Context: The town was the subject of an attempt by a separate company, the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway, to open another rail route to the North in the 1880s and some building work, including a surviving embankment, was undertaken in the Hill Lane area.

Question: What competing railway company tried to open a rail route in the 1880s?
Answer: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway

Question: In which direction did the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway want to expand?
Answer: North

Question: What feature survives in the Hill Lane area as evidence of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway's work?
Answer: embankment