PC Since When Did Brighton Main Line Get New Freight Services?

I don't know when this happened, but this probably is the big shock coming out of today's update. When checking on Brighton Main Line, I noticed that it's service count has gone up from 1437 to 1454.

I went and had a check on what these new services might be, not expecting it to be much, and I discovered that this timetable has had 17 freight services added to this route. As seen in these images down below.

Selecting the Class 66 from the Loco Selection

Brighton Main Line Freight Services


I'll have a closer look at these later and see what they are, but there seems to be a good variety of them, even though there aren't that many. But boy did I not see this one coming, especially as it seemingly wasn't advertised anywhere. Definitely good that this route finally has some more freight action, and more services to what is already the biggest TSW timetable ever.

 

That is definitely a late Christmas surprise. I wonder was that Joe getting more in there. Hopefully he left room for the 700

 

It’s so incredibly cool that services to/from Ardingly Aggregates appear to be included! This is the fully modeled little branch north of Haywards Heath that freight trains need to “reverse” into when coming from the north, which appears to have been replicated in the game judging by the two-part services. Joe talked about this branch on the forums a long time ago, so I’m really glad he finally managed to put these services in.

 

That is tremendous news! I'm definitely going to try these!

 

If that's the case the patch notes failed to include them.

 

Great news!

 

Magnificent - these have been on my wishlist since release. Also big thanks for fixing the spawning issue that was breaking the timetable.

Am I right in also thinking there are now substantially more AI freight services around Clapham Junction? I noticed one parked up in Stewarts Lane too.

Just waiting for the lighting upgrade and Class 700 now!

 

Yes is fixed….thank you.the best route in the game in my opinion and now with the added freight services just made it better. And like mattwild55 mentioned “Just waiting for the lighting upgrade and Class 700 now!..

 

Wow this is great news, as others have said, had not expected to see this - the best timetable in TSW has just got even better! Please now just bring the Class 700 then it's just the timetable basically complete (though love to see some rail tours with older BR locos too though).

Ironically, however, the best thing about these new freight services I think is the new variation of adverse signals they'll have on passenger services - hopefully some previous all-green signal services will now have a few yellow and red signals to keep gameplay interesting.

 

Great stuff. The more the merrier.

 

You really should have advertised this. It is good news.

 

This is good to hear. I think the Brighton Mainline is probably the most immersive route in TSW at the moment.

A class 700 would be the icing on the cake, it would be nice to see some of the stations south of Gatwick have some services actually stopping there.

 

There was one other great surprise in the update but it's slightly less exciting then new freights services.

 

Well, what is it?

 

O that currently senario planner temporarily down (finger crossed for a quick fix) but maybe this news by now.

 

I'm just trying the new 3-parter, driving empties from Haywards Heath, but I'm stuck in part 2: uncouple 12 cars. I've uncoupled them but the game does not register it and I cannot proceed.

 

Oh right, heard about that. Let’s hope for an imminent fix.

 

I figured that out as well. I was able to go from part 2 to part 3 seemlessly and I very much enjoyed the run! I did find it strange that there were so many speed reductions that were different from what the speed board said. Usually you’d see a board with two numbers on top of each other, one for freight and one for passenger trains but that wasn’t the case.
Anywho, many thanks Joe for making these awesome services available for us! How long did they spend in limbo, waiting for release?

 

Is this only new for TSW3?

 

I would think so. TSW2 hasn’t even had any of the updates it is due and extra things like this are unlikely to be back-ported.

 

Shame, they really have us by the cojones. Haven’t yet purchased TSW3 but with these updates and upcoming routes, may have to purchase earlier than what I thought. Disappointing when this was originally a TSW2 route but that’s life I guess.

 

So what version of Class 66 is needed for this or what routes? I have 66 EWS from SEHS (TSW3) and London Commuter but can't see this services.
Epic version of the game.

 

I believe it's ecw. I'm not completely sure though

 

I believe it may be East Coastway and/or Great Western Express since the game apparently crashes if you only have one of the two installed (more info in the announcements section).

 

With the overwhelming success of all the TSW3 updates i'm not sure TSW2 needs any more issues to go with the ones DTG left it with currently.

 

I don’t quite get what you mean by this.

 

Hi Joethefish - just to let you know that 6O13 Acton TC to Newhaven Marine doesn't go down towards Lewes at Keymer Jnc as expected after the player exits at Wivelsfield. The train instead heads off towards Brighton - is that intentional? I don't know if this has any knock-on effects on the timetable as I wasn't able to hang around and watch.

Also, has anyone else noticed that there appear to be several more 313 services available too?
5C01 and 5L01 are early morning runs from Lovers Walk to Wivelsfield (diversion to avoid engineering works at Falmer) and there's a four part ECS from Selhurst to Lovers Walk with a six-car formation.

 

I am quite certain the 313 ones haven't changed. They have always been there.

 

Yes, I noticed that too. No problem understanding that a 6 service is limited to 60 tops, but not these unsigned reductions

 

I mean if dtg releases new updates for TSW3 and as we seen they will get fixed sooner then later (Hopefully) But if and when they release anymore TSW2 updates if something gets broken that wasn't already dtg may be in no hurry to fix it.TSW2 doesn't need extra issuses.

 

Crosscity has the same issue with random freight line speeds across the route despite there being no differential board or freight line speeds (based on sectional appendix). Makes the RHTT runs quite frustrating

 

All we need now is a class 700...

 

Thanks everyone!

 

I'm not seeing any freight services available for London Commuter. Is this one of those layers only available on the latest generation of consoles? I have an XBox One.

 

I get what you mean now. It’s always a risk that things get broken when a fix comes but I wouldn’t use that as an excuse not to release a fix in the first place. One fix that TSW2 needs is something that was broken by an update to the physics (the couplers) causing derailments which has subsequently been fixed in TSW3 but left dangling in TSW2. I would say that is more important than adding services to a route though. If they broke something and that was left hanging it would be a bit much to take.

 

Last gen consoles do not get layers unfortunately.

 

They even have freight layers passing through Clapham Junction through the South Western Railway side(I think that's what and where it is)

 

The tortoise and the hare with the Gatwick express.

 

Hi all.

Yesterday when running the freight service from Ardingly to Clapham Junction the Unreal error appeared near South Croydon, and today when trying to run the 5B90 (Class 313) service the same thing happened. What can it be?

 

Would love to see the Class 171 & Class 455 for London Commuter at some point.

 

I've run into a few issues with the new freight services (PS5 though, not PC). Today, I tried the service with four 66s in convoy from Clapham Junction. I couldn't get the brakes to release and never got out of the station. Am I missing something about setting-up these locos when they're in this formation?

 

Release the parking brake in the rear 3 locos.

 

That did it, thank you! Weird that I've never had to do that with 66s before, and it took a while for the brakes to release, but it does now move.

 

As happy as I am to see the new services, it seems the attention to detail from the QA team rears its head again. I've already encountered three failed scenarios due to the red light bug, and then sat waiting on this scenario for what felt like an indefinite amount of time, see pictures.





In reality, it was approximately 9 minutes, ok not so bad. But I just wish the game could be given the finesse it deserves instead of hammering out new content that breaks things further. This is on TSW3, PS5 for reference DTG JD