London Banter - View Single Post - Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance

Roland Perry · January 1st 08, 10:28 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message
, at
00:18:07 on Tue, 1 Jan 2008, remarked:
A decision on whether to extend the £16billion Crossrail scheme to Reading
will be made in the New Year, it emerged today.

If it is, then presumably the current semifast services from Reading
will be relegated to all-stops, and there won't be much choice for
passangers from the Slough-Reading corridor

Is that what another poster referred to in a different thread as "St
Alban-isation"? (I took this to be a reference to BedPan electrification
meaning mainline services no longer stopped there).

Yes, you took right g

But St Albanisation (I coined it!) in this context would mean
eliminating inter-city stops at Slough. (Then you would have what
might be called Sloughification )

I think what is being referred to here is a downgrade, ie more stops
inserted, of the current semi-fasts Reading - PDN.

I don't think the suggestion is that all trains that stop at Reading
then stop everywhere to Paddington. So the long distance trains would
probably miss Slough on the grounds that Slough had been St Albanised by
Crossrail's all-station-stoppers.
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Roland Perry