HS2 Waste Soil Train arrives for unloading at Rugby Quarry - RailCam Edition

[@ianbird9143]

3 men to open a gate , with a train waiting….. no wonder HS2 is so expensive 😂😂

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

One chaps from Colas Rail another chap is site manager and the third chap had just finished cleaning the grab machine area with the bulldozer.

[@hamptonequipment5853]

Well, there is one key and two gates, so three men.

[@itsmyview2024]

@@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures one of them looks like he's cacked himself

[@davidmccall2897]

Don,t forget the black cat

[@BRI535D]

Exactly the first thing I thought!!

[@davidcoleman6032]

How is it that only these type of people manage to find such easy stressless jobs?😮

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Qualifications

[@davidcoleman6032]

In what? Time management?😂😂😂

[@tatsnneeps341]

Strive and thou shall conquer 👍

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Whoa that's a whole different department 😄 🤣 😂 😆

[@roxycrossdresserinhighheel1272]

Glad my staff ain't that slow

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Fair play

[@tatsnneeps341]

Why rush when we have no need to 😮

[@andyyorath2732]

There had to be a more efficient method of emptying those wagons ! Purpose designed tilting bodies maybe?

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Like the old iron stone tiplers

[@coveryoureyesmedia]

Left hand , not urs right. I can play that game alll night😊😊

[@brucehulmes]

Two excavators with grabs to unload that train, welcome to backward UK

[@mikehindson-evans159]

Thank you for this informative video. Having travelled through Rugby for decades, that is one BIG hole in the ground. I take my hat off to the planners and co-ordination which are obviously involved to make this look seamless.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Finally a positive remark about the place

[@LewiH9]

Diesel trains, diesel waste handlers, all on a governmental project when said government are pushing electric. Can you imagine trying to do this with an extension lead! 🤣

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

A Greta panel (Solar panel) wouldn't do it neither 😆

[@neilcrawford8303]

Not as daft as it sounds. Many quarries and mines use electric rope or hydraulic face shovels like the CAT 6060. They are powered through a cable. Likewise, many material handlers are electric powered from manufacturers like Terex-Fuchs or Sennebogen. Those two material handlers on site could have been electric, assuming there is sufficient power available from the local grid, which isn't always the case.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

hmmmm interesting

[@cheechU38K]

Wet clay is the hardest material handling! Safety is the priority on HS2. Slow & Steady wins the race!

[@_Ben4810]

Bwahaha...!!! Slow & Steady wins the race...??? This is a valuable snapshot of when money is clearly no object, so let's spend spend spend on unnecessary infrastructure (it's a muck rail handling terminal that has armco barrier & 6m high fence) heavy equipment (needs two handling grabs + operators to unload a muckaway train...?) & 3 people to open a gate, & the obvious "we're on a good one here lads, let's drag it out for ourselves" The Slow & Steady beliefs & working practices have no place in public funded infrastructure projects. It's a cancerous belief that is dragging down many a major construction project. 🙄

[@clonSanG]

Really milking it is more like it

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Absolutely

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

You have a point

[@AndrewCooper-eo7oh]

Thank s guy's great lovely film.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I'm glad you enjoyed the views and thanks for letting us know that you did

[@timcarnell5133]

That was our cat at 3:40 😂

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

What legend.

[@PeterUn-h1i]

On the Kenilworth road between Balsall Common and Hampton in Arden there is that much mud that HS2 leave on the road I'm surprised they have any left to take to Rugby. As a note I was at a set of HS2 traffic lights today and one of their employees was asleep in the cab of a large green tractor. Wish I could get a job like that, their on 50k a year I hear

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Proper false economy

[@simongurden9848]

The cat!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I have that awesome cat captured on 3 separate scenes 😄

[@davecooper3238]

Is this the rail line that used to serve the cement works and run onto Royal Leamington Spa ?

[@brian.7966]

meow meow,

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yes Dave it is

[@davecooper3238]

@ Thank you.

[@timcarnell5133]

I can hear the driver saying “ Where do you want this muck ? “😂

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Rugby will have any old cr**

[@andrewswift4894]

when this project is completed in 2/3 years time the railway line will disappear when the nature reserve is constructed as i assume there will be no further use for it, unless if part funded by the cement company a small railway station/platform could be created for people to travel to the reserve since a concrete platform already exits but also incorporate a bus stopping service say the Coventry service to and from, but could also provide a service for people who live close to the reserve who travel to other destinations by train on a regular basis. that means people from Cawston, Bilton, Long Lawford etc could travel to here instead of Rugby station looking for parking when space could be provided here, catch a train from here to the main station then change platfoms depending on your destination and return at the days end hopefully easing on some of the traffic jams in the mornings. Could be a use for college students in the mornings/afternoons as well.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

You're right, it would relieve congestion. Doubt anyone in parliament would think like that though

[@robd2184]

Do you know how many miiions that would cost and how many passengers you’d have to have to get it back ?

[@stevewareing8525]

Great video Purple, those machines are amazing. 👍.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Big boys toys

[@keithhulbert2697]

Great capture of the process. Thank you for mentioning my name for the recommendation in your video. Best regards to you Purple! Love your videos and enthusiasm for all things train. Keith

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Thank you for the recommendation. I do like a good mission to accomplish and I think we pulled it off well. Thanks once again

[@Lord_Loco]

Funny to see how excited the chipmunk/squirrel started to observe what's going on at 5:33😂 (by the cutted rail tracks)

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 😂 😆

[@johnnewbold3225]

Im sure s9me of that soil could be useful either side of the stranded bridge over the A46 at stoneleigh.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Probably could

[@terrywilcott2137]

Health and safety first chaps.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Absolutely 😄

[@robertjones3189]

Interesting to see this, I used to pass that site when using the West Coast mainline.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

You, me and many others. Atleast we will all know what happened to it in 10years time

[@letrainavapeur]

And I used to think that unloading on a MGR was slow, especially if the train arrived just before grub time.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

This was just after lunch

[@Danyerman360]

The shape of that Hitachi Is diabolical should know ur Slew radius 😮

[@davecooper3238]

I hope they will be able to reopen a public footpath. It ran down the side of the quarry but had to be closed when part of it dropped into the quarry.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Ah OK. I saw the landslip from the side we walked

[@RobertFEvans]

Little wonder its the most expensive rail project ever. Takes 3 guys to open a gate!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 aye

[@johnj4860]

Were those guys training to walk slowly for a JSO protest? They looked like death warmed up.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 😂

[@derek6579]

It’s all they can do to get their hands out of their pockets!

[@tatsnneeps341]

Until the nice pensions land 💷 👍 I retired at 50 yr old after 32 years on the railway and it's machines.... life is good nearly 5 yrs on 👍

[@agent0066]

But if they were hurrying you'd be the first to pipe up and criticise them too. Some people are never happier than when they're complaining.

[@malcolmpym507]

Good old London Clay filling the hole. I remember as a kid the Branch trains running to Leamington with a Push pull Class 2 steam loco. Memories

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

The good ol days

[@mandrillfoden]

Hope he remembered to report any slips, trips or falls.😮😅

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Haha you spotted that too

[@kevinrichards5814]

I wonder how long it will take for all that clay to settle before the site can be used?

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

A long time unless the compact 60%

[@johnniewelbornjr.8940]

Well... That was... indescribable... And I thought that union workers here in the States were bad...? This would've been slow even as a time-lapse (well, the cat WAS fast... I'll grant you that... lol). Thanks for sharing the high-speed entertainment... and my condolences, as well, for suffering through it in person! lol Happy new year:)

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Gloopy 😊

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Black sheep lead the way by setting an example of freedom. You can quote me on that too 😃

[@peterwilson8797]

The old quarry down the road is now flooding and flooding gardens. Never happened until this started being filled in.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Oh really. Which old quarry is that

[@peterwilson8797]

@@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures Newbold.

[@peterwilson8797]

@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures Newbold.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Right I'll add it to the list

[@JL-rx6hl]

they obviously dont do a lot of work judging by how cleam the hi vis are

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Sit down job in a cab I suppose

[@declanjoyce8640]

Cool....

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Ain't it just

[@keithbeddoe305]

Hi purple x co 😊 Great informational video 👍 glad to see it's going to be made into wildlife sanctuary when finished 🐦🐦‍⬛🦜🦅🦉🦆🦢🦦🦔🦡🦨

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yh but it's not like they can do anything else with it. 😄 🤣

[@CRIMSONANT1]

HS2 "say" it's going to be made into a wildlife sanctuary but the reality is, they don't give a toss about the environment. Are you aware that they've already incurred numerous fines for multiple breaches of environmental issues? Thousands of trees planted along the route in Warwickshire where the vast majority perished due to lack of aftercare. The pollution of streams, rivers & other waterways with toxic chemicals. The bulldozing of mile upon mile of hedgerows containing nesting birds when they specifically promised to wait until the nesting season was over. The whole sorry project has been an environmental disaster since day one & continues to be so.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Now your speaking my language

[@Mrgreendragon3]

slower than mollases in winter

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😆 😆 😆 😆

[@j.p.9669]

Jesus Christ that was an ordeal.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yes! Somebody call my name. No need to be so formal brother. Just Purple will do 😉

[@roxycrossdresserinhighheel1272]

The black cat moved quicker

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Like a ninja across the tracks

[@alanbartlett9523]

It,s like death warmed up,no wonder this country is on its arse.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

That's a way of putting it

[@stevedj2707]

Great video chaps, great to see, a sub from me 😊

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Thank you and welcome aboard

[@tombrydson781]

What a carry on to open gate could gate not be opened before traffic arrives

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yh timing was a little off but in their defense the train was running 30mins late due to Northampton being flooded

[@hellfiretvmh]

Honestly 3 guys probably on 50k a year to open the gate - there is no wonder our Country is in a mess!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

There's more to it than that. Back handers left right and centre in Northamptonshire.

Money is no object on HS2. Another billion on the price.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yep. Annoying ain't it

[@davidporter9289]

Over paid and under worked 💪 😊

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Hmmm

[@julianhaw9267]

3 days training and a28 page risk assment just open a gate 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😂😂

[@MarcusFaulkner21]

Cross party politicians should be made to watch this - it mirrors the complete contract, from inception through pandemic to current construction. Desperate, embarrassing waste of taxpayer money that would, should and could have gone where needed more.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Hmm 😒

[@roxycrossdresserinhighheel1272]

By the time they got back be time for tea break then walk back to open gates again hope they on minimum wage !!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Hmmm. I'm not one to judge tbf

[@craiggreenhalgh1082]

HS2 , The Biggest White Elephant In The Last Fifty Years ❗

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yes mate and the tricks behind the scenes are dirty as anything

[@gaz4276]

Seams to be a bit of a long winded process.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Well compared to being a domestic household waste landfill site. Thisnis quite quick

[@stevepashley795]

Never in all my days have I ever seen a waste of time, money and resources when it takes 3 people to open a couple of gates to allow the loco and train to enter the work area. You only need 1 person to do that!!!!!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Ah assumptions make us both look like fools. Careful of that one

[@rugbyrailhub]

I semi regularly spot there usually its only 1 or 2 people

[@glynrogers1018]

Hi do they wash the trucks out at any time

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I could'nt answer that

[@decalshedsignsco6849]

3 men and a black cat to open a gate. I thought they were going to wheel barrow it in. pure trip hazzard where they are walking too

[@douglasashleigh4989]

Good to see that money-wasting frivolous public works projects don't just occur here in the US.

[@keithmatthews1673]

How do I get to be a HS2 Gate Warden and what qualifications are needed? Ideally I'd like to be the one who supervises the other two who do the gate opening donkey work. Good employment prospects for sure as it will take a VERY long time to fill that hole. If they create a deep cold lake it will be another spot for kids to get into trouble in the water the hot summers.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Like these balancing ponds all over new build estates

[@mickking5913]

Take them a week to unload that doing it like that,can't believe they are doing it like that.What about some side tippers haven't yous got any in pommy land.Well that's one thing I suppose at least the loco,s not hanging around.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Nah locos on form

[@Crepello100]

Scale all this down and it looks just like the magpies and jays eating out of my OO gauge birdseed train!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 😂

[@Macc1]

Boringly slow! JCB would speed things up here!

[@davidoswald9253]

What weight per waggon please? 100T?

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I'll let you google it first 😄 🤣

[@nialloconnell5895]

I unloaded stone wagons the same size in the past they would carry 75tons so 100 tons gross weight, i'd say they wouldn't be far off.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

It's a lot but not as much as I'd expect

[@leslie.ingley7573]

So they are changing the ecosystem by importing London clay to the area

[@RR98guy]

The staff opening the gate......no fkx were given. must be getting paid by the hour.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Gotta be safe

[@48billy0]

How long does it take to unload the whole train? About 6 months would be my guess. I want to be the driver, taking it easy in the cab and be on £65k per year.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Nah two a day. Drivers life for me

[@JeremyGibbs-k7q]

I gave up watching this when three people couldn’t open a gate…. FML what have we come to when people think this is work… why not have the gates open BEFORE the train arrives? Oh yes that’s right it’s massively more efficient to stop a train dead and then restart. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@coveryoureyesmedia]

The paint looks amazing though right?😊

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Immaculate 😃

[@brianlever3767]

Not rushing are they must be day work

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I'm not in any position to judge.

[@milehighclassics]

Your camera realy cuts the depth of field

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Epic ain't it. I'm quite happy with it

[@kafka8886]

Getting paid by the hour, obviously.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Aren't most of us

[@hamptonequipment5853]

I bet he wont dig his tracks out before he goes home🤣

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

The fella in the bulldozer cleans up

[@65Lynchy]

Wheels

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

hahaha

[@jeremynorman1330]

Don't break into a sweat whatever you do

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

lol

[@The-6666]

To the people who unloaded my cargo can I suggest that you invest in another vehicle that will help unload quicker thanks the driver

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I wonder why they don't use tipler wagons anymore. All my ironstone and Coal history books show them in use. I wonder why we don't anymore

[@Daveydave51]

I fast forwarded 4times and still nothing happened

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 in the adventure version I sped it up by 6 😄

[@michaeljohnson4636]

I would fancywaking on that gloop it will take ages to dry out so it can be landscaped

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Better than a landfill rubbish dump

[@emilychen7033]

This damning video should be shown across British Industry to showcase precisely how NOT to run any company! 3 of the slowest semi-moving clowns (let's call them Hughie, Louie and don't Doie) waddling along having a nice chat while the muck train waits for them to open a gate. Normal person - 1 minute tops. These clowns on a Government project - 10 minutes. I'm curious what 3rd guy - The one that does precisely NOTHING - get's paid p.a? Little wonder if this is how slow and disorganised unloading a simple muck-train is on HSR2 it's become the most expensive train line in the world. Connecting a place outside London knowbody has ever heard of to Birmingham - A place few people want to go! Management 'should' be held accountable for three idiots and sack them immediately without pay or redundency. Probably easily find new jobs in Snr. civil service positions.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Well it's had a lot of views so I bet someone has seen it

[@WHYKICKAMOOCOW100]

The fat controller still exists

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 😂

[@woodcote103]

HS2 is the real Black Hole....money pit. !

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I agree 👍 💯

[@tomprice2501]

Hope this will not cause a future sinkhole

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Probably would yaknow

[@alangood8190]

Leads you to believe British industry needs an Elon Musk type figure to sort out bad and wasteful practice. You can see why our capital projects run over budget and time. That wasn't spoil it was a gravy train.

[@paulboyle6857]

This was a bit "paint & dry" I'm afraid!!

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Try filming being there filming it. Watching paint dry whilst standing in a chiller

[@robertmiller1299]

Why are we still spending money on the vanity white elephant project?

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I don't think we have a choice

[@alanpercival840]

Well theres no coal underneath just leave it there save millions

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I suppose they have to take it somewhere. Atleast someone kinda used their brain to have the idea. Just a shame time management is missing

[@mightymoo8292]

Seems very inefficient all round

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yh it does does'nt it

[@chrisyates1574]

waste soil waste soil try leaving it were it is

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Be cheaper but population is expanding

[@markrobinson1458]

Why wasn't it opened in advance, FFS... 3 dopes trying is the reason the costs are accumulating daily, pathetic.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Because of trespassers and the train was already 30mins late

[@markspeller5722]

Jesus they know the trains coming and 3 blokes wombling towards the gate and the train has to stop 🙄 muppetry.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 I know right

[@HorseMalone]

All this devastation ..and only to save 20 minutes on a journey to Birmingham....As if any one except a pa key would want to go there anyhow !

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Please my friend no racism. We should all hate each other equally 😉

[@ganlin1]

its not just passengers hs2 gives freight more access

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Aye

[@JimHill-f7o]

So unproductive both staff and methodology 🙄

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

I won't argue those points that's for sure

[@milehighclassics]

Why,

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Why not

[@Minecraft-pj4hm]

Whole thing a waste of money. Railways carry 20% of movement of people and cost us near 12 billion and people complain of aircraft carriers cost that defend us. All HS 2 does is make Birmingham a suburb of London for rich Lodoners - the Taxpayer will still be expected to subsidise it , while it costs us at least 66 billion to build. Bring back Beeching- he was a sound business man, he would have cancelled it. The road user generates something like 20 billion for the Government.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Yep I agree with you.

[@TerryCharlton-f8d]

It takes 3 useless blokes to undo a gate and hold the train up typical of this country today

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

You think that's bad, you should see what some of our world class airforce bases are being used for. Unsold car storage

[@AlexanderWright1]

Five minutes of faffing about wasting time. If they had been ready, the train could have proceeded straight to the unloading dock.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Probably

[@yammyrob]

FFS how long to empty this train. I bet the train driver loves delivering this shite. Feet up ...nice sleep. Surely there is a faster way to empty these wagons. Utter madness.

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

truthhhh

[@farmstyle92macd55]

Boring af

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

😄 🤣 😂 😆

[@RalphWhittington]

When the 3 blokes started they run to the gate to open it now 25 years later they r old and ready to retire but Got a told of money in bank thanks to h s 2 but won't b finished to 2050 good luck

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Bless um

[@RalphWhittington]

Taking their time do they know what they r doing I can do that faster then them getting paid a lot of money

[@PurpleandCoRailwayAdventures]

Aye pal