Creation Sharing Doncaster To Sheffield + Industrial Yards

M1 Overpass next to Meadowhall with supports blocked out.

 

Just to let everyone know, I'm currently taking a small break from working on certain parts of the project. Will be looking at some modelling while I wait till my google static maps api allowance resets.

Timetable has a few more layers to go which usually causes more services to tweeked.

 

Big update: Decided to connect the church fenton branch of line to Gascoigne Yards.
Which means the timetable needs fixing once I've set up signals and junctions and portals, which means a lot more freight services can be drivable.

The reasoning was as they are quite close to existing portals it would be more feasible to connect those up to allow cleaner and less messing around in the timetable.

And the northern area of the map is more a future thing, the main focus is south yorkshire section which will get most of the buildings/stations/scenery stuff done first.

When I release the alpha which will be for timetable testing and feedback not much in terms of scenery or visual stuff, I won't restrict anyone from accessing the northern section as one that's not really fair and two making a copy of the timetable just to restrict that would be a pain.

 

Progress on the new tracks.

 

Will be a very welcome addition.

 

Image of Gasocigne Wood Yard and Milford Yards.

Just finished up placing signals and routing some of them, Selby, Milford Yards and Church Fenton are all connected and most the gradient and super elevations are sorted for those areas.

Just need to fix up some markings and work on fixing some services of the timetable to work with the new portals and track.

 

So recent update.

Had a issue that took less than a week to fix, was trying to origanise a few things and broke some plugin names but everything is back to normal now.

Timetable layer LNER and Class 150/158 are complete servicewise and operate very well. Will just need to apply descriptions to each service.

Class 170, 195, 222, 323, GrandCentral, EMR, Transpennine Express, Lumo and Hull Trains are progressing slowly.
And freight 66 and 66 AI services are coming along nicely.

Plugin structure for Class 801 for Lumo, Hull Trains, GrandCentral and TPE are setup and ready to be textured.
Same with 150, 158, 170, Class 43 and Class 66 trains.

 

Updated York area with track removals old yard not present in 2024.

 

Nice to see the route slowly evolving.

 

Only recently noticed the tracks missing from York Yards and it wasn't a major issue to remove them as they were not apart of the main signal pathing =)

I've placed down temp station platforms for export later and currently going through signals and timetable simulations to check before adding more to the timetable =)

 

All sounds very professional. Keep up the good work.

 

Very slow process though.

 

A good saying comes to mind: "slow and steady wins the race".

 

no rush mate, good things are worth waiting for.

 

Update blueprint to be complete with all information.

Custom bridge identification signs for the route.

 

Update: Slow progress, working on signal pathing and junction setup, timetable on hold while these get worked on.

Update 2: Working on track weld joints, slow progress on this one as it needs manually doing.