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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Wylie

DARK SECRETS: Hs2 tunnelling machine called dorothy becomes first to complete its journey | Rare Historical Photos

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One of the giant machines digging the tunnels for HS2 has become the first on the project to complete its full journey underground.

A 2,000-tonne tunnel-boring machine (TBM) called Dorothy, named after Dorothy Hodgkin – who in 1964 became the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, completed its one-mile dig under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.

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