggregates store!

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

The Contractors who will lay the tracks, overhead cables and signage will require their own compound comprising offices, welfare and storage facilities. And are the Align joint venture the Contractors for that work, too ? The Align jv and their subcontractors commercial teams will all be working on their respective final accounts too. So the compound is going nowhere yet.

[@Carlos-im3hn]

In another year the sleepers, tracks, signalling and OLE will be completed; in some necessary order. The first "local" test train (special kit ?) in a 2 or 3 years? Will all those be lifted up in different locations and sections...or "in-line"; we will find out and see how it goes on the longest viaduct. Dominique in pieces shipping off to the next viaduct project. These amazing videos are a great record.