What is the name of the railway line that is being built through London to link Reading, Berkshire with Shenfield in Essex?
"station was opened in 1843 and has since expanded from its original three platforms to the current six. It sees trains operated by Greater Anglia to main line destinations including , and , as well as branch line stations such as , , , and . In autumn 2019 the TfL Rail service will be re-branded as the Elizabeth line as part of the Crossrail project. Eventually, the Elizabeth line service from Shenfield will be extended beyond Liverpool Street through central London to Paddington. Shenfield station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway company on 29 March 1843 on the"
"to in Berkshire. Part of one of the eastern branches, between and Shenfield, was transferred to a precursor service called TfL Rail in May 2015; this precursor also took control of Heathrow Connect in May 2018. In August 2018 the opening of the core Elizabeth line was delayed from December 2018 until Autumn 2019. Before this delay, the Shenfield branch was to have been connected to the core to Paddington in May 2019 and the branches west of Paddington were to be connected to the central core in December 2019, but this schedule is now unclear. The project was approved"
"Crossrail Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England. A large portion of the line, between in central London and in the south-east, is due to open in Autumn 2019. At the time of this opening, that new section and two other existing routes will be officially renamed the Elizabeth line, after Queen Elizabeth II. At each end of the central core, the line will divide into two branches: in the east to Abbey Wood and to in Essex, and in the west to stations at Heathrow Airport and"
"Station Hill, Reading Station Hill is a road and proposed redevelopment project in Reading, Berkshire, England. There is a proposed redevelopment project of Station Hill. If built, it will be composed of several highrise buildings including a skyscraper, retail space, office space, apartments and public spaces. In 2012, the Station Hill project passed to a joint venture between Benson Elliot and Stanhope PLC from John Madejski. In February, they released a new £400m plan to be displayed to the public. After the exhibition at the Town Hall, the developers said that the plans had received a positive response. A planning"
"application could be submitted in the summer of 2012. The project will be composed of five highrise buildings: Station Hill, Reading Station Hill is a road and proposed redevelopment project in Reading, Berkshire, England. There is a proposed redevelopment project of Station Hill. If built, it will be composed of several highrise buildings including a skyscraper, retail space, office space, apartments and public spaces. In 2012, the Station Hill project passed to a joint venture between Benson Elliot and Stanhope PLC from John Madejski. In February, they released a new £400m plan to be displayed to the public. After the"
"Reading, Berkshire Reading ( ) is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is now the county town. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is east of Bristol, south of Oxford, west of London, north of Basingstoke, south-west of Maidenhead and east of Newbury as the crow flies. The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century. It was an important trading and ecclesiastical centre in the"
"Shinfield Shinfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, just south of Reading. It contains and is administered by the unitary authority of Wokingham District. The parish includes the roadside hamlets of Ryeish Green, Spencers Wood, Three Mile Cross, Shinfield Village and Grazeley and the southern suburb of Reading called Shinfield Rise. It is surrounded on its eastern and southern boundary by the River Loddon. The M4 motorway runs west–east through the northern portion of the parish, near the former Berkshire County Council's Shire Hall, now the offices of wood.plc ; the part to the"
"Shenfield–Southend line The Shenfield–Southend line is a branch line off the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex, in the east of England. It links in the west to , in Southend-on-Sea, in the east. The vast majority of services connect to or from the Great Eastern Main Line and its London terminus at Liverpool Street. The line is part of the Network Rail Strategic Route 7, SRS 07.05, and is classified as a London and South East commuter line. Passenger services on the line are currently operated by Greater Anglia. The line, as well as the Crouch Valley line which"
"location on the Great Western main line is from Paddington. Reading railway station Reading railway station is a major transport hub in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is on the northern edge of the town centre, near the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames, from . Reading is the ninth-busiest station in the UK outside London, and the second busiest interchange station outside London, with over 3.8 million passengers changing trains at the station annually. Reading is one of 19 stations managed by Network Rail. The station is served by three train operating companies: Great Western Railway, CrossCountry"
"Reading railway station Reading railway station is a major transport hub in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is on the northern edge of the town centre, near the main retail and commercial areas and the River Thames, from . Reading is the ninth-busiest station in the UK outside London, and the second busiest interchange station outside London, with over 3.8 million passengers changing trains at the station annually. Reading is one of 19 stations managed by Network Rail. The station is served by three train operating companies: Great Western Railway, CrossCountry and South Western Railway. The first Reading station was opened"
"lower wind speeds) and has the potential to produce 3.5 million units of electricity a year, enough to power 1,063 local homes. The Courage Berkshire Brewery, built in 1978, is also half within Shinfield but was demolished in 2011. The Shinfield Eastern Relief Road opened on 31 October 2017. It serves the Shinfield Campus of the University of Reading's Thames Valley Science Park. Shinfield is served by the following bus routes: Shinfield Shinfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, just south of Reading. It contains and is administered by the unitary authority of Wokingham"
"than those for Derby, and are due to be finalised in CP6. Part of the planned-to-be-electrified Great Western Main Line (GWML) (from Reading to Didcot) will form part of the Electric Spine. The electrification of this part of the GWML will also include the Cherwell Valley Line from Didcot Parkway to Oxford, which was announced in 2009 as part of the 21st Century modernisation of the GWML. A freight curve at Reading bypasses the station and connects the GWML to the Reading to Basingstoke Line (14 miles), which will take the spine south to Basingstoke and onward to Southampton. The"
"and in Essex. That branch comprises the first 14 stations on the Great Eastern Main Line, with interchange at Shenfield for medium- and long-distance services beyond to East Anglia. In May 2018 TfL Rail also took over operation of the Heathrow Connect service between in central London and Heathrow Airport to the west (Heathrow Terminal 4 station being the terminus). That route has nine stations. The service is operated by MTR Corporation under contract to Transport for London (TfL). Between May 2016 and May 2017, TfL Rail carried over 47 million passengers on the Shenfield branch. In June 2013 TfL"
"Economy of Reading, Berkshire Reading is an important commercial centre in Southern England and is often referred to as the commercial capital of the Thames Valley. The town hosts the headquarters of British companies and the UK offices of foreign multinationals, as well as being a major retail centre. Whilst located close enough to London to be sometimes regarded as part of the London commuter belt, Reading is a net inward destination for commuters. During the morning peak period, there are some 30,000 inward arrivals in the town, compared to 24,000 departures. Reading has a significant historical involvement in the"
"Southcote Junction Southcote Junction is a railway junction in the town of Reading, Berkshire, England. It is the point where the Reading to Taunton line diverges from the Reading to Basingstoke line, and is situated between the Reading suburbs of Southcote and Coley Park and to the south of Reading West station. Both lines were proposed as part of the Berks and Hants Railway, but that company became part of the Great Western Railway before the track was laid. Until 1983 there was a third line at the junction, the Coley branch line, which diverted just to the north at"
"Great Britain men all having played there. Sonning Lane Sonning Lane is a cricket and hockey ground in Reading, Berkshire, England, near the village of Sonning. It is located on a road called ""Sonning Lane"" between the A4 road and Sonning, hence the name. Sonny Lane is the home of Reading Cricket Club. In 1988 Berkshire played Cornwall in the grounds' first Minor Counties Championship match, and the county side has continued to play there regularly since. This has also brought List-A cricket to the ground, starting with Berkshire's participation in the 1991 NatWest Trophy. There have been no further"
"Heathrow services from Great Western Railway in 2018. In anticipation of an May 2015 transfer of Shenfield to Liverpool Street services from the Greater Anglia franchise to Crossrail, the invitation to tender for the 2012–2013 franchise required the new rail operator to set up a separate ""Crossrail Business Unit"" for those services before the end of 2012. This unit was to allow transfer of services to the new Crossrail Train Operating Concession (CTOC) operator during the next franchise. Crossrail Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England. A large"
"Reading Green Park railway station 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 March 2020. On 28 July 2017, the Government gave funding to the station. Plans were announced in July 2007 and"
"also located here on the Thames Valley Park business park. At this point in the River Thames, towards the Oxfordshire side of the main river channel, there is a long thin island creating two branches of the river. Sonning Hill Sonning Hill is a hill near the village of Sonning in Berkshire, England, close to the River Thames. The Sonning Cutting takes the Great Western Railway through part of the hill between Twyford and Reading. There was an early railway accident at Sonning Cutting on 24 December 1841. There are good walks by the river in this area. At the"
"House, whilst the area includes other non-ecclesiastical buildings set among the rarest 0.1% nationally by listing at grade II* or above, such as Royal Berkshire Hospital and Albion Terrace. Reading Buses operate frequent bus services along the London Road which transforms to Wokingham Road, including to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. East Reading Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) is a proposed elevated bus, cycle and pedestrian route. If built, it will link a new park and ride site at Thames Valley Park, in Wokingham District, to Napier Road in Reading. There has been much local opposition to the plan and planning permission"
"Wednesday to Saturday, with 60 stalls selling a mixture of food, flowers and plants, cultural goods, and household goods. A farmers' market operates on two Saturdays a month at the cattle market. Economy of Reading, Berkshire Reading is an important commercial centre in Southern England and is often referred to as the commercial capital of the Thames Valley. The town hosts the headquarters of British companies and the UK offices of foreign multinationals, as well as being a major retail centre. Whilst located close enough to London to be sometimes regarded as part of the London commuter belt, Reading is"
"Berks and Hants Railway The Berks and Hants Railway comprised two railway lines built simultaneously by the Great Western Railway (GWR) south and west from in an attempt to keep the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) out of the area that it considered to be its territory in England. One line ran from Reading to and was entirely in the county of Berkshire (""Berks""). A later Berks and Hants Extension Railway continued the Hungerford line to in Wiltshire. Since 1906 part of this route has formed the direct Reading to Taunton Line used by trains to Devon and Cornwall."
"Erewash Valley line The Erewash Valley line is a railway line in Britain running from south of Chesterfield along the Erewash Valley to Trent Junction at Long Eaton, joining the Midland Main Line at each end. The Erewash Valley line has historic, but troubled, origins. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Nottinghamshire coalminers had a lucrative trade with Leicester using the Erewash Canal, the River Trent and the Leicester Navigation. The Leicester miners had attempted to compete by building the Charnwood Forest Canal but this was unsuccessful. However, in 1832, they opened the Leicester and Swannington Railway. The"
"for it was refused by Wokingham District Council for a second time on 12 December 2018. <BR> East Reading East Reading is a main locality (or informal subdivision) of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. Its centre is known as Cemetery Junction, after Reading Old Cemetery. The locality has no formal boundaries; the name is generally used to refer to the area within the borough boundaries to the east of the commercial centre, next to and to the south of the canalised River Kennet, north of Whitley, west of Earley and east of Katesgrove. As such"
"and between Kettering and Leicester for longer and heavier freight services, additional infrastructure to accommodate additional freight and passenger train paths and also recommended an additional stop at Kettering for the semi-fast London-Sheffield service. The electrification plan was part of the wider Electric Spine project to create an electrified route from the Port of Southampton to Sheffield and possibly Doncaster. The project planned to electrify the Varsity Line (Bedford – Oxford), the Cherwell Valley/Great Western Main Lines (Oxford/Aynho Junction – Reading) and the Reading to Basingstoke Line. The South Western Main Line between Basingstoke and Southampton would have been converted"
"Midland station was built. This route was the North Midland Railway from Derby to Leeds. Renishaw, Derbyshire Renishaw is a village in the district of North East Derbyshire in England. It is in the civil parish of Eckington. Renishaw lies on the A6135 road between the villages of Eckington and Barlborough. To the west is a section of the Trans Pennine Trail long distance footpath which runs along a former railway line. Adjacent to this is the route of the Chesterfield Canal which passes along the edge of the village. The canal is being restored in stages, with this section"
"Shenfield Shenfield is an affluent commuter suburb of Brentwood in the borough of the same name in Essex, England. The old village (now town), by the church and Green Dragon pub, lies along the original Roman road (now the A1023) which linked London and Colchester. Nathaniel Ward, a Puritan clergyman and author, was made minister of the Shenfield church in 1648 and held that office until his death in 1652. Shenfield, with Hutton, is part of the conurbation of Brentwood. The original town centre is located north-east of the centre of Brentwood. Apart from some small industrial areas and a"
"Kennet Island Kennet Island is a neighbourhood in Reading, Berkshire, England. It is being constructed on open fields in the nine years commencing in 2005 and is halfway between Reading town centre and the M4 motorway. It incorporated watercourses for aesthetics by engineering new channels for the canalised Kennet which has its catchment in rural south-west Berkshire and east Wiltshire. Many homes have been available under a Government-backed initiative: My Choice Homebuy, aimed at giving first-time buyers a chance to get on the property ladder. Kennet Island's homes developed by St James' Homes, part of Berkeley Group and the first"
"Cycle Hire in London, with 1,000 bicycles available at up to 150 docking stations across Reading. Transport in Reading, Berkshire Reading's location in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London has made the town an important location in the nation's transport system. The town grew up as a river port at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet. Both of these rivers are navigable, and the locks of Caversham Lock, Blake's Lock, County Lock, Fobney Lock and"
"Transport in Reading, Berkshire Reading's location in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London has made the town an important location in the nation's transport system. The town grew up as a river port at the confluence of the Thames and Kennet. Both of these rivers are navigable, and the locks of Caversham Lock, Blake's Lock, County Lock, Fobney Lock and Southcote Lock are all within the borough. Today navigation is exclusively leisure oriented, with private and"
"scheduled to start or terminate at or instead of Shenfield. The line is mostly within Greater London, with two stations in the Essex borough of Brentwood. The electric line is also used by limited services extending to and from or . These are the passenger usage statistics from the year beginning April 2002 to the year beginning April 2013. Needham Market is the only station on the line that is not served by trains to/from London. Great Eastern Main Line The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a major railway line"
"strategic environment, planning and transport committee on 24 November 2015. Concern was expressed that delay to the electrification of the railway line between Southcote Junction and Basingstoke could adversely affect the proposed train service. Reading Green Park railway station 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 also occasionally served by trains to/from Reading. Hounslow Council unsuccessfully proposed that the Hounslow Loop Line be part of the Crossrail route with its inter-regional trains calling at all stations west of Kew Bridge. Planning consultants rejected the proposal in a final route presented to Parliament in 2008. The loop line itself although partially operating services as a through line to Weybridge in Surrey is constrained by level crossings on the Windsor and Reading line running from London Waterloo — four in the town of Egham of the 15 in total along the whole main route and its Weybridge"