1990s - Bournemouth To Portsmouth Harbour

Here to propose a Bournemouth to Portsmouth Harbour route, featuring an all new Class 442 "Wessex Electric" celebrating over 40 years of Network SouthEast.

Route

Beginning at Bournemouth the train will pass through stations such as Pokesdown, Christchurch and up to Southampton. We then veer off to the Solent Link line passing through Netley, Hamble, Fareham, Cosham, Havant and down to Portsmouth Harbour.

Stations
BOURNEMOUTH
Pokesdown
Christchurch
Hinton Admiral
New Milton
Sway
Brockenhurst (Lymington AI)
Beauleu Road
Lyndhurst Road
Totton
Redbridge
Millbrook
Southampton
St Denys
Bitterne
Woolston
Sholing
Netley
Hamble
Fareham
Portchester
Cosham
Hilsea
Fratton
Portsmouth & Southsea
PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR

Rolling Stock

Class 442 Wessex Electric unit in NSE condition. (Full livery designer optimisation for SWT/Gatwick Express/SWR repaints for personal use. Class 442 could then be used in Scenario Planner / Free Roam for London to Brighton). Sound package by Armstrong Powerhouse.

4-CIG Class 421
Network SouthEast 4-CIG EMU. Built from scratch and often requested. Could then be spawned onto London to Brighton/SouthEastern High Speed/Medway Valley in Free Roam/Scenario Planner repainted into Connex/Southern etc.

Both units have Guard mode and Driver mode optimisation.

Class 150 layer (AI and driving scenarios) between Southampton and Portsmouth. Repainted into RR livery.

Class 47 and Mk2 coaches repainted into NSE for use between Bournemouth and Portsmouth.

Station assets and immersion
NSE assets including Pertis machines, signage, red lamp posts, blue Solari indicator screens which can be animated or broken as they often were, NSE digital clocks faithfully represented. NSE benches on all stations and NSE bins.

Station announcements
Old, muffled announcements. I have recently been able to modify and create a voice profile through AI for the late Robert Lister who provided all the old 1980s/1990s NSE railway announcements. To hear these play at stations such as Bournemouth/Southampton/Fareham and Portsmouth would be fantastic. They are simplistic announcements that do not need to feature timings. Simply for example "the train now at platform 1....is for London Waterloo. Calling at x,y,z"

Why the need?

Why not? NSE is not represented at all in TSW, which is far too focused on modern image IMO. This line is not traffic intensive, avoids Waterloo at all costs, does not simply rehash station assets seen on every TSW modern route to date, and injects some immersion - allowing the player to step back into a time of noisy compressors, traction motors, slamming doors, muffled tannoys, ticking digital clocks and red white and blue that signified the early 1990s. The route itself is very scenic in places, and brilliantly urban in others, so there's a real mix without pushing the hardware limits.

Please forgive some of the AI images attached, its purely to create a rough idea of the visual gameplay

 

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