Birmingham City Council has approved plans for a 150-metre section of viaduct to carry HS2 high-speed trains into the city’s Curzon Street Station. Client HS2 Ltd obtained Schedule 17 consent for the Curzon No. 2 Viaduct – also called the Bellingham Bridge after Birmingham-born footballer Jude Bellingham – which will be the tallest of a sequence of structures taking high-speed trains into the city. “This is an exciting construction method, which we believe will be

[24 May 2023] HS2 Ltd has received Schedule 17 approval for a 150-metre section of viaduct carrying trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station, including a 25-metre-high truss which will create a new icon on the city’s skyline. Birmingham City Council have approved the design of the Curzon No.2 viaduct, which is the tallest structure in the sequence of viaducts and structures that make up the Curzon Street Approaches taking HS2 trains into Birmingham. The

Following recent speculation regarding the status of ongoing works for HS2 Ltd’s 7km long Euston Tunnel expansion, it has been confirmed that the project will be delayed. The schedule of works recently had doubts cast following the pausing of the Euston station project last month due to the ongoing spikes in costs that have resulted from the recent inflation. This news comes just days after an update of successful preparatory works for a tunnel between

The overhaul of California’s high-speed rail project could bring the Bay Area $1 billion to electrify Caltrain and lay the path for bullet train service between San Francisco and San Jose sooner than anticipated. The Chronicle has learned that officials with Bay Area transportation agencies are in negotiations with each other, and with the California High-Speed Rail Authority, to craft an agreement that would fund an advanced train-control system, electrify the rails on the Peninsula

The National Audit Office (NAO) has called for a “reset” at High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Euston terminus as the current plan is forecast to be £2.2bn overbudget and could worsen with the two year pause on construction. The public spending watchdog’s new report into the decision making and expenditure on HS2’s Euston station explains that HS2 Ltd’s budget for the terminus was £2.6bn in 2019 prices, which was made part of the Department for Transport’s

The design of the last visible structure along the route of HS2’s longest tunnel has been revealed. The north portal of the 10-mile (16km) Chiltern tunnel, will be built low into the landscape between Great Missenden and South Heath in Buckinghamshire, HS2 Ltd said. It will be partially visible from a footbridge over the railway. It is one of seven “key design elements” which will be the only visible part of the twin tunnels. The

The design of the last visible structure along the route of HS2’s longest tunnel has been revealed. The north portal of the 10-mile (16km) Chiltern tunnel, will be built low into the landscape between Great Missenden and South Heath in Buckinghamshire, HS2 Ltd said. It will be partially visible from a footbridge over the railway. It is one of seven “key design elements” which will be the only visible part of the twin tunnels. The

The US could benefit immensely from investment in high-speed rail connections as an effective and sustainable mode of transport. On 21 February, CoMotion LIVE hosted a webinar entitled ‘The Future of High Speed Rail in the US: Why the Hold Up?’ Throughout this discussion, representatives from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, Amtrak, Brightline and the National Association of Railroad Passengers explored the need to improve passenger rail services in the US through the introduction of

Sixty years ago, construction workers in the San Joaquin Valley began two major infrastructure projects that did much to build modern California: the State Water Project and Interstate 5. Backed by strong support in Sacramento, including adequate funding, the freeway connected drivers to Los Angeles in 1972, and the aqueduct began delivering water to Southern California in 1973. Today another major infrastructure project rises in the San Joaquin Valley. The high-speed rail project is as