I hope that the DTG team see and everyone involved devs, artists etc I visited the real route Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside route the other week on TSW4 as I visit all released routes that I buy to get the feeling! It is outstanding, so detailed and accurate to the actual route itself I was so happy and impressed more detailed routes please incredible. This game has really helped me find who I am, being autistic but allowing my self to not mask behind liking trains in a comfort environment has been really beneficial to my MH
Yes it’s a wonderfully realistic route by DTG, just a shame it’s so short, but maybe that’s why it’s so good? I love the fact that the London Overground has a service every few minutes, even more so on the 378 lines which would make for a fantastically busy line. If they did the East London line you’d have 377’s and 700’s on a good part of the route too. Much better that near empty routes. Or they could connect up with Gospel Oak using 378’s to Richmond. Now I’m wondering where the beautiful 710 can be used next? Options are the Lea Valley lines or Euston to Watford Jct. I don’t believe they can get a Greater Anglia licence which would sadly make Liverpool Street very empty if they did the former so perhaps Euston would be a better bet if they did either the 350 or the Pendolino as the new train, whichever they did the other could come as dlc.
Totally agree, the Goblin has a very high level of scenery, all its station are well-modeled and 710 looks wonderful too. It's a shame that it's too short and has low service diversity which makes 710 unable to stretch all its leg, hope that in one day we can the Lea Valley or Watford DC line in TSW. Screenshot of the Goblin, I believe that it's the best UK route made by DTG ( just scenery level )
Great post and just to add to the praise: last week I took the train from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside for first time and solely to travel the route in real life as I was so impressed with the sim version. The real life details captured in the sim are amazing and a real credit to everyone involved with the routes creation. Yes it’s short and slow line speeds in places, but it feels alive and is so well done. If there was ever an update it would be good to see Barking Riverside updated to reflect the real life ongoing building work. And better pylons then the current default ones which really need to be updated to something like Just Trains version in BPO.
The Goblin line and others like Niddertalbahn or Blackpool are routes that really make you feel like you are trully in London/Germany/Blackpool. There are a lots of coherent details and not everything is repetitive/the same. The only missing bit with the Goblin would be the Underground and C2C traffic at Barking. But appart from that it is really a fantastic route
They run beside 378’s on the stretch from Croydon/Crystal Palace to nearly Surrey Quays, continuing on to London Bridge shortly before that station whilst the 378’s branch off, so for a goodly number of stations the Overground runs alongside 700’s and 377’s. It’s my local line. It’s widely known locally as the East London line because of the destination for the Overground 378’s, before they gave it a fancy new name. The 700’s pelt through at 50-60 mph not stopping, the 377’s stop at every station along with the 378’s.
Like this you mean? Liveries - Just Happened To Be In The Barking District. Hopefully I will be able to get this mod out fairly soon together with the scenarios that go with it.
The Overground that use this line from W Croydon and Crystal Palace every 7 minutes go to East London, hence East London line. They outnumber Southern and Thameslink services which go to London Bridge on the same line. They are joined by Overground services from Clapham Jct and New Cross. The line covers south, north and east London but is known as the East London Line. The South London network you are referring to is huge and could be anywhere. Hence East London line narrows it down to just this 1 route. It’s always been known as that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London_line
Yes TSW4 became the Sandbox i wished in Terms of features. No more wasting 3 hours to create a single consist which isnt in the Menu prefabricated. Overall i like the direction TSW takes, my only critics are releases with subpar quality like "fife circle", which was obviously lacklustre. Also maintalbahn coulde have made better, its far away from the quality of the new suffragette line. But overall TSW delivers a very imersive experience. Also the amount of rolling stock is making it very interesting currently. The brake system is rather advanced. I can just deactivate and vent the brake of the coach in the pic below and make a detailed brake calculation. (Thats cool).
