VIDEO: Watch HS2 complete a weighty ‘engineering milestone’

The first stage of the HS2 Interchange Station bridge has been completed.
The first stage of the HS2 Interchange Station bridge has been completed. HS2

A police escort for bridge beams, you say? 565 tonnes of them? All 15 of them lifted and laid in under a week? Watch dramatic drone footage of the completion of HS2’s latest engineering milestone at one of the UK megaproject’s most important sites – the HS2 Interchange Station in Solihull.

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VIDEO: Watch HS2 complete a weighty ‘engineering milestone’

VIDEO: Watch HS2 complete a weighty ‘engineering milestone’

The first stage of the HS2 Interchange Station bridge has been completed.
The first stage of the HS2 Interchange Station bridge has been completed. HS2

A police escort for bridge beams, you say? 565 tonnes of them? All 15 of them lifted and laid in under a week? Watch dramatic drone footage of the completion of HS2’s latest engineering milestone at one of the UK megaproject’s most important sites – the HS2 Interchange Station in Solihull.

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