Is There Demand For An Uk Freight Focused Route?

Yes.

Would love to see my local line in game.

 

I don't know about a freight route, but TSW desperately, desperately needs another modern British freight loco. 66s are everywhere, but they aren't the only ones!

 

zappatime Fun fact: my Woodhead proposal was the most appreciated here on the forums. Would say, a pre-1968/69 setting would be di-vi-ne! Full of stock options, both freight and passenger: EM1/2, 08, 13, 25, 40, 47, 506 etc... Plus tons of freight stock already appeared on Peak Forest/other old routes! Now also JT's MGRs!

 

I did submit a suggestion for this a while ago.

 

Perhaps one of the “new” games DTG promised on Direct will be a combined rail and container port simulation.

I remember a few years ago our Line Manager ( like me now retired, but who was great at organising team days out and about) took his Train Running Comtrollers down to Southampton to see the operations at the MCT and smaller Millbrook Yard. I found myself wondering how on Earth the operators keep a check on the 1000’s of boxes, where they are going whether by train or lorry. All the vehicles shuffling the containers around to various parts of the sites. A logistical nightmare or dream, depending on your POV.

 

There is a new game called Port Simulator I think.
I think Nintendo released or is releasing it though, not DTG.

 

I think TSW rules mean that we would be lucky to get this



Still at least the backdrop says "Here's what you could've had". (Felixstowe to Harwich ferry).

 

This would also make an interesting route, the old LD&ECR is fascinating. Although the execution wasn't the best on some aspects it was another favourite route in TSC for me.

 

On a side note, it’s such a shame we didn’t get the AP soundpack for the class 37. It really is on another level and frustrating considering AP worked on both the TSW class 20 and 31 from what I understand.

 

A route based around the collieries around Shirebrook (ideally including the freight only branch up to Maltby and Harworth via Brookhouse Viaduct) and including Cottam, West Burton and High Marnam Power Stations would be the ultimate route for me.

The sheer playability, the atmosphere, the nostalgia, i would pay really good money to see this come to TSW.

 

The new Just Trains route around Crewe to Preston is supposed to be exactly like this with lots of coal industry runs.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Lawnmower_Simulator

Best game ever

 

i really hope this new JT route is a success and that it could spark interest in UK coal/freight routes, and it could hopefully be a catalyst for a dedicated UK freight route in the not too distant future

 

It’s a just trains route so it’s pretty much guaranteed to sell very well

 

South Humberside line would be a good freight route. Coal, Iron Ore, Petroleum and Steel, along with Speedlink and Departmental. And probably more too if the route went from Thorne to Hull, including Freightliner, Tilcon (Aggregates), Chemicals.

 

Interestingly also.. it’s starting off as a crowd funded project. Does that mean Skyhook would be tempted by a community finance driven project more than they’re admitting? Could it mean we could ‘persuade’ Skyhook to look into some of our more desired outcomes for the MML??