News

• View and embed a new video showing the latest progress as HS2 completes the last of 2,011 concrete piles that form a key part of the foundations for the transformative new Curzon Street station in central Birmingham
• Download the full set of new images showing the public spaces that will be built around the city-centre station.
• Download more new images of the piling work and images of what the station will look like when complete.

• View and embed new drone footage showing the Coleshill East and West viaducts between the M6 and M42 in Warwickshire.
• Engineers working for HS2 have installed more than a thousand concrete deck segments to form the 600m long viaducts across the B4114 (Birmingham Road) and the flood plain of the river Cole. Download new photos.

• HS2 engineers have moved a 1,631 tonne steel bridge into place over Lawley Middleway in Birmingham four days ahead of schedule
• This is the next step in building the one mile stretch of five connected viaducts bringing high-speed trains into Birmingham Curzon Street Station
• View and embed new HS2 video of the bridge move
• Photos can be downloaded here: HS2 News and Information - Media gallery

• A steel bridge weighing 1,631 tonnes is ready to be moved into place over Lawley Middleway in Birmingham
• The 112m long structure will be moved during night-time operations
• The section will form part of the one mile stretch of five connected viaducts bringing high-speed trains into Curzon Street Station

HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Wild today issued a rallying cry to the property sector to capitalise on the huge investment opportunities being generated by the project.

• Major construction milestone as HS2 completes the first section of the 3.5-mile Bromford Tunnel linking Warwickshire and Birmingham
• Tunnel boring machine, Mary Ann, travelled under the region’s motorway network, watercourses and key National Grid infrastructure without disruption
• Specialist tunnelling teams spent 652 days and nights working underground to complete the mission
• Photographs capture the breakthrough moment https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/midlands-tunnels-and-cuttings/bromford-tunnel/mary-ann-breakthrough-may-2025
• Striking new images show the team at work underground https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/midlands-tunnels-and-cuttings/bromford-tunnel/bromford-tunnelling-heroes