HS2’s Thame Valley viaduct – taking a look at a waterlogged construction site

A landscape that, thanks to recent rainfall, is currently more lake than land is also the location for one of HS2’s more innovative railway structures that’s now under construction.This will be the Thame Valley viaduct, a long strip of concrete skimming low over the valley near Aylesbury, where the floodplain is proving a challenge to work in. What is known as the North Chilterns to Aylesbury project will create 24km of theHS2 railway, spread over three viaducts and a number of over