Great shots. I love a scruffy-looking blue Western, and that blue/blue-grey hybrid 101 is fantastic. I remember seeing lots of those around - in...
The first glimpse of the 170 looks and sounds pretty good to me. However, the key question will be whether the performance is realistic. Rivet...
There’s some 90 mph running (and even a brief stretch of 100mph) between Edinburgh and South Queensferry. Once over the bridge going via...
My RailDriver must be well over a decade old, and the stickers are fine. I wonder whether they’ve changed them or there’s some other factor.
Great to hear the continued work on this fantastic project, and please don’t feel you have to apologise for delays or put yourself under pressure...
In the early days of TSW steam I used full regulator most of the time with the Jubilee and it worked OK, but I wasn’t limiting myself to 25%...
I tried Peak Forest last night, using full regulator and driving with the cut-off. With the regulator fully open, I had to reduce the cut-off to...
On BPO 2J54 09:53 Blackpool N - Manchester Victoria is an interesting DMU run, including signal checks.
That’s interesting. I’m no expert, but I have been told that some steam locomotives in the UK were driven in this way, and someone mentioned in...
Although I think quite a lot of people look at and enjoy this thread, there are only a small group us who post accounts of our runs here, so...
Agreed. Matt’s acknowledged that request and said they’ll have a look at it, so hopefully one day it’ll be possible.
I only have UK locos and units but it works well for me on all of those. I find it significantly enhances the experience. I bought my RailDriver...
I’m afraid not. They weren’t introduced until 1976, and even then not in this region.
It’s an interesting point - I certainly think having the current time and the time at next scheduled stop is reasonable - a real life Driver would...
1. Using self-imposed rules to get the performance of the Jubilee close to that of the real thing, and then trying to match real timetables or...
I think you’re right, but if you will put things as beautiful as that on the forum, you can only expect people to start behaving a little oddly....
I believe a degree of prioritisation of the player’s train is part of the coding, although it isn’t absolute - AI trains do sometimes get routed...
:love: (that’s the first time I’ve ever used that emoji - and possibly the last)
Agreed. The TSW ‘signaller’/‘dispatcher’ is actually better than is sometimes suggested. In Free Roam you can throw trains into the timetable and...
Agreed. I think ‘late green, early blue’ would work well. That would allow use of plenty of TSW’s impressive array of blue diesels, without it...
I love ‘what if’ creations. I’d be very interested in this and happy to help. mkraehe#6051 I’ve dropped you a message.
On BPO 1M21 Dundee - Blackpool N (16:03 from Preston) is an interesting run, including some signal checks.
Like Purno I'm not interested in massively complicated start-up procedures - the bit about TSW I enjoy is the driving. However, if ‘expert’ can...
Maybe this is the moment that DTG prove they’re not only interested in modern day stuff, and release the much requested class 25. Anything but a...
Great run, Lamplight. As you say, some of those maximum speeds achieved are really noticeably higher than we’ve achieved before, as a result of...
And they roll all over the place at that speed. The job of taking them out on the mainline (when they had to be moved between locations) was...
Having had another go at Blackpool N - Preston today, I've added both to the table. On yesterday's attempt I had 45596 and tried to be more...
Yes, I had wondered whether the railways originated the concept of always going ‘up’ to London, or whether the railways used ‘up’ because it was...
No, it’s as thchap says in post #3. Up to the major centre, Down away from it. In the UK, for a high proportion of the lines the ‘major centre’ is...
In my experience (UK) this is less true than it was. In the days when British Rail’s main focus was cutting costs and rationalisation, there was a...
Fantastic. Thank you SprattyHeath and all involved in this mod for the original work, and for finding a way to make it compatible for TSW4. All of...
I gave it another go last night and did almost the same time again (I’ll write it up tomorrow, probably, but I could almost copy and paste my...
Thanks Lamplight, a really interesting first attempt. Our point-to-point times between stations were remarkably similar and, as you say, achieved...
My first attempt at the 0900 from Blackpool N was with 45723 'Impregnable' and the standard 8 mk1s, on a warm and cloudless summer morning. The...
A new challenge: Blackpool North - Preston The Blackpool route is, in my view, the best in TSW. Although, by the time the route is set, the...
Hi all. I notice Edinburgh-Glasgow’s on offer in the Steam sale. I’ve never bought it before, having no interest in the EMU which operates all the...
Fantastic run, Matt. You’re running as far as Millers Dale was similar to my best effort, but you completed the climb from Millers Dale to Peak...
Also looking forward to the results!
I made a second attempt at Lamplight's Peak Forest challenge this evening. 45681 Aboukir (apparently named after a naval vessel, which in turn was...
Yes, it’s annoying when that happens. The firebox doors can close by themselves, even in manual firing mode. My experience is that if you open the...
Great run, Andy. Getting the braking for the speed restrictions right is especially difficult on the gradients. I particularly like the shot of...
Ah yes, I'm guessing it was 08:15:17 rather than 08:16:17 at Blackwell (although it's not the easiest place to locate anyway, given that the...
Thanks for the very interesting account, Lamplight. It looks as if my run was a bit quicker between Rowsley and Bakewell, but apart from that the...
The Birmingham New Street - Bromsgrove table updated with that run by matt#4801 : [ATTACH] Looking at the the run by comparison to my most...
Interesting run, Matt. It looks as if your speeds were very similar to the ones I achieved on my second run, but you were slightly more strict in...
Great pictures, Spikeyorks. Some interesting jaunty camera angles and I particularly like the last one, taken from high up in the hills. In terms...
It’s interesting because, although I was born long after withdrawal of steam from the mainline, the fact that it’s more difficult to drive is why...
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