HS2 - Progress at Long Itchington

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A pretty impressive flyover of the route heading north and over the Long Itchington tunnel

Some serious earthworks have been completed

 

[TheHSRailFan]

Certainly is starting to take shape in some areas already.

 

[david_g]

A pretty impressive flyover of the route heading south and over the Long Itchington tunnel

Took me until the A423 popped up to work out why I didn't recognise it, but the flyover is heading north, not south.

 

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Ah, for some reason I assumed they were boring northwards

 

[Watershed]

An aerial view of the Long Itchington area yesterday. Quite the scar through the landscape!

 

[The Planner]

An aerial view of the Long Itchington area yesterday. Quite the scar through the landscape!

People latch on to that as though the landscape doesnt recover behind it.

 

[Watershed]

People latch on to that as though the landscape doesnt recover behind it.

Of course - it's only like that temporarily and the bare earth always makes it look worse than when it's been landscaped.

 

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bit of a flyover around the tunnel portal

 

[Snow1964]

Latest update confirms boring of second tunnel at Long Itchington Wood (TBM - Dorothy) is now complete

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

The boring actually completed on 30 March 2023, and Dorothy has been dismantled for its next job at Bromford.
Some finishing work might have been left to do (cross-passages etc) before the job could be called "complete".

 

[Snow1964]

Just been reported that 20M cubic metres (of the 50M m3) of earth and rock to be moved has now happened by EKFB consortium

EKFB – consisting of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and Bam Nuttall – said it had moved 20M.m3 of material on the mammoth project.

The consortium is delivering 80km of track as part of the London-to-Birmingham leg of the £100bn rapid rail link.

A four-year earthworks programme is well underway, although a total of 50M.m3 is expected to be shifted before it completes.

Using 800 items of plant and more than 1,000 skilled operatives, the huge task will make way for a network of 33 cuttings and 49 embankments designed to blend the high speed railway into its surrounding landscape.

EKFB is delivering civil engineering works from the Chiltern tunnels in Buckinghamshire to Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire. This will include 15 viaducts, 6.9km of green tunnels and 81 bridges.

HS2: Major earthworks milestone reached on megaproject | Ground Engineering (GE)

EKFB – consisting of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and Bam Nuttall – said it had moved 20M.m3 of material on the mammoth project. The consortium is delivering

www.geplus.co.uk

 

[Snow1964]

New HS2 route video following line south of Southam

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Good to see that some of the new cuttings on that section are greening up already.

 

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Work starting on Greatworth 'green tunnel'
A little bit more info in this closed thread -https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/hs2-construction-updates-chipping-warden-greatworth-green-tunnels.243872/

Also some progress on the Chipping Warden green tunnel

 

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From the south going towards Chipping Warden

 

[chris2]

Flyover of the Southam / Long Itchington tunnel area

 

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About a mile south of Long Itchington wood, lots of concrete box sections and some bridge piers
and another closer view on the box sections, guessing it might be a flood plain?

 

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Nice flyover of the area