2025: A year in images

HS2’s Colne Valley viaduct opened in September. At 3.3km, it is the longest of more than 50 viaducts being built for the high-speed rail megaproject. The Grade II*-listed Tyne Bridge carries 70,000 vehicles daily, and with its 2028 centenary fast approaching, a major restoration by… The post 2025: A year in images appeared first on Construction News.

HS2 | Waterproofing completed on UK’s longest rail viaduct

VolkerLaser has completed the waterproofing phase on the Colne Valley Viaduct, the United Kingdom’s longest rail viaduct, which forms a critical part of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link between London and Birmingham. The post HS2 | Waterproofing completed on UK’s longest rail viaduct appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

HS2 celebrates completion of UK’s longest rail bridge with installation of final pre-cast segment

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) has celebrated the structural completion of the Colne Valley Viaduct, Britain’s new longest railway bridge, with the installation of the 1,000th  and final precast concrete segment. The post HS2 celebrates completion of UK’s longest rail bridge with installation of final pre-cast segment appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

2.1-mile Bridge for HS2 Project Set to Be Longest Rail Viaduct in UK

With about three-quarters of the U.K. high-speed rail’s 2.1-mile-long Colne Valley Viaduct complete, concrete deck segment placing crossed the country’s longest canal—the 137-mile Grand Union, about 20 miles from central London.

Colne Valley Viaduct crosses Grand Union Canal [–with video]

Align has completed another section of the Colne Valley Viaduct.

HS2 - HS2 reveals first giant lake piers for record-breaking Colne Valley Viaduct 08062023

For the last year a 700-tonne ‘launch girder’ has been assembling giant pre-cast concrete segments to form the first 1 km of the viaduct deck along the edge of the valley. In HS2's latest construction update they explain how the team have completed the first v-shaped piers in the lake to allow the viaduct to curve eastward over the water The ‘V piers’ – each weighing in at 1,800 tonnes – will support a row of arches inspired by the flight of a stone skimming over the surface of the water