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« on: May 11, 2008, 17:15:56 »

Maidenhead

Re-instatement of platform 1.  Should allow HST (High Speed Train)'s to stop in the December 2008 timetable

Twyford

New passenger footbridge with lifts.  Ground surveys have been completed, and the foundations have been marked out.  Work scheduled to start after the Henley regatta and complete for Christmas.  Just need a few engineering posessions to paint the canopies afterwards!
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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2008, 20:48:22 »

Isn't Reading itself having some fairly major alterations done as well? 4 extended platforms was what I heard.
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2008, 21:13:25 »

Yes.  There is a lot of stuff going to happen at Reading.  I'll try and find out some more details.  But the items I had posted are going on now.
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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2008, 21:58:55 »

It is very good that there are improvements going on. However while they are happening, there is a loss of quite a lot of car parking spaces at Maidenhead, meaning the car parks are full earlier than they used to be.. Not sure where people park who arrive too late.. So far I've been lucky (just).. Also, one of the station entrances is shut for a few weeks.. This means I now have to drive to the station again.. After dropping the children off at school there isn't quite enough time to walk to the station as it's an extra 3 or 4 minutes to walk round to the main entrance.. I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end though, and I'm looking forward to it being finished.
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2008, 18:07:36 »

Reading

The list below shows the current scope of the Redevelopment Programme:

^  Six additional platforms and a new northern entrance hall and ticket office
^  New passenger transfer interchange facilities
^  Grade separation between the main lines and freight routes
^  A new eastern chord to service London-bound freight and passenger traffic
^  A new turbo depot to be located to the north of Reading triangle
^  A replacement High Output Ballast Cleaner depot
^  Extension works to the existing southern platforms
^  A new platform to the southern lines
^  A new Thames Valley signalling control
^  Concourse refurbishment works
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2008, 22:25:27 »

hhmm.. I got what appeared to be the last parking space this morning at maidenhead.. at 08.50... hope they give us our lost car park spaces back soon...
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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2008, 23:18:07 »

So late... it's around 0805 at Nailsea (FX).
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2008, 20:46:15 »

Well it is the small overflow car park that I have to park in, which isn't really that close to the station at all... The other ones are full by about 7.30 each morning. The overflow one doesn't usually ever  fill up  as it's so far away.. At the moment it is though.
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2008, 22:34:51 »

Maidenhead

Re-instatement of platform 1.  Should allow HST (High Speed Train)'s to stop in the December 2008 timetable

We can only hope, and with luck FGW (First Great Western) will reintroduce the 17:06 stop at Maidenhead as it is currently empty and the 17:18 is appalling

Twyford

New passenger footbridge with lifts.  Ground surveys have been completed, and the foundations have been marked out.  Work scheduled to start after the Henley regatta and complete for Christmas.  Just need a few engineering posessions to paint the canopies afterwards!
Well somewhere will have to take the load when Reading is in chaos for about 5 years during the rebuild
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2008, 23:12:23 »

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