INTRODUCTION Today I will be suggesting the Great western mainline operated by Great Western Railway (owned by First Group) . This route will have 31 stations in total and will be 116 miles (186 km) long. THE ROUTE The route starts at Paddington, located in Central London, ending at Oxford and Bristol Temple Meads, located in Oxfordshire & Bristol. •Paddington •Acton Mainline •West Ealing • Ealing Broadway •Hanwell • Southall • Hayes & Harlington • West Drayton •Iver • Langley • Slough • Burnham (Bucks) • Taplow • Maidenhead • Twyford • Reading • Tilehurst • Pangbourne • Goring & Streatley • Cholsey • Didcot Parkway • Appleford • Culham •Radley •Oxford •Swindon •Chippenham •Bath Spa • Oldfield Park • Keynsham •Bristol Temple Meads ROLLING STOCK 800/0 800/3 The class 800, manufactured by Hitachi as part of the AT300 family from 2014 - 2018, 57 of these five - and nine car units built with 36 800/0s and 21 800/3s. This train has a maximum operating speed of 125 mph [200 km/h]. The safety systems used are TPWS/AWS,ETCS and BR ATP 800/3 (9 car, Bi-mode ,used on overhead electrified and un electrified lines ) 800/0 (5 car, Bi-mode ,used on overhead electrified and un electrified lines ) 800/0 - 326 seats 125 mph (200 km/h) 800/3 - 611 seats 125 mph (200 km/h) Services Paddington - Oxford Paddington -Bristol Temple Meads Paddington - Swindon 802/0 802/1 The class 802, manufactured by Hitachi as part of the AT300 family from 2014 - 2018, 36 of these five - and nine car units built with 22 802/0s and 14 802/1s. This train has a maximum operating speed of 125 mph [200 km/h]. The safety systems used are TPWS/AWS,ETCS and BR ATP 802/0 (5 car, Bi-mode ,used on overhead electrified and un electrified lines ) 802/1 (9 car, Bi-mode ,used on overhead electrified and un electrified lines ) 802/0 - 326 seats 125 mph (200 km/h) 802/1 - 647 seats 125 mph (200 km/h) Services Paddington - Oxford Paddington -Bristol Temple Meads Paddington - Swindon 387/1 The class 387, manufactured by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane Works as part of the Electrostar family from 2014, 107 of these four car units were built with 74 387/1s and 30 of them operating for GWR. This train has a maximum operating speed of 110 mph [177 km/h]. The safety systems used are TPWS/AWS and ETCS 387/1 (4 car, electric, used on overhead electrified lines 387/1- 224 seats 110 mph (177 km/h) Services : Paddington - Swindon Paddington - Didcot Parkway DLC 345/0 The class 345 manufactured by Bombardier Transportation Alstom as part of the Aventra family built from 2015-2019 present 70 trains were built 70 of these nine car trains being /0s the top speed of this train is 90 mph (145 km/h) and the safety systems used are TPWS/AWS,ETCS and CBTC. 35/0 (9 car, electric, used on overhead electrified lines) 345/0 - 1500 total 454 seated, 1046 standing 90 mph (145 km/h) Services : London Paddington - Reading LAYERS -43 - usual intercity/express Services to and from paddington -166/165 - running usual commuter services + didcot - Oxford shuttle DEPOTS Reading Chippenham Swindon CONCLUSION Thanks for reading my suggestion
All DTG can do is Remaster what is in-game now; new and added trains/routes/services are not an option at this time, as we, the players, know it. It would be nice to expand on GWR, but licensing has been lost, and whether they will ever get it back is anyone's guess.
Well you have to wonder whether there’s a better than even chance this could be the TSW6 UK route, given the GWR licence announcement. Behind the scenes, we don’t know how long this might already have been back in place but DTG just kept schtum while they worked out what to do with it.
I stand corrected, I missed a few streams, due to family matters, and I just did not check a lot of things out, got a fair amount of homework to do.
In fact, the game already has a section from Paddington to Reading, just need the remaining section from Reading to Bristol
Yes - I guess either an option for route hopping (if a modern timetable was also added for PAD - RDG and OLE was added), or I guess it could be duplicated and extended like (I believe) LIRR was
Only issue with that is that the overhead wires even under the remaster are not going all the way to Reading as the TT is based on 2017 ( ) and stop at Hayes and Harlington I believe, so the Elizabeth line couldn't be added with what is requested above with the 345..we are getting the 387 but that will only go as far as the wires... 800s could be used since they are Bi mode but will be unrealistic to the date being used... Our only hope for a more modern day TT is through a modded TT for PC with the use of God Mode to enable those trains in game (including the 345 used on the Mildmay line) to go all the way to reading (which I hope happens) without the need for overhead wires
With regards to any extension for Paddington to Reading, it would be far more prudent to add ALL of the Thames Valley branches both passenger and freight which have been obviously absent since launch. Perhaps extension to Oxford and Newbury could also be achievable within the same pack. Sadly it seems like this is a non starter meaning that we will never get the branches. Reading to Bristol might be a better stand alone add on. The only realistic way to ever get the desperately needed branches is if somebody seriously takes up my previous suggestions for 'BRANCH LINE MINI PACKS '. This would be a good remedy to many of the various missing branches on multiple UK routes.
