Reading 1972

Description

This has eight track screens, and includes West and General stations, the DMU sidings that host most of the London area units, and the diesel depot and engineers’ sidings on the site of the old steam shed. All trace of the Southern station, shed and yard have gone, and Southern trains mostly use platform 4A at the east end of platform 4. There is still substantial freight traffic at West Junction Yard, and as well as the former GWR main line from London to Didcot for Swindon and Reading there are the Berks and Hants line towards Newbury and Westbury, the line to the Southern at Basingstoke, and the Southern Region lines to Waterloo and to Guildford and Redhill. Some passenger and freight services still require an engine change at Reading.