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The Three Guineas, Reading

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designed single-sided intermediate station, with separate up and down platforms situated to the south of the through tracks and arranged so that all up trains calling at Reading had to cross the route of all down through trains. Between 1865 and 1867, a station building, built of
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In 2016, Fuller's announced that the pub would undergo a major renovation. It reopened on 30 January 2017 with a remodelled main bar and altered kitchen layout. The previously unused basement of the station building was converted into a secondary cellar bar.
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brand. It has two main floors, plus a basement and a centrally located clock tower. There are bars on both the ground floor and in the basement, together with a large outdoor seating area that forms part of Station Square.
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dressings, and incorporating a tower and clock, was constructed for the GWR. Sources differ as to whether this was a new building, or remodelling of an earlier Brunel building.
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The first Reading station was opened on 30 March 1840 as the temporary western terminus of the original line of the
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in memory of a competition, run in July 1904, to name the GWR's new non-stop express train to
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Grade II listed pub at Reading railway station, Reading, UK
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The building was granted grade II listed status in 1976.
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In 1989 a brand new station concourse was opened by
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Reading
Coordinates
51°27′32″N 0°58′20″W / 51.45876°N 0.97224°W / 51.45876; -0.97224
www.three-guineas.co.uk
Grade II listed
public house
Reading railway station
Reading
Fuller, Smith & Turner
Great Western Railway
Bristol
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
buff bricks
Coalbrookdale
Bath Stone
British Rail
Plymouth
Penzance
The Cornish Riviera Express
"The Three Guineas"
Archived
David & Charles
ISBN
0-7153-8004-4


"Main Building of Reading General Station"
Archived
"Information 57"

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