HS2 in 4K from Amersham to Birmingham at 100 mph by Air. 13th Sept 2024

Thanks for this video, one of the best I've seen for this project!

Thanks for the vid. Good to see progress from the air like this

If only more people could see this proof that the project is very much progressing

I'd been wondering for a while how much of the route had broken ground - this is just what I needed!

Aaaah tunnels under what let’s face it is a bunch of fields….You. Could. Not. Make. It. Up.

Someone else did the same thing on the California high speed railway project. You guys are the GOAT. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

So it's alright to have a polluting motorway driven through the countryside, but not an electric railway. Let's just spend pots of money and extend the Underground instead.

Very interesting to see the work from that height. A whole new perspective. Nice one 👍

Was the pilot deliberately trying to track the line of route with the shadow of the aircraft - or was that just a happy accident!

Nice to see the extent of the devastation and inconvenience required to inflate politicians egos and serve their donors. I appreciate the effort you have put in.

FYI, you incorrectly labelled Little Missenden and the tunnel shaft area nearby. Gt. Missenden is a few miles further NW.

I'm hoping you have plans for another flight in the coming months for a follow up trip _ 🙏 _ we get to see the progress on sections that don't get seen _ excellent _ enjoyed💯_ do another one 👏

This is awesome. What camera and mount did you use to capture this? Or is it built into the plane?

Why is there so much disturbance to the left and right of where the tracks will be? Why are all these pond like things being produced? Great video btw 👌

Is that the old GCR line running in parallel at 14.35 ???

great to see the 1 year update, thanks

Horrific, pointless environmental vandalism.

I've always thought flying over how depressing it looks from above. Limited opportunity for land based wildlife to cross from east to west, hundreds of metres of scarred landscape to either side of the tracks. Hopefully nature recovers once it's done.

If only more people could still see the northern southern divide. I am 57 & it has always been like this. They have just cancelled the duelling of A1 again north of Newcastle. My grandfather was pushing for this & he died in 1992. Unbelievable that this still goes on & politicians still want our votes.

All this to put two rail tracks down and one train every half hour with NO FREIGHT and ticket prices most could not afford to clip an hour off current journey times? And, the cost? Started at £36 BILLION and is now well over £150 BILLION and rising.
When will it have its first train? Whenever it seems, no one seems to know exactly. The original timing was to be 2017 to 2026 with every modern piece of equipment to achieve this.
The London to Birmingham Railway was built in the mid 1800's by 20,000 men, shovels, barrows, mostly mules and horse drawn wagons, took just 5years to build. It cost £5.5 MILLION raised by PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FINANCE and took passengers and freight.
This HS2 is a flagrant waste of TAXPAYER's money.
And now this Liebour Party are to clip its wings at Crewe?

I'm really struggling to understand what I am looking at here. I saw a tunnel exit then there's just ground-works. At one point there is railway track but the plane veers off from that and goes along the ground-works beside it. It almost looks like there are no rails laid yet. Is that right?

Great to see the progress, thanks for posting, do another in a year..?....

Dunno if it's been done by design or chance but congratulations! Half way through and my gamble to put the video into warp speed (x2) right from the start is even now continuing to pay off with the added bonus of the music just about staying on the right side of the line between bearable and cartoon mice à la style Disné mille neuf cents trente trois. As you might say.

In a perfect world, there would be a companion version of this video with a split screen showing various maps of the area flown over.
In a possible future edition of it, if such were to be made, as well as being an engaging way to display the much vaunted progress down the line, it would be all the moreso if it included a lot more information on what we are seeing in front of us. Topping that off would be captions with info on landmarks and places the line passes through, coupled with the cherry on the top bonus of captions with info on the infrastructure you show us.

The whole thing is a marvel of modern engineering and your archetypal dispassionate bystander ought to find it hard not to wonder at the wonders which keep flying by. Be they tunnels, bridges, viaducts or earthworks, they keep coming.
Indeed it is equally hard not to wonder at the immensity of the scar it's created at this midpoint, the most visible and unsettingly extensive apparent disregard by humanity for mother earth!

Agree with them or not, the naysayers, nimbys and general doomsayers who voice their views on the line (and now I come to think of it, the people on the opposing side of the argument engaged in praising it too) are patently wasting their time.
Whichever end of the seesaw you choose to sit on, time to get things off your chest and possibly make a difference, is very much long gone.
It's right here before your very eyes! Take the pent up ρι55εΔ off - ness you harbour in your heart and proove your worth to your cause by learning about one of any number of pending projects around the globe, especially if it can be tarred with the brush of the
"unthinking thrust through virgin flora in the name of progress"
accusation. Then your bleating can more respectfully and correctly be termed environmental concerns and changes may result.
Good luck and good ruminating!

HS2, Terrible waste of money, for so very little return

Your drone is so big it creates an Umbra of its own...best eclipse since august 1999...

All that compulsory purchased good arable food producing land... lord knows how many farmers made a pocketful of cash...only to have Labour stealing that money back....what a farce!.... anyway.... Brunel would built this quicker and cheaper... RIP I K Brunel !

Be nice to do this every few months to show progress and the differences over time.

A white elephant,but it's happening.

The Whole Thing Is A Complete And Utter Waste Of Money That Could Have Been Spent Better Elsewhere A Vanity Project.

Genuinely what a f**king mess! Have we not got a perfectly good railway from London to Birmingham already and yet the government are happy to throw away 27billion on this project already. No wonder they put a tax on farmers inheritance tax after shelling out 500million on the land they have ruined.

What a pleasant and well produced video - thank you!

Can I come for a ride next time please?

Just build some stations so people can use the thing , utter nonsense that it needs to be so fast , far less energy required to run it slower , and put some stations with good car parks and travel links so commuters can use it and it would start to make sense

Thank you, there are many videos out there but this gives a lovely overview over a long distance and we can pause and get a good look at the structures being built. Great!

Why do humans waste so much time and effort and money of course

Can clearly see where all the money has been wasted

Looking good as construction progresses. In a year or so, when most of the new over bridges are completed and local roads are re-aligned to use them, we will really be able to see the trace of the line. The finished line will have a track width of 14 metres I believe, so the areas of land currently used for storage, haul roads, etc will be re-instated and start greening over.

In the time it has taken to get this far for HS2, China has built 1000s of km of high speed railway.

Nice video but... What a mess and what a waste of money HS2 is.

I have tried to do a flight like this but could never get it organised.

sadly for me, I don’t know any pilots who’d take me, nor do I have a license. but here you went and did it, and filmed it.

thanks! great video. great day for it, too.