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HS2’s construction has delivered a further boost to regional economies, with more UK businesses winning work and hundreds of people securing full-time jobs over the last three months, new figures show.

• Over 100 new jobs created at the new Hartlepool facility
• Over 83,000 segments to be produced for HS2 running tunnels in London
• Local MP, Jill Mortimer visited the facility alongside HS2’s Chief Commercial Officer, Ruth Todd CBE, to begin segment production.

HS2 today began the search for a specialist contractor to deliver platform edge doors for the new high speed railway’s Old Oak Common and Interchange stations.

• 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.

Pupils from Chipping Warden Primary Academy enjoyed a different start to the school day with a ‘site safari tour’ of HS2’s construction sites.

• ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ to feature HS2’s first completed tunnel in Warwickshire 
• Journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo visited HS2’s Long Itchington Wood site to film inside the tunnel 
• It will be aired in the ‘Long Itchington to Moseley’ episode on BBC Two at 6.30pm on Wednesday 19 July