I know that its not electrified..I had v2026 But changed it to OHLE as majority will be under the wires
(Emphasis mine) What other routes will it feature on? I'd guess Mildmay (once it's extended to Richmond), otherwise is it just acting as transferred stock to (say) Southern/GX?
GWE and Cardiff are the main ones with AI and playable services. ECW but player selectable only as AI would be out of era. MML as a drag move with the HHA's from the Derby works down to Leicester
I'm wondering, how do they want to sell this DLC and the HST pack to console players? I had already to disable WCML to get rid of blurry textures, I now only have Island Line 2022 and SEH active. So why should I buy a new DLC with the risk of getting blurry textures back? With only Island Line 2022 and SEH active, I did not saw blurry textures.
I just don’t see how the 387 fits in that compellingly with anything that’s currently on offer. A bit of extra traffic around Cardiff and short runs on GWE doesn’t seem worth the outlay. Maybe if there was a run from Cardiff out to Reading it would make sense, but otherwise I’m struggling to see the attraction right now.
With the MML services, would these be the 37/7 hauling them? Or with the HHA being an aggregate wagon (usually Freightliner) is this using the Class 70/66?
I was a little confused an ended up doing some research. Turns out that the GWE branded 387’s did do runs between Paddington and H&H.. I had assumed they were TSW-talk for ‘going to Heathrow’ without going there as it’s not in game. There’s a single bay platform at H&H which I assume will adopt the new electrostars?
Yeah they did 2 shuttles an hour between H+H & Paddington. They did indeed use the bay platform, usually as 8 car sets.
When you say shuttles, are we talking non-stop to H&H, fast line running, then crossing over the slows and into that single bay at H&H?
No they replaced the Greenford services (which were cut back to West Ealing) so called all stations to Hayes Bay and vv on the Relief Lines.
No they were stoppers, designed to alleviate crowding on the turbos. For the most part they stopped everywhere but Hanwell, though some early & late runs had slightly different patterns, but even those stopped at most stations. Pretty sure 2017 also saw them reaching Maidenhead, which did introduce faster services where the first or second stop was H+H, so it will be interesting to see if we get those. In terms of bay platform operations, whilst they did use it, it’s not really a diagrammed platform & was usually used as a backup.
it's very unlikely that we get the 387s to Maidenhead, as the route is set in 2015, and the cables only went as far as H&H. hopefully they extend / update the route, but i'd have thought they would do that as part of the remaster if it was to be done
Of course they won’t run upto Maidenhead in game, but given the TT we have is set in 2017, there could be some compromise to have the Maidenhead sets run upto H+H, giving the 387 pack both stopping & fast runs.
Interesting! Thanks for the information too. Hopefully Liam is way ahead of us here! I do also wonder what happened to the 350’s as 450’s at Reading..
Interesting - I never actually noticed they’d been mentioned in regards to the remaster. I wonder if in game Reading is even setup with third rail to make that work.
I remember probing about them a while ago, maybe a year back, and it was something he’d looked into and considered. I watched the preview stream last week, and felt the same confusion as Matt did when scanning the departure list on the DC platforms at Reading. Seems like a missed trick really, or perhaps just something that wasn’t worth the energy to redesign. The lines out of Reading DC get a bit ‘pointy’ to be fair!
My reaction, "meh". Nice to see it but another reason why I hoped they would have put the wires up to Reading for the remaster. I use the 387s a lot between Slough and Reading /Paddington. It's a nice run and a chance to mix it up on the both the fast and slow lines. A short jaunt to Hayes & Harlington isn't the same. I'd probably give it a miss or wait for a good sale.
Would be nice if we got a route to give it a good run on, would Reading to Bristol be asking too much, would also give the 802 a good run too.
