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• Striking images and video show the huge cutterhead being lifted to the skies
• The 125-metre-long machine is being dismantled by a team of specialist engineers working for HS2's construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI.
• View and download images and B-roll footage

• The first platforms that will be used by passengers travelling on HS2 are being built
• Each platform will be served by 400m trains
• New video and images available of the platforms being constructed

HS2 lifts Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ‘Caroline’ from below ground at the Green Park Way site in Greenford, West London

• HS2 passes a significant employment milestone with over 5,000 unemployed people starting new careers on the project
• Major investment in upskilling has helped men and women of all ages back into the world of work
• Targeted focus on supporting the unemployed has helped to bridge the skills gap
• With its dedicated skills academies and bootcamp training programmes, HS2 is supporting the Government’s drive to get Britian building and get more people into work

• Ballast from decommissioned railway sidings in West London donated to heritage railway 

• Sidings were used to bring in materials by rail to HS2’s West Ruislip site 

• The donation coincides with the celebration of 200 years of the railway in Britain 

HS2 Ltd Chief Executive Mark Wild today issued a rallying cry to the property sector to capitalise on the huge investment opportunities being generated by the project.