page_title: Reading railway station
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hierarchical_section_title: Reading railway station / Current station / Station layout / Previous
caption_attribution_description: Diagram of current (as of 2007) track layout at Reading railway station. — Main (Bristol-Paddington) lines — Westbury lines — Goods lines — Relief lines — Other lines
context_page_description: Reading railway station is a major transport hub in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is on the northern edge of the town centre, near the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames, 36 miles from London Paddington.
  Reading is the ninth-busiest station in the UK outside London, and the second busiest interchange station outside London, with over 3.8 million passengers changing trains at the station annually.
  Reading is one of 19 stations managed by Network Rail. The station is served by four train operating companies: Great Western Railway, CrossCountry, TfL Rail and South Western Railway.
context_section_description: Until 2013, to serve the traffic described above, Reading station had four through-platforms and eight terminal platforms.
  The station layout immediately prior to 27 December 2011 was as follows:
  Platform 1, 2, 3 – West facing bay platforms. Used for local services to Basingstoke, Newbury and Bedwyn.
  Platform 4 – Fast services from Paddington to the West. Renumbered Platform 7.
  Platform 4a, 4b — East facing bay platforms. Used for services on the North Downs line and to London Waterloo. Renumbered Platforms 6 and 5 respectively.
  Platform 5 – Fast services to Paddington. Renumbered Platform 8.
  Platform 6 – East facing bay platform. Used for terminating local services to and from London Paddington. Renumbered Platform 16 and later removed.
  Platform 7 – West facing bay platform. Used for terminating CrossCountry services to and from Newcastle. Removed first in the redevelopment.
  Platform 8 – Local services from Paddington to Oxford. Also used for CrossCountry services. Fast services to Paddington, when platform 5 was occupied. Renumbered Platform 9.
  Platform 9 – Local services from Oxford to Paddington and fast services to Paddington and Ealing Broadway. Renumbered platform 10.
  Platform 10 – East facing bay platform. Local stopping services to Paddington calling at most stations. Also local stopping services to Henley on Thames. Renumbered platform 11 and then converted to a through platform.
  On 27 December 2011, the new platform 4 was opened, with all higher numbered platforms re-numbered. Main Line platforms 4 & 5 became 7 & 8 while Relief line platforms 8 & 9 became 9 & 10, with the North bay becoming 11.  Bay platform 6, which would be removed later in the redevelopment, was renumbered 16.  Platform 5 (old 4b) opened on 23 April 2012. with platform 6 (old 4a) following on 12 July. The Easter 2013 blockade resulted in the opening of new platforms 12 to 15 and the closure of the old East bay no 16.  Work then commenced to rebuild platform 11 into a through platform, following which the adjacent platform 10 was rebuilt to match.
  In March 2013 the subway reopened as a public right of way from the north to the south of the station, with no platform access.  This enabled removal of the old footbridge to commence, starting with the two sections nearest the car park which were lifted out in the first two weeks of that month.
  On 29 March 2013 the new transfer deck was opened, ready for the opening of the new platforms on 2 April.  By 7 April 2013 the old footbridge had been completely removed.
  Further work saw the completion of the final layout:
caption: Track layout prior to 27 December 2011               — Main (Bristol-Paddington) lines —Westbury lines—Goods lines —Relief lines—Other lines
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