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For anyone in Britain who wants to know more this was in Great Scenic Railway Journeys on Channel 5 the other day. It should still be online.

Be advised that this will be ineligible for the competition. Because of licensing issues BNSF stock and routes are unavailable outside the US and...

Well, after checking (you'd think I'd've done that first but no...), it turns out it's not in the tier one Humble Bundle anyway so I was talking...

For, no doubt, excellent reasons this was excised from my last comment when I added the edit about the Challenger. Rather than make things really...

It's basically an edition of TS with five British routes rather than the usual British, US and German troika. I implied this above but to be...

Second The Riviera in the '50s as a sound choice for British steam- several GWR kettles to drive from pannier tanks to King Class. Western Lines...

I was getting a bit confused here (it doesn't take much) because I had nominated the Q1 and Class 70 and mentioned the link between bullet trains...

I was thinking that- a strong contender for the Thomas Midgely Environmental award.

Each night Diesel had the same dream- taking over the Flying Scotsman, making up the lost time with a record performance, whistling at astonished...

There must be more than one 08 model then- I've got one over the ton on Sherman Hill.

Designed by Thomas Bouch surveyor and engineer for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, later vilified (not entirely unjustly) for the great...

[IMG] This lofty bridge crosses a useless river in a section Of a line built by an engineer much renowned in his time 'tho one whose reputation...

Gimme a chance.

That's what threw me at first but this isn't Dovetail's competition and there's no prize to fight over so I don't see why it can't be a bit more...

Looks like Hartlepool but which route would that be? Edit Oh- it's not on Steam but there's... (Googles...) North East England from DP Simulation.

Don't have the route so this is a guess but do you need to use Ctrl+Tab to pass a signal behind you? I find that TS's idea of which end is the...

I believe there's some interest in this idea.

That should set you up- not including a screen presumably. Laptops have the added drawback of being more expensive for what you get. The CPU and...

It's not that old then. Vega is AMD's integrated graphics which is not ideal- as you can see it uses system RAM reducing the still adequate...

I have Flying Scotsman and don't recall it including scenarios for any route. She'll still work in QuickDrive though and I believe there's one or...

Depending on what those other games are you may be well advised to buy a system with them in mind and leave TS to look after itself. It's based...

IIRC mine was about £35 including a chip and extra chips were a tenner or so around 1979/80.

DCC is like the Hornby Zero-1 but much cleverer and much more expensive.

That's a first I think. Previously Dovetail have been quite assertive about keeping its content available to 32 bit users. Of course this wasn't...

Thank you both.

Is there any video? I looked on YouTube but all I could find was someone reading the announcement while the same five stills looped. A map would...

That would be the newly released version with Arriva branding removed.

PTGRail in YouTube has a video driving the EM1. It is typically clear and detailed to the point of being pedantic. [MEDIA]

Not judging but your social life and your wallet may both benefit if you pace yourself. You don't have to buy everything and you certainly don't...

The only real distinction between different editions of TS is the bundle of routes it comes with- the core program is essentially free with any...

It's not gospel but this usually predicts the big Steam sales fairly accurately: https://www.whenisthenextsteamsale.com/ You can find Steam keys...

Starting north from Beechburn in The Weardale and Teesdale you hit I think 1:44 immediately. I find that if you're in a DMU and try to change up...

I remember getting an Amiga with (IIRC) a 170MB HD and thinking, "now we're motoring!" Yes that's not a typo'- megabytes.

Well if this doesn't light a fire under at least one Australian developer I don't know what will.

There's something to be said for speed in that it reduces tile stutter- that moment when you're driving and the frame rate tanks because the next...

For a tenner? If I didn't have three of the routes already I'd grab it. The three I do have (Settle-Carlisle, Portsmouth Direct and GEML) aren't...

It'd be good to see as part of another route, Worcester to Birmingham maybe, but the town line is just a long siding with a complete journey time...

It might drag out the initial startup a little when TS checks in with Steam but not initialising a scenario. I got started on an i3 based laptop...

There's a lot to be said for having a PC that you can put away when it's not in use but there are wireless peripherals, networking systems and...

Good advice for desktop or laptop. You can get away with integrated graphics (I got started in TS with an i3 laptop, and depending on the route,...

Absolutely. Desktop systems are usually (though not invariably) put together from standard components. There are probably fewer laptop...

Vega 8 is AMD's integrated graphics system. It's considerably better than Intel's but probably still no substitute for a GPU. That said there's...

It might not be worth adding a GPU but could benefit from a once over. You can look for yourself to see if it's dusty. Thermal compound between...

The integrated graphics solution is far from ideal- not good in the first place and it will use system RAM so some of that 6GB will be effectively...

TS makes poor use of multi-core processors so an i3 with a higher clock speed might be cheaper and better. Core for core it's nip and tuck...

Have you got it running full screen or windowed? Run in a borderless window at full screen resolution TS will still fill the screen but the Start...

Er... No! They were introduced specifically to take over top-link express services on the ECML from steam (making them very unpopular at first)....

Further to this I just had a reply to some questions I asked SSS which included the information that "the sale will remain on until Friday 15".

It'd be an ambitious first step but Flying Scotsman is the most famous locomotive in the world and toured the USA. Everybody's heard of her and a...

Been having a look at Stainmore from Steam Sounds Supreme this weekend and I'm very impressed so far. Although I like driving a kettle now and...