The 2,000 tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will be launched later this year, creating a one-mile twin bore tunnel under Long Itchington Wood.
A competition to find a name for the moving mega-factory was launched in March and has already received over 120 suggestions.
Exclusively aimed at Warwickshire residents, HS2 and BBV are calling on the local community to submit their final name ideas, with the competition portal closing on Friday 30 April 2021.
HS2’s construction partner for West Midlands and Warwickshire, Balfour Beatty VINCI, is offering young people who are out of work the opportunity to kickstart their career on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project.
HS2 Ltd today revealed the first images of its planned Oxford Canal Viaduct and is seeking views from the local community about the design of the viaduct between Banbury and Daventry. The full design can be explored in a virtual exhibition, which opened today.
First 100 trains into HS2’s main compound in Buckinghamshire have now taken the equivalent of 7,500 HGVs off Britain’s roads and cut over 24,000 tonnes of carbon emissions
Latest figures reveal that HS2 construction traffic is helping UK rail freight bounce back from the impact of COVID-19
