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In this video I follow the route from the North Portal at South Heath, all the way to Ellesborough Road at Wendover. There has been a lot of progress since my last visit early in January. TBM Florence has broken through and HS2 have published nothing about this. You will see it here first.
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Date of upload: Feb 25, 2024 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Amazing engineering feat should have been built years ago.
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Great video - the tunnel breakthrough is a real surprise! There is a real sense of progress now. I like the way some of the cuttings have been grassed and blend in well with the landscape. I think it gives an idea what it will look like in a few years time.
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1:33 That concrete structure is probably a concrete batching plant. The bins will be for aggregate storage and the foundation near them will be where the batching tower will be placed.
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Another excellent video Karl, thanks for taking the time to do this. Appreciated.
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Brilliant video as usual Karl, many thanks. Florence’s breakthrough was featured on BBC South news this evening 27/02/2024.
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Great scoop on the breakthrough!
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Looks like you are the first to report on the tunnel being completed! Well done. There was something about a sink hole forming due to tunnelling. Perhaps hs2 was waiting for that story to reach its conclusion first?
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The concrete structure looks like a temporary area to contain materials?
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This spans the whole area of my youth, I can hardly recognise any of it ?!!🤔🧐
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Empty car park, all marked out at 1:51 - what's the story behind that, will it be kept?
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It looks to me like they were all set up for a breakthrough ceremony but that the news has been suppressed for political reasons. I feel sorry for the tunnelling teams who have worked so hard for so long and have now been denied their moment of glory.
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Looks like you saw a painting of the TBM on the wall, the official video shows parts of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zzmj9gmGxU
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Would be much quicker if put underground especially in built up areas and when crossing roads, rivers or other railways. Costs of tunnelling are known with precision. Render the compulsory purchases obsolete and put the lawyers out of business.
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I support HS2 but the sheer amount of space taken up outside the trace with construction and temporary works seems so unnecessary. Also the vast complexes of temporary offices with their car parks, do all these pen pushers really need to be located on site? I don't recall seeing all this with other similar projects such as motorways and HS1.
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it's the main reason this thing is so damn expensive. they've gone and built NEW roads, bridges and god-knows what else IN THE WAY so they have to spend money tearing down what they've spent money putting up. it's completely and utterly insane.
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Utterly grotesque. Stomach churning.
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Sorry, I'm late again. Was away last week and somehow missed the notification.
Great video, as always.
There's going to be quite a few "Ah, so that's what it's for" moments in the coming months!
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@KarlVaughan
2 months ago
Just a follow up about what I said about the breakthrough on the 24th February - I saw in the news today that the actual breakthrough happened this morning (27th Feb) and that what I saw from the air was just a painting covering it up. So that means there was no scoop from me after all :)
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