HS2 Interchange (Birmingham)

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In Brisbane Qld rather than build high speed rail to The Gold and Sunshine Coast, The LNP at previous state level decided to build congestion increasing road tunnels and now at Brisbane Council level decided to build a amusement park ride the Metro.

Came past that area around Christmas and it's fascinating to see how much work is taking place. Looking forward to updates

38 mins to London , incredible,thanks.

I'm based just 5 min away from this location and i'm impressed how quickly all the roadworks were done and with very little disruption for the locals. I hope this new station will boost the traffic to NEC and surrounding malls and stadiums as it's half empty at the moment. I honestly think even a link to the West London for now would be beneficial as 2 hr train to Euston is just ridiculous and we have to take it as Avanti charges sometimes up to £100 per ticket so some competition won't hurt. And I'm excited with 38 min away from London we are going to be essentially the outskirts of London with lots of people moving here for cheaper housing with an easy commute.

Thank you. That has at last given me an understanding of all the road changes in that area.

Thanks for the vid. I visited Interchange myself back in October. I don't know if you saw it but just outside the nearby Holiday Inn Express hotel on the side of the road going towards the Interchange site, there is a sign for the roundabout with the Interchange Station writing painted over. It's interesting that they've future-proofed the road signage so far in advance but it was pretty cool to see.

Looking like work is well underway with the road infrastructure (which looks pretty complicated!) I don’t think I’d clocked that it will only be 38mins to Birmingham - to put that in perspective - it’s about 30 minutes from Redhill (just south of the m25) to London Bridge!

Boom, new video!

The train between coventry and newstreet is already stretched to maximum capacity. Will be interesting to see how this works. Most the time I can't even get in a carriage so this is going to be q nightmare for commutors to and from Birmingham and Coventry.

As soon as you get on the LGV in France, the difference in scale and population density between the two countries is immediately obvious. If this had been perused as part of a through trans-European network it would have made some sense holistically, but as things stand it’s not looking like an appropriate use of funds at all. How many miles of electrification could have been completed on the existing network? Pretty much most of the important gaps could have been filled. In times when electric transport is the favoured way forward, surely a copper wire beats any other storage/transmission solution and we could have really benefitted large swathes of the country with this level of investment spent differently. As for freeing up lower speed freight paths on the WCML southern end - surely this would need major investment in signalling infrastructure to give tighter stopping distances and block lengths, otherwise your just running slower trains in great big spaces intended for faster ones (horses for courses)?

If it wasn’t for politicians and nimby tree huggers hs2 would be well on it’s way to completion. Great video and update.

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Apparently HS2 is being delayed but still construction is continuing especially in Birmingham.

All its done is increase my journey on the A452 to stonebridge island past melbricks.

Annoyingly, it will have a MASSIVE surface car park, which is dumb. It really needs a multistorey car park to reduce its footprint.

When this project is completed at a cost to us the tax payer, who will run the trains, look after the track and the infrastructure. Will it be private companies who will generate profits for themselves, or will the cost be reimbursed to the tax payer via the travelling g public, ie the tax payer.

Anyone remember when China built a train station in 9 hours? UK is hopeless.

That the final stretch from Old Oak Common to Euston won't be ready when the first finished section opens, is a farce in itself. It beggars belief. Can the Tories do nothing right? ...... evidently, yes it seems. As for the section to Leeds being scrapped altogether - that says it all. Disgraceful ineptitude.

2 years ago. The Chinese would have finished the whole railway in that time. The UK really is pathetic. Whatever, thanks for the post.