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For more up to date satellite imagery (albeit at lower resolution than GE which is in fact mostly shot from aircraft) try the Sentinel Playground. It doesn't quite update daily, but there's usually a few updates per month though what can be seen is weather dependent. Here's a link centred on...

It may be worth mentioning that the Act has sunset clauses (time limits) which means the Govt. can not just postpone the works it authorises indefinitely whilst still retaining the powers the Act confers. However, one wonders whether, should the Act lapse, they would need to "start again from...

There was a bit of a "go slow" crossing the A412 as they could only work there at night when the road could be closed. (In case it's not obvious to readers, you can't really be dangling hundreds of tonnes of concrete on cables above live traffic lanes!) It seems to have progressed a bit faster...

I don't think the conveyors are completed yet - particularly the one across the Chiltern Line to the Harvil Road "triangle" where the main compound is located and some of the spoil is going to be (ahem) "sustainably placed." Also, since a big chunk of cutting thereabouts is now going to be a...

Thanks -would you care to give an indication of where the platform would be. The only place I can envisage is on the footprint on the old "halt" just south of Wells House Road (even that may have to be relatively short.)

There's a thread on SkyScraperCity that has some pics of the span over the A412 more or half way completed as at 11-Sept-2022. I don't know about the piers either - I live fairly close by, but it's ages since I've been up there...

Are the mainline trains equipped with tripcocks...? IIRC the stretch of LUL route between HOTH and Finchley Rd still requires them. 1663021611 This is rapidly becoming an urban myth that just refuses to die (like reopening the GC line.) Get a map and some crayons and see where the alleged...

IIRC the "Bluebell Woods" (Swynnerton) camp got evicted a few weeks ago with little, if any, media attention. This was the last (of very few) "protest camps" along the line of route. For anyone wanting more details on protestor activity, rail journalist Paul Bigland blogs (and Tweets) on the...

Incidentally, there's already a few bits of a TBM on site at Water Orton. They can be seen in this vid at about 1m24s onwards...

Authority for the change to the Bromford Tunnel is being sought under the auspices of a Transport and Works Act Order (TWOA.) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-and-works-act-orders-a-brief-guide-2006/transport-and-works-act-orders-a-brief-guide

I'd say not really - for a vote that the opposition supports and the Govt. will easily win with it's own majority, there's just no need for the opposition to turn up and vote with the Govt. Especially if they've "done a deal" in advance. HS2's opponents may try and spin it a such I suppose.

Apologies if this is inappropriate for this thread, but the Phase2B (Crewe to Manchester) Bill sailed through 2nd Reading in the House of Commons on 20th June 2022 with a vote of [Correction] 205 MP's For and only 6 Against.

For those interested in rates of progress of (Chiltern) TBM's, stop starts and so on, there's some interesting information in the linked presentation.

Aren't they called "tandem" switches in UK parlance...? As opposed to "true" three-throw switches with common toe points.

This Chiltern Society have a web site that they publish photos on. I have not watched the YouTube presentation, but I'd hazard a guess there's a few pictures that didn't make it in... https://chilternsociety.org.uk/hs2-photo-diary/

What is the perceived "problem" with reversing a train at a station? For my two cents worth, at time of posting, it's 2022 not 1922. We have electric multiple unit trainsets with distributed traction and cabs at each end which can be reversed in minutes. It's not as if we need to uncouple a...

There were also some "COVID effects" causing Parliament to no sit for a while when the Bill was in the Lords.

Are they using "Series 1" type equipment with Tensorex springs et al rather than weights...?

I doubt it is the TBM's per se - maybe it's something from the West Hyde site which is presumably operating 24 hours a day to support the tunnelling works. Or even Heathrow - I can often hear that from nearly 5 miles away in Uxbridge depending on wind direction and cloud cover. In a...