News

• £5 million HS2 Woodland Fund supports new woodlands creation and ancient woodland restoration projects on Phase One
• £1.75m already awarded to projects, with 330,000 trees planted
• £3.25m still available for landowners near the Phase One route
• Video of West Wycombe Estate in Buckinghamshire - one of the projects which has received funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjaF8hMgnHI 

• HS2 Ltd’s long standing Chief Executive Officer, Mark Thurston, is to step down from Europe’s largest infrastructure project
• HS2 Ltd Chairman, Sir Jon Thompson, will become Executive Chairman for an interim period from October 2023

Thirty university students have been given a head start with their careers after securing paid summer placements working on High Speed Two (HS2).

HS2 Ltd has started the search for a contractor to design and supply a transport system, as well as a 25 year transport operation and asset maintenance contract, for the project’s Automated People Mover (APM) in the West Midlands.

HS2 Ltd, the company building Britain’s new low-carbon high-speed railway, confirmed today (03 July 2023) that a second set of proposed changes to the High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Bill, has been introduced to Parliament.

• 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