On other multiple unit sets in the game you’re able to exit the cab into the train and walk through into the passenger accommodation - if you’re driving Northbound on the Azuma then that’s not a problem as you exit from the cab straight into the vestibule. However, if you’re driving South then the cab backs directly onto the first class kitchen area. In game will this be modelled or will the door from the cab into that area be locked and you’ll have to exit the cab via the cab doors down to ballast? Also I might as well ask, is the timetable in game taken from real life or will AI runs be used to set arrival and departure times? I only ask because I work these trains and the timings are on the minute, there’s no minutes and seconds departures (like a lot of timings in TSW).
I believe I saw on the Discord chat that the kitchen is modelled, but I am not sure if that's been confirmed as official. Another thing worth noting, is a small error involving the kitchen people pointed out in one of the screenshots. The cabin door in between the cab and the kitchen, in one of the screenshots, is open at a station stop (as if it was a regular passenger door). In reality I guess that door would not be a passenger loading door (they'd be walking into the kitchen) and opens with a special key.
Yup, that door on the kitchen is T-key/carriage key from the outside. Inside still has normal door controls. I work on them. Dovetail, if you’re reading this and want feedback on the Azumas I’m happy to help. I’m sure I could get my line manager etc to sign off on it. Edit. Yeah I’ve seen the pic of it at Retford with the crew door open. Also unless the set is running in reverse formation the set is facing the wrong way. They’re ran first class facing south, in the screenshot first class end is north facing. Pretty much the only place you can conveniently turn sets around is via the High Level Bridge at Newcastle
Another issue spotted on the Discord was that the kitchen door in game is grey even though it is supposed to blend in with the rest of the livery.
That wrong way train thing has popped up a few times. They did that with the Acela too where the first class coach is on the opposite end of where it would be in real life (not sure if that was ever fixed).
I think I saw a similar bug with the class 700. Every so often I'd get up to check my train or use one of the door panels at a station and my cab door was already open. Just randomly out of the blue. I was sure I had shut it but it had mysteriously opened again. I'm guessing it's this sort of bug.
i second this about the reverse formation point. i travel approx 3 times per week for the past 9 years from Doncaster, Retford or Newark down to London Kings Cross in all those trips, the train (whether azuma, class 91 or hst) has only ever run in reverse formation once whilst i've travelled (i've had it a few more times in reverse formation heading back north, but again you can count on one hand how many times that has happened over my years of travelling).. so as you say in reality the First Class end of the trains are always towards the south/London end of the line
