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HS2 Ltd today (31 January 2024) confirmed the shortlisted bidders to operate and maintain the assets required for the new mass transit system at Interchange station in Solihull.

• Recruitment opens today for over 30 graduate jobs
• Opportunities based in Birmingham, Milton Keynes and London
• Two-year placements span nine different career pathways

• HS2 starts 2024 with a major milestone as five year station construction programme begins in central Birmingham
• Birmingham Curzon Street station will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the 19th Century
• Hundreds of jobs will be created during the build, including apprenticeships and opportunities for unemployed people
• Official start of construction photos from an event on site on Wednesday 24 January - https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/wvxws3hc5sxstxqb7xfpcbv  
• CGI images of the station; Animated flythrough of the station; Aerial footage of the site

• HS2’s 847 tonne tunnel boring machine breaks through into Old Oak Common Station box
• The 853-metre logistics tunnel will support the construction of HS2’s Euston tunnel
• Video of the breakthrough available here: https://youtu.be/vad8bbYie8U

• Three dedicated HS2 Recruitment Hubs now open in Birmingham and Solihull (PICTURES - https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/54k9k69cxhsmk7fn6bjfqv
• A record 4,000 formerly unemployed have already secured jobs on HS2
• Thousands more jobs still to come in the West Midlands
• Millie Bayliss from Kingstanding, Birmingham is the 4,000^th unemployed person to start work on HS2 (PICTURES https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/ttps5q6bbpcvsq9kcwrn6z56)
• West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street welcomes the investment and the commitment to support more unemployed people into work on HS2 (PICTURES: https://visual-library.hs2.org.uk/s/vz7smjrx39grx8tqh9584)
• B-roll footage - meet Millie, HS2's 4,000th formerly unemployed candidate and a preview inside the new HS2 Recruitment Hub at Washwood Heath Job Centre - https://we.tl/t-MpUzAhmjBz
• VIDEO - Mille's story  - https://youtu.be/HNqGqEl_YQY 

Engineers this week began a delicate job that will see almost half a kilometre of bridge deck slid into position over the next year, high above the Misbourne Valley in Buckinghamshire, as HS2’s innovative Wendover Dean Viaduct enters a critical new stage of construction.