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.
1880లలో ఏ పోటీ రైల్వే సంస్థ రైలు మార్గాన్ని తెరవడానికి ప్రయత్నించింది?
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway