Really interesting challenge, Lamplight, I look forward to giving it a go. I agree the stopping pattern does seem a bit strange, but I suppose...
No, purely my imagination. I haven't come across any logs of steam on the brighton line. In any case, the signal checks I received (which I had...
Not a challenge, but a few shots from a recent steam special from London Victoria to Brighton, with 45674 'Duncan' and 10 mk1s... Departure from...
Yes, the possibility of the schedule being a product of a lower level of compliance with speed restrictions in steam days crossed my mind too. I...
Really interesting run, Lamplight. As you say, the use of lower cut-offs looking deserving of more experimentation. When I saw the log I...
Having got East Coast back up and running on my PC, I'm finally in a position to give this challenge a go. Please note that I've added the...
The speed limits are displayed on the PSR boards all across the route, so it would be possible to drive the route and note the limit on each...
Scarborough 1960 was my favourite - releasing and turning locos from all over the network on numerous summer specials, getting them coaled and...
I don’t generally have those performance problems with TSW (a bit the first time I drive each route, but rarely after that). It’s odd how one game...
You’re right, and I did think about that when posting, but concluded that as steam appears to be dead it probably wasn’t relevant! Just imagine...
The eras question is interesting. When a new TSW route is being created which adjoins an existing route, the temptation, I would have thought, is...
I don’t know whether the “TSW Tracker” site is reliable or what data source it’s based on, but under its measure of “DLCs by recent activity”...
Yes, there are lots of TSC routes I haven’t driven. I find it unstable and a bit of an inter-dependency nightmare so I don’t use it very often...
Yes, it exists in TSC, and is a very good route, which is why I’m slightly hesitant. I very much want to see a tap-changer AC electric locomotive...
It would be great to see it done, but they’d need to fix the signalling and I’m not sure they know how. There are several locations where a...
Great run, Lamplight. Particularly impressive between Huddersfield and Leeds to make up time. NTP does work particularly well with steam - I...
Well, as Just Trains’ next route release is the TSW event of the year as far as I’m concerned, I’m going to join in the speculation…. I note on...
The complication with the Hope Valley is that the fast trains and the stopping trains use different routes at the Manchester end (the fast trains...
Big shout. The 40 and 45 are excellent too…
Yes, with a 45/47 on the fast or semi-fast schedules it’s pretty easy. You can take it easy much of the way and you’ll be fine. With a 31 it’s...
Mind you it was a poll from 2022, and 87.2% of people were wrong. ;)
If you’re on PC you can use put the 31 onto NTP in timetable mode, substituting for the 45/47, using the below mod. It’s a very interesting...
The only tilting trains ever to have been in regular revenue-earning service in the UK are the Pendolinos and the small fleet of Super-Voyagers on...
Agreed, and often available for next to nothing (depending which platform you’re on).
Interesting, I didn’t know that. So if you just get the 31 as a stand-alone DLC it won’t work on BPO?
I agree with Matt. Next on the list, in my opinion, is the 31, which is magnificent on BPO. You won’t regret a few quid spent on it.
Well, I finally picked up the Class 700 in the Steam sale. It's not really a unit type I'm interested in, but I bought it purely because of the...
Great, thank you all.
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere. I did a search but didn’t come across anything. I find that when starting the 170 on a rising...
In real life the lower line speed applies to 'conventional' stock. That is to say, anything which isn't an HST or certain classes of DMU/EMU. It...
I was driving an Edinburgh - Markinch HST on Fife Circle today, and, while stood at Haymarket, I looked at my schedule for the next section - 26...
I just did a run in Free Roam on Fife Circle with a Jubilee and 9 mk1s, and I realised that the HUD was giving me the higher HST differential line...
Thanks for the responses, all. Incidentally, at certain locations on the routes where I work the signal sequence is actually: double yellow,...
But the intention of the flashing green concept was that for a train travelling at 140mph, green would mean reduce speed to no more than 125mph -...
Yes, but the original intention of the flashing greens trial was that it be used for 140mph running (even though in the end it was never actually...
Thanks, always good to hear from those in the know. :) Just one thing to check which I always thought of as a bit of a flaw in the ‘flashing...
That may be the reason for the double yellow, but the point is that the signal before it should be green. You shouldn't be able to get a flashing...
That’s correct that the trial use of flashing green aspects was to enable 140mph running. However, it was only ever done with test trains - never...
100% agree.
To be fair, I think the bit about the 45 is something we’ve made up! I haven’t heard any mention of it from the developers. As far as I know,...
BPO really is a great route for variety in running, particularly on the summer timetable with all the extras. 1Z59 Leicester - Blackpool N (14:33...
Just in case there's anyone who hasn't a clue what everyone's talking about, here is... The complete and comprehensive history of Peak headcode...
Ah yes, that’s the one - I knew there was a crucial bit of information I forgot. I did not race a Gronk into Blackpool though, so after all the...
I know what you mean. For those of us interested in historical UK routes and traction it's slim-pickings these days, so a post like that one from...
2P62 Man Vic - Blackpool N is an interesting run with a DMU (I used the 2-car class 101, but it's also available with a 142). Personally I don't...
I used to run the 52s in timetable mode on West Cornwall but it doesn’t seem to be possible now. I think it might have been enabled by a mod which...
1G07 14:28 Blackpool North - Birmingham New Street is an interesting run on Blackpool Branches. I did it in June. I don't know whether that makes...
There seems to be an issue with the signalling at Weeton in the Up direction. This is the distant, next to the signal box: [ATTACH] The home...
Normally 183 metres (200 yards) before, although location of infrastructure such as pointwork can mean there's some variation in that.
Specifically, an advance warning board and associated AWS magnet is provided if the reduction in speed is greater than 30%. This includes if the...
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