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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 13 July 2020, 20:15:01

Title: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: TheBoy on 13 July 2020, 20:15:01

HS2 Ltd have made these strange zigzags they are making in the fields, what are they for?

(Warning, attached link is a 400Mb MOV file!)

https://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/oof_odds_and_sods/hs2-12jul20.mov

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: VXL V6 on 13 July 2020, 20:28:16

Maybe some sort of geological survey?

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: dave the builder on 13 July 2020, 21:16:54

perhaps looking for more funding  ;D

mandatory archaeological or more likely geographical survey by the looks of it  ,
surveying the geology for potential opencast gravel quarry for building  materials  :-\

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: biggriffin on 15 July 2020, 10:41:12

Standard pre construction ground survey. Will be ground drilling next, for core samples, them arclogical digs

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: TheBoy on 15 July 2020, 19:23:02

I know its making a bloody mess ;D.  That section isn't as advanced as some other bits round here, but thats the only bit the drone can reach with me hanging out of the bedroom window.

So survey work :y.  Bit late in the day if the ground aint suitable ;D Still, its only (our) money.

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 15 July 2020, 19:34:13

If Boris had any sense he would use the current bankruptcy of the country as an excuse (valid reason actually) to either cancel it or at least kick it into the long grass.
He U turns on everything else, so why not this too ?  ::)

Title: Re: Q for train buffs and infrastructure
Post by: biggriffin on 16 July 2020, 06:08:58

Go around M25 near maple cross, that Construction site there is all HS2, start of the Chiltern tunnel,.