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 viaducts in HS2’s Delta Junction, totalling 6,500 metres in length.
The process installs pre-cast concrete segments produced at HS2’s nearby factory, where a 200-strong team have celebrated making the first 1,000 segments.
Download new images showing the beams being lifted into position at Edgcott Road near Quainton, Bucks.
The 112-metre (abutment to abutment) long structure will span both HS2 and a currently disused freight line could be reinstated and upgraded in the future to carry local passenger trains