HS2's first deep tunnel, which took 15 months to dig and is under ancient Warwickshire woodland, has reached a construction ...

A colony of the rare mammals, which are listed as vulnerable to extinction in Europe, inhabits an ancient woodland in the path of HS2, the blighted high-speed railway program. Disclosure that HS2 ...

The chairman of the HS2 rail line Sir John Thompson had said it was spending £100m on a shield to protect bats in ancient woodland in Buckinghamshire. A new Defra infrastructure board will speed ...

At 30 metres below ground level, the tunnel allows trains to avoid woodland above, HS2 says. Engineers are preparing the A46 as part of a project to take the rail line under the road. Despite ...

At 30 metres below ground level, the tunnel allows trains to avoid woodland above, HS2 says. A mother-of-two ... been excavating a tunnel underneath ancient woodland in Warwickshire since 2021.

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