• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

The New Reading Flyover (25th June 2014)

Status
Not open for further replies.

Bill EWS

Member
Joined
10 Feb 2006
Messages
673
Location
Didcot
On my return journey on the 25th of June I managed to video from the HST from Reading station to West Junction, showing the up side changes. Remembering West Junction Up & Down Yards and the many sidings and building in between this is now a massive change. It was so the first time I had changed at the new station and it took a few minutes to work out the new layout and the many new platforms and where to catch my connecting trains.

http://youtu.be/OvO35vf3pDE
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

Lrd

Established Member
Joined
26 Jul 2010
Messages
3,018
Nice video.

Which services will be using the flyover? Does it go from Newbury/Basingstoke over the mainlines in to Reading?
 

swt_passenger

Veteran Member
Joined
7 Apr 2010
Messages
34,271
Nice video.

Which services will be using the flyover? Does it go from Newbury/Basingstoke over the mainlines in to Reading?

The flyover carries the up and down main over everything else, so basically anything on the mains to/from Didcot. It is the existing two curves from Reading West, and the new curve from Reading West towards the relief side of the station that stay on the normal level.

In the video linked earlier, at 1m20s is the west curve box towards Reading West. Then a train passes and you don't see the next underpass, this is for what is known as the 'Festival Line' and connects the reliefs towards P3, P7, and P8; primarily for XC reversals towards Basingstoke. At 2m0s you can just see the concrete box structure that forms the underpass for the 'Up and Down Feeder lines' - these allow for trains between Reading West and the relief side of the station, and also towards P11 (the up main loop). The latter feature is there mainly for trains from the Westbury direction to reach the up main by crossing under the down and up mains that go through P9 and P10 respectively.

Picture added below to help with the general layout, I've rotated it 180 deg so that the first underpass you see in the video is on the right.
 

Attachments

  • Reading Viaduct.jpg
    Reading Viaduct.jpg
    87 KB · Views: 48
Last edited:

Lrd

Established Member
Joined
26 Jul 2010
Messages
3,018
Ok, thank you for that explanation. I took "West Junction" to be near Reading West so got myself confused.
 

davetheguard

Established Member
Joined
10 Apr 2013
Messages
1,939
Ok, thank you for that explanation. I took "West Junction" to be near Reading West so got myself confused.

Yes, easily done.

Confusingly, there's both a Reading West station and a Reading West Junction; and they're not in the same place. (Though, of course, they're both in Reading!).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top