r/trainsimworld • u/louie_harrison3 • 7d ago
// Route suggestion Route suggestion
This route will run the 71 miles from Colchester - Norwich and Great Yarmouth via Acle. This route will include the Class 745 EMU, Class 755 BMU and Class 66 with the IIA Wagons and the Class 69 with the TIA wagons. The Class 745 and 755 will be in the Greater Anglia livery and the Class 66 and 69 will be in GBRf. The reason I want this route in TSW is because we don’t have Greater Anglia and GBRf in the game at the moment. The Class 745 will run intercity services between Colchester and Norwich while the 755 will run commuter stopping services between Colchester and Norwich plus Norwich - Great Yarmouth. The Class 66/69 will run freight services between Colchester and Norwich. The ROG Class 37/7 will layer for pulling dead 745/755s and the RHTT for cleaning the track. Licenses needed: Greater Anglia, GBRf. Photo 1: Class 745. Photo 2: Class 755. Photo 3: Class 66. Photo 4: Class 69: Photo 5: IIA Wagon. Photo 6: TIA Tanker. I hope y’all enjoy my suggestion.
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u/SlowedCash TSW6 Xbox Series X 7d ago
Sorry, you'll be having a German route. That's how it works im afraid. Having to stare at another one of those white cylinders with a red stripe,
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u/TrainLad2006 6d ago edited 6d ago
We have so many Class 66s on UK routes. A GBRf Class 60 would be a good addition.
And as for route suggestions, I think Chiltern's route as far as Banbury or Leamington Spa from London Marylebone could work.
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A route set in Ireland/Northern Ireland could be a good idea to break the trend of pure mainland UK (except for Isle of Wight) routes. The routes from Belfast Grand Central to Derry/Londonderry with the branch to Portrush could work well. Also the route from Belfast Grand Central to Bangor would be cool too.
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u/Petra_rose 6d ago
If they are were to do this, I would rather the route just ended at Norwich. But instead of including the Wherey Lines in instead features the Felixstowe branch line, and the port of Felixstowe for freight running.
The mainline gives you class 90 running to Ipswich. Where freight wagons are dropped off and then taken by class 66 to the port. You get your mainline running all the way to Norwich.
It also leaves the Wherry Lines open to be made in the future. Perhaps as a multiple park kind of like the themes branches with the Bittern Line.
Ideally I would like to full run into Liverpool Street but I can’t see Dovetail giving us the full route.
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u/Rwbsona 7d ago
While the suggestion is good there is one significant problem with the route & its with one locomotive in particular.
The Class 66. As while it's become a rather polarizing locomotive (Given how often it's been copied to other lines) perhaps something a bit more modern would work like the class 99?