News

• View and embed a timelapse video showing how engineers slid the 4,500 tonne Small Dean viaduct into position over just four days (Thur-Sun) – the heaviest and longest single-stage viaduct deck slide on the project so far.
• Download the latest images of the Small Dean Viaduct, which crosses the A413 and the railway to Aylesbury near Wendover, Buckinghamshire.

HS2’s construction partner for Old Oak Common Station has achieved a prestigious workforce award – recognising its outstanding commitments to diversity and inclusion.

• New training course to get Camden residents ready for careers in construction in just two weeks, with around 30 local people expected to benefit
• Running at HS2’s Euston Approaches compound, the initiative is a collaboration between Flannery Plant Hire, HS2 and its construction partner Skanska Costain STRABAG (SCS), Camden Council, and the Euston Partnership
• Download images: HS2 News and Information - Media gallery

• 120 colossal beams installed on a 14,500-tonne box structure which will carry HS2 under the A46 Kenilworth Bypass
• The huge box is currently being built on land next to the A46, rather than beneath the carriageway itself, which significantly minimises long-term disruption

• Figures show progress made on tunnelling, viaducts and earthworks as construction advances on 140-mile route 
• HS2 Ltd’s new Chief Executive prepares for a "fundamental reset” of the programme to address its serious cost challenges
• Significant year ahead for HS2 – including completion of two more twin-bore tunnels – just as Britain prepares to mark bicentenary of the railways
• Downloadable images of the railway's construction available on HS2 Ltd's website