HS2 not going to London Euston, paper reports
HS2, Britain’s new high speed rail link, faces a massive blow to the prestige of the project. Reports in the UK claim that the line will no longer reach Euston in central London and will...Read more
Birmingham’s first HS2 viaduct pier completed
Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, is taking shape in Birmingham. The first bridge pier on the 300 metres long Curzon Viaduct has been topped out and revealed to the city. The project managers have hailed...Read more
HS2 begins work on Birmingham Curzon Viaduct
The company building Britain’s high-speed railway project, HS2 Limited, has revealed designs for the viaduct that will span the 150-metre section on final approach to Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station. The bridge design features a...Read more
Sweet Caroline comes on stream for HS2’s 30,000 project workers
HS2, Britain’s high speed rail project under construction between London and the Midlands, has launched its second tunnelling machine underneath the streets of the capital. Above them, the company has announced its workforce has hit...Read more
HS2: another week, another tunnel
HS2 Limited, the company building the high-speed railway between London and Birmingham, has launched the next phase of tunnelling on the enormous infrastructure project. The first of six tunnel boring machines that will dig over...Read more
The vast HS2 construction site that is London Euston
If anyone remains sceptical, and still has lingering doubts that the high-speed railway line between Birmingham and London will go ahead, they need only visit the southern end of the borough of Camden. There, for...Read more
HS2 achieves the project’s first tunnelling breakthrough
HS2 on Tuesday marks the high-speed rail project’s very first tunnelling breakthrough. Last Friday, the 125-metre-long tunnel boring machine (TBM) used to tunnel under the Long Itchington Wood reached the reception box at the site’s...Read more
HS2 project reaches a megaton milestone
HS2, the company formed to build the railway, says it has delivered a million tonnes of materials by rail. This has taken 100,000 lorry journeys off local roads in rural Buckinghamshire, according to HS2. The...Read more
HS2 to deliver seamless mobile connectivity
Soon there will be no escape. Not even underground. “I’m going into a tunnel, so I might lose you” will be thing of the past if Britain’s new high speed rail line lives up to technical...Read more
Protests against HS2 have cost project more than 120 million pounds
The various anti-HS2 protests have costs the railway project just shy of 122 million pounds (145,9 million euros), Minister of State at the Department for Transport Andrew Stephenson said in Parliament earlier this month.Read more
First stage of excavating the HS2 Chiltern tunnels completed
Two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) excavating HS2’s longest tunnel have completed the first stage. The first section from the Chiltern tunnel’s south portal to the first ventilation shaft are finished.Read more
Major HS2 construction packages up for grabs this month
The joint venture between construction firms Mace and Dragados, HS2’s construction partner for London’s Euston station, will be inviting bids on construction packages with a combined value of more than 500 million pounds (598 million...Read more
HS2 engineers working on digital twin for new high speed rail network
HS2’s infrastructure will be fitted with real time monitoring sensors, the project team announced last month. The data from these sensors will not only inform the construction method and performance of the line but will...Read more