How accurate are the timetables in TSW2? And by that I mean how accurate do the timings between stations in the game reflect reality? I've seen a couple of comments that suggest it's difficult to keep to time on the new Southeastern route which I'm yet to purchase. I can quite comfortably keep to time on ECW but have always been pretty hopeless when it comes to say Northern Transpennine. I appreciate we are talking about very different routes and traction. However I'm still curious to know whether say the timetable in SEHS or ECW or any route on the game accurately reflect the timings a driver in real life would have to try and meet?
Most of the routes have total travel time shortened by a couple of minutes. Worst offenders in my opinion are HRR and now SEHS. On HRR, the Bochum to Wattenshied gives you 3 minutes. I tried this with 100% throttle from the get-go and emergency brake. I was still 35 seconds late on the stop. On SEHS, the service I'm currently doing starts at 10:25 from St. Pancras. I'll post the whole timetable so you can judge for yourself: Real departures / In-game departures 10:25 / 10:27 London St. Pancras 10:32 / 10:34 Stratford International 10:43 / 10:45 Ebbsfleet International 10:48 / 10:50 Gravesend 10:59 / 10:58 Strood 11:02 / 11:02 Rochester 11:06 / 11:05 Chatham 11:10 / 11:09 Gillingham (Kent) 11:15 / 11:13 Rainham (Kent) 11:23 / 11:20 Sittingbourne 11:31 / 11:30 Faversham As you can guess from the times, I'm 2 minutes late into Strood and this will get worse by the time I'm out of the Medway area.
Not only are the timetables wrong but it isn’t helped by the appalling physics of the 395 when on dc mode. No way does it have such poor acceleration in real life.
I don’t know how realistic the acceleration is, never having been on one, but it does seem slower than I’d expect. Yes it’s a heavy train geared for high speed, but the performance definitely seems off in DC mode.
This link gives you acceleration graphs: https://eversholtrail.co.uk/fleet/class-395/ Not got the route so can't make the comparisons but a rough look at the graphs suggests; 50 seconds - AC 120 kph- DC 85 kph. 0-100 kph - AC 40 secs - DC 75 secs
the 395's as from my post a few days ago are quite underpowered. The fastest I have ever been able to achieve (accounting for following line speed correctly) was 82, this was in the 90mph speed limit around the Faversham area.. As a few people have said you are always late arriving at Strood from Gravesend and never make it up, even with late braking and using nothing but full power to drive the thing After about 60mph the train just doesn't accelerate at all, and there's a couple of 0.8% gradients where it struggles to get up. And this is all using the highest power setting (Power notch 4).
