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A New Public Piano Has Been Installed On The Main Concourse At Reading Station To Brighten Passengers Journeys, Thanks To A Donation From The Rotary Club Of Reading. The New Addition, Which Was Unveiled Last Week, Is Already Proving A Hit With Passengers At The Station, Which Is Celebrating 185 Years Since It First Opened Its Doors As A Terminal For BrunelS Great Western Railway In 1840. The Piano Was Donated To The Reading Library Of Things By Highwood School In Woodley, But As The Library DonT Take Musical Instruments It Was Offered To The Rotary Club Of Reading Who Agreed To Take It. Their Intention Was To Renovate It And Repurpose It To Be Used As A Public Piano, Offering A Free And Accessible Way To Play For The People Of The Town. The Piano Was Then Fully Restored And Given A Fresh Design Named The Musical Forest By Commando Jugendstil, A Solarpunk Collective Who Also Designed The Mural For The Reading Hydro Turbine House Close To The Station. Bernadette Sachse, Network Rail Station Manager For Reading, Said: WeD Like To Give A Huge Thanks To The Rotary Club Of Reading For The Donation Of This Beautiful Piano, Which We Are Delighted To Have On The Concourse At Reading Station. WeVe Seen From Our Former Piano How Appreciated They Are By Passengers And Staff Alike, And We Hope This Will Help Brighten PeopleS Journeys At Reading For Years To Come. Tony Cowling From The Rotary Club Of Reading Said: We Are Delighted That The Piano Now Resides In Reading Station And That It Has Been Such An Instant Success Ends Passengers / Community Members Network Rail National Helpline 03457 11 41 41 Latest Travel Advice Please Journalists Network Rail Press Office - James Crook Senior Media Relations Manager Network Rail 07732 644202 We Own, Operate And Develop BritainS Railway Infrastructure; ThatS 20,000 Miles Of , 30,000 And The Thousands Of , Level Crossings And Stations. We Run 20 Of The UkS Largest While All The Others, Over 2,500, Are Run By The CountryS . Usually, There Are Almost Five Million Journeys Made In The Uk And Over 600 Freight Trains Run On The Network. People Depend On BritainS Railway For Their Daily Commute, To Visit Friends And Loved Ones And To Get Them Home Safe Every Day. Our Role Is To Deliver , So We Carefully Manage And Deliver Thousands Of Projects Every Year That Form Part Of The , To Grow And Expand The NationS Railway Network To Respond To The Tremendous Growth And Demand The Railway Has Experienced - A Doubling Of Passenger Journeys Over The Past 20 Years. Follow Us On Twitter: Visit Our Online Newsroom:
