Reading Green Park railway station

Reading Green Park
Proposed site of Green Park station, looking north from Kirtons Farm Road overbridge
Location
Place	Reading
Local authority	Reading; West Berkshire
Grid reference	SU695702
Operations
Number of platforms	2
National Rail – UK railway stations
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Reading Green Park railway station is a planned railway station in Reading, Berkshire, England. The station is intended to serve the proposed Green Park Village residential development, the existing Green Park Business Park and the Madejski Stadium. It is planned to be on the Reading to Basingstoke Line, south of Southcote Junction. The station has planning permission from Reading Borough Council, is awaiting planning permission from West Berkshire Council and is intended to open in 2017. On 28 July 2017, the Government gave funding to the station.

Plans were announced in July 2007 and approved by the Office of Rail Regulation in March 2009. Building was originally expected to begin in early 2009, and be completed in early 2010. However, by late November 2010 building had not begun. Submissions were made to extend the planning permission for the station, which were due to expire in late 2010 and early 2011.

It was reported that the extended applications for planning consent contain a clause which, if approved, would ensure the developer of Green Park Village pays a premium of £4.26 million to find an alternative developer for the station if work has not begun on it within two years.

The station is expected to be served by stopping services operated by Great Western Railway between Reading and Basingstoke, with an expected frequency of two trains per hour in each direction. Additional services are expected to be provided on match days. The proposed station has two 5-car long canopied platforms and an interchange with the existing Green Park Park and Ride bus system.

On 27 October 2011 the owners of the business park, Prupim, announced that plans for the station had been suspended after a local housing development project had been scaled down.