News

• HS2’s first Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) excavating HS2’s longest tunnels have completed the first 4 miles of their drive – from the Chiltern tunnel’s south portal to the second ventilation shaft at Chalfont St Giles
• Download latest photos of the Chiltern tunnel and Chalfont St Giles vent shaft

• First of two 2,000 tonne TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) starts 5-mile journey towards Greenford from West Ruislip in West London 
• First machine named ‘Sushila’, after pupils nominated local teacher Sushila Hirani. Second machine named after ‘first professional’ female astronomer Caroline Herschel.  
• HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Thurston: “The launch of the TBMs on the largest section of tunnels through London is a major moment for HS2, and one that demonstrates the brilliant momentum that has built behind Britain’s flagship levelling-up project.” 

HS2 Ltd, the company building the UK’s new high speed rail line into Crewe, has given Shavington-cum-Gresty Parish Council a £9,780 grant towards the #QueenBee project.

• Over 6,800 people are now employed in HS2’s construction in the West Midlands, with thousands more jobs supported through the wider supply chain

• 540 people who were out of work in the West Midlands have been helped into jobs on HS2

• Over 340 apprentices from the region have started new roles on HS2, and investment in T-Levels recently tripled