I was comparing it to Guildford to Waterloo via Effingham Junction. To be fair Reading to Waterloo is 1 hour 22 minutes, where as Guildford to Waterloo via Cobham is only an hour and via Leatherhead it is 1 hour 12 minutes.
Other people say, most people on the two routes I mentioned don't travel end to end. Is that not the case on the Reading line?
I'm sure parts of the Reading line are just as rural as the Cobham and Leatherhead lines?
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The journey from Guildford to Waterloo via Cobham is an hour. If you only include trains where no faster direct service exists, it's at least 50 minutes to Clapham Junction in the morning peak. Evening peak back from Clapham Junction they allow 56 minutes. No loos on these trains. What's the difference between that and Ascot? I guess passengers could change trains a couple of times in the morning to be on trains with loos. Perhaps that wouldn't be possible on the Reading line at all if Reading services had no loos.
Guildford to Ascot is an hour with no loo but the train waits at Aldershot so one could hope over to platform 1 to use the facilities without missing their train, unless they have a condition where they spend a while on a loo.
I personally think all trains should have loos, especially those that travelling through rural green belt. That would include the Reading line; Cobham line; Epsom line and Aldershot lines. However that isn't going to happen.
