HS2’s River Cole Viaducts take shape in the Delta Junction

[@ianhart3048]

More excellent news. Well done to the team!

[@RichardBacon-h5x]

Well done guys, keep up the great work!!

[@GIOGS]

Wouldn’t be a HS2 update video if there wasn’t music playing on top of an engineer speaking in their 2nd language…

[@ZDtue]

Don't you love his accent though😊

[@timstarkey-smith8842]

HS2 need to stop using foreigners for the commentary, being hard of hearing, it's difficult to understand what they re saying. And as for the background music... STOP IT !

[@mikewilson8513]

Great project. Incredible engineering.

[@rppacademic]

Do not stop there until HS2 has reached Edinburgh.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It isn't planned to go to Edinburgh

[@rppacademic]

@peterwilliamallen1063 You are right, but that is the main mistake... perhaps the politicians should give the authority and the power for HS2 coming true to those people who are building HSR in China.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@rppacademic It's taken years to be built from Birmingham / Lichfield to London Euston, it would take years to build through Cumbria and the Scottish low lands and high lands to Scotland

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

How do you get the idea the Chinnese would get it built quicker, they may do with millions of Chinese slave workers and bad construction, you lot do a lot of dreaming

[@Macc1]

Well worth the effort!

[@joze8722]

Why is Simon not working at Hinkley Point.

[@shaunwest3612]

Congratulations everyone, incredible work, amazing achievement 👍

[@will6309]

Wow, much achieve. Nice train, big beam.

[@RichardHill-bi5le]

Awesome!

[@Vallenexpress]

Hi HS2 Do you want to use the ad I made you?

[@joechampion.296]

Far better if connected with Sheffield Town

[@xaiano794]

the birmingham to leeds leg would have been so good

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@xaiano794 My Question to that is " WHY" would it be so good

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Again Why

[@xaiano794]

@peterwilliamallen1063 yeah I'm not going to respond in 60s, am I? And you clearly don't use the trains if you have to ask that question.

[@xaiano794]

@peterwilliamallen1063 try traveling to Leeds from Birmingham one day and see if you think hs2, which would take 27 minutes, would have been a good idea

[@MrJudgementday99]

I truly think if we can actually get train drivers to drive these trains regularly HS2 will be a great success. I suppose what I really don’t understand if the massive massive overspend from the original estimates. Is this because there was a criminal underestimate at the start , incompetence in the planning, or corruption in the delivery?

[@warden330]

Inflation aside (and construction costs have gne up a lot) route changes and mitigation works to address various objections have added enormously. Then there are always extra costs because of the unexpected, or assumptions such as whether costs could be offset against associated commercial developments, and so on. And there is always optimism. It doesn't require incompetence or corruption.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Yep Drivers will drive these trains, they will be the same drivers that drive the Avanti West Coast Pendolinos now as the HS2 train services will be operated by Avanti West Coast trains when it starts operating

[@chrisfletcher86]

Everytime they reduced the length or the scale, we lost some of the economies of scale that were priced in also.

[@MrJudgementday99]

@ so the original estimates was £37.5B and the current conservative estimate is £109B, if in my job I was wrong by a factor of 3, then I could only plead incompetence because the obvious answer is corruption. These are as bad as the MoD estimates. Are we paying for £5000 hammers?

[@MrJudgementday99]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 when they aren’t on strike.

[@aw34565]

If you travel from Euston to Birmingham by HS2 and your onwards connection is by train, you will want to go to Birmingham New Street Station, not Curzon Street. HS2 goes to the wrong place.

[@MrTumnus1987]

Tbf Curzon street is a 5mins walk away from New Street….

[@xaiano794]

there is going to be a direct link for pedestrians between the stations

[@lfcloyal8284]

How far from Curzon Street heading North is it actually going to be high speed line now ? Does all that money need spending on Delta Junction when it's really only HS2 from London to Brum ?..I work on the Railway and it's a genuine question to anyone with a better understanding than me 😁

[@xaiano794]

@@lfcloyal8284 yes, the junction will connect up with the regular lines so that trains could run on the regular tracks to manchester and beyond.

[@lfcloyal8284]

@@xaiano794 Yes I came in from Manchester to Birmingham in the Summer from the East during disruption on the conventional lines passing within a few hundred metres from the Curzon Street site....could they not connect from there into 'Curzon Street rather than spending all the money on Delta Junction ?

[@carolynhall1302]

😭

[@davidowen6977]

😮

[@addysadrija9430]

🫡

[@edwardtreadwell3859]

I don't think we will ever see a Kingfisher again on the River Cole. Massive destruction and totally unnecessary.

[@Polarbear1-b6j]

This area will be a far better environmental area once HS2 is finished. But it's interesting that you think all that tarmac in the adjacent motorways, let alone local roads and urban areas, didn't affect the Kingfishers or other wildlife, both during construction and use.

[@daveb8370]

What a terrible waste of money, will hardly be used by the time it's finished. Spending money for the sake of it

[@Polarbear1-b6j]

Hardly used, you're not up to date with current rail usage data or future predictions then.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Hardley used by the time it is finnished, what a stupid comment as once the HS2 line is open the vast majority of Avanti West Coast Trains from London to Birmingham, Nanchester, Liverpool and Scotland will have their services trnsfered from the southern half of the WCML to run on the HS2 line

[@MrTumnus1987]

Awful waste of money & a blight on our landscape in Birmingham.

[@OzyTheLast]

Good thing birmingham's a dump then yeah?

[@mrglide7078]

In your opinion

[@GIOGS]

Ah yes, the world famous picturesque landscape of Birmingham 🥴 Couldn’t imagine being against a project that will benefit the lives of many millions and drive new capacity and growth. 🤡

[@xaiano794]

says the guy who likely uses major infrastructure on a daily basis - but I guess anything that doesn't directly benefit you personally is a waste, right?

[@xaiano794]

@@GIOGS I know, my view of the M5-M6 interchange will be ruined!