Project developer has spent $36 billion on the continuing London-Birmingham phase and $2.2 billion on canceled phases. Closing down canceled work will add another $130 million.

The project was budgeted to cost $57 billion at 2019 prices, but an executive says poor planning and construction cost inflation are impacting the price.

Construction of the 90-mile rail line began in 2022. 

Plans now call for completion of only half of the 340-mile HS2 network launched 13 years ago.

But the megaproject's current chances of successful delivery was rated "unachievable" by the government's Infrastructure and Projects Authority in its recent annual review.

Supplier Grupo Pacadar is casting modular piers for the 2,890-ft-long viaduct. 

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.