Most Boring Route

And after that Fulda

 

I think it's all down to a need for speed. Most passenger routes you are whizzing along at 70mph or more. Whereas us freight is pretty slow, I mean even if the track speed is high, a really long us freight train struggles up a grade and quickly becomes out of control down a grade so you are forced to drive slow.

Now I'm a old git I really don't mind cruising along taking in the scenery at 20mph. 20 years ago I couldn't have said the same.
I imagine that a majority of the playerbase is of the younger generation and wants to drive shiny new high speed trains on a to b runs.
I would love to see more freight routes (not just the us) and have more activities like yard switching, local freight. And loading and unloading of goods.
On tsc you can start at point A, load a train with containers or aggregates, move onto point B unload a bit, move onto point C and unload a bit more etc....
With tsw you start at point A, load up and drive to point be and end service. And vice versa.
Gets rather boring after a while.

 

But you can do fun things in training center

 

Yeah you can participate in the nastrain championship.

 

East Coastway for me. It still has those horrendous electrostar sounds that kill the immersion for me. And when at Brighton you see only southern services and no Gatwick Express 387s which is highly unrealistic. And that the scenery is just overall bad on that route, making it pretty hard to enjoy.

 

Seeing 387s on East Coastway is unrealistic.

The route is set in 2009, before the 387s were built.

 

Yeah but they couldve given us the option as a separate timetable like how they have "East Coastway 313" and other routes. Similar to how bakerloo had the 2020 timetable along with what it is currently.

 

If East Coastway ever gets a remaster, this is almost certainly going to happen.

 

For me it’s WSR.. The route is too long to be going 25mph and thus (imo) has killed any chances of other heritage railways coming to TSW which becomes more obvious when you realise that WSR was the 3rd route to be released for TSW - releasing in 2018/19.

If DTG wanted to bring Heritage Railways into TSW (which I am all for) then they shouldn’t have started it with the longest one. They should have started with a more well known line like The Bluebell Railway, Severn Valley of even the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

 

Funny that East coastway is now considered boring. When it released it was consired the best route DTG had done for TSW.

 

I actually still quite like that route; the scenery is done to a nice, realistic looking standard.

 

Yeah. We're all entitled to our opinion, but I guess routes have come a long way since ECW. I still love the route - it's still one of my most played, but when you have London Commuter...

 

Most boring are routes with EMU services

 

Heresy! *deep-timbred WH40K voice* actually one of my favs, tho only with 612, other locos have short consists here and I love long trains (2x 146.2s in sandwich formation + like 8-9 dostos on Kinzingtalbahn is an absolute joy for me )

the route is ok for me, but man, the broken ETCS is the reason why I dont play it at all... the only reason I got it installed is to have nice AI presence on Vorarlberg by Flirt (nice train, such a shame about that ETCS)

I also enjoy routes with higher speeds more, but then, Niddertalbahn and Semmeringbahn (the hilly portion) are rather nice, even though they arent fast

for me, there arent really boring routes cos I play a specific route and train when I feel like playing that one... so at that moment, I am enjoying myself... sometimes gotta add in some roleplaying on my part in my head, but still, even KWG is an awesome route from time to time

 

HRR is nice cos it isnt too long and with 101 you swish through it in like 30mins

 

101 is always Fun

 

It’s okay, but very much an electric bus service. And that 10 MPH crawl at Lewes, while true to real life, is a bit tedious.

Also it really should have continued on to Hastings or Ore.

 

a big surprise for me was sandwich formation of 146.2 with like 8-9 dostos in between on Kinzingtalbahn, that thing is both majestic and monstrous... and has inhuman acceleration/braking ... too bad it is "only" 160 kph... 101 in sandwich isnt too bad either tho

 

speaking of crawls... Boston South Station, Penn, GCT... US passenger termini *cough cough*

 

And the Californian routes too... That odd 12 MPH crawl in and out of the LA Union and at San Francisco on the PC route.

 

lol and then remembering stations I usually travel to or from (some of em termini), and the train still blasting 40-60 kph shortly before the buffer lol... also remember seeing (while waiting for my joyride REX to Tulln at Wien Franz Josefs Bahnhof) a push-pull 1144+Wiesel Dostos, heading into the station with the cab car end and going so fast I thought the driver is going to drill the train to the tram stop nearby... but he stopped, just short of the buffer

once when I was bored I tried to find out why so many US termini/big stations have such a crawl around them (most German/Austrian/CZ/SK stations I know are at least like 30-40 kph, sometimes even as much as 80 kph), and apparently it is in many cases a combo of the state of rails/bed and the complexity of switches ... makes me wonder if those switches are made of porcelain

 

Any of the highspeed lines, just soooo boring, only thing you’re doing at that point is cancelling DSD and then keeping up to speed.
I like the stop start stop start of commuter lines because atleast then you’re doing something and actually stopping at stations

 

Is it? I thought it would be post-2016 at least, because the Hastings/Ore trains are 2 hourly, whereas pre 2016 or 2017 they would only be hourly, and the other hourly train being a class 171 running all the way to Ashford.

 

Of the ones I own

North America - Either Cane Creek with notable mention of Oakville Subdivision

Central Europe - Possibly Vorarlburg though that could be down to some issues

Britain - Possibly WCL, that’s probably down to it feeling like it’s missing something.

 

USA: New York-Trenton.
Most of the route is straight track with no interesting scenery or speed limit changes. The interesting part of the route is reused from TSW2020-era.

UK: ECML
There is nothing wrong with the route and I like that you can have a long high speed run, but the scenery stays pretty much the same for the entire run and there's only one passenger train you can drive.

Germany: Bremen-Oldenburg
The route is short and the scenery is once again very repetitive. Interesting rolling stock was the only reason I bought this route on day one, but I think I should have waited for the Linke Rhinestrecke.

 

Technically, you can also drive the 158 (albeit only between Peterborough and Grantham) and the 700 (Peterborough ECS moves only). But yeah, one train for the whole route is a bit boring (where is the Class 91).