A giant boring machine has broken through to complete excavation work to all of the tunnels along the 140 mile route of the HS2 railway. The enormous 125m (410ft) long machine emerged today (Mon) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant 1,600-tonne machine called Madeleine that will bore a tunnel taking HS2 trains into central London has been switched on.

HS2 Ltd has completed the digging of major tunnels on its route between London and Birmingham. The company building the high-speed railway said a tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through at Washwood ...