How HS2 completed the night-time mega bridge move over Birmingham Ring Road 🚆 🏗️

A specialist HS2 engineering team has successfully moved a 112m-long, 1,631-tonne steel bridge over Lawley Middleway - part of the city’s busy ring road - four days ahead of schedule.

To minimise disruption for road users, the huge span was moved during night-time road closures, using a combination of self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs) and a special skidding system – a first for BBV on the HS2 project.

Rather than building the bridge in place, engineers constructed it next to Digbeth Canal, rotated it 90 degrees, and carefully slid it into position over several nights.

Lawley Middleway bridge is a key part of HS2’s approach into Birmingham, linking the Bromford Tunnel to Curzon Street Station via a mile-long series of viaducts.

Watch to see how the team pulled off this incredible feat of engineering.

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0:00 Introduction
0:18 What is the Lawley Middleway Viaduct?
0:39 The Curzon approaches
1:22 Building the bridge
1:54 The rotation
2:34 Pushing the bridge over the road
3:07 The skidding shoe system
3:40 Completed ahead of schedule
4:00 What’s next?
4:25 Reaction to the successful operation
4:47 Outro

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