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HS2’s CEO to step down after six and a half years
12 Jul 2023- HS2 Ltd’s long standing Chief Executive Officer, Mark Thurston, is to step down from Europe’s largest infrastructure project
- HS2 Ltd Chairman, Sir Jon Thompson, will become Executive Chairman for an interim period from October 2023
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University students secure summer jobs on HS2
11 Jul 2023Thirty university students have been given a head start with their careers after securing paid summer placements working on High Speed Two (HS2).
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HS2 launches procurement process for Automated People Mover at Interchange Station in Solihull
11 Jul 2023HS2 Ltd has started the search for a contractor to design and supply a transport system, as well as a 25 year transport operation and asset maintenance contract, for the project’s Automated People Mover (APM) in the West Midlands.
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Plans to extend the HS2 network to Manchester move forward
03 Jul 2023HS2 Ltd, the company building Britain’s new low-carbon high-speed railway, confirmed today (03 July 2023) that a second set of proposed changes to the High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Bill, has been introduced to Parliament.
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HS2’s giant viaduct segment factory starts production in the Midlands
30 Jun 2023- Production of nearly 3,000 viaduct segments has begun at HS2’s purpose-built open-air factory in Kingsbury, Warwickshire
- The segments will be used to build a network of 9 viaducts in the West Midlands
- Around 1,000 people are employed on the 55,000 square metre site
- Video explaining more about the operation here https://youtu.be/TemNzujmDRs and photos here
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HS2 marks reinterment of Euston remains with memorial monument
29 Jun 2023- Human remains from St James's Gardens, Euston, reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
- Prayer service held to mark completion of new memorial (pictured)