{"id":214610,"date":"2025-05-11T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1821d9facda6ca69c0cf9721233eca78"},"modified":"2025-05-11T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T16:07:00","slug":"watch-hs2s-first-birmingham-tunnel-breaks-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=214610","title":{"rendered":"Watch: HS2\u2019s first Birmingham tunnel breaks through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-1082x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-1082x720.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HS2-Tunnel-Boring-Machine-Mary-Ann-completes-first-tunnel-breakthrough-in-Birmingham-1-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>HS2 is celebrating as its giant tunnelling machine, Mary Ann, broke through and completed excavating the first bore of a railway tunnel that will be the longest in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 is celebrating as its giant tunnelling machine, Mary Ann, broke through and completed excavating the first bore of a railway tunnel that will be the longest in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406,1089,2370,2309,47,4413,4208,2376],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-214610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birmingham","category-hs2","category-midlands","category-network","category-rail-news","category-warwickshire","category-washwood-heath","category-west-midlands","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214611,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214610\/revisions\/214611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}