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Interesting - thank you for the additional research. Yes, I do agree with you on both counts. The rheostatic brake in the Penrith-Oxenholme video...

With ECS you’d need to use the train brake. Potentially with a light loco you might use the loco brake, although the train brake will still work...

The tap changer should run down as the train comes to a stand. A rheostatic brake is not functional when the train is stationary. The correct...

Maintain line speed (90mph) until you reach the point where there are 3 bridges over the railway in quick succession (they’re all within about 100...

I tried 1P06 as a stand-alone by selecting it from the timetable menu. Enjoyable though it was (an 87 with just 5 coaches is pretty lively) I...

For anyone interested, it’s worth reading up on the Abermule collision in 1921. There’s more than one book about it, but the Wikipedia article...

I've now also completed my notes for the Down direction: Preston - 25, then 110. - At the end of Oubeck Up & Dn loops, shut off and brake for 75....

Well, it depends in what they were improved. If it was a case of all of the controls remaining the same, but boiler pressure responding more...

Preston - Carlisle - 1st Attempt I set up my first attempt at this run to be in summer, as I reckoned identifying the passing points was going to...

Carlisle-Preston - Jubilee + 10 mk1s This challenge is based on the schedule and log mentioned by tomtrainboi#1289 above, taken from Brian...

To be honest the existing TSW steam locos aren’t difficult to drive. They just perform unrealistically. Making them perform realistically wouldn’t...

Don’t forget that for the whole of railway history up until that time, it was normal practice that anyone could open a door anywhere - whether you...

Yes, the MML one is confusing because of the labelling. One of those (I think it’s the one marked ‘vigilance isolation’) is actually the AWS...

Experiences seem to vary. I find RailDriver works OK in TSW5 - albeit not quite as well as it did in TSW4, as you now get slight ‘wobble’ on some...

Should you 'run down' completely to 0 before applying any sort of brake force? You would normally aim to, but you don’t have to, and if you’re in...

That would be the thing which would excite me the most, but there were questions about it in the recent survey. It would seem odd to ask questions...

Great run - thank you. I even reached line speed, once!

While an excellent route in other respects, Preston - Carlisle is not awash with services with signal checks. This is not unrealistic. At the time...

I think with the 50s it was specifically because a pair were needed to work the Anglo-Scottish expresses north of Preston, so that the high speed...

I’d like to see a 91 and mk4 set in any livery, but not from JT. As the one developer doing BR blue, I want them to stick with it. I’m hoping for...

I wonder whether there have been some tweaks to the dynamic weather for TSW5? With TSW4 I used to experience the issue mentioned that once it...

It was great to see a lot of questions about random events, in the survey. The sorts of things they're asking about could hugely enhance timetable...

Isn't there an option in the settings now to silence it? I don't hear it, and I haven't applied a mod for that in TSW5.

Hi Lawrence. I've updated the spreadsheet. Your run is shown here. Your overall running time being around 5 minutes quicker than either of the...

Actually it’s the opposite - most of the people pushing back on your suggestion are people who love steam and are actively trying to make the best...

Great run and account, Lawrence - I enjoyed it very much. So does 2 locos with 12 coaches amount to the same thing as 1 loco with 6 coaches? It...

Your descent from Shap to Carlisle was much more realistic, and if I attempt this run again, I’ll do the same. I wonder whether you can (sensibly)...

Excellent news. I thought it would just be an 86 (as they also ran with mark 3s, so there was no obligation to build coaches) but to have the a/c...

A gradient profile is always helpful in planning your run - particularly with steam. This is from 'Gradients of the British Mainline Railways'...

Last night I had a go at Lamplight's Preston - Carlisle challenge. By the time I'd completed it I didn't have time to write it up (aren't these...

The substitution mods which various kind people have put on 'Train Sim Community' are fantastic, and I use them lots - but I would have no idea...

To an extent I agree, but I’ll make an exception for mark 3s - they’re the best coaches ever built for UK railways and (as coaches go) full of...

In truth, apart from the crashing around when doing the shunt at Carlisle, I actually found Mark 3 sleepers very comfortable, and I generally...

Yes, I had 80mph in my mind as well, with 100mph to recover time. I used to use the Carlisle sleeper portion from time to time. You boarded one...

I asked this question in a thread when Free Roam was introduced. Matt responded and said he’d look into it. It’s never happened though, so I...

It’s a really interesting run, with the Clan unable to keep to the schedule. I’d been planning to set it up here as a challenge a couple of nights...

I had a go at Preston - Carlisle with a Class 40 to compare it to D268's 1961 effort. I gave it 12 mark 1s (loaded), as estimates of a mk1's...

Be aware that you’ll get the wrong linespeeds, though. Fife Circle doesn’t recognise what you’re driving, and gives you the HST/Sprinter line...

I remember when I used to time trains on the WCML, the HSTs - despite having a worse power:weight ratio - could always achieve the best times on...

Interesting thread, and great work on the maps. I try to learn to drive routes HUDless whenever I can. Whether I ever achieve it fully tends to...

Normally 75mph for a freightliner.

I’m not so sure. I just took an Up express up the bank out of Lancaster after calling there, in falling snow. It slipped over and over, even on...

The route and the 87 look excellent. The only disappointment is that - and I stand to be corrected on this - it’s not possible to drive the 87...

A while ago there was an amusing thread on the Transport Fever forum when someone was (entirely seriously) arguing that the town of Penistone...

With colour light signals like those on Fife Circle that’s an incorrect signalling sequence, so it’s a bug. There are quite a few of those on Fife...

It depends what you include. The Broads are beautiful, and so is a lot of the West Essex / East Herts landscape on the WAML. The Essex and...

The difficulty with the GEML is that it’s pretty straight and flat but with a relatively low maximum line speed (100mph) which means the line...

The mark 4s don’t have a tilt mechanism fitted. They just have a body profile designed to retain the possibility of a tilt mechanism being fitted...

For anyone who finds the HUD too big, the above method still works in TSW5.