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• Northants viaduct becomes second HS2 viaduct to have every major element manufactured off-site, saving carbon and simplifying construction.
• Download new images showing the design

• 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"
• Images available here

• Download new images showing progress on the Highfurlong Brook Viaduct, near Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire.

• Over 2,000 cubic metres of concrete poured on Curzon Viaduct’s first two deck spans
• Construction of 26 giant piers completed and four spans of the central Birmingham viaduct well underway
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A new exhibition that showcases the hugely ambitious tunnels being constructed as part of the new HS2 line has been unveiled at Birmingham's award-winning science museum, Thinktank.