High Speed Rail

Students from across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire were given an insight into the huge range of jobs on offer at HS2 when the high-speed rail project opened its doors to local schools and colleges on 21 and 22 September. Almost 200...

Systems integration specialist Sella Controls has been award the contract to deliver the Building Management and SCADA Systems (BMS) for the S1 and S2 Section Tunnels for HS2 (High Speed 2 Limited). The contract has been awarded by the main...

At its Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday 6 September, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council approved HS2’s plans for the Balsall Common Viaduct. The plans incorporate local feedback focusing on environmental sustainability, landscape integration, visual connectivity and public access. The project is...

An eco-friendly road bridge over the HS2 line in Birmingham has been approved by planners, with new designs ensuring the structure blends sympathetically with the local environment. HS2 Ltd has received Schedule 17 planning approval from Birmingham City Council for...

Three Walsall College students are striding straight into new careers on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project – HS2 - after securing the results they needed in their Construction - Design, Surveying and Planning T-Level. As part of their studies, Jemma Lahert-Cotterill,...

HS2 has completed the first of 32 giant piers for the first Water Orton Viaduct as work ramps up to build the Delta Junction, the project’s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands. HS2’s main works contractor for...

HS2 is asking for members of the public, living in Ealing, Brent and beyond, to help it chose names for the next two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will dig HS2 tunnels under the capital. In early 2024, HS2 will...

A team of 20 demolition experts from Solihull-based firm Armac Demolition has worked 24/7 to remove a 4,000 tonne two-span bridge over the M42 to make way for the HS2 railway in the West Midlands. The team used eight 50...

HS2 today confirmed that ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ – the two giant tunnelling machines digging HS2’s longest tunnels - have reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft, more than three quarters of the way through their 10 mile drive under the...

HS2’s new ‘super-hub’ station in West London, which will be the largest newly built station in the UK, is currently under construction, and has been awarded an outstanding rated score under the internationally recognised Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM)...