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• Design enhancements for Birmingham’s new flagship high speed railway station are a key step in the design process
• Improved features include additional cycle parking, better accessibility, rain gardens with seating, and a more passenger-friendly internal layout
• View and download the latest CGI images

• Firms chosen to receive support as part of the sixth HS2 Innovation Accelerator programme
• Digital technologies to streamline design, construction handover and site decommissioning phases to be developed
• Separately, applications open for high speed rail project’s seventh Accelerator programme

• Free women-only construction course, including 10-day paid work trial
• Six-week fast-track programme being held at South and City College Birmingham, starting on 30 September
• Places open for women in Greater Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country

More than 4,500 people who were out of work have started jobs helping to build Britain’s new high-speed railway, latest figures show.

• Impressive weekend operation marks the completion of four ‘pushes’ to move two parallel viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads
• The fourth ‘push’ saw the 1,100 tonne West Link Viaduct in North Warwickshire moved in just 11 hours next to the parallel East Link Viaduct
• View and download aerial photos and map of the Delta Junction

• Installation of final deck segment sees HS2 viaduct break 137-year old record
• Work on the 2.1-mile long deck of Colne Valley Viaduct started in May 2022
• 1,000 pre-cast segments made at purpose-built factory on-site