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Great effort, Lamplight. Although a similar outcome, we seemed to make good time at slightly different parts of the route, so a combination of the...

I think there are different things being talked about, though. The tutorials prompts I don’t have a problem with, because I recognise they’re...

Sounds like a good efficient run, Lamplight, with arrivals just slightly ahead of time which is always good practice. Interesting that 20/40 out...

So before we drift back on topic, we should say for balance that the modern railway probably doesn’t see character as it’s primary aim, and a more...

Leeds - Man Vic - 1st and 2nd attempts My first attempt at this schedule was with 7 mk1s. I stuck to the approach which had got me my best time...

A New Challenge: Leeds to Manchester Victoria This is the 10:05 Newcastle - Liverpool, in the 1958 timetable. Between Leeds and Manchester...

Just a +1 for getting rid of all of these messages. They're meaningless and irritating. We're not five-year-olds.

Great effort, Driver A Paice. It's really useful to have the speed graph of the journey - such a shame that's not available when using Free Roam...

Man Vic - Leeds - 3rd & 4th Attempts I've made two more attempts at this run in the last couple of days, with very different approaches on each....

True, but I’d like to be able to do it on other routes, such as Cross City (which I could do with a mod on TSW3, but can’t yet do on TSW4).

…and I’ll be doing the opposite, replacing the 150 and various other newer units with the 101. Everyone gets to drive what they want. :)

Matt has said on another thread that he thinks it should be possible to make it so that locos/units/stock can be swapped out in this way, and that...

Fantastic run, and first to Leeds on time - great effort, Matt, and thanks for all the detail in the report. Comparing your times to your first...

I’m exactly the same as this - for me there’s no such thing as ‘complete’ because I don’t see it as that kind of game. I see it as a simulator,...

I’ve done a fair amount of messing about with dampers and my experience is more dampers = more steam. However, generally my aim's been to create...

Ah, in that case it depends what you mean by “meant to use”? If you mean what will achieve the best performance, then the answer is opening both...

For the purpose of trying to create more realistic performance we’ve settled on a maximum of 25% on both dampers. In real life you could use...

Really interesting run, Matt, and a great write-up. It looks as if we’re all in a similar place, working out how to minimise the time loss on the...

Great effort, Lamplight. Some of your climbs look better than mine - I’ll try the regulator / cut-off combinations you mention. I love the...

In real life temporary speed restrictions have an advance warning board (with associated AWS warning) an appropriate distance in advance of the...

Man Vic - Leeds - 2nd Attempt Knowing how best to tackle the climb out of Manchester Victoria is one of the trickiest things about driving steam...

Actually the dispatcher has proved remarkably good at dealing with variations being thrown at timetable mode. You can put in an extra train (using...

For Spirit of Steam we did it using Timetable Mode. There are a couple of Crewe - Lime St non-stop timetabled services I think, but one of them is...

Presumably a bug (TSW doesn't do random failures of this kind to my knowledge) but it's a very strange one. I'm impressed you managed to get the...

Man Vic - Leeds - 1st Attempt We made a steady start from Victoria, observing the speed restriction through the pointwork before tackling the...

Here are the gradients - taken from 'Gradients of the British Main Line Railways' published by Ian Allan. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]

Another benefit of free-roam is being able to easily put steam locos onto other routes, and run them with some AI traffic around. One of the...

It depends on a number of factors. Firstly, do you know where the next signal is? If so, you just need to be going slowly enough at the point at...

Thanks Matt. To be able to do this would be fantastic if it proves possible.

So he is. In that case - “you can’t”.

There’s a ‘Safety Valve Eradicator’ mod on trainsimcommunity.com:...

I agree, this would be a huge step forward. Free Roam is great, but driving without a schedule takes a lot away from it.

Thanks Lamplight. No problem, and still a really good run and climb to Sutton Weaver. I think we’re all learning by trial and error with the...

Well, I must admit, when I first saw the graph the speed through Weaver Jn did stand out a bit. Then I read that you’d done this HUDless in the...

Bearing in mind that many steam locos didn’t have speedometers so the Drivers were only estimating the speed, possibly assisted by some rough...

Ah! Thanks Matt, I’ll give that a go.

Another good run, Matt. When you’re driving, where do you read the PSI figures from please? The HUDs a bit odd in only providing a number on the...

Liverpool - Crewe Non-Stop - 1st attempt We departed Lime Street at 11:04:41 and made a good start. 22% cut-off and 47% regulator gave impressive...

With diesel and electric I drive HUDless on routes I know well, and on those I don't I just have distance to next speed restriction and distance...

I don’t take any notice of the points system, but in real life a Driver should aim to drive their train in its path - not just drive as fast as...

Great pictures, Edward. HUDless with steam is a real challenge - particularly as you can’t even see the speedometer in the same view as the road...

Really interesting account, Matt. Looking back through the thread, I think 67mph before Ditton on the Up is a record. Braking for the PSRs is...

My approach is - I play with manual fireman. As soon as the game starts I open the firebox, and then I don’t touch it again for the rest of the...

Really good point about having a countdown to waypoints. That would be extremely helpful in addressing the intermediate station issue. Having...

Excellent! Looking forward to hearing how you get on. I’m looking for a similar gap in the schedule - hopefully some time over the weekend.

Interestingly, I didn't set any particular line. I specified only the start and finish points, and it chose to put me in a different platform to...

So - Free Roam now allows us to attempt Liverpool to Crewe non-stop, with a Jubilee + 10. The real life schedule was 51 minutes. Who's up for the...

Free Roam is a big step forward for TSW. I'm particularly impressed with the way in which you can add trains in Timetable Mode and run alongside...

For anyone who finds the HUD too big, it appears you can still change the size of all elements of the HUD by adding to the bottom of the...