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title: "Redevelopment of the Reading Station area – United Kingdom"
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# Redevelopment of the Reading Station area – United Kingdom

![Redevelopment of the Reading Station area – United Kingdom](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/reading-station-scaled.jpg)

**In 2011, Network Rail, the company that owns and develops Britain’s railway infrastructure, undertook a huge redevelopment of the Reading Station area to meet passenger and freight needs and prepare for future growth.**

Reading Station is a busy and significant transfer point for both passengers and
freight between the London–Bristol line and services to the south coast and is
set to serve up to 28 million passengers per year by 2030.

**MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DELIVERY**

Our team was appointed by Network Rail as Lead Designer to develop the initial
architectural design concept for the station to Network Rail’s PACE 1 (Project
Acceleration in a Controlled Environment) stage. Following delivery of the PACE
1 design, SYSTRA led the delivery of the detailed engineering design for the
whole station. Over the course of the project a strong working relationship with
Grimshaw was forged, where our individual specialisms in concept and detail
design complemented each other.

**WORKING IN COLLABORATION**

To ensure that the design, and the construction, met the needs of the multiple
stakeholders involved in maintaining the operation of the station, SYSTRA worked
collaboratively with all parties throughout the planning to deliver their
requirements.

To allow the station to remain in operation throughout the redevelopment, the
transfer deck was assembled off-site in three sections and then jacked in to its
final position with our closing the operational lines.

The redeveloped zone was reopened to the public in 2015.

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