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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

HS2 engineers have begun installing a dedicated cycle bridge that will connect the Offchurch Greenway in Warwickshire to Route 41 of the national cycle network. The new bridge will complement HS2’s earlier programme of work, completed in October 2025, which saw the...

Engineers working on the West Midlands section of the HS2 network are getting ready to launch the second viaduct over the M6 near Chelmsley Wood. The west deck of the M6 South viaduct, which will carry high speed trains towards Birmingham, is being assembled in four...

The last of more than 2,700 enormous deck segments for HS2’s Delta junction – a complex triangular network of viaducts outside Birmingham – has been manufactured at a purpose-built factory. The deck segments – each weighing up to 85 tonnes – were made at a temporary...

A 1.5-mile section of the Grand Union Canal, owned by the charity Canal & River Trust, has reopened to the public – seven days ahead of schedule - after HS2 engineers successfully launched a 130-metre-long steel bridge into position over the canal. The launch...