In message , at 16:04:47 on 
Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Peter Masson  remarked:
>> I've seen people almost getting off an over-length slam-door southern
>> region train at Wokingham - the result would be landing on the level
>> crossing!
>
>Overlength, or just stopped short? Anything over 8 coaches on the Windsor
>Lines would be an embarrassment, as few if any of the platforms are longer,
>and particularly nothing longer than 8 can use platforms 4A/4B at Reading -
>indeed, they had to move the starting signals to get 8-car 458s in there.

This would have been about 1980. Does Wokingham normally have room for 8 
cars?
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Roland Perry