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Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance
On 25 Dec, 20:34, "Dave" wrote:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...-details/Cross... 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 -- a slow service, or none at all. When I lived in Twyford there were fast services that stopped maidenhead/burnham/taplow/slough/hayes/ealing/paddington, they then added in west drayton, iver and langley when they stopped the slough all-stops for Heathrow Connect, severly worsening service for the Slough-Reading corridor. An all stops service will be painful, especially as frequency won't increase. If it isn't extended, then I can see the slow Oxford-Reading services will call additionally at Twyford, Maidenhead, Slough, then move to the main lines to Paddington, allowing cross/same platform changes to crossrail at Slough. An extra stop at Hayes on an new platform (if there were room) could allow better connections without holding up the main line GWML services. |
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