Above the nameplate on 87023 is another plate detailing how the locomotive was named. From the new JT Preston - Carlisle (WCMLoS) route.
Exploring Lancaster on WCMLOS and: Platforms 1 and 2, you can climb the metal fence in front of the buffers from the platform. You can also hear the events of a football game from the fields next to the station. Also, found this poster mentioning a Class 26, a hint perhaps?
Some great details on NTP. Reminds me of detail with the just trains stuff. Capturing the ever changing landscape of Rail.
WCML OS. Bay Horse Station spawn point. Head north towards the road. Walk through the underpass and head towards the station house. You'll see a stack of red crates next to the tall fence. You get the option to climb the crates - it's a train spotters spot! Definitely a deliberate site for spotting put in by Just Trains.
On the Flying Scotsman railtours for Midland Mainline, instead of the usual DTG Railtours listed as operator on the platform information screens (like on SEHS and ECML), it's listed as a Railway Touring Company charter, a real life Charter company, who have operated most of Flying Scotsman's tours since 2016.
Something that really highlights the attention to detail JT have put into the 87: I know these on/off indicators from the Class 77 imported into Germany. I was told that they are ludicrously expensive things. On DTGs' 66, it's a simple plate reading on/off, but JT went the extra mile and recreated the little prisms. I forgot to check if they're also nicely animated though.
No idea if this has been mentioned or not, but I just came across an awesome detail on the class 710. Running from Willesden TMD towards Watford Jct, I wondered why the train was making this rattling sound the entire time. Turns out I left the switchboard cover open after enabling AWS. After closing the cover the rattling sound disappeared.
Ironically, this is the third time it has been mentioned here in like 2 weeks but I don’t blame y’all, it’s a great detail!
There is a lit Christmas tree on the platform at Minehead on the West Somerset route. Saw it with today's date set, December 14th.
There's a whole load of Christmas scenery along the route if you play in December and more if there's snow
I've noticed, when opening doors from the inside of a class 390, a different chime plays as opposed to the usual one. On some doors, both chimes can be heard at the same time.
On Mittenwaldbahn, TSG added a feature sorely missing from the steam locos: Using the cursor and manually grabbing it, you can actually quill the whistle on the 1020. Try it out - it’s not perfect but a lot of fun
I really hope this becomes a standard feature because that was a feature that i really felt was missing from all the locos with whistles before.
So, it seems TSG routes are packed full of interesting easter eggs. For those owning both Niddertalbahn and Mittenwaldbahn, I urge you to go back to the Niddertalbahn and explore the roads leading off from this level crossing: If you already have or just want to know what's there, read on in the spoiler. Spoiler Following the road leading into the woods, you come upon this reality-distorting shrine to a tortoise? Embrace your new God and step in his light and you can... ...travel through time and space onto Mittenwaldbahn: Mittenwaldbahn has the same shrine. You can follow the path back to the tracks: The wooden board to the right is the start of the path. If you wish to approach the shrine from here, it is just west of Kaltenbrunn. I had initially discovered this on Mittenwaldbahn because the route-hopping marker is still on the map if you're zoomed in enough. Very fun side adventure. Other than that, they also had some fun with the posters on Mittenwaldbahn. The right poster is a wordplay on the English word 'mood' and the German 'Muuuh', which is what we say is the sound cows make. The poster advises you to take a trip to Seefeld with ÖBB. The poster on the left is a poem (or ode if you prefer) about Heidelberg and also bears the same name (written by Friedrich Hölderlin around 1800). I think Lukas mentioned he lives there currently, so that's probably the reason for the inclusion. There's also a blank poster (not in my picture) that only says 'Druckfehler', which translates to printing error. Much to see on this route.
I think in the preview stream, the devs mentioned they had to whip these posters up quite quickly because they noticed they still had some unapproved vintage posters in the route (presumably some old official posters). I’m unsettled by the numerous grammatical errors in the right poster though
Just a couple more small things on Mittenwaldbahn I really appreciate. Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck both have replacement parts lying around their Bws (depots) - track signs in the former, pantographs in the latter. Lovely details that actually make these places look like Bws.
With the new Dutch route - a fantastic addition to TSW in my opinion - the trainspotters/railfans actually move to rotate as your train passes by which is pretty cool! Also, can we just appreciate the detail regarding the bird nests too:
Thats really neat. I hope they include this in future. It would be really fun if they could set some timetable and scenario services to be of special interest, so extra spotters spawn on platforms and trackside when one is due, even if it is not your train. Then you could tell if Flying Scotsman was coming the other way soon because the platforms would be full!
Very cool! Don’t the railfans unlocked by the Spirit of Steam mastery tile move as well? Might be similar tech/models.
Depending on the angle of the sun, the wind turbines along the Zwolle-Groningen cast a realistic moving shadow on tracks and surrounding area:
At Gillingham on SEHS, make sure you're on platform 3 side, go to the level crossing, and head towards Rainham, making sure you're behind the fence next to the tracks. You'll see this: I think you can even walk through it.
There are a few of those floating around on the class 47s as well (even from Blackpool IIRC)), I do appreciate these as it gives you a little insight into the loco's history, as well as being accurate of course.
