• Swindon & Wiltshire News
• Thursday May 25 2023
• Author Name: Peter Davison

Reading Green Park station opens this weekend

Reading Green Park Station, the first new railway station to be built in Reading for over 100 years, will open on Saturday (May 27).

It is one of three new stations being opened by GWR this year – the others are Portway Park & Ride in Bristol and Marsh Barton in Exeter.

The station will provide improved sustainable travel options for some of the 7,000 employees at Green Park business park, where businesses include PepsiCo, Bayer, and Virgin Media.

The station will also help to ease congestion on the A33 road and unlock growth potential in the south of Reading.

The station, built by Reading Borough Council, Network Rail and GWR, features:

• Two 150m platforms
• A new fully accessible station building
• A fully accessible overbridge, providing access to both platforms, via stairs and lifts
• A bus interchange, taxi rank and cycle parking facilities
• Two car parks, including 12 blue badge spaces and drop-off parking and long-stay parking for commuters

The station sits on the Reading to Basingstoke line, with half-hourly services running north to Reading and south to Basingstoke through the day.

The delivery of the station has been made possible by the Council leading alongside the rail industry to secure the approvals, funding and planning permission for the station, as well as managing the construction of the station.

Work on the transformation of Reading West Station, meanwhile, is continuing at pace and also due to complete this year, and the recently completed Elizabeth Line now offering travellers to and from Reading modern trains and a seamless transition into central or east London without having to change to the tube at Paddington.