RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted yesterday at 18:41 RMweb Premium Share Posted yesterday at 18:41 6 hours ago, APOLLO said: Railways do blend into the landscape, as HS2 will do over time. Whereas the M6 in the Lune Valley remains a great scar on the landscape. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted yesterday at 18:54 Share Posted yesterday at 18:54 6 hours ago, APOLLO said: Railways do blend into the landscape, as HS2 will do over time. I've been saying that for years about OLE too 😁 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoholic Posted yesterday at 19:21 Share Posted yesterday at 19:21 3 hours ago, 62613 said: About 2% of the land in the U.K. is built on. Sometimes I do wonder if a blank cheque wouldn't be a bad idea, rather than the constant spoiling of the ship for a ha'porth of tar mentality abroad in our country; quite often when the project is just about to bear fruit. Before anyone comments, I do know from my lowly position that that's not how it works! 10% of England is built on. If you allow for the wastelands of the north, the figure for SE England must be very much higher. The south of England also has almost all of the productive agricultural land. Describing efforts to mitigate the damage as "a ha'porth of tar mentality" is just flippant and doesn't deserve to be taken at all seriously. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted yesterday at 20:22 Share Posted yesterday at 20:22 Wastelands of the north indeed. I remember driving over Woodhead pass, Sheffield to Manchester (after a visit to Rails shop !!) one cold and stormy winters day around 2000. Dark clouds were quickly forming. One minute I could see Manchester in the distance, the next it started snowing, horizontally. It was a more than a bit scary. Visions of getting seriously stranded within sight of the UK's third largest city and eaten alive by wolves !! Luckily I slid downhill to Tintwistle and safety as the road was closed eastbound. Who says the UK is overcrowded !! Oh, there was once an electrified railway up there, once the pride of British Railways. Trouble is it was 'oop north, so had to go. Brit15 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus1 Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Have a look at GSV for the M20 in Kent then see if you can spot HS1 running alongside, especially near Lenham and Charing. I'm sure if Peter Hendy had a blank cheque he'd spend it wisely. He seemed to do well at TfL before the maniac politicians regained control 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Not Jeremy Posted 13 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 13 hours ago 1 hour ago, locoholic said: Lord Hendy is a minister of state in our current Labour government - he IS one of the maniac politicians! Good! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted 10 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 10 hours ago Getting to Birmingham in 20 seconds is surely going to cause indigestion? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/11/style/europe-railroad-dining-cars-wagons-lits/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted 4 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 4 hours ago This video has just been posted showing the site where the concrete segments for the Delta junction viaducts are being made. As far as I can tell it:0's at the Northern apex of the triangle on what looks like a former sewage works on Google earth. Jamie 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago On 10/10/2024 at 18:59, locoholic said: Go to Los Angeles if you want to see what a blank cheque looks like... Did you read yje whole of the post; particularly the last bit, about my having some idea of how project engineering works, finance - wise? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 3 hours ago, jamie92208 said: ......As far as I can tell it:0's at the Northern apex of the triangle on what looks like a former sewage works on Google earth. The facility is alongside the M42 , west of Marston. About a mile NE of M42 junction 9 and just NE of the new HS2 .bridge that was slid across that section of motorway, some 18+ months ago. This location is approx. 2.9km (1.8 miles) north of the northern apex of the Delta Junction and just north of the HS2 eastern leg, junction spur. In fact, part of the site lies on the trace of the start of the proposed eastern leg line. . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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