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HS2 launches final tunnel machine Karen towards Euston terminus

TBM Karen will excavate the second bore of the 4.5-mile Euston Tunnel.
A 271.5-tonne tunnel boring machine has started excavating a 2.2km tunnel to carry electricity beneath the River Thames.
Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory ...