HS2 Construction - Turweston Green Bridge

[@TonyAbbeyFETraining]

Absolutely full marks for liaising with ATC. It’s nice to see professionalism in drone flying. I hate to see those videos where the drone pilots think alienating security staff makes great viewing.

[@flyDJIuk]

This is a crazy big site. I'm flying this site every couple of months to show the progress. The staff here are amazing - Mick (on the crossing on Oatleys Road) is a Legend 👍🏼 He'll chat all day long and tell you everything that's going on. Top bloke. Just sub'd my friend - great videos! 👍🏽👍🏽

[@masekwm]

It's a huge site isn't it? We stumbled upon it trying to find a way to get a good view of the main roadworks

[@carguyuk7525]

Bit like grand designs - looks great but over time and over budget. Brilliant video.

[@howardjones6752]

Can anyone explain what the two concrete walls are for ?

[@JohnHoward-wc9kk]

Serious amount of re-bar being used here.

[@PeterUn-h1i]

Have we really got another ten years of these videos, as that's hopefully when it will be finished. If they stopped making all the HS2 videos do you think they could be running in 9 years lol

[@peterlee2622]

That's an interesting view of the green bridge. It seems that the abutments are very far apart - certainly wider than is needed for a couple of high speed tracks. I wonder why this is as the extra width will make the structure much more expensive?

[@masekwm]

I think it is because the road crossing the railway will run diagonally which will increase the necessary width of the bridge, the cutting is extremely deep here

[@CRIMSONANT1]

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

[@johnwebster3224]

Always seems to be over-engineered for me - is this widespread chaos really necessary?

[@TrevorWilliams-fq8mg]

The Contractors need temporary haul roads outside the boundary of the railway. Also where the railway is in a cutting the embankments are excavated out at a batter. The alternative method would be to build a vertical retaining wall to retain the surrounding ground but that would be much more expensive. The excavated batter will be landscaped over eventually.