More screenshots (1024 x 768)
Edit: Removed old images from my server to save space.
Some more screenshots from my Cambridge - Huntingdon route (on DLS - see
this post for more details). Apologies for so many images, but I can't decide what to edit out, and it gives a full synopsis of the route for anybody thinking of downloading it.
Captions beneath each image as usual.
Starting at the southern end of my route, at the fictional station of Trumpington (a 'real' former station on a long-since disused route, which is currently being destroyed to make way for a pointless concrete 'busway' instead). Adjacent is one of Cambridge's park&ride sites, making this an ideal start to the route. Here we see a commuter train ready to depart for Cambridge and Huntingdon.
The train pulls out of the terminus.
The track splits to double shortly after Trumpington, before making the short journey to the next station which is at Long Road, at the south edge of Cambridge itself and an important stop for commuters and those going to the nearby Addenbrookes hospital.
After Long Road, the route joins the mainline from London, on the southern approaches to Cambridge station.
Our trains pulls in to Cambridge.
As I've explained in an earlier post in this topic, Cambridge station is fairly unusual for those who don't know it - the real station has one very long single platform (plus four bay platforms), which is the only through platform, meaning trains work in both directions and have to use a centre cross-over. I've added the artistic liberty of a 'new' island platform (just to the top-right of this shot), to ease congestion added by the new trains on my route. (I've also added the much-needed platform canopies to the existing station - many wet days spent waiting for trains here!!)
A very unusual shot at Cambridge these days, a loco-hauled service. This must be a special, particularly as 'Anglia' has long since ceased to exist as a train operating company! The train is in one of the south bay platforms, heading towards London.
The Cambridge cross-over. Still important to access the main platform (left-hand side), but less busy now I've added the 'new' (fictional) island platform to the right, built on the current relief lines and stabling sidings.
Overhead shot of Cambridge - obviously with quite a lot of artistic licence here! Our train is pulling away to the right of the picture, heading off towards Huntingdon.
Just before we leave Cambridge, here is the north bay platforms. The 'one' DMU, probably heading towards Norwich or Ipswich, has obviously yet to be rebranded to it's new operator: National Express East Anglia.
(continued in next post...)
