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Companies interested in delivering the infrastructure behind HS2’s elevated transport system – designed to boost the high-speed railway’s connectivity in the West Midlands – are being invited to take part in a new market engagement exercise.

• Tunnelling activity on HS2 reaches peak with nearly 50% of bored tunnelling complete between London and the West Midlands
• Video of the tunnelling machines ready to bore available here: https://youtu.be/Ge0qaxsnE-Q

• HS2’s final two West Midlands ‘Key Design Element’ structures bringing HS2 into Birmingham receive planning approval
• HS2 has consulted with communities to incorporate feedback in the design wherever possible
• View CGIs of Saltley Viaduct and CGIs of River Blythe Viaduct

• Flannery Plant Hire secures 1,000 training places across three Operator Skills Hubs – in Iver (Buckinghamshire), Brackley and Sutton Coldfield
• View a new video telling the story of Leoni from Northamptonshire, believed to be the first qualified female grader driver, who trained at the Brackley hub.

• Work on the 345m long Small Dean viaduct that will span the A413 south of Wendover, Buckinghamshire took place over the Easter weekend
• Download the latest images of the Small Dean Viaduct