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HS2 Project (High Speed 2)
Owner: Kris Lubcek
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What is HS2?
United Kingdom's High Speed 2 (HS2) project is a high-speed railway network under construction. HS2 railway is to link 21 destinations – Birmingham, Birmingham airport, Carlisle, Chesterfield, Crewe, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Manchester airport, Newcastle, Old Oak Common in London, Oxenholme, Penrith, Preston, Sheffield, Warrington and York.
The project is executed by the government-funded company High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. Company is responsible for for developing and promoting the project. HS2 Website says, the new high speed railway will connect 8 of UK's biggest 10 cities serving around 30 million people, almost half the UK population.
The HS2 project is comprised of Phase 1 and Phase 2 parts. According to HS2 Ltd, Phase 1 will link London and Birmingham by 2026 and Phase 2 will link West Midlands and Manchester in the west and Leeds in the east completing the network by 2033.
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HS2 Euston Tunnel funding confirmed in UK budget
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/
Balfour Beatty VINCI already provided over one million cubic metres of concrete for HS2 in the West Midlands
By Kris LubcekBalfour 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...HS2’s Interchange Station takes step forward with bridge progress
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...Ministers to oversee HS2 and contractors face review as costs allowed to 'spiral out of control'
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...
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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