News

• New approach will see every major element of the viaduct prefabricated before being assembled on site, cutting its carbon footprint by a third and simplifying construction.
• Download new images showing how the Thame Valley Viaduct will look: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/TjtmOMOzU5oa

• ‘Bramble’ is the first of two small HS2 tunnel boring machines to be launched in West London at the end of April as work continues to build the new station at Old Oak Common
• Old Oak Primary School pupils’ artwork also installed on new hoardings on nearby Wormwood Scrubs

Students at Harrow and Uxbridge College (HCUC) are playing their part in the delivery of High Speed Two, Britain’s new zero carbon high speed railway, thanks to a new partnership between the college and HS2’s construction partner Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture (SCS JV).

• New photos show progress made at the site
• A video explaining the construction work taking place at Victoria Road is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDJrvJ3Nl0g 

West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, visited the Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) Skills Academy at South and City College Birmingham’s Bordesley Green campus today (23 March) and welcomed the news that 3,000 more local people are set to benefit from employment opportunities on HS2.

HS2 today revealed the designs for the north portal of the Chiltern Tunnel, which has been specially designed to cut noise from trains entering and exiting the project's longest tunnel at speeds of up to 320km/h.