Connection at Reading

[penaltyfines]

I have a 7 minute cross-platform change at Reading tomorrow (off the 07:39 from Paddington Platform 4 onto the 07:46 to Bournemouth Platform 3).

NRE shows it as valid, and the minimum interchange time is 7 minutes, and it's cross-platform - does anyone have experience of arrivals at Reading at that time of the morning?

Platform 4 arrivals in the evening usually runs somewhere up to 5 minutes late (and often worse), but not sure what the morning is like?

 

[Greenback]

You should be OK if the train is on time, which is more likely in the morning compared to the evening peak.

If you are in coach A or B (assuming the train is a HST and in the usual formation) than it's only a few steps to get to platform 3.

 

[bnm]

I see that you were a few minutes late into Reading but the Bomo train left 6 late from Platform 8 this morning. I hope you made it!