News

• Solihull Council approves design for HS2 green tunnel in Burton Green
• A realigned Kenilworth Greenway will include extensive tree planting, new footpaths and better connections to local woods and communities
• Design CGIs and construction progress photos of the green tunnel

• £56,000 HS2 grant awarded to social enterprise - Bikeworks
• Ealing, Hammersmith and North Kensington residents who are isolated, less mobile or who have a disability are among those set to benefit
• Funding helps to secure the organisation’s work in the community for two years

Natalie Smith from Redditch is quite literally laying the foundations for HS2’s arrival.

• The 1,600 tonne tunnel boring machine has started digging the second bore of HS2’s Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham
• 10 apprentices have secured exciting jobs working on the 24/7 tunnelling operation
• Local school pupils have named the TBM ‘Elizabeth’ after Dame Elizabeth Cadbury
• View and download photos

• 646 freight trains deliver a million tonnes of construction materials to HS2’s Quainton railhead, near Aylesbury, over 16 months – taking the equivalent of more than 101,000 HGV journeys off local roads
• Download new photos of the train at the Buckinghamshire railhead

• Giant tunnelling machine – named ‘Florence’ – completes 10-mile drive under the Chilterns in 2 years and 9 months.
• Download images of the breakthrough at the North Portal, near South Heath, Buckinghamshire
• 3 million cubic metres of material excavated from the tunnels to be reused for ambitious chalk grassland restoration project.