This is a really unique Light Rail Route. It has got really cool and special features, like having high and low floor stops in one line. The following points that I will go through: -length & duration -Picture of the journey in the schedule -Count up every station -More details about the route, (scenery) -Trains (incl types and how they work, Doors with high and low floor platforms) let's get started! Length & duration the length of the whole route is approximately 44.3 kilometers (27.5 miles). The duration is 44 minutes with no delays, from my experience, the route and trains are very reliable and almost always on time. Since a lot is overground and rather rural, away from streets, except level crossings, it is easy to be on time. Picture of the journey schedule: What stations? That's a great question, but don't worry I'll answer! Bad Godesberg Stadthalle. High floor Bad Godesberg Bf./Löbestraße. High floor Plittersdorfer Straße. High floor Wurzerstraße. High floor Hochkreuz. High floor Max-Löbner-Straße/Friesdorf. High floor Ollenhauerstraße. High floor Heussallee/Museumsmeile. High floor Museum Koenig. High floor Bundesrechnungshof/Auswärtiges Amt. High floor Juridicum. High floor Universität/Markt. High floor Bonn Hauptbahnhof. High floor Bonn West. High floor Propsthof Nord. High floor Tannenbusch Süd. High floor Tannenbusch Mitte. High floor Buschdorf. High floor Hersel. Low floor Uedorf. Low floor Widdig. High floor Urfeld. High floor Wesseling Süd. High floor Wesseling. High floor Wesseling Nord. High floor Godorf Bf. High floor Sürth Bf. High floor Michaelshoven. High floor Siegstr. High floor Rodenkirchen Bf. High floor Heinrich-Lübke-Ufer. High floor Bayenthalgürtel. High floor Schönhauser Straße. High floor Ubierring. Low floor Chlodwigplatz. Low floor Ulrepforte. Low floor Eifelstraße. Low floor Barbarossaplatz. Low floor Poststraße. High floor Neumarkt. High floor Appellhofplatz. High floor Dom/Hbf. High floor Breslauer Platz/Hbf. High floor Ebertplatz. High floor Reichenspergerplatz. High floor Kinderkrankenhaus. High floor Amsterdamer Str./Gürtel. High floor Nesselrodestraße. High floor Niehl Sebastianstr. High floor. scenery and route details the scenery is quite beautiful, you have everything, roads, trees, tunnels, bridges, hilly landscape, city, small counties and much more! There is a time where you drive the tram / train beside the road, in the middle of the road or far away from it, in the Centre of cologne you drive below ground, coming to barbarossaplatz, you get up again, and drive in the middle of a busy road. However already at Ubierring you drive across an intersection with loud and nice squeaky noises of the tram! Then at Heinrich-Luebke-Ufer you drive again across the road and in to the rural stuff. If you're in cologne, I recommend walking the gruenguertel, but only for people that like walking, which I do. Then passing the rest of the rural areas coming nicely in to the nice and beloved city of Bonn, shortly after Bonn west going to Bad Godesberg you'll enter for the last time the good old tunnel, passing few stations and you are at Bonn hbf. You will drive along the Rhein for 3 stations, which is very beautiful in the spring with the plants having these nice Colours and the nearby skatepark at schoenhauserstrasse. trains that I wish and probably many others! the famous B80D also known as the K2200 / K2300, are the older trams, they squeak a lot more than the newer ones which I'll get to in a moment! These famous and loved train combinations of the slightly two different 2200 and 2300 were built in the early 70s. They have a top speed of 80 kmph enough for the light rail on cologne haha. Jokes aside, they run on 1435 mm tracks (standard gauge). In the tunnel they are really loud, but they sound quite nice, so I don't mind to be honest. Now the newer fleet which is also operating is the K5100! being much newer, I am talking of 30 years difference, built in the late 90s, early 2000, they are not much more comfortable than the older friends, they still have plastic seats like the whole KVB fleet has, including every bus and tram! The tram also does 80 kmph, which I am not sure but I really think is the max speed on this line I am suggesting here. They are comfortable of the way they accelerate and brake, and they are more quiet. I personally don't mind loud vehicles. I also should mention that the K5001 the prototype crashed in June 1999, they didn't want to reuse 5002 - 5XXX. So they made the 51XX and 52XX. How does the low floor and high floor stuff work? it is easy! In the doors you have a platform, they sink and form a stair to the ground! In the really old vehicles (K2400) and B100S, which doesn't operate anymore, but 2400 does, the plate just falls down. In the K2200, K2300, K5001, K5100 and K5200 it is via a air pressure tube or I don't know what it's called, gently lowered. You don't find it much in Germany, mostly NRW!
That'sa great suggestion. However, i don't think DTG will ever do that for TSW. So either it's something modders could work on or it's more something to suggest to the TramSim developers. Sadly, their new game is focussed on a fictional city. But maybe it's possible.
I would love to see the KVB in TSW, but I‘m honestly unsure if this DLC would rather be sth. for TramSim or what would you say? However the KVB would be a really important DLC to me since cologne is almost my hometown
