Reading railway station set for Easter weekend closure [BBC News]





Date: 29/03/2013

Reading railway station will close over Easter weekend to allow a major phase of its £900m upgrade to be completed. No trains will run from the south's busiest station on the line to London Paddington from 23:45 GMT on Thursday until 04:00 BST on Tuesday as engineers get to work. [From Richard Buckby]


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Station set for Easter closure
Reading railway station will be closed over Easter weekend as upgrade work continues

BBC News

Reading railway station will close over Easter weekend to allow a major phase of its £900m upgrade to be completed.

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Ongoing work at Reading station - March 2013.
Location: Reading
Company: Great Western Railway
/03/2013 Network Rail
The new west end footbridge and access links to platforms 10-15 at Reading Station under construction on 12 February 2013. A First Great Western HST is about to leave platform 9 bound for Paddington, as a class 165/166 DMU arrives at platform 10.
Location: Reading
Company: Great Western Railway
12/02/2013 David Pesterfield
Brush Type 4 D1918 stands at the east end of Reading station shortly after arriving with a Birmingham - Poole train on 8 May 1969. The train will reverse here.
Location: Reading
Company: Great Western Railway
08/05/1969 John Furnevel