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What did they use to fill in the old shoreditch cutting? They didn't dig
any new tunnels on the ELL so the earth couldn't have come from there.
Was it from crossrail or did they not actually fill it in but just roofed
it over and put a thin layer of dirt on top?

Crossrail hadn't started digging anywhere when it was being filled surely?

But it is definitely filled in nearly as far as the old station building
with compacted earth and rubble, the ramped track bed rising up to the
GEML bridge is in or over the cutting for much of its length.

Perhaps they used spoil from the Bishopsgate goods yard site which was being
demolished at the time to make room for the new Shoreditch High St station
to be built?

Paul S