Trains at: Reading, GWML, 11/08/18
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2018
- A fantastic afternoon 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. There would've been a freight train but it passed through as I was getting myself sorted in the main station concourse.
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 Twyford.
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In all seriousness great video and reading has got to be one of the best stations I've ever been to thank you so much for a unforgettable fantastic day and i hope our paths will cross again some time in the future
It was a great station to finish the day off and a great day all round. You're more than welcome I was more than happy for you to come along that day and I'm sure in the future we can get something else organised :) Possibly down your neck of the woods
Great video, even better that it's my hometown, Glad you had a good day!
It's an amazing station to come to and one that I try to get to every year. I love it here!!
I enjoyed this video. I am planning to take a trip to the UK from Australia and I hope to film at Reading.
thanks very much, I hope you have a great time when you get here
Just opened the video (didn't saw it is Reading)and it was exactly like my game TSW. Love to see that they did an awesome job. Fantastic video and want to thank you that you always share your hobby with the world :)
I think it's great that a game is able to capture the real life station so accurately, albeit with a few exceptions :) but I'm glad you enjoyed watching this I always enjoy coming to Reading
Some serious history here, sweet re-cap. Reminds me a little of some of your vacation footage from abroad, just beautiful. B.P.
There was far to much for me try to and say at the very start haha. Thought I would give a much more in depth history lesson!! I can see what you mean about some of my European films from the layout of this station :)
South western 458s too. But on the other side of the station.
Awesome very enjoyable to watch
Thanks very much for saying so :)
Hi jarred great video as always. Just to mention, 43022 had the name The Duke of Edinburgh's award Diamond jubilee on it. Also not sure if you are aware, but there is a video on TH-cam of an IET doing a run from Paddington to there at reading, and the speed and time it does it in is phenomenal. Anyway keep up the good work mate.
Thanks very much for saying so I'm glad you enjoyed watching this, I wasn't aware of the nameplate on the HST if I'm honest. I'll have to look for that IET doing that speed run
The trouble with Reading is that all the trains stop here. So you never get a whizz, whizz of trains speeding through.
In the morning and evening peaks you get plenty of 800s and 802s that run nonstop between London Paddington and Oxford/ Didcot Parkway/ Swindon/ Newbury
Fun fact the quiet carriage on a 800 has no motor under the floor
Well I never knew that
@@Tornado922 How does it travel then?
Great vid best video
Thanks very much
great video! very enjoyable!
Thanks very much I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)
@@Tornado922 when are you filming at train stations again do you know
@@dianecooper9932 no I don't know yet
Another fantastic video here Tornado922 :)
Thank you kindly for saying so :)
Fantastic video. I'm loving the content so far. But will you be doing chatham and Tonbridge for your next SE series
Thanks very much for saying so I'm glad you're enjoying the films. Once I start my SE series I'm sure I will go to those stations
Can you go to palsy Gilmore st plz good vid dude
Thank you kindly for saying so, I will look into it once I have completed my current GWML series
You did not see trains terminating from and going to Gatwick Airport or Redhill
Nope I didn't
Sorry, just watched further. Didn't know you knew. My bad!
Always wait until the end of the film to make any comments incase you jump the gun :)
Oh and I understood That the 165 to Paddington Was From Bedwyn
Love from australia
Thank you kindly
Someone may be able to correct me, but I thought the 800 could switch from diesel to electric and vice versa on the move?
From what I understand they can do that
This video was cool
I'm glad you enjoyed it
8:38 epic
The next station is Twyford. This will have Arriva trains wales and GWR?!
I should be put it on read more.
What are you on about?
I was just guessing what services would pass by there.
But I guess it was GWR
Oh right I see, well on this section of the GWML you won't find ATW running here
Yeah.
what is the different between a class 166 and 165
The 166 has toilets located onboard and spaces available for push bikes
Hey great video can I ask in why everytime you say upon her departure are all trains females lol
Indeed they are, from the Steam Engines to the modern day electrics and diesels they are all female :)
Tornado922 I didn’t know that
8:38
How old was the young lad
I don't know
uhh +Simply Transport gets triggered by that an HST to Oxford
Amazing film Tornado922
God your source is just terrible everyone knows that 166 was going to penzance lol
I shan't be trusting him again lol
Amazing film Tornado922
Thanks very much for saying so
Tornado922 No problem