by David Lavender | 10th July 2026 | News Article
More than 5,700 formerly unemployed people have found work on HS2, latest figures show, as the project welcomes its latest intake. Today it is announced that a cohort of 10 welding operative apprentices have joined the high-speed rail programme to work alongside...
by David Lavender | 18th June 2026 | News Article
HS2 engineers are ready to start installing the roof beams on a new box structure that will span both carriageways of the M42 near Solihull. Once complete, vehicles will drive through the 300-metre-long ‘twin box’, while trains travel above. The installation follows...
by David Lavender | 18th May 2026 | News Article
HS2’s complex civil engineering programme will shift up a gear this summer, as it prepares to deliver its biggest programme of work yet over the motorway network. The construction schedule, which starts in June, will see three huge structures built over busy sections...
by David Lavender | 13th May 2026 | News Article
HS2 engineers have finished building Curzon 2 – the tallest bridge on the new high-speed network – and final checks are underway ahead of its launch over the Cross City railway line, just outside Birmingham city centre. The engineering feat marks another huge...
by David Lavender | 11th May 2026 | News Article
HS2 Ltd today confirmed that Taylor Woodrow Infrastructure Ltd and Aureos Rail Ltd (TWA JV) will build the high-speed railway’s control centre and rolling stock depot in a deal set to transform a brown field site in Birmingham into a major new business and logistics...
by David Lavender | 28th April 2026 | News Article
HS2 engineers are ready to start a major construction programme in Saltley, two miles northeast of Birmingham city centre, to facilitate the arrival of new high-speed rail services. Saltley Viaduct, which spans a 183-metre section of the B4114, will close to vehicles...
