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Very interesting run, thank you.

I've found that on Cross City the 'Alert' button works in acknowledging the AWS only intermittently. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - no...

Overall, I’m impressed with the route. In terms of the level of operational realism (and partly going by the discussion on the stream) it really...

Ah. It’s a shame if this mod doesn’t work with TSW3, but not a surprise. It’s a complex mod and the last major TSW2 update also broke it. The...

Are you on TSW3? Maybe it doesn’t work with that. I’m on TSW2.

Or you can just mod the route back to the 70s, and then you can run in daylight too!

Or a little over… ;)

Thanks, Matt. This sounds more positive in terms of likelihood of mods working, and as ever I appreciate the engagement with the community by you...

But some of the most important mods are not route-specific. They’re for all routes in the game, so they will be needed for Cross City to make it -...

I won’t get into the rights and wrongs of changing the game in such a way that some mods no longer work, or whose responsibility it is to solve...

Agreed. It’s genuinely great to hear that the approach control is re-created, but the reason I focus so much on having some signal check is not an...

It did work a handful of scheduled services. I believe for a short time there was 1 scheduled return Euston-Glasgow each day. However, like you,...

At 1 in 37 it’s the steepest “sustained mainline gradient” in the UK. Both ‘sustained’ and ‘mainline’ are rather open to interpretation. The...

A good point about the 31+5 - that would be a good thrash on the Lickey. ‘Heritage’ DMUs ran on Cross City well into the 90s, because the 323s...

One thing I didn’t think of… Cross Country Drivers used to (maybe still do) sign the route between Lichfield Trent Valley and Birmingham New...

I enjoyed Anthony Bowden’s Cross City for BVE, but it was only South of New Street, so I’m looking forward to going the other way - to Lichfield -...

I wondered about the ‘Wash’ reference and it potentially being King’s Lynn as the only AC route nearby. It’s all Electrostars, so easy from a...

In real life you experience poor adhesion in some tunnels even when the weather and adhesion out in the open are fine. Some tunnels are pretty...

Northern Transpennine. It is just such an atmospheric route. Interesting scenery, stations and track layouts, the outstanding class 101, plus a...

It’s impossible to keep to time, and always was, even before TSW3 messed up the physics. The reason is explained here:...

Temporary Speed Restrictions and variation in station dwell times would add variety and interest, and would be less complex to implement if trying...

I didn’t take a lot of notice of the graphical display during set up. It didn’t seem to matter. By following the above process, the RailDriver...

When you’re doing the set up process, and it tells you to move each lever, move it to a point just short of its limit (at both ends of the lever’s...

My understanding is - and I am happy to be corrected by someone more knowledgeable - that keeping the prior stop signals at danger and pulling...

The modern version has nothing of interest to me, but I play it in Diesel Legends with all the mods to remove OLE etc. In that state it has a nice...

Will there be any correction to the crazy sectional running times used in the timetable, please? They mean it’s impossible to keep time, which for...

It’s sad about the 465, because it’s a really good recreation of the unit in most respects, spoilt by unrealistic acceleration. If that were to be...

Newcastle to Edinburgh is 124 miles.

It doesn’t quite fit. Carlisle - Skipton is 86 miles, so they wouldn’t be able to claim 90 miles if it was that. Once beyond Skipton the next...

I remember one of the DTG people saying that in terms of requests for routes, WCML and ECML were miles ahead of anything else. The difficulty, of...

In that case definitely don’t allow anyone behind the wheel of a car. You can easily kill scores of people with one of those. With a scooter you’d...

It’s probably worth saying that in real life, if a train is passing through Manchester (Piccadilly - Oxford Rd - Deansgate or vice versa) and...

No. Fortunately in real life they don’t rely on having very few trains in the timetable and everything running on time, to cover up the fact that...

Yes, there are a few locations on NTP where this can happen. It’s quite infrequent (people can play the game for years without it happening) but...

Out of interest, Vern, what cut-off did you use on the TSW Jubilee out of Man Vic? My experience of the TSW Jubilee is that the power it can...

Thanks Joe. I really appreciate the response. However, the only route I’ve seen on which something close to the real timetable has been used is...

I agree, it can be difficult. I don’t know how they’d make it notched, though. Different forms of traction have different numbers of notches, so...

I suppose if the AI trains arrive at each station early and await time, it doesn’t really matter too much. The key is that the timings are...

But if they use the real life timetable, and the trains can’t keep to time, then the physics on the train are wrong. So they need to correct the...

Given the number of people who have raised this issue, I’d hope DTG will fix it soon. However, at the moment they’re doing the opposite -...

I grew up in South Yorkshire in the early 80s. At the weekend we’d get the 101 DMU on the Barnsley-Huddersfield line as far as Denby Dale or one...

No, one block isn’t normally kept clear. Sometimes in severe fog one block would be kept clear (known as ‘double block working’) because of the...

Agreed. It's just a fundamentally boring route. Low speed, low activity, no variety of traffic, stopping pattern, signal checks or anything else....

My understanding is that the real 1958 timetable times quoted in the first post are for Class 7 or 8 locomotives. So strictly for a Jubilee the...

Have the class 90s worked freight on the East coast? In my opinion the West coast is much more interesting then the East coast for AC traction,...

Drivers also counted rail joints to calculate their speed. The lengths of rail were a standard length, so the number of rail joints over a fixed...

It’s surprising what a difference exactly where you place your train makes to the signal aspects you see. I often drive schedules from the...

I’d love to see class 31 schedules on NTP, but I think the reason they don’t add more schedules is the issue they have with the signalling. If...

Great news. Well done to those at DTG who did this. Driving is so much more immersive using RailDriver.