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HS2 tunnel vent headhouse for Little Missenden

1 November 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The design of the vent shaft headhouse that HS2 plans to build at Little Missenden, to provide ventilation and emergency access to the 10-mile-long Chilterns tunnel, is similar in style to the HS2 headhouse at […]

Buildings

HS2 headhouse design for Canterbury Works revealed

27 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

HS2 has revealed the design of one of the four vent shaft headhouses that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the high speed rail line for the 4.5-mile-long Euston tunnel, between […]

High-speed

Second HS2 modular bridge installed

25 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A 914-tonne modular road bridge, the second of four being installed at site of HS2’s Interchange station near Birmingham, has been driven into place over the A446 in Solihull in only 45 minutes. The new […]

Events

Call for HS2’s Eastern leg to be built in full

5 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Due to concern that the construction of HS2 may be ‘phased’, and that the East Midlands leg through to Leeds may be delayed, or even not built at all, a group of MPs, civic and […]

Business

HS2 funds Employment and Skills Hub in West London

1 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A new Employment and Skills Hub will be set up in West London after the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has secured £255,200 from the HS2 Business and Local Economy Fund. The […]

Business

British-made solar and hydrogen-powered welfare cabins save tonnes of carbon on HS2 work sites

25 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

HS2, which is now building Britain’s new high-speed railway line from London to the Midlands and the North, has been trialling solar and hydrogen-powered welfare cabins across its work locations as it seeks to move […]

Events

Excavated remains from site of HS2’s Euston station to be reburied in Surrey

16 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Working with the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England, HS2 has reached an agreement with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey for the reburial of bodies that have been exhumed as a result of excavations at […]

Business

Factories taking shape at HS2 construction site

15 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The steel frame for the factory building in which HS2 will cast the concrete tunnel lining segments for its Chiltern tunnels has been completed at the project’s Chalfont Lane site near the M25 motorway. The […]

Business

HS2 Interchange station has planning approval

27 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

HS2’s Interchange station, to be located in Solihull, next to Birmingham International station, Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre, has received planning approval. The planning application for the station and the surrounding landscape and […]

Infrastructure

HS2 unveils Amersham vent headhouse design

20 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

HS2 has revealed the design of its second tunnel vent headhouse, this time the one at Amersham. It is one of five structures that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the […]

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  • Tamara Finkelstein to be CEO of Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
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  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • Dame Tamara Finkelstein will take over as chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering in February 2026.
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
    Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
    12 August 2025 0
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • Who’s buying?
    7 December 2019 0
  • Platform 2 at Basildon station is to be rebuilt, allowing 12-car trains to call.
    12-car trains to call at Basildon by December
    16 July 2025 0
  • Runaway metro train caught by whale!
    2 November 2020 0
  • Julian Edwards to head up West Midlands Trains
    16 January 2020 0
  • Bombardier opens new test centre at Bautzen
    11 December 2019 0
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