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HS2 reveals design for Amersham vent shaft headhouse
20 Aug 2020HS2 today revealed the design for the Amersham vent shaft headhouse – one of five structures that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the high-speed rail line’s 10 mile-long Chiltern tunnel.
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Temporary access road to reduce HS2 traffic in Chalfont St Peter
19 Aug 2020From this week, HS2 construction traffic will be able to avoid the centre of Chalfont St Peter, thanks to the completion of a new temporary access road.
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HS2 launches Part Two of Innovation Accelerator recruitment programme
17 Aug 2020The move comes after “wave of applications to Part One beat all expectations”
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HS2 signs landmark R&D agreement with the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network
14 Aug 2020As part of its innovation programme, HS2 Ltd has today (Friday 14 August) signed a ground-breaking agreement with leading railway research centres in UK universities that will enable it to access world-leading research capabilities, knowledge and facilities.
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Port Talbot manufacturing company successfully delivers for HS2
12 Aug 2020Wernick Buildings, based in Port Talbot, South Wales, has recently completed its first accommodation instalment supporting the construction of HS2, Britain’s new high-speed, low carbon railway.
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HS2 tunnelling machines set to leave factory with the names Florence and Cecilia topping public vote
11 Aug 2020- HS2’s first two enormous Tunnel Boring Machines completed in Germany ready to be shipped to the UK and begin the 10-mile-long Chiltern tunnel excavation.
- First machine named after Florence Nightingale: the founder of modern nursing who spent many years living in Claydon, Buckinghamshire
- Second machine named after pioneering astronomer and astrophysicist, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who was born in Buckinghamshire.