TBM Lydia incorporates parts from a former Crossrail machine. HS2
NAMED after former Old Oak Common Primary School teacher and social enterprise founder Lydia Gandaa, tunnel boring machine Lydia has begun work on the 853-metre (933-yard) logistics tunnel in the capital, which will link HS2’s sites at Atlas Road (in North Acton, not far from Willesden Junction) and Old Oak Common station.