FLHerne's UK screenshots

[FLHerne]

And another...back to the hills. Branch-line junction, scrap trains come down from the villages.

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[FLHerne]

I got bored with the mountain game, so I started another one . I'm now using Handrake's patchpack, for the template replacement, rivers, aircraft range and recent NewGRF support. I also started using a few more vehicle sets, and TaI houses.

The date is 1965. A new railway opens from Halling, a middle-sized lakeside city (with a suitably impressive terminus)...

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...via Guernsey, just along the coast and a little smaller...

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...and Little Sutton, further inland. The triple-track along this section seemes to make sense given the closely-spaced stations, but in its original form will prove extremely troublesome.

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[FLHerne]

From there, it continues through a valley to Newtonmore, where the line's state-of-the-art locomotive works has been built...

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...and terminates at Seaton, with another big terminus.

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An aerial view of the line was commissioned - most of it fits on!

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[jor[D]1]

Seaston station is way to big in contrast with the line and the village. It would be cool to build in a huge city. or just give 2 tracks a full roof. The screens are nice and rural though.

[FLHerne]

Seaston station is way to big in contrast with the line and the village

It's a city - the station doesn't look so out of place in 1990 .

[FLHerne]

I got distracted . I played the game above through to the present, but I haven't been bothered to tale screenshots yet. Have some completely different ones from another game I'm playing - it's 1930, on the LNER/LMS boundary . I really managed to mess the roads up somehow, though

Seven Sisters station, situated on a spit of land between the town and the adjacent village of Foxton. Because of the location and service pattern, the layout is a bit odd - the large roof is for mainline services, the small ones for the branches in the other direction. Wood trains use the crossovers to thread their way onto the freight lines to join others crossing the bay from the south, while passenger trains use the tunnels. A 4-4-0 County is leaving with the 7:15 semi-fast to Strawberry Hill.

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Just to the east, the wood unloading station at Foxton. The railway's locomotive depot is at the top right, next to the quad-tracked mainline to the north. An A3 heads north with the 7:00pm crack express to Bynea, while LMS 4Fs drag wood along the slow lines.

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Swaythling Junction was recently grade-separated, previously being a major bottleneck. Another County is about to hang right for the Strawberry Hill line; a wood train heads for Moreton on the slow.

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[FLHerne]

More pics...

Strawberry Hill has only a small station just now, but the railway has bought adjacent land in expectation of a rise in traffic. The planned introduction of trams here may bring this sooner rather than later.

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Sway, the only intermediate station on the Kilmarnock branch, to the west of Seven Sisters. A 4-4-2 tank engine runs in with its short rake of celestory carriages, en route to Seven Sisters' branch platforms, while the guard blows his whistle for a Kilmarnock-bound train.

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Kilmarnock, just down the line, is the terminus - but may not be for long, as plans are afoot to extend the line to Whittlesey, two villages along. Another branch train has just arrived in this sleepy little town, disgorging a mass of (invisible) evening commuters.

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[FLHerne]

Farm trams. Not much else to say, really...

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[Pilot]

Very Nice Mate, keep up the Good Work.

[FLHerne]

Thanks . It's good to know that someone's looking at the pics...

[FLHerne]

Quite a while later...it's 1985 now .

The industrial area at Southampton is quite busy - Coal, Iron Ore, Sand, Stone, Clay, Scrap Metal, Timber, Metal, Farm Supplies and Building Materials all being handled at the same station . It causes quite a lot of trouble, actually - I got a bit too carried away with Autorefit . An empty scrap train pulls out, as a trainload of timber rolls in, a mixed mineral train unloads and a metal train is almost ready to leave.

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Bridge of Orchy is a rather strange little town, almost entirely filling a medium-sized island. A third-rail EMU set arrives in the small station with a branch service from the mainline at Bishopstone; the preceding service leaves the causeway on its way to Southampton.

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[Pilot]

Are they Metrovicks in the first Pic?
Love the layout at Bridge of Orchy, though I'll show you how to fill a Medium sized Island, most of my main Cities in Games are on Islands.
Not even going to ask about the third Pic though, very odd looking.

[FLHerne]

Nope, it's a few Class 86s in the first pic - I have 136 of them so far . I haven't actually used any Co-Bo's yet, although I had some Baby Deltics earlier: Here are two back in 1977, dragging supply trains for local builders through the dense suburban traffic. They've now gone over to 73s...

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The fast lines can be seen diving under the slows in the picture above, they come out just to the east, near the even larger tangle at Foxton. By now the 3rd-rail has been extended on the fasts for the aforementioned 73s, which use the three short platforms just visible at the right-hand side. One such train has just emerged onto the mainline; the following express (86-hauled again) is likely to be checked for it . A heavy timber train is just rolling out of Foxton yard as a train of building materials unloads; an oil tanker has just rammed a bulk carrier at the docks . Wood trains arrive, ready to refit and carry farm supplies back to the forests; a scrap train loads by the docks.

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The corresponding mess of junctions and flyovers. There's a bit more, but it didn't fit .

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[FLHerne]

Gratuitous screenshots of the game I sort of skipped over - I did play it, just haven't done pics yet. Twyford (north of Halling) is now a city of 16,000, with two stations - a small one on the hill in the centre, a bigger one down below. There are a lot of mail trucks .

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Twyford Upper is the end of a branch from Little Sutton, which is now a key junction with 13 platforms. Six sets of Class 325s call on various services, with an Electrostar and Classes 89 and 91 for passengers. Guernsey station, on the left, is something of a bottleneck.

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Montpelier, south of Guernsey, is the southern terminus of an Underground line from Melton Mowbray; it's got the line's depot too. Several tube trains, plus more of the ubiquitous mail trucks and a couple of buses.

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[colossal404]

Like the shots, keep 'em coming!

[Pilot]

In te 11th Picture you'll actually find 13 Class 325's
But still great screens.
EDIT: Wher did I get 11th from? I mean 5th!

[SniperDJ]

Like the shots, keep 'em coming!

i agree

[Emperor Jake]

These are awesome shots Nice and busy, I like that.

[FLHerne]

Thanks for the responses .

In te 11th Picture you'll actually find 13 Class 325's

Your number is closer than mine, but it's still wrong . Having looked at it again with the stations invisible, there are in fact ten trains of 325's visible. These are formed of 25 individual 325's, of which 22 are actually visible (some trains go off the edge). [/random statistic nitpicking]

Little Sutton, above, had three tracks going off to the left - that's the branch to Twyford. First stop is Melton Mowbray Town (being converged on by EMUs), although fast through trains use the avoiding line and head straight for Southampton, as the 91+DVT set is doing on the right. A pair of 92-hauled oil trains are passing (glitchily) on the bridge, as a pair of Tube trains call at the packed underground station.

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The area immediately to the west - this is Melton Mowbray West, on the line from Guernsey to Twyford Valley. An Electrostar leaves the bay for the Hampstead branch, while another traverses the single track from Southampton. A Tube service terminates.

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Rather more peaceful...about as far from the city bustle as it's possible to get, the ferry from Leighton Buzzard approaches the jetty at Disley.

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[Dave]

These are class!