Reading–Taunton line marketed as the "Kennet Line", follows the River Kennet through the outer suburbs of Reading to Theale. The line passes through Berkshire countryside and local stations at Aldermaston, Midgham and Thatcham. Newbury race course lies alongside the line on the left and has its own station a short distance east of the main Newbury railway station, where the town centre is close by on the right of the line. The station has a bay platform on the right for local terminating trains, and the through platforms are on loop lines that allow fast trains to overtake the local services that
Shenandoah (B&O train) The "Shenandoah" operated to New York City via Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until April 26, 1958, when the B&O discontinued passenger service north of Baltimore. As passenger patronage on American railroads continued to decline in the 1960s, the combination sleeper-dome and dining cars were dropped, and were renamed the "Diplomat" in 1964 and then dropped altogether in 1967. Amtrak revived the name in the 1970s for the short-lived "Shenandoah", a Washington—Cincinnati train. In 1961, westbound "Shenandoah" Train # 7 operated on the following schedule (departure times at principal stops shown): Shenandoah (B&O train) The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of