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Duncan · May 5th 09, 09:47 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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I'm one of those that doesn't think Reading will be that useful a Crossrail
terminus IF all the proposed Crossrail services remain as all station
stoppers. However, if there is a way of having a Crossrail fast service -
perhaps as far as Ealing for instance it could be a useful way of freeing up
capacity on longer distance services.

It'll be more useful for people trying to get from Reading to
intermediate stations, e.g. Maidenhead and Slough.

If Crossrail only runs to Maidenhead then the current stopping services
still have to be run from Reading, thereby using up some of the capacity
on the relief lines. Otherwise services will have to run from Reading to
Twyford and Maidenhead before either terminating or running fast / semi-
fast to Paddington.

Duncan