HS2 will get inexperienced gentle for ‘thrilling’ Birmingham viaduct

Birmingham Metropolis Council has accredited plans for a 150-metre part of viaduct to hold HS2 high-speed trains into town’s Curzon Road Station.

Consumer HS2 Ltd obtained Schedule 17 consent for the Curzon No. 2 Viaduct – additionally referred to as the Bellingham Bridge after Birmingham-born footballer Jude Bellingham – which would be the tallest of a sequence of constructions taking high-speed trains into town.

“That is an thrilling building methodology, which we imagine will likely be among the many longest bridge launches of its kind ever delivered within the UK,” stated HS2 Ltd senior venture supervisor David King.

The viaduct part will embody a public gentle art work, Out of the Blue by British artist Liz West, which is designed to develop into a particular new characteristic within the metropolis’s evening skyline.

The venture, to be delivered by the Balfour Beatty-Vinci design three way partnership (JV), consists of a gently curved truss in weathering metal, which can carry HS2 above a Victorian brick rail viaduct.

HS2 Ltd acknowledged yesterday (24 Might) that the Bellingham Bridge will attain 40 metres into the air and relaxation at the least 17 metres above the bottom, carrying three parallel high-speed rail tracks over the prevailing east-west rail line.

Consisting of linked components that type triangular items, the truss bridge has been designed to wrap across the viaduct, extending the underside of the metal to wrap beneath the viaduct deck and forming a visible connection to the metal girders of the adjoining constructions.

The nodes the place the diagonal members meet can have curved corners to offer longevity to the steelwork whereas softening the silhouette of the bridge.

Nearer to Curzon Road, the tracks will cut up additional to serve the seven platforms being constructed on the station.

HS2 trains crossing the truss bridge will depart town in direction of the Washwood Heath Depot to the north-east of town centre, the place trains which can be out of use will likely be maintained, serviced and saved.