First tunnelling breakthrough complete for HS2’s longest tunnel #shorts #news

Florence, our first tunnelling machine, has broken through!

The enormous 2,000 tonne machine has completed its 10-mile journey under the Chilterns. A huge milestone for the project, congratulations to everyone involved.

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[polpojliekwanjaroen]

Go HS2!!! Thank you for all your hard work! I shall wait to see the completion of this project!

[moonfrog]

Can’t wait for it to reach the north… oh wait…

[velocity]

Zero carbon 🎉🎉🎉🎉 SET OF THE FIREWORKS 🫨🫨🫨

[BlackHill]

Look at those shiny clean hi-vis suits

[Icematt]

Board says zero carbon but then there's a few flame jets above it

[darrenmoore]

Fuck HS2 and it's lack of Northern routes 😤

[davecooper]

Is it correct the second tunnel is only a couple of weeks behind ?

[richardwetherick]

They really built a wall just for it to break though 😂

[paulroberts]

That would have been historic if they came out 100ft too the right

[Caplonky]

64 billion of my tax money so you can dig a tunnel under my house

[mikenewtonninja]

kind of impressive, seeing all that rebar being snapped and broken by the cutter head with no bother at all

[concernedindividual]

Wonder what backhanders actually took place to allow this to take place????
😊😊😊😊😊

[TheCarpcatcher]

Who cares we got bigger issues then needing to get to Scotland 15mins faster 😂

[TheXeneco]

Oooh, on this massively over budget waste of money, let’s set off some needless fireworks. A better link between the northern cities would be a much better investment

[shihanthetrainspotter]

Is this going to be a long tunnel just like the Eurotunnel?

[donc-m]

Everone is standing around while a machine works.

[deborahleigh]

Is this a joke a train line that does service half the country..😮

[Cicuta__]

Never mind the poor ol' North, it didn't even manage to reach the centre of London and it's billions over budget, not to mention the amount of environmental destruction and land grabs, land that because of the spiralling budget won't even be used for the purpose (they'll probably sell it at a prophet). Anyway, I digress, what I was trying to say is stop it, the fireworks are embarrassing.

[dont-say-zombie]

Go on England blowing money like know tomorrow.

[sweetfreedomGB]

The £100billion train set that nobody wants and is totally outmoded already