In this post I am suggesting what could be done to make london Commuter better and what I think should be considered to make the route feel much more alive. 1. Timetable overhaul There are some parts of the timetable which are unacurate. The main one is no services that stop at Earlswood, Salfords, Horley (except one service) and Balcombe. In real life between 2 and 10 southern services will stop at each of these stations per day. DTG need to consider adjusting some services so they stop at these stations. Another option would lead me on to part 2 2. Thameslink. Personally I belive that we won't see 700s for london Commuter because of the shear amount of memory problems players already having to even more with the 700. If they added a 700 with a accurate timetable next gen players could be seeing up to nearly 2000 services which would cause major lag problems in some areas of the route mainly being brighton gatwick and East Croydon. I have 3 solutions to overcome this. 1. Add the 700 but they'd have a reduced timetable. 2. Redesign the 387 to its former thameslink livery and have that operating thameslink services. 3. Don't bother with thameslink and add a 455 instead. The 455 wouldn't take up as much memory as it can substitute in for metro 377 services. 3. New services. As mentioned in the preview stream for london Commuter unfortunately the team ran out of time to add railtours and extra freight services but this can easily be gone back to and added. A steam railtour from London yo Brighton should be added and diesel tours from the coast to London should operate and as for freight services there would be 25 more services to enjoy up and down the Brighton mainline and making use of Ardingly 4. A couple of extensions. 1. Brighton to Hove 2. Wivelsfield to lewes with stops at Plumpton and cooksbridge. 3. And extension from selhurst to West Croydon That concludes all i can think of to enhance and improve london Commuter. If you all agree with me drop a like and comment with your thoughts. Thank you
That would be a lot of work to overhaul the timetable for Joe and then to test it to make sure it works. I'll always take a 700. Don't really care if it causes performance issues cuz it's extra traffic
Yes to Thameslink, yes to freight. No to railtours... But for Thameslink would need more of either the North Kent Lines, Midland Mainline or the South London Lines to make it worthwhile Freight, there is an excellent turnaround move at Haywards Heath which would be an excellent addition, and of course we have the services which end up on the ECW so linking them up to the BML (even without Wivelsfield curve) would be good
