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HS2’s Second Giant Tunnel Boring Machine Assembled and Set to Start Digging Into Birmingham

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The UK's High Speed 2 (HS2) rail network took a significant step forward this week as specialists assembled a 1,600-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) set to begin excavating the second bore of the Bromford Tunnel into central Birmingham next spring. The behemoth machine joins 'Mary Ann', the first...