Southeastern High Speed Suggestion

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  1. daniel#4362

    daniel#4362 Member

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    It would be great to see an expansion for the southeastern high speed DLC. The new expansion could include a route that connects from Dover Priory to London St Pancras. (This is a real life route where the class 395 terminates it journey) included could be the stations:
    Dover Priory
    Folkestone Central
    Folkestone West
    Ashford International
    Ebbsfleet International
    Stratford International
    St Pancras International

    There could be a direction change at Ebbsfleet international, where you can decide to go up to Faversham or down to Dover Priory.
     
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  2. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Was with you all the way up to the last line... There are no trains which go from Dover to Faversham via Ebbsfleet, in fact to do so would mean a very awkward set of movements over the flat junction just north of Ebbsfleet from the low level to high level tracks

    Adding a route to Folkestone / Dover fine, the last bit, not so good (though the trains from Gravesend / Faversham could be AI on this DLC if made)
     
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  3. daniel#4362

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    Yeah, completely agree. Trains from St Pancras to Dover would take the lower part of Ebbsfleet International.

    Maybe you could choose while in the timetable, or scenario tabs before you begin the journey weather you take the lower tracks to Dover, or the higher tracks up to Faversham. There would be no way to get from Dover directly to Faversham unless you went up to St Pancras first.

    Also the class 375 could run up to Ashford and Back to Dover, creating more scenarios and timetable options.
     
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  4. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    If you have the Dover to STP route you would be able to run from Ashford depot (where the 395s are stabled) to Folkestone, Dover, "Ramsgate", "Sandwich", "Broadstairs" or "Faversham" (Italics are off route but could be ECS in game) or of course Ebbsfleet or STP itself. All of those places are starting points for the Javelins. Normally to get from Ashford the Faversham you'd go through Thanet (Ramsgate, Margate etc) rather than via Ebbsfleet

    Timetable wise the trains that go to Faversham via Gravesend could be in there so the line (and upper tier) is populated, but I wouldn't expect this to be a merged route, ie you wouldn't walk from STP P11 from Faversham and onto STP P13 towards Dover... Such things are a loading screen away
     
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  5. johnmcglade30

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    I would love them to add London Victoria on southeastern high speed and also so let us ever to drive all the way to Ramsgate and Dover priory
     
  6. AidenTEM

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    This is absolutely tangential (and apologies if this counts as necromancy), but I do hope the next generation of TS game will have some form of quiet loading that would mean you could switch routes at common points.
     
  7. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Oh, so do I. I would hope they'd change their timetable and signalling profile so that they can dynamically load and unload routes and times allowing all trains to be added simply by putting them on a central timetable (similar to RTT now). Then you really COULD walk from one platform to another and DTG are already working on dynamic (and quiet in the background) loading and unloading of DLC

    But it would take planning
     

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