This morning at Washwood Heath the125-m-long TBM Elizabeth - launched in March 2024, near the Warwickshire village of Water Orton - brokethrough the 3.5-mile-long Bromford tunnel marking the completion of major tunnel excavation between London’s Old Oak Common and the West Midlands.
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On Saturday 26th July, the team working on the HS2 project lifted the TBM Emily's 9.11m diameter cutterhead, front and middle shield, weighing 880 t, using a large gantry crane, at the Green Park ...
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Excavation of the twin-bore Northolt tunnel between West Ruislip at the outer edge of the capital and the new Old Oak Common super-hub station in west London has been completed.
On 26th June ...
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HS2’s tunnelling team in London is one step closer to completing the capital’s Northolt Tunnel after the latest in a series of complex tunnelling breakthroughs.
The tunnel boring ...
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On Sunday 25th May, engineers working on the HS2 project lifted the TBM's 9.48 metre diameter cutterhead, front and middle shield, weighing 850 tonnes, using a large gantry crane. The tunnelling ...
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On 3rd April 2025 HS2 has completed a 5-mile tunnel drive under London – using one of four TBMs being deployed to build the railway’s Northolt tunnel. The TBM named Caroline, is the ...
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Following its 8 km (5-mile) drive underneath the capital, HS2 lifted TBM Sushila out of the ground at the Green Park Way site in Greenford, West London.
The cutterhead, ...
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HS2 has announced a significant milestone at Long Itchington Wood tunnel in Warwickshire – the first deep tunnel on the high-speed route to complete its civil engineering ...
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On 19th December 2024, TBM Sushila - which is 160-m in length, with a cutterhead of 9.84 m in diameters and a weight of 2,050 t, reached Green Park Way vent shaft in Ealing, breaking through ...
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Quartet of tunnelling machines boring the Northolt Tunnel between West Ruislip and Old Oak Common station have built half of the tunnel
New video and images shows the unstoppable momentum of the ...
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Chiltern tunnel TBMs dismantled - The Dismantling of the two Herrenknecht TBMs - 170m long and weighed 2,000 t - that built HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd’s Chiltern Tunnel have now been ...
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On April 8th, 2024 construction of the new HS2 line has hit another major milestone with the launch of the fourth – and final – machine being used to build the Northolt tunnel, length ...
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On 25th February HS2’s London tunnels programme passed a major milestone as the third TBM being used as part of the project was launched.
TBM Emily, named after Emily Sophia Taylor who ...
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HS2 today (Tuesday 23rd January) celebrated the breakthrough of a tunnelling machine into its underground Old Oak Common station – marking a key milestone in plans to eventually carry the ...
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Press release - We've unveiled the names of the next pair of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will construct the high speed rail line under the capital. Following a public vote, the names Emily ...
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HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd is asking the public to choose names for the next two TBMs that will be launched in early 2024 to dig the Northolt Tunnel East travelling through Brent and Ealing. The TBMs ...
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HS2’s first two TBMs in London, Sushila and Caroline, have completed the 1.6 km (first mile ) of the twin-bored Northolt tunnel in the capital. Since launch in November 2022, the ...
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On 27 October 2022 HS2 Ltd launched their fifth TBM Caroline, that will be constructing tunnels for the HS2 railway through London. HS2’s first London TBM Sushila - started on the 06 October ...
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HS2’s Main Works Contractor, Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture, SCS JV, have taken a major step forward in their work at the Victoria Road Site in Acton, completing the base slab ...
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Press release - HS2 awards contract for first two London tunnelling machines
This month the contract for the first two giant tunnel boring machines for London’s HS2 tunnels was signed with ...
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