News

• 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
• View photos and video

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.

• Community feedback results in wider walkway for pedestrians and provision for cyclists
• Designs incorporate additional LED lighting to improve safety at night, and new landscape plans include woodland trees and shrubs
• Community drop-in event to view designs on Thursday 19 October
• View new design CGIs

• First 18 metre tall pier completed for the two 1,400 metre long Water Orton Viaducts in Warwickshire
• Innovative ‘match-casting’ construction method will be used to build the viaducts, which are part of HS2’s complex Delta Junction over existing roads and rivers
• Download photos of the completed pier.
• Watch and embed drone footage of the completed pier.