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"Peter Masson" wrote:

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To be pedantic, only platform 4A was added in 1965, and used for Waterloo
trains. 'North Downs' trains (then Tadpoles, with some 33+3 loco hauled)
ran into the main part of Reading General, often using platform 6. Platform
4B was added some years later, converting what had been 4A into an island.


I'm pretty certain it was in existance by 1969 which is when I started using
Reading regularly for travelling between Evesham and Wokingham

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