Great Northern

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  1. First capital connect

    First capital connect Well-Known Member

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    Great northern 365 in white or fcc colour
    387 in white and new 717 and mabey 313s in fcc colour and in white

    365 kings cross to welhem garden city
    365 kings cross to stevenage
    365 welhem garden city to Finsbury Park
    387 kings cross to potter bar
    387 Peterborough to kings cross
    387 potters Bar to peterborough
    717 king cross to peterborough
    717 king cross welhem garden city
    717 Peterborough to welhem garden city and back slow service
    I know there are reskin but I personally would rather DTG to do it
    313s welhem garden city to highbury&islington
    313 highbury&islington to king cross
     
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  2. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    i agree that it's one of the routes that would welcome an update. Maybe this time to include Moorgate and the loop branch line, even Cambridge.

    The 387, when released, will help freshen it up but a Desiro City 700/717 and an updated 800 in Azuma colours would be awesome and like the 387, the Desiro City and Pro 800 series would be of use elsewhere on the TS network.
     
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    First capital connect Well-Known Member

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  4. Gipsy_Danger

    Gipsy_Danger Active Member

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    Is there any reason why? If DTG do it they will charge money and pretty much all reskins are freeware and not too hard to install.

    https://backdatedtrainsim.weebly.com/route-downloads.html
    It has a few payware requirements but it's very detailed.
     
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  5. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    Yes, well aware of the excellent Backdated Sim version. Wouldn't hurt to include it in a full Great Northern Release though.
     
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    777Gaming Well-Known Member

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    That would be nice.
     
  7. Johnno124

    Johnno124 Active Member

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    It would not be economically viable for DTG to release a new route or reskins. People can already get this for free. if anything they will only do the class 717
     
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    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    So DTG wouldn't do an updated, expanded version of an existing route? *Cough* Portsmouth *cough* SNCF Riviera *splutter* North & South Wales Coast.
     
  9. Gipsy_Danger

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    Most of this stuff is in game anyway. The ECMLS doesn’t really need updating anyway. Compared to the OG Portsmouth Direct Line it’s much better. The stock suggested is either in game or being developed (with the exception of a 717) and there’s an extension to Royston too. There are many other routes in TS that need some more updating than ECMLS.
     
  10. Kyle_Lennard1

    Kyle_Lennard1 Active Member

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    Great northern 365 in white or fcc colour head over to DPSimulation
    387 in white Go over to Superalbs
    313s Head over to Armstrong Powerhosue
     
  11. First capital connect

    First capital connect Well-Known Member

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    But it would be good as well if DTG release there own
     
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    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Why? Why would it be "good" if DTG specifically did it? It's commonly acknowledged that other companies produce very good add ons for the game, in some cases improving greatly on DTG produced units
     
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    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    Ah, the old "I don't agree with you but rather than explaining and having a constructive discussion I'm just going to click on the cross" technique
    If you want to make a point, make it.
     
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  14. Kyle_Lennard1

    Kyle_Lennard1 Active Member

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    Like I said there are reskins that cover what you want that are FREE so there is little point in DTG Making said trains you want on this post
     
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    It seems that some people have concerns about using 3rd party sites. Could be they're worried about on-line security or don't know how to install freeware. Or maybe they just cannot be bothered to look beyond the DTG/Steam catalogue.

    Whatever the reason, they are missing out on a lot of good quality content and it's their loss. I'd say that 50% of my content is 3rd party and I'm very happy with it.
     
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