Foundation work begins on HS2's carbon-saving Wendover Dean Viaduct

HS2 ground engineers have started work on the UK high speed rail project’s pioneering low-carbon Wendover Dean Viaduct, with an expert team sinking the first of more than 50 concrete piles that will form the foundations.

More than 50 concrete piles will form the foundations of a new viaduct which will form part of the UK’s HS2 high-speed rail line

08 July 2022
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Located south of the village of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, the 450m long viaduct will be the first major railway bridge in the UK to be built with a ‘double composite' structure, using

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