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"Peter Masson" wrote:


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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?


Looks like around 1968. I'm basing it on the fact that I don't remember it
being built and I was using Reading from 1969 until 1977 on a regular basis.
For the first 6 years of that I was arriving from the Wokingham direction so
was actually using those platforms.

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