Reading West train station
You can reach 20 stations directly from Reading West on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Reading, with 121 trains a day.
Reading West is the nearest station for postcodes in RG30. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Reading West
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 121 | 113 | 45 |
| Bramley | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Basingstoke | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Mortimer | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Reading Green Park | 75 | 73 | 28 |
| Newbury | 46 | 40 | 17 |
| Thatcham | 46 | 40 | 17 |
| Theale | 46 | 40 | 17 |
| Aldermaston | 43 | 40 | 17 |
| Midgham | 43 | 40 | 17 |
| Newbury Racecourse | 43 | 40 | 16 |
| Bedwyn | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Hungerford | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Kintbury | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| London Paddington | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Frome | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Maidenhead | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pewsey | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Twyford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Westbury | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Reading West
Reading West is on the Reading to Taunton Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Reading West station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Reading West station on 839 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 156 paths on the Wednesday, 92 paths on the Saturday and 3 paths on the Sunday. 111 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 09:00 to 10:00 on the Monday, with 13 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Reading West station is
481,548 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 884th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 15,434 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Reading West and Reading than any other pair: 161,804 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 14 stations instead of 20, a drop of about 30%. Saturday runs to 14.
Nearest other stations
- Reading 0.9 miles
- Reading Green Park 2.0 miles
- Tilehurst 2.0 miles
- Earley 3.3 miles
- Theale 3.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Reading West, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Coley branch line · 0.7 miles
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Facilities at Reading West station
Reading West is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:30 to 10:45
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.
Getting to Reading West station
Reading West station is in Reading, South East, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M4 J11 (Three Mile Cross), 2.9 miles south.
3 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Reading West Rail Station - Oxford Road.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Reading West station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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