[REL] Birmingham and West Midlands
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[REL] Birmingham and West Midlands
Fed up with the delays at New Street? Think you could get the trains running on time?
Now you can have a go yourself, with Andysine's West Midlands Scenario!
Birmingham and West Midlands v1.2
Start Date: 1970
Difficulty: Easy
Notes:
In this scenario you should be able to create almost all the major routes within the West Midlands area. Some of the scenery has been altered to make it easier, for instance there are bridges under most of the motorways at strategic places, and there a pre-made cutting for New Street Station. You should also be able to design Snow Hill or Moor Street over the top. There are a couple of extra cities named 'THE NORTH', 'THE SOUTH WEST' etc., to represent freight and passengers from these areas of the country. With these you should be able to create a profitable freight and passenger network.
Version 1.1
+ More towns on route to Stratford-Upon-Avon added.
+ Other minor fixes.
Version 1.2
+ Warwick moved to a more accurate position.
+ Factory added in The North.
Now you can have a go yourself, with Andysine's West Midlands Scenario!
Birmingham and West Midlands v1.2
Start Date: 1970
Difficulty: Easy
Notes:
In this scenario you should be able to create almost all the major routes within the West Midlands area. Some of the scenery has been altered to make it easier, for instance there are bridges under most of the motorways at strategic places, and there a pre-made cutting for New Street Station. You should also be able to design Snow Hill or Moor Street over the top. There are a couple of extra cities named 'THE NORTH', 'THE SOUTH WEST' etc., to represent freight and passengers from these areas of the country. With these you should be able to create a profitable freight and passenger network.
Version 1.1
+ More towns on route to Stratford-Upon-Avon added.
+ Other minor fixes.
Version 1.2
+ Warwick moved to a more accurate position.
+ Factory added in The North.
- Attachments
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- The Map (Shown Above)
- Brum_Map 1point2.png (31.7 KiB) Viewed 1261 times
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- Birmingham and West Midlands (v1point2).zip
- Version 1.2 - No Mods Needed
- (253.51 KiB) Downloaded 1197 times
Last edited by andysine on 01 Jan 2007 20:12, edited 4 times in total.
Age of Industry Replacement Set
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
My savegame.
The entire network should run pretty much on its own, though some trains do occasionally get lost. There may be some jams around New Street, particularly the eastern side, but these are largely self-clearing. The network is not very efficient (there are frequent hold-ups on some parts of the network) but my focus was on realism, not efficiency.
The entire network should run pretty much on its own, though some trains do occasionally get lost. There may be some jams around New Street, particularly the eastern side, but these are largely self-clearing. The network is not very efficient (there are frequent hold-ups on some parts of the network) but my focus was on realism, not efficiency.
- Attachments
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- Birmingham and West Midlands - Andy 6.zip
- My Savegame. MODS NEEDED - BRSET v4.4 from AMI Trains, Earthslopes + possibly others
- (551.71 KiB) Downloaded 817 times
Age of Industry Replacement Set
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Most of the services are operated by Central Trains under the Centro name. A Centro route map can be found here. The map also shows other services as grey routes, though you should be able to determine which operators run these without too much trouble.
EDIT: I'm not an expert, but as far as I can remember some of the non-centro routes are;
First Great Western from the South-West to Worcester
Virgin Cross Country from the South-West (Taunton-Bristol) to New Street.
Virgin Cross Country from the South (Bournemouth-Southampton-Reading-Oxford) to Leamington Spa, Coventry, Birmingham International to New Street, then on to Burton-Upon-Trent and the North.
Arriva Trains from North Wales to Telford and Wolverhampton
Central Trains City Link service from East Anglia (Cambridge-Peterborough-Leicester) to Nuneaton then New Street.
Virgin Trains from London to the North via Rugby and the Trent Valley Line.
Virgin trains from London via Rugby, Coventry, Birmingham International, New Street, Wolverhampton and Stafford.
EDIT: I'm not an expert, but as far as I can remember some of the non-centro routes are;
First Great Western from the South-West to Worcester
Virgin Cross Country from the South-West (Taunton-Bristol) to New Street.
Virgin Cross Country from the South (Bournemouth-Southampton-Reading-Oxford) to Leamington Spa, Coventry, Birmingham International to New Street, then on to Burton-Upon-Trent and the North.
Arriva Trains from North Wales to Telford and Wolverhampton
Central Trains City Link service from East Anglia (Cambridge-Peterborough-Leicester) to Nuneaton then New Street.
Virgin Trains from London to the North via Rugby and the Trent Valley Line.
Virgin trains from London via Rugby, Coventry, Birmingham International, New Street, Wolverhampton and Stafford.
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- Engineer
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On a historical note http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.ukis a site that not only covers the region depicted but shows routes that closed as well as in depth about the stations and relics in the area.
Oh crap. I thought I did to be honest, but maybe I forgot. Either I have posted it and replaced the old one, but the name hasn't been updated, or I forgot. I'm on my mac atm, so I can't do anything about it, but I'll try and get it up tomorrow. I might even release v1.2 - Warwick and Leamington Spa are not in the correct locations in relation to each other and it is not possible to transport goods along the WCML in v1.0 + v1.1 because there is no factory in the north. These will be fixed in v1.2.
Regards
Andy
Regards
Andy
Age of Industry Replacement Set
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Version 1.2 is up now - Enjoy!
Age of Industry Replacement Set
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
Themed industry set for OpenTTD
The Greenest Valley
A beautiful scenario featuring Cardiff and the south Wales valleys
Mountains and Prairies
Huge scenario based on Western Canada
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- Route Supervisor
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- Joined: 27 Feb 2006 14:19
- Skype: esquiskwerl
- Location: Bournemouth
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- Traffic Manager
- Posts: 235
- Joined: 29 Jan 2007 11:46
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- Route Supervisor
- Posts: 422
- Joined: 27 Feb 2006 14:19
- Skype: esquiskwerl
- Location: Bournemouth
Thanks for this. Just loaded up the BR Set from scratch again and fired up your saved game. My 2-year old loves it! Lots of trains going instantly! His dad likes it too
Maybe he'll give me a chance to actually complete the scenario myself one of these days...
Maybe he'll give me a chance to actually complete the scenario myself one of these days...
On a temperature-based luck scale I'd be 0K...
Re: [REL] Birmingham and West Midlands
I'd just like to bump this to say...
I love the savegame! Brilliant stuff. I've updated the trains to make them feel a bit "more 2011", such as adding Arriva 158s, Cross Country 170s and London Midland 350s, and I've also thrown in aircraft from the A320 set for a bit of eye candy at Birmingham Airport.
Would I be allowed to upload the updated savegame onto here? No worries if I can't.
I love the savegame! Brilliant stuff. I've updated the trains to make them feel a bit "more 2011", such as adding Arriva 158s, Cross Country 170s and London Midland 350s, and I've also thrown in aircraft from the A320 set for a bit of eye candy at Birmingham Airport.
Would I be allowed to upload the updated savegame onto here? No worries if I can't.
Re: [REL] Birmingham and West Midlands
Andysine seems to be visitig this forum these days, my best guess is you send him a PM.Loiner wrote:I'd just like to bump this to say...
I love the savegame! Brilliant stuff. I've updated the trains to make them feel a bit "more 2011", such as adding Arriva 158s, Cross Country 170s and London Midland 350s, and I've also thrown in aircraft from the A320 set for a bit of eye candy at Birmingham Airport.
Would I be allowed to upload the updated savegame onto here? No worries if I can't.
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