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« Reply #2715 on: May 07, 2014, 16:41:55 » |
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A few photo updates from today.
Firstly, what do you do about redundant car park doors that are about 6 floors up in the air? Hide them behind a sign...
Secondly, if you are going to have a new excess fares cabin, stick with the portable building style, and just provide a new smaller one that could go almost anywhere. What you can't see in the photo is that the side of the 'cabin' hidden against the back of the ticket machines has a couple of windows designed with an opening 'slot' at the bottom to pass tickets and cash through...
Third, a poor camera photo of the circulating space by platforms 4, 5 and 6. As mentioned by stuving above, they've hung the PIS▸ displays off the ceiling, but although all three are reasonably visible as you come round the corner from P7, they've scored a major own goal by hanging a pretty massive 'wayfinding' sign in the way of the view for someone entering via the 'old' barrier line. The reason that sign is so massive is that the other side provides information about the whole station for the benefit of passengers arriving on the 'Southern' platforms. All in all I think they need to look at this again. They could probably do with large individual numbers indicating P4, 5 and 6, (like those box style numbers on the transfer deck maybe?) - but I'll reserve judgement as they may be fitted in due course anyway.
Just to round off an earlier point, the exterior wall is near completion alongside P1, and the gaps in the original station wall have now been filled, so although an emergency exit may have been possible it no longer seems likely. I wonder if anyone bothered to store away the top coping stones that were removed when the openings were knocked through a couple of years ago...
Hope this is of interest, Paul
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« Reply #2716 on: May 07, 2014, 17:21:00 » |
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Thanks, Paul. I spotted that massive 'P' this morning myself. Shame it took over a year to cover up the old door, but a pretty good job has been finally done.
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« Reply #2717 on: May 07, 2014, 21:18:41 » |
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I haven't seen the big P for real yet, but it looks a bit naff from the photo, like they have just tried to cover up the hole.
Why couldn't they fill the hole and clad the outside of the building properly.
With all the ^m's that are being spent, and the massive (and presumably very expensive) attention to detail seen elsewhere around the Station (for example, the intricate metalwork linking the P7 canopy to the old Station building) I can't help thinking a better job could have been done.
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« Reply #2718 on: May 07, 2014, 21:20:22 » |
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Also noted today (7 May 2014) that all of the OLE▸ structures at the East End of the station approaches seem to have been completed and await the fittings, cantilever arms (and of course wires).
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« Reply #2719 on: May 07, 2014, 21:31:27 » |
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Just to round off an earlier point, the exterior wall is near completion alongside P1, and the gaps in the original station wall have now been filled, so although an emergency exit may have been possible it no longer seems likely. Could there be a door/gate between the grey brick wall and the rebuild wall at 90 degrees to the path? |
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« Reply #2720 on: May 07, 2014, 21:31:54 » |
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« Reply #2721 on: May 07, 2014, 23:22:49 » |
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Could there be a door/gate between the grey brick wall and the rebuild wall at 90 degrees to the path?
It's all fenced off with steel railings on the inside, around that relocatable equipment building (REB) that contains signalling equipment. I don't think it would be feasible as space would be very tight alongside the REB. Paul |
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« Reply #2722 on: May 11, 2014, 22:58:21 » |
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They tore up all the block paving outside the northern entrance, in part to put new drains underneath. Now they are finishing the groundwork prior to laying whatever the new surface will be. I spotted these newly-planted specimens - obviously rising bollards.
I don't recall ever seeing a plan of this area, and it's hard to see why there would be controlled access just here (it's not far from the subway entrance) or even which way through it would be inwards.
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« Reply #2723 on: May 12, 2014, 07:10:56 » |
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Not sure if it was anything to do with the improvement works but the 7:04 to readhill departed plat 13 this morning and made use of the dive under the main line to get to the north downs line.
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« Reply #2724 on: May 12, 2014, 07:48:00 » |
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I think that was connected to problems in the Ash area. The 07:04 is normally formed from the incoming 05:31 from Gatwick Airport but this was running very late so it looks like a spare unit was brought off the depot.
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« Reply #2725 on: May 12, 2014, 09:47:18 » |
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I don't recall ever seeing a plan of this area, and it's hard to see why there would be controlled access just here (it's not far from the subway entrance) or even which way through it would be inwards.
You'd have to go back to post #788 (Aug 2012) for a road layout plan that was on the Reading Council transport website at one time - but the link goes nowhere now. I kept a copy though, I've added an extract below that shows the idea, steps and ramps etc, with a large ramp in line with the subway. The white strips of blocks visible in your photo seem to match the grey vertical lines in the drawing that divide the surface into sections... Paul |
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« Reply #2726 on: May 14, 2014, 20:03:23 » |
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When I passed through Reading earlier this week (Monday) part of the over bridge was off limits due to be being "fenced off" by blue panels. Anyone know what is/was going on?
I haven't been through since so it may have gone.
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« Reply #2727 on: May 14, 2014, 22:21:37 » |
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I haven't seen the big P for real yet, but it looks a bit naff from the photo, like they have just tried to cover up the hole.
It does look nicer in reality in my opinion, especially at night when it's illuminated. When I passed through Reading earlier this week (Monday) part of the over bridge was off limits due to be being "fenced off" by blue panels. Anyone know what is/was going on?
Presumably the march of the uninspiring, but necessary, chain outlets that have been let? |
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« Reply #2728 on: May 17, 2014, 23:22:38 » |
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When I passed through Reading earlier this week (Monday) part of the over bridge was off limits due to be being "fenced off" by blue panels. Anyone know what is/was going on?
I haven't been through since so it may have gone.
It is, as expected, the first retail unit being built - over P9-10. From what I could see it's pretty big, almost filling the space between lifts. The corral that was there before (over P13-14) has gone. |
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« Reply #2729 on: May 22, 2014, 18:51:39 » |
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One of escalators down to plat 12 does not look to healthy
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