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Trains at: Twyford, GWML, 25/08/18

An excellent morning spent at Twyford station on the Great Western Mainline and the Henley Branch Line where we see plenty of services from Great Western Railway and freight from GBRF. Twyford station was built in 1839 by the Great Western Railway and has been managed by them ever since. Even through the various Great Western Railway guises that have been running around since privatisation. Twyford was actually the terminus of the line until 1840 when the line was eventually extended. The original station was a simple wooden structure seeing as there were only 9 trains a day back then, try that these days and you'd be in trouble. There used to be a small engine shed here that oddly enough used to live in Maidenhead. Which before twyford was the first terminus of the line. It didn't take long for the station to get some work done to it. In 1846 the wooden structure was taken down and instead replaced with a much sturdier brick and stone building with a canopy covering the whole station. When the Henley Branch Line was constructed in 1857 the platforms had to be lenghtened in order to match the branch line Platform. It also meant that the station now had the capability to serve the trains on the mainline directly. At the start you had to cross the line via a footpath but once the new platforms were built it actually blocked off the crossing which meant that a bridge had to be built. Once the broad gauge network had beeb phased out in 1892 it allowed the Great Western Mainline to be quadrupled which would make life easier for express trains at that time. Of course that is common practice these days. The line was quadrupled right up to Didcot. Because the new lines were built it meant that a second arch needed to be built on the Waltham Road and moving Hurst road further south. The station that you see today has essentially been the same since that day. With a few modern touches thrown in for good measure. There used to be two signal boxes working in the station and these were successfully running right up till 1972 when all control of the area was given to the Reading control room. In 1989 the main station building was completely gutted inside as to make way for a new booking office and waiting room incorporated into one. Then in 2009 the old footbridge was replaced with a more modern one including a lift for wheelchair access. My next station is going to be Maidenhead. You can now find me on Facebook through the group Tornado922, there you will find regular updates, videos and photos from all of my goings on throughout 2018. You can also now find me on Instagram through the name tornado922.