Dear all
Can anyone help me with this query. Digging trenches and tunnels for underground railway systems generates vast amounts of spoil, to be re-used on other infrastructure projects. Just look at all the material recently shipped down the Thames on barges to reclaim land and create mudflats at Wallasea Island in Essex. My question is, when the 'cut and cover' trenches were dug for the Metropolitan Line in the !860s, what happened to all the spoil?
Was it used as fill for other civil engineering projects like the construction of the Thames Embankment?
any help you could give, or pointers towards research already done on this, would be much appreciated
Matt
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