Going off on a tangent slightly, some of the extra services to Castle Cary this year will be Turbos, a rather unusual opportunity to see them out of there usual operating area.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V40761/2013/06/26/advanced
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V40762/2013/06/26/advanced
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/V41487/2013/07/01/advanced

At the moment though the service pattern at Guildford is about a 25/35 minute gap between services, so it isn't really feasible to loop a stopper for a fast. The stopper at the moment is most stations Guildford-Reading too, so not much scope to add stops. It's between Guildford and Redhill where the service is currently skip stop, with differing patterns over two hours. If you make the stopper and fast services closure together at Guildford to allow for overtaking then you lose the roughly half hourly Guildford-Reading service which is very useful at the moment. The old service pattern would have been more useful for the minor stations between Guildford and Redhill with hourly Reading-Shalford stoppers and two hourly Guildford-Redhill all station services. Reverting back to that wouldn't provide 2tph to Gatwick though.

Calls for Crossrail to be extended to Reading have been made by a Reading Councillor to the Transport Secretary.  However, Tory Reading East MP Rob Wilson, seems to believe that it would be of little benefit to London commuters from Reading.  He's right in that respect, but demonstrates a complete ignorance as to what extending it to Reading would achieve in terms of commuting into Reading from places like Twyford, Maidenhead, Burnham, Slough and West Drayton, and what a mess of a service is planned currently to get around it terminating at Maidenhead (i.e. Reading to Slough shuttles).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-22624555

Who is claiming that the extra trains will be "added to the regular hourly service from London Paddington"? Someone is working to a different timetable, methinks.

Hmmm.. interesting questions. There could be some scope to improve the existing offering. It's not an inconvenience to me, but travelling between minor stations on the off-peak pattern without doubling-back looks a bit tricky without a frequent all-stations stopper.

I suppose if Guildford had more capacity there might be even more possibilities like letting a fast overtake a stopper.

And, of course, in the old days they used to go to Tonbridge...

To be fair, it looks as much like amateurish reporting. If you offer yourself for people to whinge to, they will - wouldn't you? To then just copy it all down unselectively does give that impression. Not that I'd deny it might still be true, of course.

My goodness- do the people of Wokingham not have anything better to bitch and moan about?

Europcar's Slough location is much nearer to Burnham than to Slough station. It is even closer to Burnham station than is the place where they have put their "Burnham M+G" marker on their map...

There may also be a lack of lurking space for the cars at Slough station - but on the other hand, there's a lack of suitable trains at Burnham.

That'll be Burnham Bucks as opposed to Burnham-on-Mud...

Just in time for the GWML electrification as well.  Timescales will be very tight though...