HS2 tunnelling machines arrive in UK

Leila Steed

10 December 2020

Tunnel boring machine Florence, at the Herrenknect factory in Germany

Two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived in the UK in order to start work on the HS2 railway project.

The TBMs, which measure 170m in length and weigh 2,000 tonnes each, were transported from Germany in…

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