A team of 250 people have worked around the clock to move HS2's huge 5,600 tonne bridge into place under the Coventry to Leamington Spa railway in Warwickshire. The operation to slide the 22 metres long and 11 metres wide bridge into position took 5.5 hours and was...

HS2’s construction has delivered a further boost to regional economies, with more UK businesses winning work and hundreds of people securing full-time jobs over the last three months, new figures show. Despite the re-phasing of works at Euston and on the West Midlands...

HS2 has successfully carried out the UK’s heaviest drive to install an intersection bridge structure beneath the West Coast Main Line at Fulfen Wood near Lichfield. The 56 metre long and 19 metre wide structure will allow Britain’s new high-speed railway to pass...

Journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo has visited the first completed tunnel on the HS2 project in Warwickshire as part of his popular TV travel series. ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ sees the personality covering the length and breadth of...

Thirty university students have been given a head start with their careers after securing paid summer placements working on High Speed Two (HS2). For the second year running, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), HS2’s construction partner for the West Midlands, is giving...

HS2 has started production of 2,742 huge concrete segments which will be used to build the Delta Junction, a triangle-shaped series of viaducts that will take high-speed trains between London, the Midlands and the North. The deck segments – which each weigh up to 80...

  HS2 is celebrating another major milestone as it confirmed that over 3,000 people who were out of work have gone on to secure jobs on the project. The drive to support the unemployed and upskill people ready for work with HS2, its construction partners, and the...

The first images have been revealed of the huge tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig HS2’s Bromford Tunnel, between Water Orton in North Warwickshire and Washwood Heath in Birmingham. This is the fourth twin bore railway tunnel to start construction on Britain’s...

HS2 Ltd has received Schedule 17 approval for a 150-metre section of viaduct carrying trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station, including a 25-metre-high truss which will create a new icon on the city’s skyline. Birmingham City Council have approved the...

HS2 has announced 10 million tonnes of material have been delivered to – and removed from – construction sites by rail, a major milestone in HS2’s plan to cut carbon emissions by removing lorries from roads. Balfour Beatty VINCI and other businesses recently came...