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Karen and Madeleine

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master brummie
The last tunnel boring machines for HS2 have been named and these will work on the extension from Old Oak Common to Euston
They are Karen and Madeleine

The tunnel will be 4.5 km long
 
“One machine is called Karen after Karen Harrison, the first female train driver in the UK, who was based out of Old Oak Common depot.

The second is named Madeleine, after Madeleine Nobbs, former president of the Women’s Engineering Society.”
(No Birmingham connection)
 
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