Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and CrossCountry Trains at Reading on March 23rd 2019

1st time filming at Reading station on the Great Western Mainline, North Downs Line and Reading to Basingstoke Line featuring services from Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and CrossCountry Trains.
However due to the number of trains in this video meant I'm not able to mention the destination of the trains which are in the titles itself.
On the day of filming signalling problems between Reading and London Paddington meant that some Great Western Railway services in and out of London were delayed or running late between 15 and 30 minutes which similar problems between Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads meant some Bristol services weren't serving Chippenham and Bath Spa.
Due to Engineering work between Port Talbot Parkway and Swansea meant GWR services to Swansea, Carmarthen and Pembroke Dock were cut back to Port Talbot Parkway.
Horse Racing at Newbury Racecourse meant on the day, extra services between Reading and Newbury Racecourse were also being provided as well.
The HSTs on Great Western Railway been around since 1976 at the time of filming were in their final weeks on GWML.
11 sets will be maintained as Castle HSTs which will run between Cardiff Central and Penzance.
Reading station being 36 miles from London is located north of Reading Town Centre and is the 9th busiest in Britain and 2nd interchange station outside London plus being not far from the River Thames.
1st opened on March 31st 1840 as a temporary western terminus of the 1st section of the GWML from London with it being extend to Bristol a year later in 1841.
Other rail lines including Reading to Newbury and Hungerford opened in 1847 and Basingstoke in 1848.
Opened as Reading it became Reading General in September 1949 however the suffix was dropped in 1973.
The station has been rebuilt 3 times first in 1965 merging services from Reading Southern station into the main station from the North Downs Line, 2nd in 1989 and recently rebuilt for Electrification between 2009 and 2015.
Electric trains on the GWML began running on January 2nd 2018 between Hayes and Harlington and Didcot Parkway although recently extended to both Newbury and Bristol Parkway respectively however the section from Bristol Parkway and Cardiff Central isn't due to finish until 2020.
The flyover to enable mainline trains to crossover the junction for services to Reading West etc used by CrossCountry Trains, Penzance services via Westbury and Basingstoke services which from the recent redevelopment eliminates the conflicts of the original flat junction.
Platforms 1, 2 and 3 are used by terminating services from Newbury, Basingstoke and also used by CrossCountry services either terminating from Newcastle or reverse here via Basingstoke to Bournemouth from Manchester Piccadilly.
At the other end of the station Platforms 4,5 and 6 are served by South Western Railway services from London Waterloo via Staines provide by Class 450s and 458s although new Class 701s will take over after 2020 and Great Western Railway services to Gatwick Airport via the North Downs Line to Guildford and Redhill provided by Class 165 and 166 Turbos although there are plans for biomode Class 769s which are converted from former 319s to take over the Reading - Gatwick services.
The most dominated feature in recent times is the Class 800s and 802 IETs with the latter being built in Italy and the former mostly built in Japan with Electric mode being used for the GWML and biomode for non electrified routes. Class 387s now provide the stopping services with 2 per hour terminating at Reading and the other 2 continuing to Didcot Parkway having taken over the Thames Turbos enabling them to be moved to the Bristol Area.
Crossrail or Elizabeth Line train which are due to be provided by Class 345 aventras due to serve when Crossrail fully opens however due to difficulties with connecting the 4 signalling systems with the GWML due to be on ETCS2 as well as overruns which as a consequence the financial cost has gone over budget.
Although 345s could start running from London Paddington to Reading in December 2019 however the original full opening date of the completion of crossrail has now been pushed back until 2021.
A lot of the station and surrounding layout has largely changed along with the trains since 1st opening in 1840 however still maintains the original Isambard Kingdom Brunel feel to the GWML and Reading station even today.
Featuring
James Railway Photography
Filmed on Saturday March 23rd 2019 on iPhone 8 and edited on iMovie

[@railwaypremium1952]

Nice long video :)
10:12 looked amazing!

[@RoscoTrain107]

Thanks. Not forgetting at 35:43 old and new arriving at the same time.

[@IRFSubhadeepChowdhury]

Fabolous !!

[@RoscoTrain107]

IRF Subhadeep Chowdhury Thanks

[@UKTransport232]

Nice one.you got some cool shots.

[@RoscoTrain107]

Thanks. Well if it had the original layout from 10 years ago I don't think I would have been so lucky.

[@kennaya2010]

10:12, three trains of class 800 stop at their platform at the same time, which looks awesome and beautiful.
Through this show I felt that they have exactly increased so many ! compared to the video in January.

[@RoscoTrain107]

LovingCats kenmyu the video in January? What one do you mean?
If it was GWR I filmed that in February

[@RoscoTrain107]

Just one point it was actually 2 Class 800s on Platforms 9 and 10 whilst on Platform 8 was a Class 802

[@kennaya2010]

@@RoscoTrain107 sorry for the late reply. It was wrong "in February". It was the comment in which I asked you how many 800 units ran at that tome.
I can't tell you when the comment was made by me, might be in November ??

[@RoscoTrain107]

Well I think it was December during my Christmas Special 2018 video from Didcot Parkway

[@kennaya2010]

@@RoscoTrain107
++it was actually 2 Class 800s on Platforms 9 and 10 .....
Can you tell me the difference between them? For me I don't understand it from their outfit.

[@ZaneLove-st8iy]

I've seen gwr

[@UHarshanBlackBoy1995]

Nice! Should it be better if you also mention details of destination and class when the arriving train also departs?

[@RoscoTrain107]

Thanks, It's only on mostly arrivals or sometimes If I don't film the trains arriving but on the departure I add them then the only exception is if the train is terminating at the station itself when the title and unit numbers are used twice.

[@UHarshanBlackBoy1995]

@@RoscoTrain107 Ok. I love details about trains. Should it be better if you also mentioned heading numbers and time of arrival or depart of the train? It is not important. :)

[@RoscoTrain107]

Harshan U.S. 1995 no it’s just the unit numbers and destinations of where it was going.

[@UHarshanBlackBoy1995]

@@RoscoTrain107 Ok

[@UHarshanBlackBoy1995]

@@RoscoTrain107 There were too many trains, weren't they?

[@pompeyjim]

I've not been to Reading station since the 90s. not as good now with all the overhead crap. just watched a vid from 91 before this one and I know which era was better

[@RoscoTrain107]

Fair enough