Engineers in Birmingham have finally hammered home the last of the 2,011 concrete piles. The city’s ears are still ringing. The work was required to support the foundations of the HS2 showpiece Birmingham Curzon Street station. While the silence might be golden, the completion of this subterranean forest of concrete marks a pivotal shift from heavy groundworks to the visible rise of Birmingham’s new high-speed terminus.
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