Work has ramped up on High Speed 2's (HS2's) 700m long cut and cover tunnel at Burton Green in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, with the completion of the southern portal entrance and tunnel construction 50% done.
The government will fund the tunnelling work needed to take High Speed 2 (HS2) trains to Euston station, chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in yesterday’s Autumn Budget.
Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has begun foundation work for a new bridge that will enable High Speed 2 (HS2) trains to pass under a major A-road in Staffordshire.
The UK government has announced an independent review of High Speed 2 (HS2) and a “renegotiation” of contracts to control the spiralling costs of the project, as plans progress for a new rail line to replace its axed northern leg.
Work has started on the installation of 2,000 piles for the foundations of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Birmingham Curzon Street station.
High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Euston station has passed a key milestone with the completion of a £450M enabling works package carried out by Skanska, although the station remains unfunded.
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) excavating the first bore of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 5.6km Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham has reached the halfway point.
Work to close down the cancelled northern leg of High Speed 2 (HS2) will take three years, cost up to £100M and include the remediation of thousands of boreholes, a National Audit Office report has found.
As High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Northolt tunnel between West Ruislip and Old Oak Common station reaches the halfway mark, contractors gear up to receive tunnel boring machines (TMBs) for the Euston tunnel this summer.
Contractors have completed the excavation of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Old Oak Common station underground box after three years of work and the removal of 1.3M.t of clay.
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