HS2 progress on ‘green tunnel’ at Burton Green

The two key segments of a new HS2 ‘green tunnel’ that uses a short alignment of a disused railway are set to be joined for the first time. The 700-metre Burton Green ‘tunnel’ is now 50% complete. HS2 has taken over a cutting which was home to the line between Berkswell and Kenilworth Junction (closed in 1969). It is turning the cutting into a tunnel with plants and vegetation on top, unifying the two halves of the Warwickshire village of the same name. The tunnel itself is being built using a ‘top down’ method. The side walls and roof, which is currently made up of concrete beams before the main slabs go on, were installed before the excavation work was carried out and the tunnel base constructed. Rupert Blake, Balfour…

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