Trains at: Reading, GWML, 31/08/19
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2019
- A fantastic morning spent at the always busy station of Reading on the Great Western Mainline where we see plenty of services from Great Western Railway, Cross Country and Southwestern Railway along with a singular freight train from Freightliner.
The original station was completed and opened by the Great Western Railway in 1840 as is the theme with the majority of this section of the line and in that time has gone through some pretty major changes. The first station was built and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and at the time was nothing more than a small single platform terminus station for his trains from London, 1 year later the line was extended to Bristol which meant that Reading then became a generic through station for passenger traffic. At the time it was taking trains roughly over 1 hour to cover the line to Reading, this was over a quarter of the time quicker than the fastest stage coach at that time. As travelling by horse was the only way to get around the country if you couldnt afford the then luxury of train. Because of the nature of the way that the station was first put together it meant that any trains running to Bristol would have to cross over the lines in front of the trains coming back down the line. This was perfectly fine because you hardly had any rail traffic back then. Of course if you try thag this day and age then you'll have a right mess on your hands. Less than 4 years after the station was opened the Great Western Hotel was officially opened and is believed to be the oldest surviving railway hotel in the world. Although oddly enough I've never seen it. Within a 10 year period the station would start to get more and more busy with the introduction of two new routes, these being the Newbury and Hungerford line and the line head in off to Basingstoke. The Newbury line was opened in 1847 and the Basingstoke line in 1848.
20 years later the station was given its first makeover with a new station building being constructed in 1865/67 which also brought a new tower complete with clock, if your trying to operate a successful railway enterprise then keeping to a somewhat strict schedule is paramount, so clocks would soon become a common feature throughout most stations in the UK.
By the time 1898 rolled around the old station was no longer fit for purpose because of the growing numbers in rail traffic and passenger usage. So it had to upgraded. The original platform was removed and instead replaced with a standard design that we would all recognise today with up and down platforms built as well as relief platforms. These were linked by a pedestrian subway as a footbridge wasn't installed at the time.
The station wasn't always known as Reading though, its name was changed to Reading General in 1949 to avoid confusing it with an ex-South Eastern Railway station that was relatively nearby. However British Rail dropped the General in 1973 so it once again became known as Reading.
During the mid 1960's to the mid 70's the station went under some work in order to take on additional trains. This was done by adding two new terminus platforms at the southern end of the station which would see traffic arriving and departing to Gatwick Airport. These trains used to run in and out of Reading Southern but were moved to the main central station.
The station once again saw redevelopment taking place when British Rail opened a new concourse inside the station boosting a brand new shopping arcade named after Brunel himself. Along with this an impressive footbridge was installed linking the old Reading Southern station to main complex. A brand new multi story car park was also constructed which took off near enough instantaneously with better access to the station than there had ever been. This did mean however that the old good yards and signal works were demolished and built upon.
Once that work had been completed Queen Elizabeth reopened the station officially on the 4th April 1989.
Everything that you now see today is a result of work taking place from 2009 to 2015 with the Reading flyover being installed, more platforms being built and better ease of traffic throughput as the station was deemed to be a bottleneck because of the amount of trains trying to access the station. Once again Queen Elizabeth The Second was brought in to reopen the station on the 17th July 2014.
Overall this is an amazing station to come to.
My next station is going to be Guildford.
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I Love The Class 800 Series Hitachi Train. They Look Sporty. And Nice
GWR Likes To Call Their Trains "IET's" Whitch Are Named "Intercity Express Train"
LNER Like To Call It "Azuma"
Transpennie Express Like To Call It "Nova 1"
And Hull Trains Like To Call It "Paragons"
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We Americans call this "Railfanning". But we mostly have freights here in Tennessee. Many of them are 3 miles long now. Amtrak is our passenger service, but does not stop in many states.
Americans: "I wish we had efficient, frequent passenger trains like the Europeans do."
Europeans: "I wish our trains could move as much freight as they do in America."
@@ericjamieson mars: do I have a say in this?
I love that acceleration on the 800s
and 802s
They are outstanding
@@Tornado922 yeah. Great video
Same
Anyone else think the traction motor sound on the 800 sounds cool? Or is that just me?
They do sound good!
When you can travel again I would love to see London Liverpool St., Clapham junction would be another good one and Willesdon junction
I love to see the Heathrow Express class 387s open on service
Well in a few weeks that should be happening
Reading is a great station! Great traffic and the 800s look cool as well! Really enjoyed!
It's a great station to come to at any time of the day
Great video.
Thanks very much
Brilliant video tornado 922 I love that sound iep 800 lev station
Thanks very much, they do sound good
Amazing video love your videos
Thanks very much for saying so
Love your commentary and the videos
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A great video loads of information excellent.
Thanks very much, I'm glad you enjoyed watching this
Another Fantastic video here Tornado922! I really enjoyed this :)
Thanks very much
Great work!
Thanks very much
The Heathrow Express 387s entered service on express services between London Paddington and Heathrow Terminal 5 on the 29th December 2020
Excellent video 🍺👍
Thanks very much
lovely video mate :)
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Great video
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Awesome Video Bud :)
Thanks very much mate
Great video Tornado922.
Thanks very much
Great video tornado
Thanks very much
Great video mate
Thanks very much
@@Tornado922 no prob by the way you are my favourite TH-camr
Wonderful, thank-you as always! But at 2:30, I assume the train would not have originated from Great Malvern, but Hereford surely? Looking forward to Guildford, lots of really interesting stuff going on there, and I am certain we will all have fun watching it!
Thanks very much, from what I can remember that service did indeed originate from Great Malvern
@@Tornado922 Not doubting you of course, it just doesn't make much intuitive sense. Hereford is so close to Great Malvern, wouldn't it be easier to start the service there? (Guess not!). Btw, Great Malvern is an interesting station to explore , the Worms are pretty cool, but I cannot imagine that there would enough activity to warrant a video visit. Thanks as always.
TFL Rail Now Operates Here
There was a turbo too at 1:35
On the right side
All kicking off today wasnt it 😂 great video 👍🏻
It most certainly was haha, thanks very much
i sense this is what australias XPT would look like long over due over here since the service has been introduced since 1982
Well maybe one day they will get replaced with something more modern
ii like to cool the 800s cucumbers.
I believe the rollout of the 387s may be related to the rollout of 345s in the Heathrow tunnels as they, like the 345s, will be using ETCS which from what I remember the existing 360s and 332s don't have, instead using ATP. The ETCS systems in the Heathrow tunnels haven't yet been authorised for use alongside the existing ATP (which is required for the 360s and 332s) so until that happens neither the 387s nor the 345s will be allowed to Heathrow
Well I can safely say I never actually realised that, thank you for the information that is greatly appreciated
Is there any chance you can do Grove park and Bromley South
I will look into it for you
Tornado922 thank u. Looking forward to your videos.
I love trains with a flat wheel
I think most people do, although on a passenger train it's not such a good thing
But what is a train with a flat wheel
Hey just wanted to know it u wanted to meet at taunton station and film at some point
Hey mate out of instant what do you use to record your videos on?
I use a Samsung Galaxy Tablet
@@Tornado922 that's nice
How do you know where these trains are coming from and where they are going? you are super quick to know!
I imagine he checks the timetables and/or noticeboards beforehand, and he probably stands fairly near a noticeboard just in case.
Real time trains
I use a site called RealTimeTrains for all of my information
go to reading west train station if you want freight trains
I'll look into it
Great video it's a long video it's not a rush out film is it
Thanks very much, no this isn't a rush hour film. I made this one slightly longer as this was the only station I was doing that day
@@Tornado922 well it's a great vid none the less
I'd love for you to do a full freight video!
Maybe one day
No I hate freight
When are u doing reading west
Can you publish a trainspotting video on my birthday
It is on 11th October
I can't make any promises
@@Tornado922 what about 10th October before my birthday or 12th October after my birthday
And to help you it's a Friday
2:30
Really nice video. This was a rather bland vid as there was no HST 😭. I still enjoyed :)
WElp, those days on the GWML are over. And to be honest, that's a good thing. The HSTs have served their time.
I will still miss them
I'm glad you enjoyed watching this
@@josephharrison8354 thankfully I live in the west county so I'm in the area the 'castle' hst sets are operating, I've always liked the hst & those castle sets with only 4 mk3's have some nice acceleration.
my ears hurt those 800s are really squeaky new trains new problems
Think how I felt I was standing next to them all morning
First
So what?
@@Lauren-dz9fq jus wanted to say first. Why u so bothered by it.
@@bl.jackkk3231 because it is dumb
@@Lauren-dz9fq yes it is. why should he have 3 likes for saying 3 likes for saying first
I don't particularly care for comments that claim to be first, nine times out of ten I delete them anyway as they bare no relation to the film
Great video
Thanks very much