HS2 celebrates launch of TBM for second tunnel bore under Long Itchington Wood in Warks. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK-based High Speed Two (HS2) has launched the 125m tunnel boring machine (TBM), ...

Caroline TBM can travel at an average of 14m per day. Credit: High Speed Two. High Speed Two (HS2) has rolled out the fifth tunnel boring machine (TBM), known as Caroline, for the construction of ...

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV), a UK/France-based construction and infrastructure services joint venture (JV), announced its 1,600-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) – named Elizabeth – has started digging ...

A giant boring machine that is digging the tunnels for the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project has completed its journey - the first on the project to do so. Dorothy, a 2,000 tonne tunnel-boring machine ...

Four giant tunnelling machines working below west London have completed the excavation of the 8.4-mile (13.5km) Northolt tunnel between West Ruislip and a new station at Old Oak Common as part of the ...

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