INFRASTRUCTURE

HS2's first tunnelling machines arrive in the UK

HS2’s first two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived in the UK and will be ready to start work on the UK’s largest infrastructure project – the HS2 railway – early next year.

 Florence and Cecilia the two TBMs to be used on the Chiltern Tunnel as part of the HS2 high speed railway project have now arrived in the UK

Florence and Cecilia the two TBMs to be used on the Chiltern Tunnel as part of the HS2 high speed railway project have now arrived in the UK

The two enormous 2,000t machines - named Florence and Cecilia - will now be reassembled, tested and commissioned, by an expert team of tunnelling engineers, before they start work on the high speed rail...

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