Recent content by Geogregor

I think there might be enough space between the Old Oak Lane and platforms for track to drop a bit. How much height difference are we talking about?

Interesting few lines in the latest TfL Commissioner's Report: https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s24055/board-20250611-item05b-Commissioner%20Report.pdf

Mention of the DLR new fleet in latest Commissioner's Report: https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s24055/board-20250611-item05b-Commissioner%20Report.pdf

The problem is that this country is one large NimbyShire...

Aerial views of Atlas Road Logistics Tunnel entrance. Did they started stockpiling tunnel segments for the Euston TBMs? I can see some around the entrance to the tunnel (look at 3:05 of the video)

Latest shots from around Euston: What is this "blue shed" on top of the Granby Terrace bridge? Looks like maybe something to hold utilities temporarily rerouted from Hampstead Road.

They would absolutely drive the costs. Everyone in the industry will tell you. It is what drove the cost of Crossrail and many other projects. The idea that building HS2 through, or close to, build up areas on the stretch between London and Birmingham would be easier is preposterous. Building...

The whole fleet introduction is becoming a farce. Not yet at the class 701 level but give TfL some time and they might get there.

Doesn't SoS have right to override the obtrusive local councils? Anyway, the whole piecemeal approval process is a farce. Every single bridge needs separate planning application. This absolutely ludicrous way of building linear infrastructure. I don't think any other country in Europe does it...

I'm not sure about how much PR there will be. It seems that politicians mainly want HS2 to stay under the radar.

Some shots from Liverpool, they do look like nice trains from outside: 20250411_173603 by Geogregor*, on Flickr 20250411_173613 by Geogregor*, on Flickr Striking contrast: 20250411_173721 by Geogregor*, on Flickr

Detailed flyover over different areas of delta junction:

And even later video, the bridge is sliding in:

Not even in Vienna factory?

A lot of those earthworks are excessive and not really needed from purely engineering point of view. They are resulting from perverse obsession of trying to hide the line from the view of all the cows and sheep along the way. We can thank all the NIMBYs and bureaucrats. But yes, things will...