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 Coley Branch Junction and served Reading Central goods station.
The junction is readily visible from a footpath linking Wensley Road in Coley Park to Southcote Farm Lane in Southcote. This first crosses the trackbed of the old Coley branch, before running alongside the railway and then passing under both lines at the junction.
