HS2 Chiltern Tunnel South Portal Site West Hyde

West Hyde, UK. 9th July, 2021. Saplings planted by way of environmental mitigation close to the South Portal site for the Chiltern tunnel section of the HS2 high-speed rail link. HS2 Ltd has announced the launch of the second 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) at the site, named Cecilia after astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, to excavate a second 10-mile tunnel beneath the Chilterns.

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