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« Reply #751 on: July 16, 2012, 09:52:44 » |
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I know P6 has been handed back but is actually used at the moment? I know it's only been a week but I haven't yet seen a service pull in on it. Just to update my own post I did a check on open train times (see below) and no departures were listed from P6 on this enquiry. I am aware that platform alterations on p4/5/6 can happen at the last minute so this is not conclusive. (resolve)" target="_blank">http://www.opentraintimes.com/location/RDG I've been checking live departure boards (LDBs) and often no outgoing platform numbers are shown, whereas the corresponding arrivals do show where they are terminating. I have a theory that this indicates that they are not sticking to the long term platforming (such as shown in 'opentraintimes' (which isn't a live feed BTW▸ )). I've seen quite a few arrivals shown in LDBs as P6 over the weekend, but can't vouch for what actually happened to the actual services... Paul |
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« Reply #752 on: July 16, 2012, 10:02:09 » |
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Thanks for both of you for clearing this up
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« Reply #753 on: July 16, 2012, 18:14:48 » |
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Arrived at Reading tonight (From Reigate) on P5 with no train on P6...and there is so much space to exit the train and leave the platform now!
Definate improvement!
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« Reply #754 on: July 16, 2012, 20:08:49 » |
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I agree, it is such a relief after months of overcrowding! But P6 looks like it hasn't had any trains all day- the CIS▸ was just displaying "Welcome to Reading Station" this morning and this evening. Does anyone know if there is some track or signal problem preventing its use? Or are the unions demanding a bonus before staff will use it?  |
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« Reply #755 on: July 16, 2012, 20:33:37 » |
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Webcam Reading01 Camera 2 is showing the big mobile crane is back and large sections of steel for the next transfer deck section are going up...
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« Reply #756 on: July 17, 2012, 11:01:25 » |
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The extra Southern platform (4) was built partly in anticipation of Heathrow Airtrack. With that project's cancellation in its original form, could it now be the case that there is too much platform capacity at least for the time being? However, as you don't rebuild stations to cope with the current business, rather than for the future, then this capacity will be used up eventually,.
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« Reply #757 on: July 17, 2012, 11:36:50 » |
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I'm fairly sure that, if they felt only 2 platforms were to be routinely used, the track layout on the approach is such that the maximum flexibility would be gained by using 5 and 6, with 4 as the spare.
Of course there are plans to run more SWT▸ services in the peaks in the 2014 timetable # which may result partly from the additional platform capacity gained.
(# That would be after the available stock increases following the 10 car conversions of the 458s for the Windsor lines.)
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« Reply #758 on: July 17, 2012, 18:45:08 » |
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Photo of activity tonight at Reading station (taken about 17:30)
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« Reply #759 on: July 18, 2012, 23:06:52 » |
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« Reply #760 on: July 24, 2012, 10:07:40 » |
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There seem to have been some further work being done on platform 6 over the last couple of days, some of the paving looks like it is being re-done. This might explain why the platform is still not in regular use.
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« Reply #761 on: July 24, 2012, 10:11:11 » |
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One thing I have noticed about the p5/p6 combination is that no matter how much space there is, passengers leaving services still manage to take up alot of space (and manage to get in my way!) But I guess that is just human nature  |
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« Reply #762 on: July 24, 2012, 10:37:40 » |
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There also appears to be a few oddities with regards to the platform allocation with some trains too. For example, I get the train into Reading from Guildford, which arrives at 17.54. We're always held outside Reading waiting for a Waterloo bound train to leave the station (timetabled at 17.56) We wait for it to pass and then trundle in to platform 5
It seems odd that you have 3 platforms, yet trains are still being held outside the station. I should also say that there are no other trains in the platform when we arrive, so it can't be because of platform congestion.
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« Reply #763 on: July 24, 2012, 10:40:58 » |
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Yes, I am often on the same train, and was quite surprised to find we are still waiting outside the station at the same time and place as was the case in the days when there were only two platforms and a single track approach over the bridge!
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« Reply #764 on: July 24, 2012, 10:43:47 » |
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There also appears to be a few oddities with regards to the platform allocation with some trains too. For example, I get the train into Reading from Guildford, which arrives at 17.54. We're always held outside Reading waiting for a Waterloo bound train to leave the station (timetabled at 17.56) We wait for it to pass and then trundle in to platform 5
It seems odd that you have 3 platforms, yet trains are still being held outside the station. I should also say that there are no other trains in the platform when we arrive, so it can't be because of platform congestion.
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