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FuzzyDuck
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Surprised to hear Reading Green Park announced as the next stop on a Basingstoke-Reading GWR service. Needless to say we didn’t stop…
Kite159
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I will keep my eye out when I pass tomorrow morning.
Edit - yes the fences have been removed from passing the site today.
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Went down there again this afternoon (by bus for a change) and the station appears finished and ready to open when Reading Council, GWR, NR and ORR agree. No workmen about.
The Tesco Metro by the station entrance (north east of the building) has now opened and pedestrian access to that allows you to get even nearer the main entrance, although there is still a barrier to prevent approaching close.
The Tesco Metro by the station entrance (north east of the building) has now opened and pedestrian access to that allows you to get even nearer the main entrance, although there is still a barrier to prevent approaching close.
Ashley Hill
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Passed through today. It does look ready for its first passengers.
Couldn’t they do the fencing and metalwork in colour, rather than grey, so it looks a bit less like a prison camp?
Ashley Hill
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Yes it’s a bit drab,I doubt Tim Dunn will be visiting anytime soon.
AlastairFraser
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It's close to (
It's the new Kennet Valley NR Chic - to match with the delicate tones of the galvanised palisade fencing alongside the electrified line to Newbury.
The inhabitants of Bramley will look on with amazement/horror at that lovely bridge with lifts. 5000 people live there and they can't even cross the railway to catch a train if one is due!
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Quite a few people live directly adjacent at Green Park now to be fair, plus Whitley Wood/Whitley further afield and the football/office traffic have the potential to make this station a lot busier.
It's close to (S)Whitley, maybe they painted it that way to avoid ASB issues there when it opens.
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Snow1964
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Reading Green Park is available to choose on GWR ticket site as a destination station.
Tried various dates, from this week, to a Wednesday in 2 months time, couldn't find any tickets. even tried Wednesday 24 May (after timetable change) it still couldn't find any trains stopping there.
It has done for a while now (my photo was taken last October), unfortunately the only change seems to be going blank to Please Enquire.
The stop has been in the WTT for a while, it's just unadvertised, so they can just advertise it when they want to start services, at short notice. It is currently unadvertised for the entire May 23 WTT, but that doesn't mean it won't open then.
Ashley Hill
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Depends on which PIS code you put in.
kevin_roche
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Tantalising!
WesternBiker
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I couldn’t get the link to work, so I’ve reposted it here.
Shortly after next month is June? They finished work in October.
When I foresaw the army of suits circling the wagon with their nit combs back in November, even I had not accounted for two rows of tactile paving and an escape route from the station. The time, effort and public money wasted on this nit picking is out of all proportion to the actual risk or benefit it brings.
WesternBiker
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...but - if that is true (as to the cause of the delay) - it begs the question of why this wasn't done at the design stage? These items aren't exactly novel.
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I think two complete rows of tactiles is new. There’s no other existing local example I can think of.
AIUI one row is the normal warning for the platform edge, and the other is defining a safe route to/from the entrance. The latter has a different texture/pattern. The 3rd photo in the set linked below, covering Marsh Barton‘s up platform, shows the safe route tactiles as far as the waiting shelter. As can be seen they’re a linear tread pattern:
Marsh Barton Railway Station Exeter - Construction and opening.
18th May is the opening date being banded about at work. Any idea if/when this is likely to be confirmed?
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kevin_roche
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When a station takes this long to build the rules are bound to change between the start and the end. I thought I would get to use this station but I will be retired now before it opens or at at most a couple of weeks after.I think two complete rows of tactiles is new. There’s no other existing local example I can think of.
AIUI one row is the normal warning for the platform edge, and the other is defining a safe route to/from the entrance. The latter has a different texture/pattern. The 3rd photo in the set linked below, covering Marsh Barton‘s up platform, shows the safe route tactiles as far as the waiting shelter. As can be seen they’re a linear tread pattern:
Marsh Barton Railway Station Exeter - Construction and opening.
18th May is the opening date being banded about at work. Any idea if/when this is likely to be confirmed?
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That’s right, I was just really pointing out that marking a route down the entire platform seems a very new thing. I’m not disagreeing with it. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence of it being added retrospectively to existing platforms yet, unless anyone has seen it?
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