If ever there was a need for a (permanent) temporary speed restriction this realignment of the down fast at Slade is one. British Ace spend a good minute analysing that piece of track on his Manchester Voyager video on YouTube today as the sudden jolt wasn’t pleasant. I don’t know why they got the alignment wrong in the first place but as you say it’s better than trains colliding although it’s not the most elegant fix.
Not personally been over that piece of track yet, but saw it BAces stream, and yes, it's not good at all - needs to be sorted again really, along with the signalling issues mentioned above. Still a cracking route though.
Please re-do or remove announcements at Manchester Piccadilly! It only ever announces departures from Platforms 13 & 14, even then, not all. All you can hear is The next train at Platform x (x being 1-12) is for Manchester Piccadilly, calling at Manchester Piccadilly I've not heard departures for Euston, Bouremouth etc. Just Manchester Grrrrrrrrrrrrr I'm bloody well in Manchester Piccadilly for gawds sake
Haha that reminds me of when Thomas Cook went bust and the BBC had that utter [Deleted; language - DTG Harry] that it Simon Calder on for an interview, live from "Manchester Airport" when in-fact you could clearly see the station sign "Macclesfield" through the waiting room window behind him.
Played a couple of services on PS5 and the stuttering is so much worse than it was before the update. Really sad to see as this route was one of the best performers on PS5
Did they ever fix the issue of two parallel tracks having insufficient clearance, resulting in collisions?
They appear to have fixed it, but now the track layout is too sharp to be taken at 75mph. There's quite a jolt when you drive over it.
Not sure if this has been mentioned (don’t have time to read) but playing on pc when you take some Voyager services from Wilmslow it spawns you outside another station (East Didsbury). Had to fast travel and get into the train that way.
Platform: PS5 Journey Mode Chapter: Styal Line Experience Service: 4H04: Crewe Bas Hall S.S.N to Trafford Park F.LT This service SPADs immediately loading in. It only occurs when launching it from Journey Mode. Can this please be fixed in a patch? Thank you! More Discussion: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...ourney-bug-feature-4h04-crewe-trafford.95182/
PS5 - some services when you try to play the voyager, you don't end up on train and at a random station, on foot, and no train to be seen. 1M22 you start outside of Alderley Edge for example (Other services do similar so not just this one)
Very short route, with plenty variety, some initial bugs were quickly ironed out, some still exist. 7/10 route.
Looks stunning, has two decent timetables, really busy route thats full of life… but it’s very small. Was priced appropriately unlike Cardiff though. I’d give it a 7.5, would’ve been an 8.5 if they’d got to Crewe.
Quite short but quality is excellent bar some bugs . Icing on the cake would be if it went to Crewe . I keep coming back to it .
PC Steam 4H04 at 10:53 PM. The flight starts immediately with a message that the flight has been cancelled; I've passed a red signal. It's impossible to pass.
PS5 After driving the interestingly routed Sunday 323 service 2H47 I came away with some signalling anomalies. Down Fast signal MP26 (Slade Lane Jct) Should there be approach control for this 75>45mph switch? Well, whatever, the junction indicator DF>DS does not light up. Down Slow signal MP307 (approaching MP) Inconsistent approach control. There is no approach control to this signal when the route selected is to platform 3 across DS>DF>DE (60>30mph turn out). Bizarrely, If you run 2N75 (GSMR says 2N73, what?) then you DO get approach control for the DS>DF switch for access to platform 11 along with strict TPWS. In both cases, without the HUD I’d have been in a world of trouble. Anyway, it’s my go to route and loving the new 323 announcements (including the 13th Nov core update’s unannounced improvements to the enunciation of Levenshulme, Handforth and Heaton Chapel).
Suffering quite badly with blurry textures since the latest core/game update this week. I don’t recall it being this bad before. (Xbox Player)
1M41 XC you don't spawn in the train. It spawns you on foot in random places, I had longsight and adderley edge. The AI works the train.
The blurry textures have struck this route too now. Looks like it's the core game having issues not the routes. A few signals are displaying red aspects whilst the HUD shows proceed at caution MP 288 and MP 286 (shows the feather but shows a red).
The signal before Heald Green station in the direction of Manchester Airport [MP288] and the signal proceeding [MP286] are both showing red signals at all time but the HUD shows permission to pass and the train does so without any SPAD’s. Xbox
Why did the announcement at Manchester Airport call out "Platform 1 for the 21:15 Transport for Wales service to Manchester Airport calling at Manchester Airport only" instead of something about the train approaching Platform 1 terminating? Also as I was approaching the station a 350 came the other way wearing a TPE livery from Creators Club and the game stuttered a little, although that might be a core issue relating to CC liveries perhaps
I believe that is a core issue, it happens on the Birmingham route and I think it did it on the Rivera line as well. I think it is related to the issue with the PIS displays also listing the present station on both departures and arriving/terminating services. I do hope it can be fixed at some point though, it's bloody annoying.
Any news on fixing the signalling? It's not great getting those dodgy signal sequences at the airport junction. Puts me off playing the route a bit really, along with the track fix which is too tight for the speed. It seems that anything track or signalling related is a complete pain to fix unfortunately, TSC was a 2 minute job. Pays to get it 100% bang on initially.
When you look at all of your routes in the menu, each one usually shows each routes collectibles and what the four are for that route on the right. But not this one just shows 0/100
The road has become very demanding in terms of performance. I regularly get 30 fps, whereas I usually average 60, which makes gameplay less comfortable.
Class 220 layer that was added to timetable. All services to Manchester Piccadilly (from Stockport) that I have found, you spawn in a random station not on the train, or even near the train!! Those running in the reverse direction seem fine.
It's been known about since the timetable came out, they are supposedly working on it. I just fast travel to Stockport and run to platform. Usually have enough time to get there before the service is due.
