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.
What competing railway company tried to open a rail route in the 1880s? In which direction did the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway want to expand? What feature survives in the Hill Lane area as evidence of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway's work?