News

• 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.

HS2 is working with Women into Construction (WiC), an independent not-for-profit organisation, to help more women in the Midlands launch a career in the construction sector.

• 5,600 tonne bridge moved under the Coventry to Leamington railway 27 hours ahead of schedule
• This is the third giant bridge move in two weeks as HS2’s construction ramps up in the West Midlands
• Over 500 people delivered the three bridge operations, part of the 9,000 workforce building HS2 in the region
• Timelapse footage shows the 5.5 hour operation and photos here

• Giant 6,200 tonne single span bridge structure driven into place under the West Coast Main Line

• Huge engineering feat is the next big milestone for HS2 in the West Midlands

• View and embed time-lapse footage of the 840 wheel transporter carrying out the 2 hour operation: https://youtu.be/ZCVEGw2tsjs

• View and download photos here.

• Production of nearly 3,000 viaduct segments has begun at HS2’s purpose-built open-air factory in Kingsbury, Warwickshire

• The segments will be used to build a network of 9 viaducts in the West Midlands

• Around 1,000 people are employed on the 55,000 square metre site

• Video explaining more about the operation here https://youtu.be/TemNzujmDRs and photos here