"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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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

I've checked a 1967 WTT, in which EMUs are all shown as using platform 4A.
Off-peak, when the EMUs were 4-car, DMUs off the Tonbridge line sometimes
joined them in 4A, otherwise they went up the spur and used one of the
platforms (often No. 6 Bay) in the main part of the station.

So when was 4B added?

Peter