Passengers at Reading now have a much bigger, better station after Network Rail successfully completed the primary a part of an 11-day programme of upgrades over the Easter weekend. More than 2,000 engineers from Network Rail and its team of contractors worked round-the-clock from late Thursday evening through to the early hours of Tuesday morning to hold out work which might ordinarily have taken around 20 full weekends. As a result, the station now has two new entrances, four new platforms and a brand new 110-metre long, 30-metre-wide passenger bridge, with escalators and lifts providing step-free access to the hot platforms. Graham Denny, Network Rail senior programme manager, station works, said: “It’s gone absolutely brilliantly. We opened one of the improvements over the weekend and this morning we opened the...
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