If DTG still holds the licence, could we see some more high speed french lines in TSW4 please, one route being Strasbourg to Pàris
having a traditional line i think would be better since it would help fill marseille and any future french stations with trains, rather than just another LGV route. a french freight or intercity line would allow for a new driving experience we haven't had before in tsw with the country
Yes, already having Marseille in the game would be a good starting point for another route, down to Saint Cyr sur Mer, for example, of course, nothing to stop anyone from starting a new route from Avignon, either. Would personally like a few more French locomotives, Multiple Units and appropriate SNCF rolling stock for what we already have, it gets a bit boring driving the TGV all the time, variety is the spice of life..... Cheerz. Steve.
I can think of a small route through some romantic little cities and a nice colorful landscape or a route along the mediterranean sea.
Mediterreanean Sea you mean the Marseilles Monaco Genoa line which runs along that. BB36300 IC/Freight with E402BF. France to Germany freight is always a BB37000
Maybe something like that but also maybe a route with less traffic trough some small historic cities. Not sure about the exact routes and south of france. Would need more research to propose a certain route.
Im up for seeing more French routes no matter what or where tbh. I always hoped that a TGV Atlantique or Reseau would come as a loco addon for LGV but wasn’t sure if it was even era appropriate type thing.
What I would really love to see is the LGV Med being extended... towards Vintimille, Toulon stands 48 km (as the crow flies) from Marseille, at kilometer post 67 on the Marseille to Vintimille line. If we want to keep it current era to match our currently available Carmillon painted first gen Duplex (whose services could be extended to Toulon, either stopping in Marseille and changing cabs to continue the service or bypassing it), there's a plethora of regional EMUs to chose from, most of them hideously modern, and you could throw in a (sigh...) BR186 in ECR livery for some place-holding freight services, populating the La Seyne yard, maybe a BB26000 DLC with a mixed freight/passenger timetable with slightly apocryphal Carmillon Corail coaches to pretend the Bordeaux-Nice line wasn't murdered a few years ago (maybe?) Slightly anachronistic Corail Teoz sets could have been nice too but let's not open that specific licensing can of worm (SNCF doesn't even own the rights for that livery anymore) Or, since the rolling stock of the current era is, to me, quite dreadful, let's forget the continuity with the LGV, turn the clock back a bit (my personal choice would be something mid 90s - late 00s, keeping a TGV layer -would have to be repainted though- but resurrecting most of the loco hauled sets and coaches), and go for something standalone. Marseille - Vintimille is a 260 km long line, so it would most definitely have to be cut a bit, Nice, at 224 km is still pushing it, Cannes at 190 km would be lovely but still feels like asking a lot. Maybe settle for St-Raphaël, giving us a 160 km line? Would still be quite long but hey, there'd only be scenery on one side for a significant portion of the route . Les Arcs at 136 km would likely be more DTG sized and still offer plenty of opportunities And then there's some proper choice for rolling stock, for instance : BB 22200 or 26000 hauling Corail coaches; BB25500 hauling RIO stainless steel regional sets with driving cabs; All three of these hauling freight, maybe a BB36000 in an enhancement pack some time later? Early Z23500 TER 2N double deck regional EMUs (which could lay the groundwork for a Paris suburb Z2N EMU maybe? *wink*wink*) But really, any line out of Marseilles would offer great scenery, we've already got French signals and an acceptable KVB, how about polishing those a bit, fixing the crocodile (I remember it working as intended in TSC? Maybe those were mods back then. Anyway it shouldn't be much different compared to AWS) and giving the SNCF license some love and that big empty St-Charles station some purpose?
I think Paris to Lille would be a nice route to start with, paving the way for an extension to Calais and then onwards to The channel tunnel for Eurostar, however I'm not sure such a licence would be possible to obtain for reasons. Instead we could just have a line to Bruxelles Midi instead?
