Price: Considering the content, probably on the expensive side. Scenarios: 12 Including addons: 30 Trains: 6 - Class 385 (Stopper and semifast services between Edinburgh, Dunbar and North Berwick) - Class 801 (Fast services between Edinburgh and Newcastle) - Class 803 (Fast services between Edinburgh and Newcastle) - Class 802 (Semifast services between Edinburgh and Newcastle - Class 156 (Stopper services between Newcastle and Chathill) - Class 66 (Engineering train) Trains not included with timetables and scenarios for this route: - Class 380 (Edinburgh to Dunbar and North Berwick) - Class 91 (Edinburgh to Newcastle) - Class 220 (Edinburgh to Newcastle) - ECML Diesel railtour (Edinburgh to Newcastle) - Flying Scotsman (Edinburgh to Newcastle) Trains not included with only timetables for this route - Class 43 (Edinburgh to Newcastle) - Class 158 (Newcastle to Chathill) Depots: - Heaton TrainCare Centre (Newcastle) - Craigentenny Train Maintenance Centre (Edinburgh) Features: - Moving livestock - Dispatching procedures for drivers and Dispatching as a gamemode - Dispatchers can dispatch at Newcastle, Edinburgh and Berwick only. - Feature rich trains with working displays and GSMR gobbledygook. (What am I? A train nerd????) - High quality stations with animated ticket barriers and more people, to make large stations feel more lively - Music at stations regularly, including bagpipes from dawn to dusk in Edinburgh, live performances at Edinburgh and Newcastle, and pianos at most stations, playing in the background (click for special tune (each station with a piano gets a tune from the area) - Pigeons flying about the bigger stations - Birds flying past in seaside areas, with ambient sounds. Covering over 100 miles, this route would be among the longest in Train SIM world, covering an important, and arguably the most scenic part of the ECML between Edinburgh and Newcastle, as well as a small branchline to North Berwick. This route would have a variety of services from Lumo and LNER's fast, sometimes non-stop intercity expresses, to slower, Transpennine Express Semifast services serving smaller destinations along the mainline, to regional stoppers, serving commuters in and out of Edinburgh and Newcastle, with ScotRail services between Edinburgh and Dunbar and North Berwick, and Northern services from Newcastle to Morpeth and Chathill, to Class 66s taking the reigns of vital engineering trains. There would be tons of scenario opportunities, from broken down trains, to backed up routes due to extra trains, to horrible weather conditions, to setting up trains at depots. ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle would make for an incredible route, showcasing the best that the east coast route has to offer in terms of scenery and charm. Timetables could take up to 1 hour and 50 minutes for passenger services, with scenarios taking up to 2 hours and 40 minutes. Track and scenery would be made beyond Edinburgh up to Haymarket. Alternatives: ECML: Darlington to Edinburgh (longer, a bit unrealistic) ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - set in the 1980s. ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - set in the 1950s or 60s. ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - set in the "golden age" the 1930s. Would be really unique and it would be cool to have our first TSW route in the interwar period! ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - set wayyyy back in the 1900s ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - including the line to Ashington line. ECML: Edinburgh to Newcastle - including the Borders Railway.
We still need a Class 55 Deltic Railtour, please. Also more new UK freight power: Class 56, Class 60, Class 58, Class 69, Class 67, and Stadler Classes 68, 88, 93, and 99.
Indeed. Prices should not be part of a suggestion, particularly putting them up beyond what we are already being asked to pay. A northern ECML would undoubtedly be built around the current Class 801 though hopefully with a Class 91/Mark 4’s as the new train and a Deltic with blue/grey Mark Ones for Railtour/nostalgia DLC. And I definitely would like to see a decent Paxman engine HST too.
I'd suggest doing the Northumberland line or the Tyne Valley line as a precursor to this route. Something smaller in scope that allows for a good bit of work to go into Newcastle central station and the depot. That way it's ready-made for them to expand on for making this route, meaning there's less of the dense urban scenery to work on at either end, and so it's easier to deliver 100 miles. Bonus if they do the Tyne Valley route in that you can get route hopping at Carlisle and it'll mean once the connection to Edinburgh is done, there's a complete unbroken line of routes connecting Scotland right through to Birmingham.
Tyne Valley would be awesome. In some ways I actually preferred travelling across there to the Settle & Carlisle.
