The giant machine digging HS2’s longest tunnel has completed its 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills. Florence, named after nurse Florence Nightingale, was greeted with fireworks and cheers from ...

Fascinating footage shows a huge tunnelling machine called Dorothy digging underneath ancient woodland as the HS2 rail project goes full-speed ahead. Dorothy, the 125-metre-long boring machine ...

A 125m-long tunnelling machine has completed excavation of the final HS2 tunnel, marking a major milestone for the £140bn rail project. The machine, named Elizabeth, broke through after 19 months ...

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THE world’s longest tunnelling machine ­prepares to start digging — as the HS2 rail project finally gets under way. Florence, the 170-metre-long boring machine, weighing 2,000 tons, will spend the ...

Watch the enormous new tunnelling machines being built which will drill non-stop under London for 22 months to build HS2. The first giant tunnelling machine which will bore under London as part of HS2 ...

Two monsters are about to start tunnelling under the capital – and at 650 tonnes each, once they've started going, there won't be much anyone can do to stop them Yep: TfL has unveiled the boring ...

HS2 has officially launched the first of 10 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) on the £100bn project. The 2,000 tonne machine, said to be the largest ever used on a UK rail project, will dig the first of a ...

The boss of HS2 has said he hopes the UK “gets behind” the controversial high-speed rail project, as tunnelling work gets under way in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. A giant tunnelling machine ...