On Dec 3, 1:36*pm, Mr Thant
wrote:
On 3 Dec, 20:22, MIG wrote:

Shenfield is a junction* and also a place where people from Harold
Wood etc can change to longer-distance services. *

Reading will have four local trains an hour arriving from the east
(two semi-fast ex-Paddington, two starting at Slough), so from a
passenger's point of view, those kinds of journeys are well covered.
The only thing missing is being able to change at Reading onto a
direct train to east of Paddington. Given the time differential and
the fact most services at Reading are going to Paddington anyway, I
don't think *that's a huge loss.

Maybe that's what will happen. *Or maybe the stations between
Maidenhead and Reading will lose their service.

Station, singular. There's no population to speak of in between.

U

You probably need to count the three stations on the Henley branch
too, although you are still substantially right.