Construction of a 37-mile section from London north will be pushed back two years amid inflationary pressure and increased project costs.

The joint venture working on the London-Birmingham high-speed rail project says this is the world's longest slide of its type.

Contractors have launched five of the 10 tunnel boring machines set to dig 64 miles of tunnels for the $46.5-billion project.

A 525-ft-long sliding girder, originally built for a Hong Kong project, will place around 1,000 concrete elements of a 2.1-mile viaduct for a new high-speed railroad.