Network Rail in the UK has completed the first phase of a six-year upgrade project for Reading station and surrounding rail lines worth ВЈ850m ($1.3bn).
Network Rail has revealed that it aims to build a bigger station and a more efficient track layout to improve journeys on the Western route from south Wales and the south-west to London.
The completed first phase includes resignalling 100 miles of railway and transferring its control to a signal centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, as well as lifting a 1,000t railway bridge into place over Caversham Road to carry rail track serving new platforms at the station.
Network Rail will begin demolition work on the old signal box and other buildings north of the station this year to make way for new platforms, entrances and a passenger footbridge for use by 2013.
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