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Southern Region goods yard, Forbury Road, Reading, 1960s. (This site is now occupied by the Cable & Wireless Building).
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There used to be three railway goods yards in Reading - the one shown above in Forbury Road, plus others in Vastern Road and Berkeley Avenue. Part of the A33 relief road was built on the site of the Berkeley Avenue yard. The Berkeley Avenue yard was reached by a line which left the Reading-Basingstoke line at Southcote Junction. Some of the earthworks remain, and the picture below shows a bridge which carried the line over a public footpath.
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Former goods line, Southcote, Reading. Photographed 6th February 2006.
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The Berkeley Avenue yard had an extension to H & G Simonds brewery in Fobney Street. Did the brewery have its own locomotive? Please tell us if you have any information. Some rails can still be seen, embedded in the road, where the line crossed Fobney Street. Here is a photo; the rails are in the centre of the picture:
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