Don't know if already suggested, too lazy to search for it! We honestly need an expansion for the Training Center with a waaay larger testing loop than we have right now, where you can safely reach lets say 600 kilometers per hour without derailing (which you wont reach anyways) so you can test the trains you have there, and especially on high speed trains, make them max out their power so you could even try to reach 400 km/h with an ICE. Wouldn't that be cool? Because currently on the testing loop, when you reach 340 km/h, theres a big chance of derailing, which sucks, that's why we need a larger one. And we need more train stations to test braking behaviour and all that. Making it look more beautiful I guess. Maybe the larger loop could go through the mountains in a longer tunnel? that'd be insane!
Good idea overall but train manufacturers usually do it on HSR lines for example Alstom uses LGV Est Européenne 320 kmh 200 mph runs for Siemens the Schnellfahrstrecke Nürnberg München and Schnellfahrstrecke Hannover Würzburg which we have in game as Kassel Wilhelmshöhe Würzburg Central Station
I don't like using the other routes as speed test because they always go uphill and downhill at the most random points which influents the speed of the train, the acceleration and all that due to gravity. the training center is good for those speed tests in TSW since it is all on a flat surface
I would love to see expansion to the training center. And definitely need to make sure there is large enough space for spawning long freight. Lots of locomotives i can only spawn in light locos because the manifest makes train too long.
We'd need a longer route than we have in TSW. Instead of senselessly expanding the test centre i'd rather them to invest ressources into actual routes.
I would rather DTG focused effort on proper routes than the TC. If they were going to do something similar though, perhaps the Old Dalby Test Track near Melton Mowbray would be a better idea.
How about the one they are constructing in Wales the global centre of rail excellence . We might as well start having the narrator say it in Welsh in English. That one is connected to the South Wales Coastal.
We should have this already but what if with this expansion we get: A bigger shunting yard A branch line Viaducts Industries A system to have multiple trains running freely People walking around the nature reserve Countryside
I think you're going too far with the ideas. Some of them, like the people in the nature reserve and a larger yard are good ideas, but a branches line serves no purpose on a test track, and neither do large viaduct built for the sole purpose of being cool (have you ever seen a test track in real life with a viaduct?) and absolutely not industries. That would make it a main line, not a test track. I think there could be some value gained by having scenarios on the route like the equivalent in TS has. Test train scenarios like with the SEC in TS could be fun, but adding AI services outside of scenarios defeats the point of an open test track where you aren't bound by signalling or other trains.
