HS2 Ltd has built a 17-metre-high headwall and reinforced the ground at what will become the south portal of the ten-mile Chiltern Tunnel, as part of preparations for the arrival next year of tunnel boring machines (TBMs).

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And the contents of my cigarette-case are half a dozen gaspers, and a ten-bob Bradbury patched together with stamp paper!

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