{"id":229601,"date":"2025-06-05T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=cf0d28b9fb8fe2611d4c25ebd228c0b0"},"modified":"2025-06-05T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:37:00","slug":"hs2-tunnelling-machine-to-be-repurposed-for-a-new-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229601","title":{"rendered":"HS2 tunnelling machine to be repurposed for a new mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-960x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lifting out the cutterhead of TBM Mary Ann. \/\/ Credit: HS2\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HS2-TBM-Mary-Ann-cutterhead-lift.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A giant machine used to bore a tunnel for the new HS2 high-speed railway line is to be dismantled so that it can be repurposed for a new mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant machine used to bore a tunnel for the new HS2 high-speed railway line is to be dismantled so that it can be repurposed for a new mission.<\/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":[2406,1089,471,47,2757,4413,4208],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-229601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birmingham","category-hs2","category-news","category-rail-news","category-warwick","category-warwickshire","category-washwood-heath","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601","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=229601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229602,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229601\/revisions\/229602"}],"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=229601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}