FLHerne's UK screenshots

[YNM]

How can you get both red and green carriage at the same time ? (unless I'm mistaken that it's not that standard passenger carriage !)

With the 'real colours' parameter set, UKRS2 varies carriage colour based on loco, date etc.

I always played with that setting on, seems like I don't pay any attention to that... (or I started too late !)

[FLHerne]

How can you get both red and green carriage at the same time ? (unless I'm mistaken that it's not that standard passenger carriage !)

With the 'real colours' parameter set, UKRS2 varies carriage colour based on loco, date etc.

I always played with that setting on, seems like I don't pay any attention to that... (or I started too late !)

It's less obvious after Nationalisation (1948ish), because after that most carriages had the same livery. You still get crimson/cream->maroon->blue/grey->Intercity, though.

[eira64]

What newgrf are you using for your docks?

Everything looks amazing. Thanks for posting.

[PikkaBird]

I always played with that setting on, seems like I don't pay any attention to that... (or I started too late !)

You also need your trains to visit depots to be repainted. This might not happen if you're playing with breakdowns off.

[FLHerne]

What newgrf are you using for your docks?

Everything looks amazing. Thanks for posting.

Thanks! I'll have to play some more sometime.

Most of the docks are CHIPS; bits of them use a CHIPS-based newobject set that I never got around to finishing.

[FLHerne]

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Just built this canal-aqueduct-thing. Can you guess what it is yet?
(I hope so, I can't...)

[FLHerne]

Another triumph of insomnia over practicality or logic.
I don't think this one's staying.

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[Pilot]

Maybe something along the lines of this would make more sense, though I don't know how Practical it is for the surrounding tracks.

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[FLHerne]

Back again after quite a long while...

Maybe something along the lines of this would make more sense, though I don't know how Practical it is for the surrounding tracks.

That wouldn't have quite worked, but the sanified version came out looking fairly similar, and definitely a lot more practical. This and the neigbouring flyovers take the Midland line from Torquay Docks over the throat of the Southern Electric terminus at Stamford (with an interchange station on the Midland route), then down under the city and the longer-distance Southern mainline which it joins just off-screen to the right at Stamford North.
Trams as usual, plus a Tube train sneaking into shot from the left.

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At the other end of the Southern and Underground tunnels seen at the top of the last shot is Torquay Mill station, by far the busiest in Torquay as it serves the mainline from Steeton and Liverpool through to Stamford or the east coast. The Electric lines stop shortly afterward at Sunningdale East, while the mainlines dive underneath to head straight for Liverpool and the tube veers off back into central Torquay.

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On the far side of Torquay, the Midland line skirts the southern fringes on its way to the Docks terminus (just off to the left), crossing the expanding road network on a series of low viaducts. Wartime economy measures have seen the LMS' Jubilees painted black.
Once again, a tube train is doing its very best to hide from the all-seeing camera!

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[FLHerne]

An overview shot of the entire Torquay conurbation, for context. The city itself is in the centre, encircled by the Underground line (a complete ring, but now rather engulfed by the rapid growth), the Midland line to the south and east, and the Southern route across the north side. Sunningdale to the north and Stamford to the southeast are being gradually assimilated.

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Just along the coast, but a lot more relaxed...one of the LNER's little tank locos waits at Pontypool for its sister to clear the single line from Corkickle and ultimately Stamford North. It's a small town, but traffic at the station is boosted by the ferries to the island town of Neston off the coast.

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Right across the network, and still relatively calm - the mainline to Cardiff is quad-tracked for its northernmost stretch. A streamlined Princess Coronation (not yet afflicted by the wartime blandness) makes good use of this infrastructure, speeding past at 110mph as a Jubilee drags its train out of Fishguard station.
Another streamliner heads south toward Rishton Junction, Hexham and Dean.

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[FLHerne]

Linkgraph for the southern half of the network. Lots of trams/buses!

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[S-Transport]

Very nice!

[FLHerne]

Two GWR branch lines start here at Norton Bridge Junction, interchanging with frequent Southern Electric services along the coast to Steeton, Liverpool and beyond. The left-hand bays are used by a coastal service to Headcorn via Elton, but we'll be following this autotrain heading inland from the single bay to the northeast...

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...via Wesham, a small town with a goods yard to serve the local farms (not finished yet)...

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...to Worksop, the local market town and hub of the local bus network, where it meets what passes for the GWR's "mainline", operated by sleek and modern (but rather slow!) diesel railcar units.

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[Kevo00]

I like the 'sandwich' GWR auto trains. Very neat!