The Class 345 is a Bombardier Aventra design electric multiple unit being manufactured for London's Crossrail. 70 nine-car trains are being manufactured at a cost of over £1 billion, with each train able to reach 140 km/h (90 mph) and carry 1,500 passengers.[6][3] The contract was awarded to Bombardier Transportation in February 2014 and the train entered service on 22 June 2017. Initial deliveries are of seven-car sets, which will be extended to nine car sets at a later date.
Why particularly 17 Career scenarios and 4 Standard ones? 17 is way too much, normally you only get 7 or 8 Career scenarios and no standard ones. Also, "Hayes" isn't a place on the Crossrail map, unless you're on about Hayes and Harlington, so it's pointless. You've got pretty much most of the Crossrail map in TS already, the GEML from Shenfield and Stratford and then London Paddington - Reading. You've got it all pretty much, so now it's just the train that we need. But I've not heard from any devs (freeware and payware) that they're going to do a 345, so don't get your hopes up.
Hayes in Kent is not Hayes in Middlesex... I think the North Kent Lines in total from Charing Cross, Canon Street and Blackfriars should be recreated including Greenwich, Woolwich and Lewisham branches, maybe as far as Tonbridge, Gravesend and Hayes, which would give you a load of service availability whilst using available stock in class 375/465/466 You could include the depots at Orpington, Slade Green, Grove Park, and Tonbridge This would hook up with the Chatham Mainline, Medway Valley and Faversham High Speed Routes, and also hook into the Elizabeth Line when that gets added. Basically all of the Southeastern Metro Routes would be complete
They can't be merged, GWML's origin points is somewhere different to the GEML's origin point which is around Colchester
I would be very surprised if the Aventra platform doesn't make it into TS in one form or another. DTG will be aware that there remains a lot of commercial potential in the original TS series. At the moment it's becoming difficult run modern scenarios because of a lack of the newer classes, most notably 185s, 345s, 377/6 & 7s, 387s, 700s, 707s, 710s, 717s and soon the new TPE trains, Flirts and 720s. That's a lot of new stock missing from DLC routes that are already in existence. Seems silly not to keep TS relevant while it's still very popular.
