A giant 1,600-tonne machine called Madeleine that will bore a tunnel taking HS2 trains into central London has been switched on.

Nearly 1,000 workers will lose their jobs on Feb. 6 if the $16 billion project is put on hold, the project authority said.

The first of two boring machines was switched on in west London on Tuesday.

VIRGINIA BEACH — Now that the anchor’s away, expansion work at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is back at full bore. Burrowing of a new tunnel to help carry more vehicles between Virginia Beach and ...

A machine has begun digging HS2’s 4.5 mile tunnel to Euston, from Old Oak Common, a journey expected to take 18 months.

Mary, the tunnel-boring machine, is on the move again! Thursday, Mary began boring a twin eastbound tunnel in part with the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project. Watch: First of 4 gantries ...