{"id":710105,"date":"2026-07-25T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T06:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:37:16","slug":"weekend-m42-closures-continue-for-major-hs2-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710105\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend M42 closures continue for major HS2 work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of the M42 in Warwickshire is shutting for HS2 works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The closures were due to begin on 21:00 BST on Friday and stay in place until 05:00 on Monday as more beam installations take place as well as work on the Water Orton viaduct. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The affected areas include a stretch between Junction 6 to 9 on the northbound carriageway and Junction 7A to 6 on the southbound carriageway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also include the M6 Junction 4a southbound link to the M42 in both directions and the M6 northbound Junction 3a link to the M6 Toll T1 and M6 Toll southbound from T2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A series of weekend road closures began last month to install beams to support a &#8220;twin box&#8221; structure over the motorway &#8211; this is what the HS2 line will run through when trains start operating between Birmingham and London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, 175 beams, each weighing up to 92 tonnes, will make up the roof deck and will be lifted into place using a 300-tonne crane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An HS2 spokesperson said: &#8220;This work is being carried out in stages and will be completed in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of the M42 in Warwickshire is shutting for HS2 works. The closures were due to begin on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}