What’s Your Valedictory Tsw5 Run?

For me (surprisingly) it’s an Azuma run from Doncaster to Peterborough on ECML. Always a guilty pleasure but I figure there’s a sort of twisted symmetry there with the first train I drive in TSW6 undoubtedly the Class 802 Cucumber, so finish up TSW5 with an 801 run.

 

The last run was on Bull (ÖBB Class 1016 Taurus, Semmeringbahn)

 

For me a 390 from Milton Keynes to Euston on the OTS Timetable. The route should have never been launched in the state it was in, but with fixes and a few mods it’s become one of my favourites despite Euston being a ghost town.

If Riviera is as good as the screenshots, I doubt I’ll play much else for a while. First run will be in an HST.

 

Class 86/2 on west coast mainline 1980s
Class 31 or 45 on Blackpool branches
And finally probably the class 33 or 52 on west Somerset railway

it will be one of these

 

Class 801 on Fife Circle 2024 Mod

 

A late afternoon / early dusk run from Garmisch to Innsbruck in the 111. Will be spectacular - and what I thought of TSW5 as a whole.
So looking forward to TSW6.

 

Due to my timetable progress going missing, I find myself back at East Coastway trying to complete the timetable again. I was gonna raise a ticket with DTG about my progression loss, but I enjoy playing East Coastway too much. It is great at getting rid of stress, you can just drive it and chill out, it is like going on holidays and this route will be seeing in TSW 6.

 

Mine is WCMLOS class 86 Glasgow Central to Paignton non stop in the afternoon.

 

So Vern what route are looking forward to driving on with the new ones.

 

Well Riviera line for me even though the traction doesn’t quite match my preferred era.

Then probably the NJT route as it looks well made.

Dresden to Leipzig, well I’ll probably take a run on Mittenwald and WCML Shap before I check that out.

 

Same for me hoping the riviera route is up with WCMLOS quality looking forward. The NJT route looks really good and the arrow looks very interesting to drive. I think im less interested in the German route because we have so many of them but will still drive it but not as much I think.

 

I think I'm gonna do the same I did for the last three versions:
Do a particular service on the old one, then update and do the exact same service again, to compare the experience

From 2 to 3 I don't remember exactly, but I think it was with the 612 on Tharandter Rampe.
From 3 to 4 it was a 628 run on Niddertalbahn.
From 4 to 5 it was on Maintalbahn with the (at the time relatively new) 218.

From 5 to 6 I'll probably go for Mittenwaldbahn and the 111 or perhaps something involving an ICE on S-Bahn Frankfurt

 

I think I'm going to drive Peninsula Corridor one last time with branded trains.