HS2 has passed the half-way point of main construction on Britain’s longest railway bridge, it was announced today, as a new report highlights the progress made so far on the high-speed railway.



Construction of its 56 piers to carry the deck across both land and water began in December 2021.

Building Britain’s longest railway bridge for HS2 passes halfway point

The Government announced in February that it was pausing HS2 work at Euston because costs had ballooned

Work at Euston has been paused because costs had ballooned to £4.8 billion compared with an initial budget of £2.6 billion.

HS2 Euston station handed lifeline but only after scheme is scaled back

File photo dated 27/01/23 of a construction worker walking past HS2 signage near to the proposed site of the London Euston HS2 terminal. Pausing HS2 work at Euston shows the Government "does not know what it is trying to achieve" with the station despite more than eight years of planning, MPs on tthe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. Issue date: Friday July 7, 2023.


The cost of the Euston terminus has ballooned from £2.6bn to £4.8bn.

Cut price alternative could revive HS2 plan to build line to Euston

Railway workers at Old Oak Common in west London. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has written to the Prime Minister about the fate of HS2, warning it could end up being a "colossal waste of public money" if the northern leg and the Euston terminus in central London are not completed.

Their combined pay was up to £8.8 million.

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Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, Susan Hall, arriving at the Rumbling Tum cafe in Uxbridge, west London, following the party's success in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election. Picture date: Friday July 21, 2023.

Susan Hall said she "didn’t intend to cause offence" a string of tweets stirred up controversy online.

Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall responds to liking tweet praising Enoch Powell

Rishi Sunak insisted he is committed to levelling up despite declining to back building HS2 to the North 

London mayor astonished HS2 could become a 'shuttle service'

In a damning report, the Public Accounts Committee said the Department for Transport ‘does not know what it is trying to achieve’.

Pausing 'floundering' HS2 Euston project will not save money, MPs warn 

The Government announced in February that it was pausing HS2 work at Euston because costs had ballooned.

Bringing HS2 to Euston will need ‘compromise’ says rail minister

 Campaigners against the project said the six metre wide hole which is also five metres deep showed it was "time to stop digging". 

Big sinkhole appears above HS2 tunnel

Bosses in charge of the tunnel project have confirmed planned tunnelling operations to connect Euston with the rest of the line has been put on indefinite hold.

HS2 Euston re-development suffers further setback

Rishi Sunak insisted that HS2 will ultimately finish at Euston, amid questions about the fate of the multi-billion infrastructure project.

HS2 rail ink will end at London Euston, Rishi Sunak tells MPs

Members of the public walk past signs surrounding the construction site for the London Euston HS2 terminal, where work started six years ago with more than £1 billion already spent. A huge area to the west and northwest of the existing mainline station has been cleared to make space for the high-speed railway, and many properties have been bought. Soaring inflation means the redeveloped Euston station may not open until 2038 and could be axed completely with trains instead stopping at a new hub at Old Oak Common in west London's suburbs. Picture date: Friday January 27, 2023

The high-speed rail project has faced delays due to cost-cutting measures. 

HS2 high-speed rail line may not reach central London until 2040s 

A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015.

HS2 rail project could be further delayed as inflation pushes up costs

A strange bubbling hole appeared today the grounds of Ruislip Rugby Club

Images show a circle about five metres in diameter which appeared to be the result of a leaking borehole.

 Unusual bubbling hole temporarily paused HS2 tunneling

Undated handout photo issued by HS2 as the longest tunnel in the project reaches its halfway point under the Chilterns in Oxfordshire. HS2 Ltd said the pair of tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) have each made five miles of progress on their 10-mile journeys under the Chiltern Hills. Issue date: Wednesday February 1, 2023.

More than 1.3 million cubic metres of chalk and flint, enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools, has been excavated.

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