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Title: Weirdness at Reading station Post by: Mookiemoo on July 02, 2008, 14:21:03 waiting for the 1423 - loads of announcements about signalling issues at Slough.
But - why is this causing bizarre platform alterations at Reading! London trains going from 4,xc from 3 - bizarre Title: Re: Weirdness at Reading station Post by: eightf48544 on July 03, 2008, 10:21:20 Reading has always been weird, even in BR days. With multiple TOCS and their individual controls nowadays they have even more opportunity to be weird.
XC off 3 this is not unusal ever since the Voyagers came in and loco run round is not required. Presumably it was a train for the North, it can slip into 3 off the West of England line clear of the mainlines then slipped out onto the Down main. Similarly London train on 4 was probably ex West of England. I assumme this held up a down train outside the station. Presumably the problems at Slough meant everything Up had to go either Main or Relief so causing a tailback at Reading. Hence use of unusual platforms This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |