HS2 Chiltern Tunnel South Portal Site West Hyde
Add to Lightbox DownloadAn excavator moves the remnants of felled trees in front of precision-engineered tunnel segments at the South Portal site for the Chiltern tunnel section of the HS2 high-speed rail link on 9th July 2021 in West Hyde, United Kingdom. HS2 Ltd has announced the launch of the second 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM), named Cecilia after astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, to excavate a second 10-mile tunnel beneath the Chilterns.
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- 2021-07-09 HS2 Chiltern Tunnel South Portal works West Hyde
