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.

These photos show a huge HS2 tunnelling machine being lifted out of the ground – after it completed a five-mile drive ...

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) ...

Tunnelling work to link the HS2 high-speed train route to Euston has begun, in a major milestone for the troubled project. The first of two 1,624-tonne tunnel boring machines was set in motion on ...