January, although avoid any precipitation or wetness (or whatever they call it!) and certainly no dynamic weather!
Birmingham Crewe Modern Timetable (i.e. the one that comes with the 805) Class 323 RR 1Z23 This is a nice railtour run. I played it in May and it was quite enjovable, including the stopover in Stafford (provided that you have many UK DLCs installed).
Don't believe it's been mentioned, but 4M51 is a good contender. It's a freight run on Shap. Run in journey mode for best results. Spoiler you get stopped at Upperby by a Class 47 freight on the uphill gradient and after a slow start eventually catch up to it near Oxenholme, then its yellow signals all the way to Preston. You don't really reach full speed until Shap Summit.
Class 805 service on WCML: South, 1A38: Chester to London Euston it happens to pass THREE class 66 services along the way, one of which is routed to MK via the fast lines causing a wee bit of a traffic jam for those poor pendos (there are two held right behind it). Really nice run into Euston
Started both of these runs, didn't finish. As usual, DTG haven't bothered playing their own game - first run (Talent 2) ruined by dark signals as though the train was running under LZB; second ruined by the 411 not properly displaying PZB monitoring/restrictive modes on the MFD. I'm so sick of these little things ruining this game. There's no point reporting the bugs either because DTG have not a single shred of pride and don't fix bugs like this.
Interesting run indeed. Thank you. Spoiler: Something I have noticed When starting the service on PS5, the train at first will not take power. The electric mode does not seem to be properly set up for any reason.
Same on PC, though easy to fix. I thought at first it might be a random fault, though if there was an announcement, I missed it.
It spawns you with both pans down, you need to pan up in the leading set and use the TMS screen for the trailing set. It seems to happen randomly on WCML South services, not exactly sure why. Sorry I didn't mention it
Damn that means on PS5 these services must be unplayable with both pantographs up then as screen mode on the ps5 doesn't work so the TMS in the rear set won't be able to be raised.
When did this happen? I've been using the Expert 101 and other TMS heavy trains without incident since I got my PS5.
If the TMS has buttons around the edge then it works, but if it's a touch screen, screen mode doesn't work on PS5.
I'm not trying to argue, but it does in fact work. I have used the screen on the 805 to navigate the menu and indeed raise the rear pan/dim screen etc. same too for the 801/802/390/380/350.. Unless I'm missing something here it's certainly possible Edit: I was infact missing something here - I use the pointer and i see you mean screen mode. Fair play. Sorry for the argument.
I’ll have a go at this one… managing the braking on the freight trains is a challenge…how do you know what class a train / run is? Ps… I went through the timetable and couldn’t find a 15:57 service… I did another from Reading as I was to Acton.. how do you know what other traffic there is?
1P90 Hereford-London Paddington on the new GWE timetable. Brilliant early morning service with plenty of switching between slow and fast lines, easy to get caught out.
1P97 Maidenhead - London Paddington Great Western Express 2017 (Remaster) Timetable Class 165 (3 Cars) Spoiler: Details Quite a quick run at first. Start in the side platform at Maidenhead where you're met by a London - Reading stopping HST service. You'll then get an open run to Slough, where you can spot the one train to use the bay platform in an entire day. Once you get to Hayes & Harlington (roughly, I did accidentally skip Slough so my timing will be a bit off) you start chasing signals until you, eventually, get to just west of Ealing Broadway where you have to stop while a Reading - London is in the station. (it, itself, is behind a Greenford - London so if you're extra early you'll be waiting longer.) You then follow that Reading - London into Paddington, chasing signals through Old Oak Common where you then have to wait for an ECS to cross over your line. Once that clears you get about 2 miles of green lights into Paddington, but the 165's acceleration/braking hardly lets it become a sprint. A combination of chasing (and waiting at) signals and plenty of AI makes this quite an interesting run.
1R02 London Paddington - Reading Great Western Express 2017 (Remaster) Timetable Class 43 HST (8-Car) This is the stopping HST service mentioned in that previous post of mine. Spoiler: Details A multi-stop HST along the slow lines: Starting at Paddington you go along fairly smoothly until around Hanwell/Southall - where you catch up to a Heathrow Connect service. Depending on how fast you are you may very well end up at a red here. You then have to trail this service until it makes gets out of the road at Heathrow junction. You're then able to get back up to line speed and make your way towards your first stop, Slough - although yellow signals are in your way as you begin to catch up to the London - Oxford service. You may catch it if you're running early. You'll not need to stop en route to Maidenhead - where you'll see the previously mentioned service - and it's a calm run after that to Reading - with a stop at Twyford. Once again, plenty of AI; HC, plenty of HSTs and 166/165s, and a couple of freights running past.
