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The publication of Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review is recognition of the incredibly important role of rail – and of high speed rail – in providing much needed connectivity benefits across the UK. High Speed Rail Group welcome the planned creation of UKNET – a strategic approach to development Read more…
If today’s announcements had come from a standing start, the industry would doubtless have been pleased with the investment. But the reality is they represent a reduction in the previous plans for both HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail. HS2 is the single most important infrastructure project in the UK for Read more…
HS2’s construction partner for the West Midlands – Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) – has announced it has hundreds of new jobs to fill across its supply chain. With local job vacancies ranging from apprenticeships, to site operatives and office-based support roles, BBV is encouraging residents to step forward and consider Read more…
In preparation for the construction of the northern section of HS2’s Phase One route between London and the West Midlands, main works civils contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) have successfully demolished a disused bridge in Saltley near Birmingham. The Heartlands Parkway bridge originally connected the A47 with a nearby industrial Read more…
Music producer and rail enthusiast Pete Waterman visited HS2’s Long Itchington Wood Tunnel site in Warwickshire to unveil the name of HS2’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) on the northern section of Phase One. During a ceremony on the construction site, which is managed by HS2 joint venture Balfour Beatty VINCI, Pete revealed that Read more…
The Costain-Skanska Joint Venture (CSjv), who are delivering the HS2 Enabling Works programme in West London, have refurbished and donated a disused bus to Old Oak Primary School and Bubble & Squeak which will be used by children from the school and the local community as an alternative learning environment Read more…
HS2’s Main Works Civils Contractor, Costain Skanska STRABAG joint venture (SCS JV), has awarded its second contract for the production of precast tunnel segments to STRABAG, who have announced they will be opening the facility in Hartlepool to fulfil the contract. STRABAG will be providing 36,000 segments for the twin bored Read more…
This is a submission from the HSRG to the consultation on Transport for the North’s (TfN) Decarbonisation Strategy. The submission highlights the role of high speed rail and HS2 in decarbonising the transport system including across the TfN area and how HS2 should be harnessed to achieve modal shift – Read more…
An open letter to the Prime Minister, regarding the importance of HS2’s Eastern leg, from HSRG and the Railway Industry Association: Dear Prime Minister Last year you rightly committed your government to deliver HS2 in full. You did so because you understood it is the UK’s most important infrastructure project Read more…
A new railhead near the village of Calvert has been opened which will help HS2 continue to deliver construction material by rail to its biggest Buckinghamshire site without putting extra lorries on local roads. The new railhead – the second to be built at Calvert – will allow HS2 to Read more…