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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.

There’s a sign by the line side which gives you advance warning of a neutral section: [ATTACH] Start to run the tap changer down when you pass...

I think they were there even later than that, on Freightliners. Certainly though, when I was in that area in the mid-90s, you still saw as many...

Great that it looks as if it’s going to be an 86. That really adds to the variety on the upcoming route and (in my mind at least!) increases the...

Happy birthday, Samuel. :)

No, I don’t think there’s any gap in the AWS at Preston.

To be honest, I’m tempering my expectations because I haven’t made the switch to TSW5 yet, because of the reports that RailDriver doesn’t work...

Agreed, if I were a route developer I wouldn’t see other developers as ‘competition’. I think most people buy the routes they’re interested in...

But isn’t that the point? People will generally accept the odd small issue in a generally good quality product. Nothing's perfect, and people...

I voted no, but kind of for the opposite reasons the OP offered in the multiple ‘no’ options… I much prefer old trains to modern trains. To me, a...

Yes, if you go over the OSS loops above a set speed, it will trigger a TPWS brake activation.

I had another shot at Birmingham New Street - Lichfield Trent Valley tonight, this time ensuring I got the route via the flyover at Proof House...

Just to reassure you (and anyone else thinking of travelling by train in the near future!) this isn’t correct. You can’t get a route indicator...

If you press Ctrl and + together you will jump to the other cab (the same again to get back) which avoids having to walk down the platform. That's...

I don’t find Bakerloo line too bad once you get the hang of pressing ‘door close’ the right amount of time before the end of the station dwell...

If JT were to do anything East Coast, Deltics would be essential for me. Ideally the Deltic/HST transition era. I’d love a steam/deltic transition...

I do think there’s an argument that Newcastle to Edinburgh is the most interesting part of the ECML. It’s attractive and has constant changes of...

My only desire really is that they don’t switch to modern stuff. There are lots of developers focussed wholly on modern routes and trains...

I think that’s the most tantalising thing anyone’s ever said…

Well…I still haven’t switched from TSW4 to TSW5 because of the reported RailDriver issues. However, with Preston-Carlisle having got a release...

The timetable you’ve linked to shows the East Croydon - Milton Keynes services. Brighton, Gatwick, Northampton and Birmingham are shown to give...

The distant scenery question is a tricky one. When I saw the screenshot Jetwash included in the post I thought “yeah, that does look a bit...

Interesting point about the steam loco giving instant power. I hadn’t considered that, but the 47 really is quite awkward on those low speed...

Really interesting runs, Lamplight. It's impressive that the Jubilee only took 3 minutes longer than the 47. I suppose with the very low line...

No, you can’t go above 100%.