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UK-based High Speed Two (HS2) has commenced work on two of the longest cuttings on the new high-speed rail project.

This register provides information on the commitments made in relation to the High Speed Rail (London to West Midlands) Act 2017.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Hitachi Ltd. will become the first Japanese company to build next-generation high-speed trains in Europe, announcing Thursday its inv

Architecture studio Grimshaw has revealed its latest barn-shaped ventilation shaft that will be built near Chalfont St Giles in the Chilterns as part of the UK's HS2 high-speed railway. Designed as the partner to the Chalfont St Peter ventilation shaft, which was also designed by Grimshaw, the headhouse building for the shaft will be disguised as barn to lessen its impact on the surrounding countryside. As with the shafts at Chalfont St Peter, Little Missenden and Amersham, the Chalfont St Giles shaft will provide ventilation to a 10-mile-long tunnel that is being built for High Speed 2...

A series of green public spaces will be landscaped around the Water Orton viaducts that Weston Williamson + Partners has designed in Warwickshire for the High Speed Two railway. The viaducts, which will be built near the village of Water Orton, have been developed for a section of the high-speed railway that branches west towards Birmingham and north towards Crewe. Weston Williamson + Partners' proposal is intended to have a low visual impact on existing rural landscapes in the area, with both concrete viaducts developed to be as slender as structurally possible. There will also be large span...