The Greater Anglia Intercity line connects The capitol of England to the historical city of Norwich. THE ROUTE: This route only has 9 stations as it is suppose to do long journeys as quick as possible (Aka express) London Liverpool Street: This station has 17 platforms. This station has 2tph on the Greater Anglia Intercity line, 5tph on the Greater Anglia great Eastern line, 3tph on the West Anglia line, 4tph on the Stanstead Express and 4tph on the "Boat" train line. Stratford: This station has 19 platforms (17 in use) and has 48 tph on the central line, 20 tph on the jubilee line, 12 tph on Tfl Rail, 8 tph on London Overground, 28 tph on DLR, 12 tph on Greater Anglia (1tph being intercity.) Chelmsford: This station has 2 platforms and has: 5 tph to Liverpool Street, 1tph to Braintree, Clacton-On-Sea, Colchester Town, Norwich and Ipswich. Colchester: This station has 6 platforms and has: 1 tph to Clacton-On-Sea, 6tph to Liverpool Street, 3tph to Colchester Town and 3tph to Ipswich (2 Of which continue to Norwich.) Manningtree This station has 3 platforms and has: 2tph to Norwich, 3 tph to Liverpool street and 1 tph to Harwich Town. Ipswich: This station has 4 platforms and has: 2tph to Norwich, 3tph Terminating, 1tph to Cambridge, 1 tph to Lowestoft and 1 tph to Felixstowe. Stowmarket: This station has 2 platforms and has: 1 tph between Liverpool street and Norwich. Diss: This station has 2 platforms every half an hour between London Liverpool street and Norwich. Norwich: This station has 6 platforms and has: 1tph on the Midland Main Line and 8 tph on Greater Anglia. This is the terminus for this line. The rolling stock: Class 321: This train is a EMU Built Between 1988 and 1991. Currently 32 of these trains are in operation. This train has a max speed of 100mph and has an acceleration of 0.55 m/s. Class 745 "FLIRT": This train is an Emu built between 2018 and 2020. Currently 20 of these are in operation. This train has a max speed of 100mph with an acceleration of 0.9m/s Other image: Class 745 on its side Services: This line has 2tph with one train being an "Semi-Fast" service to Norwich calling at: London Liverpool street, Colchester, Manningtree, Ipswich, Diss and Norwich. This line also has an "All Stopping" service calling at: London Liverpool Street, Stratford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Manningtree, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Diss and Norwich. Overall: I believe this route would be super fun as it combines express with scenery and historic towns which would make it stand out compared to a lot of other TSW2 British routes which are mostly built up (IOW obviously an exception as the whole thing is countryside or historic places)
With the class 321 you will need more stations. You have missed out many stations. Below is all the GA stations:
Likely too big a project to produce in one go sadly. Maybe as far as Colchester but not all the way to Norwich. (There's also all the metro stations between Liverpool Street and Shenfield to model as well, which would be a large task in itself).
I sure do love the Mainline with 9 stations. Express services may only call at nine - but the rest still exist and would need to be modelled.
Id prefer a Cl90 era version of this route simply because the Class 90 is one of my favourite looking locos and with a rake of Mk3 and a DVT. Or we could go really retro and have a class 86 in raspberry ripple IC livery.
Excellent idea you can probably get away by ending this at Ipswich or Colchester with Branch Line. Some London Liverpool Street services are Class 755s or rare cases of Class 755. There can be a Rhein-Ruhr Osten like scenario to where you must use an emergency pantograph button to continue. For Class 755 pantograph failure means finish the journey on diesel power.
