page_title: Southcote Junction
hierarchical_section_title: Southcote Junction
caption_attribution_description: English: Southcote junction Southcote junction is the point where the lines from Reading to Basingstoke and Reading to Taunton via Newbury diverge. The 2-car class 165 unit is on a Reading to Basingstoke service. There used to be another junction here, and I am standing on the route of the former Coley branch line that close in 1983. In the background is the road bridge at Bath Road.
context_page_description: Southcote Junction is a railway junction in the town of Reading, Berkshire, England. It is the point where the Reading to Taunton line diverges from the Reading to Basingstoke line, and is situated between the Reading suburbs of Southcote and Coley Park and to the south of Reading West station. Both lines were proposed as part of the Berks and Hants Railway, but that company became part of the Great Western Railway before the track was laid.
  Until 1983 there was a third line at the junction, the Coley branch line, which diverted just to the north at Coley Branch Junction and served Reading Central goods station.
  The junction is readily visible from a footpath linking Wensley Road in Coley Park to Southcote Farm Lane in Southcote. This first crosses the trackbed of the old Coley branch, before running alongside the railway and then passing under both lines at the junction.
context_section_description: Southcote Junction is a railway junction in the town of Reading, Berkshire, England. It is the point where the Reading to Taunton line diverges from the Reading to Basingstoke line, and is situated between the Reading suburbs of Southcote and Coley Park and to the south of Reading West station. Both lines were proposed as part of the Berks and Hants Railway, but that company became part of the Great Western Railway before the track was laid.   
  Until 1983 there was a third line at the junction, the Coley branch line, which diverted just to the north at Coley Branch Junction and served Reading Central goods station.
  The junction is readily visible from a footpath linking Wensley Road in Coley Park to Southcote Farm Lane in Southcote. This first crosses the trackbed of the old Coley branch, before running alongside the railway and then passing under both lines at the junction.
caption: View from footpath crossing former Coley branch line that closed in 1983
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