News

• One of the world’s oldest surviving pieces of monumental railway architecture to be preserved and enhanced in new HS2 Curzon Street Station.
• Leader of Birmingham City Council: "This is an important milestone in the transformation of this amazing old building and the new Curzon Street Station will be one of the real show pieces of the entire HS2 network.”

• 240 sites now active along the route between London and the West Midlands, employing over 13,000 people with tens of thousands more jobs supported through the supply chain
• Striking new images from HS2’s construction sites – including four mega bridges installed at our Solihull site – available at this link:  https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction-our-progress-along-the-line-of-route/year-in-numbers-2020 

New video, drone footage, photos of the site and Tunnel Boring Machines available here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/tbms-and-tunnels-massive-machines-and-their-current-progress/long-itchington-wood-tunnel 

HS2 and the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) have agreed to work together to deliver the utility diversions required to enable the planned Birmingham Eastside extension to serve the new HS2 Curzon Street Station on its proposed route to Digbeth.

• HS2 will cut emissions, improving air quality and supporting a net-zero carbon economy
• Emissions are being ‘designed out’ of HS2 stations and depots
• Green initiatives during construction include transporting material by rail, adopting zero pollution machinery, and using renewable energy such as solar power

• HS2 – The Biggest Dig, a three part documentary series, to air on BBC Two from Tuesday 15 September
• Series presented by anthropologist and anatomist, Professor Alice Roberts, and historian, Dr Yasmin Khan.