News

• Midlands based company Biosite is working with HS2 developing the new initiative to boost health and safety and competency insight across the supply chain

• HS2’s specialist ecology teams will plant over 300,000 trees across the Phase One route during the winter months
• This will take the total number of trees planted between London and the Midlands to over 730,000 by Spring 2021

Construction of Britain’s new high speed railway is gathering pace and the company tasked with delivering Europe’s biggest engineering project, HS2 Ltd, is continuing its recruitment focus into the New Year.

• One of the world’s oldest surviving pieces of monumental railway architecture to be preserved and enhanced in new HS2 Curzon Street Station.
• Leader of Birmingham City Council: "This is an important milestone in the transformation of this amazing old building and the new Curzon Street Station will be one of the real show pieces of the entire HS2 network.”

• 240 sites now active along the route between London and the West Midlands, employing over 13,000 people with tens of thousands more jobs supported through the supply chain
• Striking new images from HS2’s construction sites – including four mega bridges installed at our Solihull site – available at this link:  https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction-our-progress-along-the-line-of-route/year-in-numbers-2020 

HS2 today shortlisted bidders for its Track Systems and for Tunnel and Lineside Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) systems. The winning organisations will go on to deliver around 280km of state-of-the-art high-speed track and infrastructure that will enable the UK to run some of the world’s most frequent and reliable long-distance rail services.