With the someday some month coming Rivet games produced route Bernina line that can start or end in Italy.It has me wondering if rivet games might have any possible deals in the works for a future Italian route.Would there even be any Italian routes worth having in the game?What Italian trains might make nice addition to TSW4?
well, I doubt we will see more Italy in the foreseeable future, but I would love to see the Ferrovia Circumetnea.
I look forward to seeing other countries myself, since TSW had the word “world” in it, but their world and ours is two different definitions
Italy never made it into TSC officially, though there's some freeware routes out there. (And a stunning highly realistic italian freeware loco with an 8 minute long detailed cold start procedure...) DTG need a local developer joining into their partner programme.
The line from La Spezia along the coast would be nice. Or perhaps Sicily featuring shunting the coaches onto the ferry would be exciting.
Do you think rivet games needed any special permission or license to use part of italy for this route?
It's more important if Rivet have the knowledge for italian routes. They are a Scotland based studio, having much experience in swiss railroading due to their TSC catalogue. Italy might be something completely different... Then there's RSSLO, a slovenian team covering Austria and Slovenia.
probably not, or not because of bernina. Its "just" geographically italy, railway wise nothing changes on the RhB Network, so bernina will possibly provide no new italian railway related assets. (signalling, signage etc) So the difficulites of introducing a proper italian route will all still be there after bernina, apart from a few houses possibly, and tirano station. Also i guess they didnt need new licences as they already had the RhB one
Y Yes the FS (italian operator) station is near the RhB one. So they works as different lines. I'm italian and i know the area very good.
My vote would be the Ligurian Coast line Ventimiglia -Genoa before the 2000s modernisation. Think Dawlish sea wall but 100 miles and scenery on steroids.
for the country track, no such thing as license for that, unless theirs something specific like an Italian company logo been used anywhere, then no Italian oriented license is needed.
Is that the route which ended up at San Remo? Watched a cab ride on YT and it looked spectacular, electrified single line winding along the coast, through tunnels - kind of like Dawlish on steroids! However from what I can gather much of that section has now been closed and turned into a footpath with the railway running in tunnel under the hills behind the coast.
True. solicitr, as in Spain, they've 'ruined' a slow route through gorgeous countryside and created a very fast route where you can't see anything! HS2 (if it ever runs) will be much the same.
Not the Milan to Bologna route, this one is on the flat land "pianura Padana" and run on it except for 2 short tunnel... But today you can see the Freccia everywhere on the old main line too
