A Driver who made similar fuelling runs told me that the ride quality on the 08 at 15mph was appalling and gave you motion sickness. Everyone...
104s and other Modernisation Plan DMUs have a maximum speed of 70mph. The Drivers I have the most sympathy with are those who are allocated the...
That brings back some memories. There are some great examples there. I like "Carlisle, Preston, Watford Jn, Euston" as a stopping pattern - a...
As it's quite likely that a Driver who signed 304s wouldn't also sign the route to Carlisle, the two people in the front cab may well be a Driver...
Interesting that they even had Carlisle on the blind.
However, very often on UK railtours the diesel loco is under power. The claim is that the loco only generates enough power to overcome its own...
It would certainly be useful. On my recent drive I ran to time all the way from Exeter to Ivybridge. Departing Ivybridge I could see I had a...
I've just bought Riviera Line so just had my first experience of a TSR, and it was fully functional - advance warning a sensible distance from the...
Indeed. I think people tend to think of them as being like speed restrictions on a motorway, which are often there to protect workers. That’s not...
I think the concept of introducing some variability was a good one. The fact that, if you drive the same Timetable mode run twice, everything will...
As others have said, Preston-Carlisle. It’s the best route in the game. I have a suspicion it will only be beaten by Preston-Crewe.
My annual confirmation that this still works with the new version of TSW. For those who don't want the HUD to cover half the screen, you can still...
Well, it depends. If you’re doing 125mph, in 10 seconds you cover over a third of a mile. Given that signals for level crossing etc will only...
Matt said something on the stream which suggested that the difference in the timing of a signal clearing is about 10 secs maximum - which is very...
A lot of TSRs are very short in real life - often just protecting one set of points or rail joint, so just a few metres long. Don’t forget,...
Funnily enough, on a dry rail, my experience was that they were a bit less quick off the mark than an 87. With a 90, even if the Driver put the...
Also the class 08. In addition, interestingly, the class 33 had regular scheduled work on Bangor - Cardiff (via Crewe) services in the mid-80s....
And Bradford/Leeds via Burnley Manchester Road and Hebden Bridge, and Manchester via Bolton - both of which would be very practical and...
Is that the Southern’s number 1 claim? Ultimately, it was a failed experiment. I believe in the ‘Big 4’ years 1923-1948 the Southern Railway was...
I think this refers to Manchester Oxford Road.
Thanks for the memories, Lamplight, of a couple of very enjoyable years having fun with TSW steam (for all its imperfections). That silhouette...
That’s what I experience, and it happens a lot. Luckily the low line speed (even if you’re not stopping, you’re slowing for the 20mph at the...
In real life in the UK my company has a handful of AWS activations caused by Driver error each year. Usually it’s due to high workload in the cab...
The one which I know of on Transpennine, the distant is a semaphore.
Yes, this often happens at this location on the Blackpool route (I’ve never known it anywhere else on that route, though). West Cornwall has the...
Good grief. What do they make you sit on in the Mk3 sleeper sets? A spike?
I use about 3% fog on most journeys. I like the appearance and I find it avoids pop-in of objects in the distance. Things appear gradually out of...
In the UK drivers do wave at each other. Use of the horn or flashing of lights is not permitted. In fact, in the rule book flashing lights is an...
It’s interesting because my immediate reaction was that (sorry though I would be to lose it) closure of the forum wouldn’t affect how many TSW...
That’s how it in reality in a lot of areas.
I still think route developers would be better off giving an era in which the route is set, rather than a specific year. For a route like this,...
If a route is going to be modern, then 2019 is usually the best year to go for, before Covid resulted in cuts to the service. Hopefully in the...
I agree. With signal delays and TSRs in place the only big one which is missing, in my opinion, is station dwell times. It shouldn’t always take...
Has there been any indication that the forum is closing? It would be a very odd thing to do. Discord really isn’t suitable for discussing a game...
Well, let’s see. Personally I hope it’s on all routes and that DTG have come up with a method of doing it which means they can achieve a good...
It’s building hype, as you say, but the risk with mentioning branches but not saying which ones is that expectations will get crazily out of...
A class 304 would be great but the only way to drive it (on regular services) would be to run the Liverpool stopper as far as Acton Bridge, which...
I did see that too, although in fairness I don't think there was a train visible approaching it, so it could just have been a signal reverting...
The heritage lines are in no way part of the route. What lead you to think they'd be included? If the route had included two separate heritage...
I totally agree. The announcements etc are eye-candy (ear-candy?) but the random events will really affect game-play, and it seems they're...
As well as the TSRs (the subject of another thread) it's great to see this feature added to TSW, and good that the DTG team are responding so...
I think this sounds like a really interesting route. While I enjoy Preston-Carlisle very much, I must admit its length means I often don't have...
Yes, I'm really pleased that TSW are introducing some variation in signal checks and TSRs in timetable mode, but TSRs in particular are tricky...
Superb run, Lamplight. You destroyed my effort, which I thought at the time was not a long way from the limit of what was possible - then you went...
I had a look at Southbound runs with 87s in the 2003 Working Timetable, but they all had so much recovery time in them that - with TSW not really...
From memory I think the instruction used to be to start in notch 2-3 then gradual progression through the notches with notch 4 not below 5mph, and...
It’s tricky. These products certainly look more realistic for UK operation than the TSC-X controller, but they’re much more expensive. TSC-X is...
Adhesion was a factor too. On the midland mainline, on a dry rail, some Drivers would just go straight into notch 5. In autumn, or if it was wet,...
I love the various manual-geared ‘modernisation plan’ DMUs, and the TSW 101 is an excellent re-creation.
Ah...yes - this one by the brilliant Romansu72. It's one of those mods which works so well you forget it's there (I did!), but it's essential for...
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