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Information on Reading Station
Reading station serves the county town of Berkshire from a site just north of the town centre near the Caversham Bridge crossing of the River Thames. It lies on the Bristol South Wales and West of England Main Lines of the Western region and east into London Paddington main line terminus.
Reading station opened in 1840 and was then modified by the Great Western railway in 1856 again from 1866 to 1870 and 1896 to 1899. British Rail remodelled the station from 1988 to 1989.
The current present station has ten platforms as follows:
- Platforms 1, 2 & 3 – West facing bay platforms used for local services to Basingstoke, Newbury and Bedwyn and CrossCountry services from Bournemouth to Birmingham.
- Platform 4 – Fast services from Paddington to the West.
- Platform 4a, 4b – East facing bay platforms used for services to the North Downs line into London Waterloo.
- Platform 5 –Fast services to London Paddington.
- Platform 6 – East facing bay platforms used for terminating local services from London Paddington.
- Platform 7 – West facing bay platform used for terminating CrossCountry services to and from Newcastle.
- Platform 8 – Local services from London Paddington to Oxford and also used for CrossCountry services from Birmingham to Bournemouth.
- Platform 9 – Local services from Oxford to London Paddington and fast services to London Paddington and Ealing Broadway.
- Platform 10 – east facing bay platform for local stopping services to London Paddington calling most stations.
Due to slow moving freight trains through the station and the current track layout which causes a bottle neck where trains have to cross lines via the conventional railway points system is due for change as Network Rail unveiled a £400 million regeneration scheme in September 2009 for Reading station and the surrounding track which will include an overpass system to the West of the station meaning freight and passenger trains will be able to transit from the Reading to Plymouth Line and Reading to Basingstoke Line to the slow lines without crossing the fast lines via an underpass beneath the fast lines.
Five additional platforms will also be added along with a new footbridge between platforms, new escalators and lifts, plus a new Northern entrance for the station will improve the link through the station between Reading town centre to the Thames (Caversham). There will also be improvements for at least four extra passenger trains an hour in each direction and six new freight trains each day thus taking around 200 lorries a day off the road.
Reading has a Traction Maintenance Depot (TM) situated to the west of Reading station and to the north of Reading West station within the triangle of lines formed by the Great Western Main Line to the north, the curve from Reading West to Reading and the curve connecting Reading West to the westbound main line. The depot is split into two levels with the upper level providing stabling points for the Class 165 and 166 DMUs used on First Great Western’s local routes. The lower level which originally housed Class 08, 31 and 47 diesel locomotives but is now principally used for stabling and maintaining track maintenance equipment.
Information on train services from Reading Station
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The station is managed by First Great Western with services operated by First Great Western, CrossCountry and South West Trains.
First Great Western operate services as follows:
- To/From London Paddington and to the West Country and Bristol, Bath, Newport and Cardiff.
- First Great Western also operate services via the North Downs Line:
To/from Guildford and Gatwick Airport.
- and stopping services to Basingstoke, Newbury, Bedwyn, Oxford
CrossCountry operate services as follows:
- To/From Birmingham New Street and International and Scotland in the north.
- And Winchester, Southampton and Bornemouth in the south.
South West Trains operate services as follows:
- To/From London Waterloo via the electric suburban lines.
First Great Western also operate an express bus service to London Heathrow Airport
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