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Eight women from the West Midlands have secured jobs or received employment offers within the construction sector, supporting the delivery of HS2, thanks to a pilot work experience programme.

• Eye-catching white cube – the first major structure at Euston, gains design approval

• How do you learn the skills needed to make sure one of Britain’s busiest railway stations runs like clockwork from day one when there’s no station to learn in beforehand?
• How can you perfect a station’s fixtures, fittings and systems before it’s built - avoiding potentially costly changes?

• Former railway sheds make way for new HS2 super-hub station designed to link HS2 with Crossrail and Great Western services

Lincolnshire business Crowder’s Nurseries is already benefiting from its contract with HS2 – Britain’s largest infrastructure project – to supply 7 million trees and shrubs that will create more than 650 hectares of new woodland between London and Birmingham along the HS2 Phase One route.

Members of the Czech Parliament, government and rail industry visited HS2 Ltd on a fact-finding mission as part of the Czech Republic’s preparations for new investment in its railways.