HS2 celebrates launch of TBM for second tunnel bore under Long Itchington Wood in Warks. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK-based High Speed Two (HS2) has launched the 125m tunnel boring machine (TBM), ...

HS2 Ltd is prioritising the renegotiation of a pair of major civils contracts as part of a sweeping reset of the high-speed ...

Caroline TBM can travel at an average of 14m per day. Credit: High Speed Two. High Speed Two (HS2) has rolled out the fifth tunnel boring machine (TBM), known as Caroline, for the construction of ...

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), a UK/France-based construction and infrastructure services joint venture (JV), announced its 1,600-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) – named Elizabeth – has started digging ...

The 2.1-mile Colne Valley viaduct is about a third complete. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. December 28, 2023 With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 ...

Tunneling on the U.K.’s 230-km London-Birmingham high-speed railroad launched May 13, as a 10.26-meter-dia tunnel boring machine (TBM) began work at the Chiltern Hills southern approach, about 30 ...

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The milestone was achieved using one of four giant tunnelling machines being deployed to build the railway’s Northolt Tunnel. The tunnel boring machine (TBM), named Caroline, is the second machine to ...

Fascinating footage shows a huge tunneling machine called Dorothy digging underneath ancient woodland as the United Kingdom's HS2 high-speed rail project goes full-steam ahead. Dorothy, the ...