A key moment in construction of the HS2 railway has been marked with the excavation of the final tunnel on the 140-mile route. The colossal 410ft boring machine surfaced today, Monday, October 13, ...

HS2 Ltd has announced the completion of major tunnel excavations between Birmingham and west London, after a key breakthrough. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) concluded an 18-month journey on Monday, ...

There’s always a rainbow in downtown Birmingham – four of them, in fact, inside the city’s historic viaducts at 14th, 18th, 19th and 20th Streets in downtown Birmingham. And who doesn’t like a rainbow ...

HS2 Ltd has completed the digging of major tunnels on its route between Birmingham and west London (HS2 Ltd/PA) HS2 Ltd has completed the digging of major tunnels on its route between Birmingham and ...

This was the dramatic moment a colossal machine, used to dig HS2’s Birmingham approach tunnels, smashed through a wall to finally reach the city after a 19-month journey. The enormous 125-metre-long ...

The company building the high-speed railway said a tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through at Washwood Heath, north-east Birmingham, on Monday after an 18-month journey to create the Bromford Tunnel ...

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