HS2’s Burton Green tunnel structurally complete

HS2 engineers have installed the final roof segment on the 700-metre-long Burton Green tunnel – illustrating the progress being made on the West Midlands section of Britain’s new railway.  The 16-metre-wide twin-box-shaped tunnel will carry high-speed trains beneath the village of Burton Green, near Kenilworth. The internal wall separates trains travelling north to Birmingham, Manchester […]

HS2 welcomes new welding apprentices

More than 5,700 formerly unemployed people have found work on HS2, latest figures show, as the project welcomes its latest intake. Today it is announced that a cohort of 10 welding operative apprentices have joined the high-speed rail programme to work alongside engineers delivering the Curzon approaches – the series of viaducts that form the […]