 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.