Gwe Dlc Needs Desperate Updating

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  1. kanamechidori#8728

    kanamechidori#8728 Member

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    Its such a shame that GWE has seemingly been forgotten about, out dated rolling stock, no Heathrow express trains & no Heathrow terminal and pitiful length only to Reading

    though it will never be updated what would you had like to see to this route
     
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  2. Princess Entrapta

    Princess Entrapta Well-Known Member

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    By that logic TVL needs a 185 and to have them close Redcar British Steel and only stop once a week at Teesside Airport.
     
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  3. jack travers

    jack travers Well-Known Member

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    So spirit of steam should be totally X’d out and have voyagers, Pendolinos, iet’s and 150’s too !!
     
  4. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Heathrow Express doubtful due to licensing (BAA were still running the trains at the time the route was set) plus unlikely BAA will give permission for their infrastructure from just south of Airport Jn into the terminal area. However I agree a rework would be good, maybe the freight branches to Brentford and Colnbrook, the three passenger branches and extend to Oxford. Personally I would like to see it backdated to BR Classic era, with Class 117 DMU's on the locals and a mix of Paxman engine HST's and loco hauled consists on the Class One services.
     
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  5. Princess Entrapta

    Princess Entrapta Well-Known Member

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    Rip up 90% of the track!
     
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  6. aeronautic237

    aeronautic237 Well-Known Member

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    I kind of like the fact that it is stuck in 2016 - lets us relive an era that will never return. I would, however, also like a modern version of it, since that will provide much variety - some Elizabeth Line purple too!
     
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  7. rennekton#1349

    rennekton#1349 Well-Known Member

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    Updating it is building a new route from scratch. There is no ohle for the whole route so you can't have electric trains running. Licensing too if it applies and I certainly like running diesels over electrics lol. So there probably won't be an update anytime soon or at all
     
  8. Mateiule

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    I support this
     
  9. gwrfan#3416

    gwrfan#3416 Well-Known Member

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    There are multiple suggestions with their outer for an extension or rework which might be possible with dovetails upcoming 2010s set route
     
  10. elarthur

    elarthur Well-Known Member

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    Maybe redo the whole route either pre OHLE or full OHLE with correct stock to match and this time give us all of the branches too both freight and passenger. At the very least we could do with the Class 165/1, 180 and 57 with sleeper stock. Please please please DTG.
     
  11. rennekton#1349

    rennekton#1349 Well-Known Member

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    Not any time soon. I would rather they make new routes than to continuously update the older routes, decreasing variety. I don't want a sehs type makeover every time. Would much rather have other routes in the uk
     
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    Heathrow Airport (ex BAA) still own the Heathrow Express, daily operations are subcontracted to GWR but Heathrow is still the legal operator and brand owner.
     
  13. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Indeed. So very unlikely. Although the counterpoint is that the airport freely appears in various flight sims over the years, including what could be regarded as sensitive information such as radio, ILS etc. frequencies.
     
  14. elarthur

    elarthur Well-Known Member

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    Spanish owned Ferrovial (if my memory is correct) is the owner of Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) and seem highly reluctant to licence intellectual property. It is a crying shame that with so many players keen to buy it, that a licence has been nigh on impossible to obtain. Hopefully DTG are continuing to try to acquire the said licence in order to one day include this branch line. It would possibly work best with all of the other branch lines in a new DLC pack. Let's hope that we one day get our wish.
     
  15. OldVern

    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    Just puzzles me how the flight sim people get round it!
     
  16. elarthur

    elarthur Well-Known Member

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    I can't figure that out either.
     
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