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"ref": "1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 405",
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"ref": "2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 43",
"text": "Biddle even notes how Brunel, after observing how one retaining wall had part-collapsed during the construction of one of the GWR's Bristol tunnels during heavy rains, \"decided to leave it like that and planted it with ivy to represent a ruined medieval gateway\".",
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"word": "擁壁"
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"word": "tường chắn đất"
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"word": "retaining wall"
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