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• Timelapse footage and photos show demolition experts from Solihull-based firm Armac removing a 4,000 tonne bridge over the M42
• The 20-strong team carried out the 24/7 operation in 52 hours, ahead of schedule
• One 100 tonne excavator and seven 50 tonne excavators were used to demolish the 400 metre long bridge over the motorway

• HS2 starts 2024 with a major milestone as five year station construction programme begins in central Birmingham
• Birmingham Curzon Street station will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the 19th Century
• Hundreds of jobs will be created during the build, including apprenticeships and opportunities for unemployed people
• Official start of construction photos from an event on site on Wednesday 24 January - https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/wvxws3hc5sxstxqb7xfpcbv  
• CGI images of the station; Animated flythrough of the station; Aerial footage of the site

• Three dedicated HS2 Recruitment Hubs now open in Birmingham and Solihull (PICTURES - https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/54k9k69cxhsmk7fn6bjfqv
• A record 4,000 formerly unemployed have already secured jobs on HS2
• Thousands more jobs still to come in the West Midlands
• Millie Bayliss from Kingstanding, Birmingham is the 4,000^th unemployed person to start work on HS2 (PICTURES https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/ttps5q6bbpcvsq9kcwrn6z56)
• West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street welcomes the investment and the commitment to support more unemployed people into work on HS2 (PICTURES: https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/vz7smjrx39grx8tqh9584)
• B-roll footage - meet Millie, HS2's 4,000th formerly unemployed candidate and a preview inside the new HS2 Recruitment Hub at Washwood Heath Job Centre - https://we.tl/t-MpUzAhmjBz
• VIDEO - Mille's story  - https://youtu.be/HNqGqEl_YQY 

Engineers this week began a delicate job that will see almost half a kilometre of bridge deck slid into position over the next year, high above the Misbourne Valley in Buckinghamshire, as HS2’s innovative Wendover Dean Viaduct enters a critical new stage of construction.

• Giant step forward for new high-speed line with £5bn of contracts to build HS2's crucial rail infrastructure
• Major milestones coming up next year including start of work on Birmingham's new Curzon Street station
• More than 30,000 people now employed on the programme as it hits 'peak construction'

• Milestone in North Warwickshire as HS2 completes first 39 metre span of the 472 metre River Tame West Viaduct
• 16 concrete segments were slid into place over 22 days using a 42 metre truss structure
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