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Evening Standard
Evening Standard

Mystery foam emerges from HS2 tunnel boring under west London rugby club

A pool of brown bubbling foam has appeared where work to build the HS2 high speed rail line is being carried out.

The five metre (16ft) “mini geyser” on a rugby pitch in Ruislip, west London, is near to where some of the tunnelling work is being carried out.

Work was briefly halted over the weekend to investigate the cause.

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