HS2 engineers have completed the final operation to move two railway viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads in North Warwickshire, making them the first viaduct structures to be built at Delta Junction.

The ‘push’ to move the 158-metre-long ‘West Link Viaduct’ into its final position over both westbound and eastbound motorway link roads took a total of 11 hours over the weekend.

HS2 Ltd, its main works contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) and National Highways collaborated to minimise disruption for people using the roads and enabling these engineering feats to take place. The final "launch" operation was completed quicker than planned, allowing the motorway link roads to be reopened 6.5 hours ahead of schedule.

The viaducts are part of a group of 13 viaducts which make up HS2’s triangular Delta Junction. This section of the railway enables high speed trains to travel between London, Interchange Station in Solihull and Birmingham Curzon Street Station.

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0:00 Introduction
0:17 What is being completed?
0:29 Progress update
0:57 The push operations
1:12 Current works
1:40 The push-pull system
2:21 What happens now?
2:48 The purpose of the viaduct
3:07 A challenging section
3:27 Using the viaduct as a haul road
3:50 Final thoughts
4:08 Outro

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