TBM Karen will excavate the second bore of the 4.5-mile Euston Tunnel.

The taxpayer-funded body behind the High Speed 2 railway line is mounting last-ditch talks to renegotiate the project’s civil engineering contracts, as it battles to curb soaring costs on the UK’s ...

Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory digging a railway to Euston.

HS2 has reached a major milestone with the launch of its final tunnel boring machine (TBM), marking another step forward for the high-speed railway linking London and the West Midlands. On 16 March, ...

Launched from Old Oak Common in west London on March 16, the 1,624-ton machine - named “Karen” - will excavate the second ...

HS2 has officially commenced excavation work of the final tunnel bore on the 140-mile railway between central London and the West Midlands.

The final deck segment for HS2’s Delta Junction viaduct system has been manufactured, marking a major milestone in building ...

Engineers working for the HS2 project completed the last of more than 2,000 concrete piles that will underpin the foundations ...

Senior executives in charge of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project must regularly assess its cost to avoid huge ...

A prominent dog whisperer is seeking over £8m in compensation from the government after his exclusive kennels were compulsorily acquired for the HS2 high-speed rail project. Matt ...

The £2bn contract to build dozens of HS2 "bullet trains" is set for major changes as ministers prepare to outline fresh delays and cost overruns on the project. The deal, awarded in 2021 to a joint ...

An early visualisation of an HS2 high-speed train in the UK. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK’s HS2 is inviting small and medium-sized technology firms to submit proposals aimed at lowering costs and ...