BRITISH GAS CORPORATION, SOUTHERN REGION, READING GASWORKS
(Southern Gas Board until 1/1/1973; Reading Gas Co
until 1/5/1949)

Works at SU 728 737 served originally by standard gauge
sidings on the south side of the BR (ex SECR) Reading-
Wokingham line.  About 1965 the town gas works closed
for production and was replaced by a steam naphtha
reforming plant which was served by new sidings on the
north of the BR (ex GWR) Reading-Paddington line at
SU 727 739.  Subsequently rail traffic became infrequent
until it ceased in 1976.

Gauge 4ft 8.5in

A	B        C   D     E     F     G    H

-	4wDM     -   FH    3194  1947  New  s/s
-	0-4-0DM  -   JF 4210072  1952  New  (1)
-	0-4-0DM  -   JF 4210136  1958  (a)  (2)

Notes

(a)  ex Blackwater Gasworks, Camberley, Surrey, loaned
     1966; returned 1966; ex Bicester Gasworks, Oxon,
     9/1971.

s/s  sold or scrapped, disposal unknown.

(1)  to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Columbia Works, Grays,
     Essex, 8/5/1976.

(2)  to E. H. Bennett & Co Ltd, Henbury, Bristol,
     Avon, 12/4/1976.


Thanks to the Industrial Railway Society
for supplying this information.