Loco Class 55 Deltic?!

Including All Six Preserved Deltics (e.g. Royal highland fusilier, 55019) And If Possible Could Include The Deltic Prototype? This Could Be Implemented Either In A Railtour Pack For ECML (Add-On) Or Included In A Core Route For TSW7?
(One route could be the GCR From Leicester To Loughborough!?)

 

Would like the class 55 to be made by just trains and to come with a route

 

Class 55 Deltics are needed for the ECML railtours. The prototype unit sounds cool too. I love that blue livery.

 

If JT switched from Preston/WCML based routes and did an ECML based route with a Deltic I'd be all over it. Especially if said Deltic had railtour layers elsewhere

 

It would be a good addition indeed, it would work in a railtour pack but also could layer nicely onto the NTP route too (albiet with a slight fudging of the time period) as they would drop onto TransPennine runnings right up until their withdrawal in 1982.

 

Throw this on the stack of 55 suggestions we already have.
As a useful aside, it would be nice if someone from DTG could give some feedback on why particular DLC would NOT be done (lacking licensing, no access to models, sounds, no suitable era, etc) If there's nearly zero chance of something for a valid reason, maybe people would move on and find something else to suggest.
Otherwise you get "conspiracy theories" about how DTG "hates" this loco or "hates" that geographic area, etc. If it's something as simple as "well there aren't any left" or "we can't get access to enough pieces to complete it" or "they won't let us license it"... then there's a valid reason to point to.

 

Doubt we'll ever get DP1 as she's never ran in preservation. Last time she ran was in late-november 1960 and was withdrawn on 24/11 that year when her engine suffered a severe oil leak.

Whilst she is the prototype for the Class 55, her engine is slightly different and thus would sound different to the legendary Napier Deltic powerplant we know and love.

 

The ECML Railtour pack should have included the 6 preserved Deltics not 47484.. If we ever got the class 55, it would most likely be as the main loco for a 1970s ECML route

 

Or even just as an add on for the WSR as it’s the only heritage railway in the game so far

 

I don't see a 1970s ECML happening.
There are no 1970s UK routes period (I think there's one in TSW total...Clinchfield?)
There's just nowhere for it to belong.
1980s maybe if JT crosses over upon finishing the WCML.
You might be able to "fudge" the end date by 5 years and "pretend" it was a working locomotive in 1986.
Otherwise expect any ECML to be "modern."
That's part of the problem with the 55's.
They just weren't around whenever the routes we have are set for.
The other locos just lasted longer.
Anything beyond the early 80s (81-82) just wouldn't work as a "main" loco, and TSW doesn't want to make 1970s routes.
It could only work as a "one off" for rail tours.
Which is fine... it could sub into any number of existing rail tours on the modern routes we have.
Anywhere the 40 or 47 goes, the 55 could sub in.
It just won't be "native" to any route since it was never a "working" loco at any of the eras we have in game.
There could be a nice opportunity for a Preservation group to work with a third party developer and produce a specific railtour Deltic pack. Could bundle a bunch together (since swapping nameplates is easy) and basically market it like the Athena Class 47.

 

If “just trains” did the “Deltic” it would be EPIC as they know how to make and produce DLC Tsw content

 

This is what a teaser Could look like!

 

I'd love to see something like Doncaster - Darlington (Via Selby) set in the late 70s or very early 80s with a Deltic, although the route length might be pushing the limit.

 

Good idea

 

More likely to see a 50 and that's probably slim to none on the chance scale, too. Much as I would like a Deltic of course! (And a 25 and a 56...).
If it came at all would be from a third party in all likelihood.

 

As someone who's driven 50s and Deltics (in pres) I definitely prefer the 50 by a country mile, they sound better, are much better to drive all round and didn't give me a headache after two days solid on the damned things :p

I can certainly see a 50 being released in a railtour type pack for both the upcoming Riviera line and WCML north routes (both Crewe-Preston and Shap) as well as the existing Penzance route. I've previously said the Deltic would serve well too, only being "fudged" into NTP or used on limited railtour offerings, at least the 50 has more opportunities to stretch its legs

 

Ideally with ECML South (Peterborough to London) set in the early 1980s. Deltics and original livery HSTs, Class 313s on the stoppers, Class 312s on the semi-fasts to Hitchin. Lots of postal trains with 31s and 47s up-front.

However, if you're putting a Deltic through it's paces and testing on gradients on a long run, then I think Newcastle to Edinburgh, again based in the early 80s with HSTs, would be the best use of the ultimate UK locomotive.