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• Download more photos showing the new bridge that will allow future East West Rail services between Oxford and Cambridge to pass over the UK’s new high speed rail line near Calvert, Buckinghamshire.

• Iconic curved truss bridge with vibrant light installation will bring HS2 trains into central Birmingham
• The 150-metre-long superstructure – dubbed “The Bellingham Bridge” by the team after the sparkling performances at the FIFA World Cup by local boy Jude Bellingham – is designed to celebrate the area’s industrial heritage and make a striking addition to the city’s skyline
• CGIs of the bridge and dynamic-coloured artwork: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction/birmingham-viaducts/curzon-viaduct-no-2 

• The latest cohort of the successful Innovation Accelerator initiative will base tech start-ups with project’s main civil engineering contractors to help tailor innovative solutions for the construction industry

• HS2 reveals that ten construction sites on the project have become 100 per cent diesel-free ahead of schedule, as the project continues to reduce its carbon emissions.
• Seven construction sites in the Chilterns and Colne Valley, and three sites in London have completely eliminated diesel from their operation – generators, welfare facilities, crawler cranes and piling rigs.
• Alongside these green wins, HS2 launches its ‘Diesel-free Plan: Building a net zero future’
  
• Video about three of the sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpvyw-PavvY
• Photos here: https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/environment/reducing-carbon/10-diesel-free-sites 

A small truck hire business in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire has raised its fortunes thanks to the work it has secured supporting HS2’s construction.

• Mark Harper MP, Secretary of State for Transport, joined HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Thurston for a drive-through of the first bored tunnel at Long Itchington in Warwickshire, as momentum continues to build on the project
• The 2,000 tonne TBM broke through in July after 7 months of digging the one-mile tunnel. Today marks the first time VIPs and media have been able to travel end-to-end in a tunnel on the UK’s new high speed network
• Photos here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/oROMdIZln54l