Talk:Reading railway station
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[edit] Services table
I have edited the services table to make it consistent with edits that I have conducted on stations on the Berks and Hants line. If you have any concerns with the edits please discuss on talk page for Newbury railway station.Grizzlyqi 09:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the recent updates, is it right that services can give Twyford as the preceding station and Reading West as the following station when there is no actual service that stops at both destinations? Services to Twyford either terminate at Reading or continue to Didcot/Oxford. All services that call at Reading West on the current timetable terminate at Reading (including Basingstoke and Newbury/Bedwyn services). Other services on the Berks/Hants only call at either Paddington or Slough and continue direct to Theale, Newbury, Pewsey or Westbury. Whilst displaying this information would be over-complicating, I think the services through Reading West should be shown to terminate at Reading.Grizzlyqi (talk) 21:18, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
There doesn't appear any frequent services from Reading West that go any further than Reading on its live departure board. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anywikiuser (talk • contribs)
- There is certainly one morning weekday service that calls at Reading West and Reading, then runs non-stop to London Paddington. The train starts from Devizes and is targetted at commuters to London from the B+H line stations; formerly operated by a pair of Adelantes, I believe it has now switched to an HST. Similar services have operated since BR days, but it has been the subject of some local press controversy. The last but one (two?) timetable change dropped the stop at Reading West, but it was reinstated after political pressure from local residents and the local MP. The suspicion is that FGW would like to drop it again, but couldn't take the political fallout. -- Chris j wood (talk) 20:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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- I take it by Devizes you mean Pewsey railway station? However, you are right there is a morning service to London from Bedwyn although I can't see if there is an evening return service which is interesting.Grizzlyqi (talk) 10:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Number of platforms
There IS 11 platforms at the station. User:Fila3466757 Fila3466757 7:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fila3466757 (talk • contribs)
- No, there ARE 12 platforms, and their numbers are listed in the article. Signalhead (talk) 08:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Future expansion
Any chance we can expand the section on station expansion a bit more as in my mind this is the most interesting part........There have been plans to build more platforms for years and years, but its funny how none have come to anything yet. From my own experience it seems a little unnecessary. as the station never has all platforms in use, maybe just rearranging platform use..... having commuted for years, one argument that was cited was you had HSTs stacking up between Twyford and Reading waiting for a platform, but it usually ignored the real cause of the problem, they were not leaving London Paddington at their correct time in the first case, e.g. there used to be several leaving Paddington at around 18:00 to 18:15, but they never never never left on time, it was always a guessing game to try and jump on the one that would leave first. All three of them ended up leaving within minutes of each other, instead of the timetabled 5 minute or so gap between them, so suprise surprise the all arrive at Reading at the same time and stacked up! jrhilton (talk) 21:10, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
