https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjTmjQ1jx_4 Burton Green, in Warwickshire, now lies completely divided by a HS2 construction site as work continues to build the Burton Green Tunnel in their rural...

The struggling HS2 project has become a ‘casebook example’ of how not to run such a scheme, according to a committee of MPs. https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2025/02/28-hs2-is-damaging-britains-reputation.html

Buckinghamshire Council’s decision to reject HS2 Ltd's planning application for a groundwater monitoring chamber in...

Environment secretary Steve Reed has said that the spending “vast sums” on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) so-called “bat tunnel” is...

HS2 is on BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2d1v5yyxo

Contractors building HS2 have completed work on a pair of innovative extensions to the southern portal of its longest tunnel to eliminate the possibility of ‘sonic boom’ being created by high-speed trains entering at 200mph.  The...

A 3D model created using computer-generated imagery software shows how a 2,050-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through into an underground reception can filled with foam concrete and installed the 4,217th concrete tunnel ring to complete the...

    TBM Caroline has arrived at Green Park Way in Ealing, the second TBM in London to complete this year HS2's Northolt tunnel is now 93% complete  HS2 has today (3rd April 2025)  completed a 5-mile...

  Following its 5-mile drive underneath the capital, HS2 lifted Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ‘Sushila’ out of the ground at the Green Park Way site in Greenford, West London. The cutterhead, front and middle shield,...

"Two giant tunnelling machines have been assembled and are ready to dig the HS2 tunnel between Old Oak Common and London Euston" but.... https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/02/25/hs2-euston-tunnel-work-put-on-hold/

  HS2 has unveiled the first twin-bore tunnel on the project to be completed at Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.  The development sees the completion of features such as cross passages, base slabs and walkways – ahead...

  Civil engineering specialist MPB Structures will build the substructure for HS2’s flagship station in Birmingham A team of around 140 people will start delivering the works in early 2025 Training and jobs will be available...

HS2 Ltd has submitted a planning application for a 530m long cutting that will connect to the south end of the Burton Green cut and cover tunnel in Kenilworth,...

c.£300m award to deliver the high voltage electrical network for the UK’s new high speed rail line. A Siemens Mobility and Costain Joint Venture is to be awarded a long-term contract to deliver high voltage (HV) power supply systems...

  £400m award will deliver critical lineside mechanical & electrical systems for the UK’s new high speed rail link. Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, has won a major contract to deliver tunnel and...

Happy new year to all the colleagues in the group. Kris.

Intriguing High Speed 2 media release on 30 Dec 2024. HS2 takes shape: progress to deliver Britain's new high-speed railway revealed Figures show progress made on tunnelling, viaducts and earthworks as construction advances on...

The high-speed rail project ‘must obviously comply with the law’, Mark Wild says — but when it will open and how much it will cost are still...

HS2 plans to renegotiate its contracts with the joint ventures delivering the London-Birmingham rail scheme as part of a “fundamental reset” of the delivery...

    TBM Sushila has reached Green Park Way, breaking through underground into a reception can in a complex engineering operation The Northolt Tunnel will take HS2 trains from West Ruislip, on the outskirts of the capital,...