Sentence examples for surviving embankment from inspiring English sources
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.
The city of Irkutsk, with attractive embankments along the river and many surviving wooden houses on its tree-lined streets, is an administrative and cultural centre for Eastern Siberia and of the Russian Far East.
The unitary authority is also the site of the Wansdyke, a now mostly obliterated trenched embankment that was probably built as a boundary between Saxon invaders from the north and the surviving Roman British population to the south.
Having inspired the exodus, by breaching a sandy embankment around this "refuge", a few kilometres of beach in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the army has encircled the surviving Tigers.According to its private estimate, the Tigers may be reduced to 1,000 hardened fighters, plus a few thousand recently impressed refugees.
Due to its wooden construction, virtually no trace of Cromer Links Halt has survived other than the gate to the approach path up the embankment, the rotting remains of which were said to be entangled in the undergrowth at the site of the station.
