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A full day conference featuring talks from senior figures at HS2 Ltd, TfL and National Highways (among others), was followed by the coveted awards

Of the 13 awards on the night, five went to the hard-working men and women delivering the Thames Tideway project. A joint venture between Ferrovial

Last modified on Thu 13 May 2021 17.32 EDT Tunnelling work has got underway on the first leg of the high-speed HS2 railway line which will connect London and Birmingham. The first of 10 enormous tunnel boring machines (TBMs), started excavating the first few metres of a 10-mile tunnel under the Chiltern Hills, just inside the M25 motorway in Hertfordshire. The first machine, named “Florence” after nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, is working on the longest single tunnel on the route between the capital and the West Midlands. The excavation marks a key milestone for the railway, which ...

In a decade’s time, passengers on the new high-speed trains hurtling out of London will get just a burst of daylight and a glimpse of the Colne Valley landscape before disappearing back underground through the Chiltern Hills. Today, in that three-mile stretch between future tunnel openings to the north-west of the capital, the £98bn HS2 project’s scale, engineering might and cost are all evident: both at the vast work site scooped out beside the...