[poll] What Route Will Just Trains Make Next

I'd like to see something Welsh and another couple of heritage lines.

 

Something modern, but I suspect it will be in the 80’s era again. They have to cater for the old gits in this forum. (Joke)

 

Maybe they look elsewhere? Maybe some iconic route with real historic value somewhere in Europe?
The iconinc Antwerp - Brussels come to mind. Would look nice in the 80's era.

You never get tired of all these UK routes?

 

Manx Electric Railway! Now that would be something...

 

Dtg did explain in the past that majority of the suggestions are impractical such as due to the actual scope of the suggestion which might be too large, licenses, access and a bunch of other things. They use it as a guide rather than turning every suggestion into a dlc release.

In regards to goblin, players wanted more complete routes they can complete in a single sitting and dtg pleased that group. They can't please everyone at the end of the day

 

OV, now wouldn’t that be special. Would add something different to TSW!!!

However DTG maybe planning something like that for their forthcoming Tram Simulator whenever that is released!!! Who knows?

 

We can all dream can't we???

 

I don't. Haven't made a suggestion in a while. I just posted my opinion on this thread.

 

Oh! I'd love a Dutch route maybe!

I don't know alot about Belgian railways but that does look cool!

 

Rude much.

 

A scottish person's preference for new routes would be Scottish.

Good heavens, the horror!

He isn't exactly banging on DTG's door for it, with a bazooka to get the point across. It's just what he would like.

 

Now I've got an image of someone standing at DTG's door with a rocket launcher and megaphone

 

Don't give anyone on here any ideas lmao XD

 

Chiltern Mainline would be great.

 

I’d really love to see South Yorkshire in the game the route I would love to see is Sheffield to Leeds via rotherham with the addition of tinsley yard/TMD and manvers main coking plant complex.In the mid 80’s as we had:

class 08 for shunting duties and station pilots
Class 20/31/37/40/45/47/56 on various passenger and freight trains

class 43 HST/101/141/142/144/150 on passenger traffic

new locos for the game would be class 56/141/144 and everything else would layer into the route what’s already in game. Please feel free to comment what you think or if there’s anything I’ve missed

 

Would love to see Manchester to Crewe and Macclesfield in TSW. Metropolitan and the Piccadilly Line and also a Heritage railway. As some well known and popular Heritage routes are small in route length, how about a pack of three routes with a Prairie, Pannier and a Manor Class. My three routes would be SVR, KWVR and KESR. DTG could do a TSW4 Heritage pack for £39 and maybe a deluxe pack to include the Bluebell and NYMR for £59.

Or maybe a new train simulator on the style of TSW just for heritage railways.

 

Maybe Salisbury to Either Bedwyn or Newbury, set in either the 80s or 30s.

Stations:
Salisbury
Warminster
Westbury (don’t know about Dilton Marsh)
Pewsey
Bedwyn (if only as far)
Hungerford
Kintbury
Newbury

 

Having just invested in their Hope Valley line for TSC, part of me is now hoping (pun intended) it might be that, particularly with the alternative routes between Piccadilly and New Mills.

 

I am also thinking JT's next route will like be something in North Wales or the North West and likely BR and early privatisation in era, hopefully not a route set in the last ten years or so.

Although, I do wonder if Paignton to Exeter is possible. The TSC 1985 Riviera route was developed by one of the JT crew. The Pacer (as a Skipper) would fit set around 1986 and the 31, 45 and 47 would work. You would really need a HST in original condition and some airconditioned mark 2 carriages (and a class 50) though to make it realistic.

I would love to see a BR SCR period route, we already have a class 101, 40 and 47 so something set in the early 80's, maybe Edinburgh to Dundee or Aberdeen to Inverness, you would really need a Sulzer type 2 of some description though. The Scottish region was very interesting in BR days, they took hybrid first generation DMU formations to another level often having three different classes in one set. Would love to see some of those recreated in either sim.

 

If they did anything from Scotland involving the Far North, Kyle, Inverness to Aberdeen or Perth routes then in addition to a Class 26 the RMB buffet car almost mandatory!

 

Surely a Clacton 309 with a griddle car would be far more fun?
(Well it was in real life ).

 

I think it's time we had a Welsh route I'm surprised we still haven't had one yet

 

Holyhead Breakwater Railway is a distinct possibility with some "interesting" rolling stock.
Not sure about the gameplay potential though.

 

Yes absolutely. I love the Blackpool route but seeing the same rakes of mark 2 carriages with mark 1 BG's gets boring. We need more mark 1 and mark 2 vehicles, including catering vehicles.

 

Maybe an early electrification era ayrshire coastline with the class 318, and 101 in a Strathclyde orange livery, 47s working longer distance services, and maybe with a 156 as a DLC later down the line. Would have potential for a modern era timetable at some point for the 380

 

Bristol-Cardiff or Chester-Holyhead in the 1980s would be fantastic.

 

I reckon it will be one of;
Hope Valley - Manchester to Sheffield
Metropolitan Line
Something that goes with the Blackpool Line, like a cross country extension to Manchester or Leeds or WCML Preston to Carlisle.
MML Nottingham to Sheffield extension to existing MML.

 

Mk1s were massively used on summer Saturday extras. We have mk1s already that could.have been reskinned officially but that didn't happen on this occasion. The buffet situation is a puzzler also but I doubt we will get anything anytime soon....

 

I agree I don't know why some mark 1's were not reskinned. Presumably projects have a budget, which is understandable but means you get less for your money. DTG TSC releases would have very comprehensive sets of carriages.

 

Three of your suggested routes are their TSC routes MML Nottingham to Sheffield with Erewash Valley Line Metropolitan Line and Hope Valley Line. Additionally they should remake their TSC ECML North S-Bahn Rhein Main Frankfurt U-Bahn the latter is Frankfurt Am Main equivalent to the MBTA Green Line Tremont St subway B-E Branches. E branch Boston is Tufts Uni to Northeastern Uni

 

Buffet cars aside, I really can’t see DTG a multi £million software house being so hard up for artist and modeller resources they cannot spare a few hours to re task and reskin the existing Mark Ones into blue and grey with either the grey or blue moquette on the seats.

 

I’d put my money on something WCML related set around the same era as Blackpool Branches.

 

Much prefer JT to give TSW up as a bad job. Then complete their excellent MML from Leicester down to St Pancras, for TSC.
A much more worthy project for a route, than some 20 mile section of a route, in the middle of nowhere for TSW.

 

I can see Devon next on the cards. Exeter Dawlish coast to Paignton. 90s era.

 

Someone will probably reply that the coaches will need a total rebuild and the work will take 2 years. The price will be that of a real life one also.....

 

It's interesting seeing how many comments there are about the lack of Blue/Grey Mk1s bearing in mind so few people have downloaded these? Perhaps there really isn't any demand?
Creators Club (dovetailgames.com)

 

Yes, I do think sometimes DTG go over the top with the “but if we change the colour we have to change x, y and z to make it realistic, and by the time we’ve done that it’s virtually like starting again”. However, in their defence, if they do produce something which isn’t quite historically accurate in every respect, they do then get people jumping all over them for the inaccuracy.

It’s the reason I sometimes feel a bit frustrated about criticisms of tiny details. For me, it’s the overall feel which is important, not whether it’s absolutely accurate to combine blue/grey livery with the original version of the toilet drainage pipe or whatever it may be.

 

They are brilliant. Is the issue just that not enough people are into subscribing to and using Creators Club content, rather than that people aren’t interested in blue/grey mark 1s?

For me, I make little use of Creators Club because I can’t (unless you can correct me) build a train and use it on a timetabled service. (e.g. I can’t put some blue/grey mark 1s behind a 45 and then run it in a timetabled service on BPO).

 

It can be difficult to find it, even if you use the search engine. PinzaDave did a 47 in pink undercoat livery as historically one did run in that livery shortly after build. It took an age to find it on Content Creators club.

 

I'm sure that is part of it. The Creators Club interface is a right mess and really does need improving.

It can be done for scenarios, not sure about timetables, but it is quite complicated at the moment. I have been experimenting with building my own formations and will get around to doing something with my coaches. But, if you're interested, then have a look at this Peak + MK1s running over Barking flyover on GOBLIN in a scenario (not Free Roam).

 

Most of the routes I'd love to see them try next have already been suggested, but Hope Valley with both sections of the route via Hazel Grove and New Mills, Metropolitan Line or the Dawlish Coast route, though the latter must have a Class 50!

 

The CC Mark Ones are great, but if anything should have shamed DTG into providing as default on the relevant routes. Would also have ensured when JT did BPO many of the formations were more accurately depicted as Mark Ones.

 

Why?

 

We need a push for some holes in the BR era fleet to be filled. Saying it doesn't sell is all very well but I still believe the lack of 'icons' doesn't help. No Deltic, no Blue grey HST (Fastest diesel in the world but yes one in GWR green) no 25, no 56, no blue era 37, no blue 33, no further DMUs from the first gen (although one planned) and of course no catering vehicles. The abrupt halt of BR stock production due to EMUs for the win policy has left us were we are. The freight situation isn't much better with no HAAs, no Vans, no four wheel tanks.

TSC will slowly creak to a halt and these days requires a huge amount of work to beef it up and expense. Maybe we need a new simulator but can't see that happening.

 

By the time I have fiddled about with CC then formation designer I may as well fired up TSC and the AP mark one pack. We need BG mk1s in the Base TSW fleet. JT did a cracking job with the 47s in BPO but the coaching stock was a compromise as was the lack of AC traction.

 

Your mark 1's look great. However I only use timetable mode at the moment, I don't play scenarios and haven't looked at the scenario/timetable editor yet.

If ever a new timetable is made or I make my own I would make use of them.

 

It would be great to see more BR blue era locos and units - any or all of those you mention, and many more! However, TSW’s offering is already more comprehensive in that era than in any other. It’s possible to create a BR blue route which can realistically include 7-8 different locos/units, which is far more than is possible in any other era.

 

It's part of the problem, there is a decent stable but production of suitable routes completely ground to a halt, we then got the likes of Cathcart which could have been set in the 80s with Blue Grey 314s and had a Glasgow Central with a fair bit more AI traffic.

 

One thing I'd love to see potentially developed is the Class 13.

 

Not much scope for it though. They only worked in one or two areas which are not currently in TSW if I remember right.