Br Class 20 Cathcart Circle

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  1. Mattty May

    Mattty May Guest

    Noooooooooooo.

    The BR Class 20 is nose forward when part of the rail tours. Zero visibility. Please change it to rear first so the visibility is vastly improved.
     
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  2. synthetic.angel

    synthetic.angel Well-Known Member

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    You can use any other loco for that effect....! I haven't tried the Class 20, but I think nose first could be fun....!

    Maybe they should find a way to give you an option - maybe somehow use the livery/consist button to let you go nose first, cab first, or double-headed....?
     
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  3. a.paice

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    Or preferably they could change the driving camera view on the 20 so the player is actually looking out of the window. At the moment you just face the cab wall
     
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  5. solicitr

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    Consider it practice for driving steam engines
     
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  6. Tynmar

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    remember seeing this post and thought, ahh can’t be that bad can it? God I was wrong. Prep for steam trains or not this is awful.

    my driver is doing his best and reflecting on the past :D

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  7. theorganist

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    I am pretty certain that a single class 20 would be banned from running nose first, on the British railway network any time over the last 30 years or so.
     
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  8. Mattty May

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    That’s what I thought. You clearly can’t see where you are going when driving one nose first.
     
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  9. theorganist

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    When they were originally introduced they were seen operating like that. However certainly by the late 1970's I think they were pretty much all operating in pairs with the noses connected.

    I don't think the cab cameras field of view helps though. I am sure in real life they were not quite as bad as portrayed in the sim.
     
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  10. Gilly

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    As theorganist says bad field of view doesn't help, they certainly aren't that bad in real life.
    A 20 on its own is a rare thing, certainly mainline operations where Top n Tail or double-headed would the norm.
     
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  11. solicitr

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    Stick your head out the window
     
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  12. rhysrobinson336

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    It is on West Somerset
     
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  13. borg#1850

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    How do you do that?
     
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  14. marcsharp2

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    It's rare but it does happen.
     
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  15. marcsharp2

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    Ran cab end first when I did it from Neilston to Newton
     

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  16. solicitr

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    Right arrow key
     

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