On Mar 23, 12:44*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:57:19 -0700 (PDT)

77002 wrote:
Meanwhile, the route is being electrified to Reading where ample new

Is this going to be the first stage of the electrification of the whole
GWR main line or is that still pie in the sky?

This is something about which I have no knowledge. Perhaps someone
will stop by with an answer. AFIK, it is HMG's intention to electrify
the GW mainline. Although curiously work has started on the northern
electrification programs anounced at the same time. I am not aware of
any work on the GW mainline in this regard.

So, no, the powers that be do not admit that Crossrail will run to
Reading. *Received wisdom is that it will.

If the infrastructure is already going to be there anyway there's no really
good reason not to.