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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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• Northants viaduct becomes second HS2 viaduct to have every major element manufactured off-site, saving carbon and simplifying construction.
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• Timelapse footage captures huge cutterhead being lifted into place at HS2's Bromford Tunnel launch site in North Warwickshire
• A 90-strong specialist team has assembled the 1,600 tonne machine set to build the second bore of Bromford Tunnel
• The majority of the TBM is re-used from Long Itchington Wood Tunnel’s TBM ‘Dorothy’

• Pupils at Paget Primary School in Birmingham have spent the Autumn term enjoying a new educational ‘Forest School’ thanks to HS2 volunteers
• The Forest School "helps the children’s confidence, self-esteem, independence, and communication"
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