Exeter St Davids - Plymouth

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  1. kosti.nuuja

    kosti.nuuja Well-Known Member

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    Do you want to drive the classic HST train trough beautiful rural southwest England? The Exeter - Plymouth railway is 36 mile long railway line in Devon operated by GWR and CrossCountry. The route runs from Exeter to Plymouth via Starcross, Dawlish Warren, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Ivybridge. Route has very varied scenery running trough urban areas, farmland, forests, tunnels, bridges and seaside. Most of the urban areas contains plenty of traditional British architecture. The route would be set in 2015-2016 like GWE, when HSTs operated the long-distance services towards London.

    Rolling stock suggestions:

    Included with route:
    GWR Class 143 Pacer
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    GWR Class 158
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    GWR Class 43 HST
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    Loco DLC:
    CrossCounry Class 220
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  2. dasmith1

    dasmith1 Active Member

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    Will NEVER see Crosscountry in the game as Arriva who are the parent company of XC are no longer issuing Licences
     
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  3. 59321747

    59321747 Well-Known Member

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    Go to Taunton
     
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    59321747 Well-Known Member

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    why?
     
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    dasmith1 Active Member

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    Arriva have stopped issuing Licences to use their brand which includes XC since they are the Parent Company
     
  6. jolojonasgames

    jolojonasgames Well-Known Member

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    I have made this suggestion just a few days ago. I don't think it's intentional or something, but I just wanted to give you a heads up, because there was another suggestion very similar to this one aswell in the forums this week.

    Besides that, the route would of course be great! However I'd like to see the GWR class 802 instead of the HST, with that being a layer from GWE instead as it already is in game, but I explain that in my suggestion.
     
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  7. fabdiva

    fabdiva Well-Known Member

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    Change of management - also DB are trying to offload Arriva as it seems they have financial issues. DTG have tried to make them reconsider but without success.
     
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  8. kosti.nuuja

    kosti.nuuja Well-Known Member

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    OK. I didn't know that this route is already suggested, because I can't know all route suggestion posts here.
     
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    jolojonasgames Well-Known Member

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    Completely understand that, no problem.
     
  10. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    Maybe in a few years if the Great British Railways thing gets up and running. XC were meant to end their franchise term in 2020 which is perhaps why the TS content was removed in anticipation for (which has now been extended to 2022 I believe).
     
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    59321747 Well-Known Member

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    Financial problems, my goodness! I saw on the Internet that this company has operations in other countries, and they also have buses and not only railways.
     
  12. fabdiva

    fabdiva Well-Known Member

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    Yes, DB bought Arriva for their European rail operations and to remove a competitor from the German regional market, but DB's investment in Arriva has gone sour and the German Government wants DB to concentrate on issues closer to home rather than subsidising poorly performing international operations outside of Germany
     
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