Pre-Grouping route for the British one. PG has been getting real traction in the model world over the last few years and ok a L&YR or LNWR route would be ideal for me but I would still be super interested in an LB&SCR, GWR, Highland Railway, it really doesn't matter if it's made with love and steam is ACTUALLY fixed.
They have not revealed much or released much for TWS6 to point i am becoming more convinced that TWS7 will not happen so far 2 Re-masters 1 Botched Job (BR Class 90) Development of there New IP Metro rivals Suspend. No more news Official word from DTG about Trent Valley Main Line or Preston Crew both have been in the 0-3 months release window for a couple of months will they rollover into TWS7?. DTG have gone very Quite after the BR Class 90
100% agree with this, just as an 1880’s era frontier Wild West American route or a 1920’s cosmopolitan route around Paris would be something completely different for the USA and Europe respectIvely. But I’m afraid DTG just lack the innovation and vision to take such a bold step to revitalise interest in the game. Additional thoughts for the UK, a pre grouping Somerset and Dorset would be fascinating as would part of the Great Central main line in its heyday. We are shortly getting Kilsby Tunnel on the MKC to Crewe route so only fair the other long Northamptonshire tunnel - Catesby - gets its place of honour in the sim. Or I would settle for a nice secondary GWR line - Banbury to Cheltenham via Chipping Norton, perhaps.
I have no clue what we're getting, but I know what I'd like to see (which is unlikely to happen). For the UK, please give me the West Highland Line in a historical setting. For Germany, I'd love to see Köln-Koblenz, don't care much in which time setting, although a historic setting would be awesome (I have a soft spot for older electric locomotives). For the US, it's about time we get something appropiate for the Santa Fe F7 to run on. Or, it'd be nice for DTG to switch things up and instead of getting the usual three countries, we get something from three entirely different countries. But that's even more unlikely to happen.
For UK, Stourbridge Junction to Stourbridge Town would be great. Probably get blurry textures on my xbox though sadly
Great Examples of Routes for UK, are Crewe to Llandudno as it's 68 Miles. Exeter to Cardiff Central as it's 55 miles. (Bristol to Cardiff is a bit short). As personal route, East Lancashire & Calder Vale Route. As it's my home route. London St Pancreas to Bedford with 48 miles, Completing more of midland mainline. With east midlands class 222.
For the UK route I have a feeling it might be something out of London. King Cross to Peterborough would be cool or maybe even a revamp of the London Airport Commuter with a Blackfriars extension so we can run the Thameslink. US wise, I’d be truthfully happy with anything that’s not the NEC. I know licensing issues and all, but it would be nice to see something else. Chicago Metra, Florida Tri-Rail and Brightline, or personally (I know is a big one) but the Surfline in SoCal circa 2019 during the Amtrak and Metrolink transition from their old F59s to the new Siemens Chargers and EMD F125s. If it’s done right though it’s gotta be from LA to San Diego and include the Coaster. We have a lot of the same equipment that has been used on other US routes already so not too bad but again licensing issues and it’s a big route. As far as Germany goes, something out of Berlin would be interesting. A new region of the country we haven’t explored yet. We got a lot of the same stuff so switching it up would be cool. On the topic of switching it up, I know it’s extremely unlikely but instead of a core German route, it would be interesting to see something in Austrian OBB or more Switzerland SBB stuff. Those are two beautiful countries with lots of scenery. Italian high speed would be really neat as well! Lots of potential there. As far as the US, a revamp of the NEC from New York to Trenton with the extension to Philadelphia. And this one is a long shot but given the new solo developer train sim game that just released, building the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka would be awesome!
For germany it could be the Filstalbahn, Stuttgart-Ulm with the Geislinger Steige. We already got Stuttgart Hbf in the latest German Route and I thought that someone from DTG said in a stream they wanted to do Stuttgart-Ulm but it was kinda out of scope for the moment. Would actually be a great route though. For UK maybe the "leaked" stuff (Class 333), even though I was more expecting another Part of the ECML.
Leaks have appeared hinting at the uk route being. Spoiler: TSW7 UK CORE ROUTE Airedale/Wharfdale Lines with the Class 333 and 158 (NT)
News to me. I know the one about the Carlisle to Whitehaven with the 108. Did not hear about that one
Unless they sold it to DTG the Carlisle to Whitehaven aka Cumbrian Coast (Part) is a JT in house project and probably still many months away if not next year.o
Oooooooh that’s a bit different. Not an area I am at all familiar with, but having looked at the network map that could be a decent DLC.
I won't reveal anything past the spoiler... As I saw this leaked about a month ago along with some images of the said DLC. But I wonder if that particular route is going to be the DTG 'flagship' route or whether it's going to be a third party who is developing it, that bit is uncertain at the moment. It would also appear the separate rolling stock DLC is being developed by a third party (that much is known, and Skyhook vaguely acknowledged this in one of their recent posts).
I'm chewing on the "Berlin Route". I would love to see a S-Bahn Route. But looking at the history of DTG routes I don't see an option, that suites DTGs record. Ringbahn ... too long, S3, probably but also a bit too long (>30 stations) but this could be cut short, fx with a Ostkreuz Terminal. S8 or S85 could be an option because they avoid the center of Berlin, but is also very long (about 30 stations). So they would need to cut the route short, and risking the complains about that. If they do a RB/RE route from Berlin, they would have to include the S-Bahn rolling stock, otherwise the tracks may become dead and not very pleasing. So I don't think that would also be an option. So for me Berlin is out of the picture. I hope they release something completely from of the usual, maybe a network somewhere in Hannover some RBs for example. I also think, the south west is pretty much over represented at this moment. So I hope they change the region.
The difficulty is, DTG are walking a bit of a tightrope, with blurry textures being so prevalent in TSW6 routes, they can't really have that in the base routes. Despite that they'll need to be fairly ambitious for a big launch, so a lot will depend on how much progress they can make between now and then.
Hopefully something with Berlin, the easiest would be something including the Nord-Süd-Tunnel only but I would prefer something like the Stadtbahn because of the S-Bahn, maybe the route to Dessau, Berlin-Wittenberg(-Leipzig) would be a possibility too but I doubt they will do a route that a 3rd party for TSC.
I’d be happy to see anything Berlin but I would really love to see the DB 481 (preferably without the black doors) and the Hauptbahnhof in TSW. Please make it happen .
