Train driver operates TBM Karen as HS2 launches final tunnelling machine towards Euston station. Credit: © High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. (© High Speed Two (HS2) Limited.) UK’s High Speed Two (HS2) has ...
HS2 has officially commenced excavation work of the final tunnel bore on the 140-mile railway between central London and the West Midlands.
Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory digging a railway to Euston.
Launched from Old Oak Common in west London on March 16, the 1,624-ton machine - named “Karen” - will excavate the second ...
The taxpayer-funded body behind the High Speed 2 railway line is mounting last-ditch talks to renegotiate the project’s civil engineering contracts, as it battles to curb soaring costs on the UK’s ...
Engineers have finished installing over 2,000 concrete piles, laying the foundations for Birmingham’s city-centre HS2 terminus and its surrounding public spaces ...
HS2 has reached a major construction milestone at its Birmingham terminus after completing the last of 2,011 concrete piles that will support the foundations of Curzon Street station.
A prominent dog whisperer is seeking over £8m in compensation from the government after his exclusive kennels were compulsorily acquired for the HS2 high-speed rail project. Matt ...
Senior executives in charge of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project must regularly assess its cost to avoid huge ...
The £2bn contract to build dozens of HS2 "bullet trains" is set for major changes as ministers prepare to outline fresh delays and cost overruns on the project. The deal, awarded in 2021 to a joint ...
Birmingham residents have been given a further glimpse of what the future could hold for the old Curzon Street Station. Opened in 1838, the station was the first direct railway li ...
An early visualisation of an HS2 high-speed train in the UK. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK’s HS2 is inviting small and medium-sized technology firms to submit proposals aimed at lowering costs and ...
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