swt_passenger
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Now that the various online train times sites have the details for early April, it is possible to see exactly how XC will be platformed at Reading after the blockade, without access to either P3 which is closed, or to P7 (which will not have a connection to the Twyford/Didcot direction in the next phase of the interim layout).
Newcastle - Readings will terminate and layover in either P13 or P14, and on some occasions this is shown as 13B or 14B which is when the London end of the same platforms (ie 13A or 14A) is being used by the FGW Paddington - Reading stoppers.
Newcastle - Southamptons, and Man Picc - Bournemouth will use P8, P9 and P10 at various times over the course of the day. As far as I can work out there doesn't appear to be much of a pattern to this, so I guess they are just slotted in as necessary dependent on what FGW are doing at those times.
One interesting move is an early morning ECS from Eastleigh that gets to P13 via P8, New Jn, Spur Jn, Southern Jn and the eastern underpass...
This link should hopefully show XC services only for 8th April:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sea...edule_type=0&show_wtt=1&show_var=1&show_stp=1
Scanning through FGW's services over the 24 hours shows various platform oddities, such as Bristol to Paddington HSTs running through P15 - which is on the other hand expected as otherwise P10 would be the only route for up direction trains.
Newcastle - Readings will terminate and layover in either P13 or P14, and on some occasions this is shown as 13B or 14B which is when the London end of the same platforms (ie 13A or 14A) is being used by the FGW Paddington - Reading stoppers.
Newcastle - Southamptons, and Man Picc - Bournemouth will use P8, P9 and P10 at various times over the course of the day. As far as I can work out there doesn't appear to be much of a pattern to this, so I guess they are just slotted in as necessary dependent on what FGW are doing at those times.
One interesting move is an early morning ECS from Eastleigh that gets to P13 via P8, New Jn, Spur Jn, Southern Jn and the eastern underpass...
This link should hopefully show XC services only for 8th April:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sea...edule_type=0&show_wtt=1&show_var=1&show_stp=1
Scanning through FGW's services over the 24 hours shows various platform oddities, such as Bristol to Paddington HSTs running through P15 - which is on the other hand expected as otherwise P10 would be the only route for up direction trains.