What’s the largest British city or town without any DLC representing its station(s) on TS? My nomination: Aberdeen, population 230k, the busiest station in Scotland north of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
You've probably nailed it.. I read somewhere that Gosport in Hampshire is the largest town in England without a rail connection.
Wolverhampton (population 249,470) has no representation in any payware. Also Stoke on Trent ( 261,302). I presume we're talking TS2021? If so then Middlesbrough gets an honourable mention (174,700). I think payware only should be considered. If you include any DLC then the question is unanswerable because who knows what somebody has privately developed.
It would be easier to list the towns & cities that don't have a railway in TS2021 Leeds - population 792,525 is only available in Freeware routes and TSW Bradford - population 536,986
Middlesborough in the Workshop here. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=269482608 Or an updated version from DPS direct. https://www.dpsimulation.org.uk/ecmlne.html
There is also North East England which looks like it'll be focusing more on the local routes, IMO it's much nicer then ECMLNE: https://dpsimulation.org.uk/northeastengland.html
Horsham is a tiny place, at 50,934, not represented despite the Sutton and Mole Valley Line and the Arun Valley Line both passing through. Cambridge has ATS payware, but not supported by DTG. 124,798 there. Another tiny one is Salisbury. 749006 nailed it, though. By my research, Bradford indeed is the second largest without a DTG supported route, with neighbouring Leeds also left out in the cold. It did get some DTG attention in Train Sim World, but in Train Simulator it only exists as a route from Doncaster to York with a branch to Selby. In theory one could merge this with ECML Modern and do some interesting things.
Seems a lot of places unrepresented. I guess it just depends on the importance or historical/pictorial significance of the route.
As Peter points out, the whole of the West Yorkshire conurbation is inexplicably missing from Train Sim. Why?
Because who wants to go to West Yorkshire? Seriously though, it may just be no developers have an interest in West Yorkshire, or perhaps licensing, or maybe there is a route in West Yorkshire (I know the Settle-Carlisle 1970s route on workshop has been extended to Skipton) and we simply don't know about it or can't think of it.
Well, I’m from there so have an affinity to the place. It’s actually a nice area with some stunning scenery...maybe give it a go sometime I assure you, freeware aside, there are no routes that offer Leeds and/or Bradford in Train Sim. All we have is that pretty rubbish attempt in TSW.
Eh? Never noticed this. May have to get that for when I visit Settle to Carlisle myself. Are there scenarios?
I see you found the route, I did a scenario for it myself covering the full route with the A4: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2243320799 Not sure about other scenarios though.
It was unstable because the game crashed with an in-page error. Re-installing the Settle-Carlisle DLC fixed it.
I see. I don't have the A4 yet. Is Skipton only Steam era or did diesels use it as well? I'd be curious to see a full diesel run.
The route is set in 1975 - well after Steam, my A4 scenario is a railtour scenario (set in the late 1980s, the route could realistically serve until the '90s). I've not seen any diesel scenarios for it (I haven't looked!) but I may do another one.
