News

• 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 

• Human remains from St James's Gardens, Euston, reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey

• Prayer service held to mark completion of new memorial (pictured)

Business is booming for Crawley-based, family-run business OnSite Support Ltd thanks to a series of repeat contract awards on HS2, Britain’s flagship infrastructure project.

• View and embed a new video showing the delivery of the first steel beams and explaining the innovative carbon-saving ‘double-composite’ structure.
• Download new images showing progress on site near Wendover, Buckinghamshire.

• Intelligent design technologies shorten design process from one month to one hour
• link to HS2 image library https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/wendover-to-warwickshire

• HS2 has celebrated moving 10 million tonnes of material by rail by unveiling a new mini model of the ‘Green Progressor’ – the famous locomotive which is helping reduce transport emissions on HS2.
• A new video shows how British model railway maker Hornby has immortalised the locomotive in miniature form: (https://youtu.be/Z4GEFa50Fcw)