Is There Demand For An Uk Freight Focused Route?

Yes.

Would love to see my local line in game.

 

I don't know about a freight route, but TSW desperately, desperately needs another modern British freight loco. 66s are everywhere, but they aren't the only ones!

 

zappatime Fun fact: my Woodhead proposal was the most appreciated here on the forums. Would say, a pre-1968/69 setting would be di-vi-ne! Full of stock options, both freight and passenger: EM1/2, 08, 13, 25, 40, 47, 506 etc... Plus tons of freight stock already appeared on Peak Forest/other old routes! Now also JT's MGRs!

 

I did submit a suggestion for this a while ago.

 

Perhaps one of the “new” games DTG promised on Direct will be a combined rail and container port simulation.

I remember a few years ago our Line Manager ( like me now retired, but who was great at organising team days out and about) took his Train Running Comtrollers down to Southampton to see the operations at the MCT and smaller Millbrook Yard. I found myself wondering how on Earth the operators keep a check on the 1000’s of boxes, where they are going whether by train or lorry. All the vehicles shuffling the containers around to various parts of the sites. A logistical nightmare or dream, depending on your POV.

 

There is a new game called Port Simulator I think.
I think Nintendo released or is releasing it though, not DTG.

 

I think TSW rules mean that we would be lucky to get this



Still at least the backdrop says "Here's what you could've had". (Felixstowe to Harwich ferry).

 

This would also make an interesting route, the old LD&ECR is fascinating. Although the execution wasn't the best on some aspects it was another favourite route in TSC for me.

 

On a side note, it’s such a shame we didn’t get the AP soundpack for the class 37. It really is on another level and frustrating considering AP worked on both the TSW class 20 and 31 from what I understand.

 

A route based around the collieries around Shirebrook (ideally including the freight only branch up to Maltby and Harworth via Brookhouse Viaduct) and including Cottam, West Burton and High Marnam Power Stations would be the ultimate route for me.

The sheer playability, the atmosphere, the nostalgia, i would pay really good money to see this come to TSW.

 

The new Just Trains route around Crewe to Preston is supposed to be exactly like this with lots of coal industry runs.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Lawnmower_Simulator

Best game ever

 

i really hope this new JT route is a success and that it could spark interest in UK coal/freight routes, and it could hopefully be a catalyst for a dedicated UK freight route in the not too distant future

 

It’s a just trains route so it’s pretty much guaranteed to sell very well

 

South Humberside line would be a good freight route. Coal, Iron Ore, Petroleum and Steel, along with Speedlink and Departmental. And probably more too if the route went from Thorne to Hull, including Freightliner, Tilcon (Aggregates), Chemicals.

 

Interestingly also.. it’s starting off as a crowd funded project. Does that mean Skyhook would be tempted by a community finance driven project more than they’re admitting? Could it mean we could ‘persuade’ Skyhook to look into some of our more desired outcomes for the MML??

 

While freight isn't my bag, I would have thought an 80's DLC with a 56 based around coal trips in the East Midlands and/or South Yorkshire would be quite fun for those who want something a bit different. Driving slowly while the wagons load up with coal, then struggling with a heavy load over gradients to Sheffield or one of the huge power stations in that part of England.

I've said it plenty of times but a 1980s LTS Rail route would have bags of freight opportunities. Aggregates trains from Purfleet, Freightliners from Tilbury, Oil tankers and Speedlink from Thames Haven, cars and vans from Fords at Dagenham, Ripple Lane depot. I'm old enough to have stood at the long gone level crossing along Ripple Road in Barking watching a cast of locos (usually Classes 31, 37, 47 and 56s - even saw a 40 once) taking all manner of stuff up the country from many freight yards along the Tilbury loop. And there would be plenty for those of us who want to drive commuter trains or an Underground train along the surface section of the District Line.

It's mostly tankers and Freightliners from the new Thames Haven docks nowadays but there's still lots of freight for an inner-London mixed in with an intensive commuter service.

 

South wales coastal on TSC has a decent freight to it with the 70. But all it seems we get is a 66. Consistently or lazily, you decide.

 

I thought the issue with the 70 was licensing, though I could be wrong.

 

Loco licensing or livalry?

 

Both since you need both access and livery.

 

Yeah with 56's, 58's and 60's.