Balfour Beatty release;
Balfour Beatty VINCI reaches key milestone as over half of the concrete needed for HS2’s West Midlands structures has been poured
Balfour Beatty VINCI and its UK materials suppliers have...
Funding to complete HS2 tunnelling from Old Oak Common into Euston Station has been included in latest UK budget.
https://tunnellingjournal.com/hs2-euston-tunnel-funding-confirmed-in-uk-budget/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3Zl4SZoWM
New photos and footage captured show engineering milestone completed at HS2’s Interchange Station
15 bridge beams weighing a total of 565 tonnes lifted into place in week-long...
The main news is that the government has ruled out reinstating the part of the project that Sunak had cancelled.
`The projected costs have risen from £30bn to as much as...
, despite the Treasury admitting it will not relook at the issue.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-first-minister-says-putting-30098996
'Rishi Sunak last year ruled out extending the HS2 line to central London unless enough private investment was secured for the project, hoping to save £6.5bn of taxpayers’...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZSLEzcvT9I
HS2’s giant tunnelling machine is halfway through its journey to build the 3.5-mile Bromford Tunnel
The 1,600 tonne machine called ‘Mary Ann’ has excavated and built 1.75 miles...
The high-speed rail company has issued a Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) inviting organisations to help shape its future procurement and ...
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-seeks-market-views-on-new-consultancy-tender-02-08-2024/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9BiMt2HG0
A giant cantilever structure, used in the UK for the first time, has built the first section of HS2’s 472 metre River Tame West Viaducts.
The specialist method will be used to build nine...
'HS2 Ltd estimates that closing down Phase 2 will take three years to complete at a cost of up to 100 million GBP'
and others;
https://railway-news.com/national-audit-office-examines-revised-hs2-plans/
Report lists disastrous impact of Rishi Sunak’s decision to delay high-speed rail link
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/hs2-station-euston-national-audit-office-watchdog-b1172370.html
The cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) north of Birmingham has seen billions of pounds and most benefits squandered, with the project now in an awkward state, a report from the National Audit Office (NAO)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZyTWRq3cTI
Quartet of tunnelling machines boring the Northolt Tunnel between West Ruislip and Old Oak Common station have built half of the tunnel
New video and images shows the unstoppable momentum of the...
The completion of HS2’s Chiltern Tunnels has won the Major Project prize at the 2024 Railway Innovation Awards.
https://www.modernrailways.com/article/chiltern-tunnels-wins-innovation-award-major-project
New Chief Executive will join HS2 Ltd to drive next stage of Britain’s biggest infrastructure programme
Mark Wild OBE arrives with an exceptional track record of complex infrastructure delivery, including successful...