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• 240 sites now active along the route between London and the West Midlands, employing over 13,000 people with tens of thousands more jobs supported through the supply chain
• Striking new images from HS2’s construction sites – including four mega bridges installed at our Solihull site – available at this link:  https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/resources/f/construction-our-progress-along-the-line-of-route/year-in-numbers-2020 

HS2 today shortlisted bidders for its Track Systems and for Tunnel and Lineside Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) systems. The winning organisations will go on to deliver around 280km of state-of-the-art high-speed track and infrastructure that will enable the UK to run some of the world’s most frequent and reliable long-distance rail services.

• Successful pilot of world’s first retrofit on large construction equipment will have massive impact across the HS2 project, saving millions of pounds
• Reduced emissions will benefit communities, the environment and the workforce
• Certified by the Energy Saving Trust, making it available industry-wide
• HS2 Minister: "this ground-breaking technology will protect our health and the environment."

HS2 Ltd, the company delivering Britain’s new low carbon, high speed railway between the capital and the North, has today (21st December 2020) kickstarted its search for talented graduates to join its 2021 programme.

• Over 180 freight trains set to deliver material to HS2’s main compound in Buckinghamshire in next 12 months, equivalent to 12,670 HGVs that would otherwise be on Britain’s roads

• Use of rail freight to this site will cut 30,150 tonnes of carbon – the equivalent of flying from London to Edinburgh 930 times!

• Images and a video of the first train can be found here: https://visual.library.hs2.org.uk/p/share/KLNPpft-2SU5

HS2 Ltd today (December 16) began the search for suppliers to provide switches and crossings for the 280km of new high-speed track between London, Birmingham and the connection with the existing west coast mainline at Crewe.