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...
I think it’s a good idea. It frustrates me that I have routes which are empty because I don’t have the loco/unit DLC as it’s one I have no...
I suspect the ‘fun stuff’ reference reflects DTG’s perception that what people want is working lifts, collectible donkeys, conductor mode and the...
Confident that I could shave off a few more seconds, I made a second attempt at Derby - Leicester. This time I had 45726 'Vindictive' (a...
It would be great to see more BR blue era locos and units - any or all of those you mention, and many more! However, TSW’s offering is already...
They are brilliant. Is the issue just that not enough people are into subscribing to and using Creators Club content, rather than that people...
Yes, I do think sometimes DTG go over the top with the “but if we change the colour we have to change x, y and z to make it realistic, and by the...
Thank you for another really interesting challenge, Lamplight. Having read about your run with a pair of Jubilees last night, I spent the day at...
Stunning footage here from the footplate of 5029 'Nunney Castle' between Newport and Salisbury in 1963. [MEDIA] It really gives a feel for what...
Lancaster-Barrow is an interesting one which I don’t think I’ve heard mentioned before. It’s not really a route I know well, but done in the same...
True. Even when I’m on routes which I haven’t learned, so have to use a HUD, I use a minimal HUD telling me only the next station stop and...
I agree Blackpool Branches is a good one for HUDless. One not yet mentioned which I’d recommend is Northern Transpennine. To be able to do the...
Press the AWS button. There’s normally a time delay before the brakes will release too, although I think on TSW that depends on the train.
Indeed - you can have ‘grandfather rights’ to do certain things. However, I’m sure there’s nowhere which has approach release from single yellow...
Both of the junctions you’ve mentioned, being 70mph to 25mph, would be required to be approach release from red under UK signalling regulations...
I hadn’t come across these before. I’ve only watched the first few minutes of one but it was really good. I look forward to watching the rest....
Sounds promising. I’m not absolutely certain whether they’re saying the timetable is being fully corrected to reflect the real timetable (hope...
Too boring for me. ;) But move SoS forward just a few years and add one of the first generation of West coast electrics in the original ‘Electric...
Thank goodness our Jubilee doesn't have the stripe, otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to do our Cross City and East Coast challenges! Although now...
There were certainly some UK examples of steam under OLE. On the Woodhead route steam ran for many years under the DC wires, and the lines out of...
Really interesting account, Lamplight - thank you. It sounds as if that railtour schedule is a pretty good fit against the capabilities of the...
Great run, Matt, very much living up to expectations! The fact that you and Lamplight were so close together throughout - within seconds of each...
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