Thames Valley Branches Discussion

People make scenarios up in their heads to suit their narrative I suspect, especially if it means being able to have a go at DTG. Maybe Johannes simply doesn't want to merge them with GWE, but it is easier to think that nasty DTG won't let him.

I've been called a fanboy in the past often by people that then buy the next add-on and moan about it whilst I held off from it, but apparently I'm the enabler! Just because I don't get bitter over everything. It's a past time at the end of the day not something crucial to ones existence.

Anyway I am looking forward to how this turns out and having a drive of the routes as it sounds like he's put a lot of effort in.

 

This made me giggle, considering the tutorial I wrote on reskinning stock in RailSimulator a month or two after its release in 2007 was the go-to thread for beginners in RS / RW / TS / TSC and spent something like 14-15 years pinned at the top of the help forum on UKTS...

The "amount of time and effort" I put into building a route in TSC a decade ago or so ago led to one of the longest ever route-building threads on the UKTS forums, up there with the Trans-Pennine Route. The route I was building happened to be a full remaster of the ancient Paddington-Oxford GWML, which Keith Ross had initially worked on to upgrade and include the Heathrow Airport branch. I then gave this a full scenic remaster, deleted and rebuilt everything between Old Oak and Paddington to put it onto the right alignment, and onto which I then bolted parts of the Hammersmith & City, Acton-Northolt, West London and North London lines, then added the branches to Greenford, Colnbrook, Windsor, Marlow, Henley, Reading West, the Didcot Railway Centre and then started extending it northwards to Banbury.

I was simultaneously building new 3D models of Paddington Station, Trellick Tower, various scenery items and also rolling stock such as the 95 stock, a static Eurostar and a Class 332, whilst also sourcing various existing buildings from the community, all of this over literally thousands of hours of my spare time which eventually I could no longer contribute alongside my work commitments.

But do go on to explain I'm not qualified to discuss the topic...

Little blast from the past for those who remember it.