Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory digging a railway to Euston.
A 125m-long tunnelling machine has completed excavation of the final HS2 tunnel, marking a major milestone for the £140bn rail project. The machine, named Elizabeth, broke through after 19 months ...
You might not think so at first, but a tunnel boring machine (TBM) can be fascinating in its own way. Imagine a giant machine, with an elongated shape, that digs her way under the ground, as to not ...