This is a request aimed mostly at Firefly Simulations. I'd love to see a clone of the brilliant Medway Valley Line route but set in the 1990s. Cloning an existing DLC for a different era has not been done before but I like the idea of the concept. Traction would be Class 411, 421 or 423 slam door EMUs in Network South East Livery. The route would have semaphore signalling and manual level crossing gates as it did during this time period. Landmarks like the Aylesford News Press would feature and the Whirlpool factory in Paddock Wood as a few examples.
This is an excellent idea. Anything that gets Mk1 EMUs into this game deserves some support. In an ideal world, we wouldn't bother remastering London to Brighton, but just rebadge it into NSE era, with Mk1s, 319s, 455s, and ofcourse the Gatwick Express. All that we'd need to do is strip out some of the modern benches and station assets, stick broken solari screens and digital clocks on the platforms. Everything painted red and jobs a good'un
I would like a Liverpool area one so A) we could get another 80s/90s route and B) we could get a EMU for crewe to Preston
a clone of an existing dlc is very unlikely i think, mainly because it presumably wouldn’t sell as well as a brand new route. IOW 2022 might count as a cloned dlc but that’s only a couple of years difference and the main appeal was the 484. however, in the case of medway specifically, i’d be interested as for all the talk of needing more eastern and northern content, we’ve still got absolutely no backdated south east region dlc
I’d forgotten about IOW! We definitely need a backdated south east route. Part of me feels we’re more likely to get an Essex route or perhaps Waterloo to Reading or Southampton/Portsmouth for a backdated one at some point.
it could really do with a remaster, fun little route at the time but the old lighting and borked physics of the 484 have made it quite undesirable yeah, the portsmouth direct line is probably the most likely one, but a third rail BR emu is definitely needed
