A Building Site Next Door

We seem to have started a fashion locally with excavating into the embankment.   A huge great hole is emerging just along The Sidings and the area is becoming a very meaningful building site.   Here is the view form the top of the tower today:

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Immediately outside our goods-yard gates reinforcing bars are being made into mighty great cages which will be lifted into position against the newly exposed cut-away embankment and surrounded with concrete to form a retaining wall.