Talk:Reading railway station

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Services table 

message: There IS 11 platforms at the station. User:Fila3466757 Fila3466757 7:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there ARE 12 platforms, and their numbers are listed in the article. Signalhead (talk) 08:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of platforms 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Future expansion 

message: I'm removing the line: the largest town in England as it is misleading and implies that Reading is the largest settlement in England. 86.128.117.187 (talk) 20:42, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of line 

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thread_title: File:Proposed Reading station layout 2015.PNG Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: I have been making small incremental edits to the station redevelopment section as snippets of news have come out.
Is anyone who works on the project interested in collaboration to improve this section of the page?  In particular I have hashed-up the "new" platform plan and the track layout is worse than guess-work.  Is there anyone out there who would care to help to improve this? Lukew151 (talk) 15:16, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station Redevelopment 

message: The article mentions them but they don't feature in the diagram or in the cited documents. Are they fictional? 83.104.249.240 (talk) 10:42, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ref to 17 & 18 was added by , which also added a link to this BBC article, looking further ahead than the current rebuilding. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:48, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New platforms 17 and 18? 

message: We need a new picture of Reading Station as the current one is ceasing to exist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.99.104 (talk) 16:35, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New picture 

message: Is there still any intention to reinstate this to allow Wokingham services to use it? 'Airtrack Lite' would not come to Reading Station, and if access is provided to the Heathrow branch to and from the west, it would be redundant anyway.Ntmr (talk) 21:41, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern underpass 

message: ...a number of major components either became redundant or were no longer needed. What is the difference between something becoming redundant and its no longer being needed? If there is a difference it's a subtle one that needs explanation. If there is no difference then the sentence needs modifying. I propose the latter, like this: ...a number of major components became redundant. 83.104.249.240 (talk) 13:18, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recycling of infrastructure 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This is the new section that I propose be added (to support the briefer summary that I have proposed for the lead): 
:The station is on the northern side of central Reading, off the Inner Distribution Road. The nearest post-code is RG1 1LT.Streetmap.co.uk In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, its location on the Great Western main line is  from Paddington.Engineer's Line References RailwayCodes.org
Would this version that uses the 'Reading Central' location map be more appropriate? Other comments. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As there have been no further comments, I shall make this change. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:44, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed new "Location" section