[TTDP/OTTD] Ameecher's Screenshots

Marshy · Post by **Marshy** » 26 Apr 2007 21:56

What can I say?

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 27 Apr 2007 14:54

Good setup mate. Quite realistic too.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 27 Apr 2007 19:20

Marshy, you could say that it is amazing and it's the best screenshot you've ever seen

2-10-0, I aim for realism in all of my games but don't always achieve it entirely. In this game however most of it is realistic and I'm happy with it. Thanks.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 01 May 2007 20:08

New game, new screenshots!

The first Decade is complete and the company has 11 trains and no debt (even with pb_build.grf!) The main line runs from St.Ippollitts to Saltash and is served by Pacifics, at St. Ippollitts locals run to Oxford and at Saltash trains run to Bristol and Sutton Coalfield.

1) St. Ippollitts station, a small station that will be difficult to expand in the future.

2) Oxford, the current terminus for locals from St. Ippollitts the line will eventually extend north with sidings being provided for the locals to terminate.

3) Saltash, the complex junction to the north of the station allows access to all platforms from both lines. The trains continue through this station to either Sutton Coalfield or to the sidings on the otherside of the viaduct in order to reverse.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 01 May 2007 20:11

4) The sidings for trains that terminate at Saltash. The line that carries on past goes to Sutton Coalfield.

5) The line to Bristol (just off shot, left) from Saltash (entrance junction to the right of shot) is built along the shores of Lake Saltash, a Standard 5 is seen approaching Saltash with a train to Sutton Coalfield.

6) The train list showing a healthy income.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 02 May 2007 20:56

Late 1940s and the company is progressing well. More lines have been added and a competitor* which has set up some lines in the North of the Map.

1) The map. The Midland Railway runs from Brownhills > Oxford > Long Benton > St. Ippollitts > Gateshead > Saltash. At Saltash there are lines to Bristol, Sutton Coalfield and Morley. There is also a branch from Saltash to Worthing.
The Northern Railway runs from Stafford > Bradford > Brownhills to Haywards Heath, Leicester, Middlesborough and Bolton or to a new station at St. Ippollitts.

2) St. Ippollitts. The Midland station has had a platform added and the imposing Northern station is served by a fleet of Merchant Navies. with trains to Stafford or shorter distance Merchant Navies to Brownhills. The Line from the Midland station to Brownhills is also served by Merchant Navies but this route is more circuitous.

3) The approach to Saltash has been doubled because 13 trains were trying to use the single track viaduct to get to and from the sidings. and would lead to some quite long queues.

*It's not a subsidary or an AI, it's just me building other lines

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 02 May 2007 21:00

4) Brownhills. The Midland railway runs from the top of the picture underneath the Northern railway to Brownhills Midland. The station is actually a terminus with reversing sidings just after the bridge. The Northern railway station has since been expanded to accomodate terminating services from Leicester and St. Ippollitts.

5) Oxford. The mainline has been extended with the local trains reversing in the sidings resulting in this rather peculiar 3 platform layout.

6) Longbenton has been quadrupled and the sidings have had their capacities increased.

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 02 May 2007 22:30

Ruddy brilliant! I love your shots, much better than the messy junk I come out with...

Badger · Post by **Badger** » 02 May 2007 22:48

Lovely stuff.

I like the competing companies idea. Will you nationalise your system at some point and close competing lines "Beeching" style?

Sleepie · Post by **Sleepie** » 02 May 2007 23:08

Excellent screenies

I like your building style.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 03 May 2007 15:58

badger wrote:Lovely stuff.

I like the competing companies idea. Will you nationalise your system at some point and close competing lines "Beeching" style?

Thanks, and yes there will be the closure of the line from St. what's its face (it's a silly name

) to Brownhills and then the rest of the Northern railway network will be amalgamated into the Midland railway, routes to form "National Railways". It'll all depend on when I can be bothered to sort it out

. Latest news is that the Local line from St. Ippollitts to Oxford has been electrified for the testing of new stock. More to follow, stay tuned

Thanks for all the comments by the way.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 03 May 2007 19:54

Tonights little spamming session begins here.

1) This food processing plant is about all that is keeping the passenger service to the Northern Railway station at St. Ippollitts open. The milk (livestock) train that is entering the station is a Midland railway train wheras the Cattle train that is unloading belongs to the Northern railway. Both trains are hauled by Standard Fives as their superior speed prevents heavy delays to passenger trains on the routes that they run along.

2) A use for 2-10-0s. 9 tile coal trains seen here passing Saltash en-route to Gateshead powerstation. (also note the Deltics).

3) And this is the reason why they are 9 tiles long, this coal mine is mining 540 tonnes of coal a month so 5 of these beasts are hauling the black stuff away as fast as possible.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 03 May 2007 19:59

4) Proof that quarries can be generated during a game (this is infact the second on 3 years), I don't mind it being built, but there? why there!? 256 tiles to chose from on the whole map so it choses those 12... as I'm sure you can tell my line would have got quite nicely through there.

5) The solution was this rather expensive and limited capacity viaduct, not ideal but there we go, just to wait for a brickworks to be built now...

6) The coal trains were starting to block the mainline when trying to cross the station throat at Saltash, the chord linking the two lines at the North end of the station has been doubled allowing scenes like this.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » 03 May 2007 20:39

Ameecher wrote:there will be the closure of the line from St. what's its face (it's a silly name )

St. Ippollitts is a piddly little village about 5 miles from where I live. Very odd that somewhere so insignificant would even be in the English names grf!!

Anyway, more good stuff, keep it coming.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 04 May 2007 14:33

Demise of the Northern Railway

St Ippollitts

Nationalisation is upon us. The main aim of the Nationalisation was to create a more intergrated Network and dispose of duplicate routes.

The main line from St Ippollitts via Oxford and Hayward's Heath to Brownhills was electrified and new class 86s purchased. Once the new service was up and running smoothly the service to Ippollitts (Northern) was scaled down to a DMU shuttle service to Brownhills Northern (screenshot 1) with some of the stock that used to run to St Ippollitts being diverted to Leicester instead while others were withdrawn.

2) the majority of the line was singled as the only traffic was a small amount of freight to the food processing plant.

3) St Ippollitts Northern closed on 1st April 1973 altogether and platforms cleared. The tracks were used for stabling of stock for a short period of time but the track was ripped up and the land sold for development.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 04 May 2007 14:52

Demise of the Northern Railway

Hayward's Heath and Brownhills

The Northern Railway and Midland railway were in direct competition between Hayward's Heath and Brownhills with the Midland having better sited stations but a longer route. It was decided that the Midland would be the railway would be the one to stay so services at Hayward's Heath Road and Brownhills Northern were wound down with them being diverted to the Midland stations at both cities with new chords linking the lines.

1) the station at Hayward's Heath road was very quickly stripped of all things of value and the trackwork allowing access was removed. A stark contrast between old and new, the Class 86 in the midland station and the Northern standard 5's and Merchant Navies which run to Leicester.

2) A deserted Brownhills Northern, It's only use now is a passing loop for freight trains, there has been yet more rationalisation of trackwork leaving a very long single line (without a single passing loop) between Brownhills and St Ippollitts. The viaducts to Hayward's Heath have been severed but the track remains.

3) An upgrade at Hayward's Heath was necessary to cope with the closure of Road station, the first 2 arches of the viaduct were removed and through lines added to the station.

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 04 May 2007 15:06

and now for some other shots of the rest of the network.

1) IC125 at Saltash, also note the class 47 hauled coal train, the 2-10-0s were just getting too expensive and spares were becoming harder to source, so despite being only 12 years old the locomotives were withdrawn.

2) Another reason for the 2-10-0s being withdrawn... the coal mine started producing 1080 tonnes of coal a month, This is the scene in mid-1981 with 3 of the 8 coal trains visible

3) Oxford under the wires. The northern approach has also been slightly altered to ease the sharp, speed killing bend. Visible are 2 local trains, a Class 86 hauled express heading for Brownhills and another express disappearing into the tunnel headed for St Ippollitts.

Sleepie · Post by **Sleepie** » 04 May 2007 15:13

It seems you have too much free time

Again very nice screenies so keep them coming

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 04 May 2007 15:17

Edit: I've got a day off school today! Posting these screenies takes longer than playing. Just for you Sleepie.

Final load of spam for today

1) Longbenton stationw as getting ridiculously crowded with trains queuing for a long way just waiting for a platform. The first solution is seen here. The diesel line to Saltash has been reduced to one platform and the St Ippollitts bound tracks increased to 2 platforms. This eased the problem a bit but it was far from ideal however there was no space to dedicate 4 tracks to the Oxford lines and keep the Saltash line running. Seen here are an IC125 from Saltash on platform 1 and 3 local trains in a base coat before a new livery is applied.

2) The solution was to cut back the Saltash services to St Ippollitts dedicating all 4 platforms at Longbenton to Oxford trains. Here is the ultimate track layout with the sidings at Longbenton being removed very soon after falling out of use.[/code]

MrMox · Post by **MrMox** » 04 May 2007 19:25

Beautiful shots!

I have two newbie questions: 1) Does a siding such as the one at Longbenton serve any purpose, or is it just for looks? 2) Doesn't trains leaving the depot in the second shot have to make a 90 degree turn?

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