After long admiring the high quality screenshots posted in this forum, i finally decided to post some of my current project.
As a great fan of british electric traction, i needed some sort of excuse to run as many of the great models available in Trainz as possible on one layout.
This obviously required some bending of facts, and this is what i came up with:
After the 1845 act allowing the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London & Northwestern Railway (L&NWR) joint operations on the West London Line (WLL), the GWR decided to build another london terminus around Sloane Square accessed via a short spur diverging from the WLL at Lots Rd Jct.: London Wooster Street Station (or LWS for short -- it is of course named after the great Wodehouse character).
With the connection of the WLL to the Brighton Main Line (BML) at Clapham Jct, the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) also began running services to LWS, to relieve its congested Victoria station.
From 1870, the GWR built a connection at LWS from the WLL to the Metropolitan District Railway, to run services on the Middle Circle: Paddington - Westbourne Park - Shepherds Bush - Addiscombe Rd (today Kensington Olympia) - LWS - Victoria - Mansion House.
With the electrification of its suburban lines, the L&NWR started running 3rd rail electric services via the North London Line (NLL) from the 1910s.
In the 1930s, as part of the new works programme, flyovers were built at Lots Rd Jct, to increase capacity and allow additional NLL and BML trains to terminate at LWS.
In the 1970s, British Rail decided to electrify LWS with ac overhead lines in connection with its concurrent GWML electrification scheme, so that it could act as a diversionary terminus for Paddington. Also, a connection was built to the WCML fast lines at Willesden Jct, so that LWS could act as a diversionary for Euston, too.
In the 1980s, new intercity connections were established via LWS:
From the North (Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham via the WCML) and the West (Cardiff, Bristol via the GWML) to Brighton, both via the WLL and LWS. At LWS, trains would reverse and change loco from ac to dc electric or vice versa.
So far, so hypothetical. I decided to translate this fictional scenario as it was in the 1970s into Trainz as a model railway, so that only certain sections will be built: LWS (obviously), and Lots Rd Jct with a station that is yet to find a name.
As I'm from Switzerland, I may not be completely up-to-date on UK railways & their history, so I'd be glad for constructive criticism (both in re the "history" of LWS and my Trainz modelling)!
One concrete question I'm pondering at the moment: how realistic are the many flyovers (considering LWS has only 6 tracks)?
As a great fan of british electric traction, i needed some sort of excuse to run as many of the great models available in Trainz as possible on one layout.
This obviously required some bending of facts, and this is what i came up with:
After the 1845 act allowing the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London & Northwestern Railway (L&NWR) joint operations on the West London Line (WLL), the GWR decided to build another london terminus around Sloane Square accessed via a short spur diverging from the WLL at Lots Rd Jct.: London Wooster Street Station (or LWS for short -- it is of course named after the great Wodehouse character).
With the connection of the WLL to the Brighton Main Line (BML) at Clapham Jct, the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) also began running services to LWS, to relieve its congested Victoria station.
From 1870, the GWR built a connection at LWS from the WLL to the Metropolitan District Railway, to run services on the Middle Circle: Paddington - Westbourne Park - Shepherds Bush - Addiscombe Rd (today Kensington Olympia) - LWS - Victoria - Mansion House.
With the electrification of its suburban lines, the L&NWR started running 3rd rail electric services via the North London Line (NLL) from the 1910s.
In the 1930s, as part of the new works programme, flyovers were built at Lots Rd Jct, to increase capacity and allow additional NLL and BML trains to terminate at LWS.
In the 1970s, British Rail decided to electrify LWS with ac overhead lines in connection with its concurrent GWML electrification scheme, so that it could act as a diversionary terminus for Paddington. Also, a connection was built to the WCML fast lines at Willesden Jct, so that LWS could act as a diversionary for Euston, too.
In the 1980s, new intercity connections were established via LWS:
From the North (Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham via the WCML) and the West (Cardiff, Bristol via the GWML) to Brighton, both via the WLL and LWS. At LWS, trains would reverse and change loco from ac to dc electric or vice versa.
So far, so hypothetical. I decided to translate this fictional scenario as it was in the 1970s into Trainz as a model railway, so that only certain sections will be built: LWS (obviously), and Lots Rd Jct with a station that is yet to find a name.
As I'm from Switzerland, I may not be completely up-to-date on UK railways & their history, so I'd be glad for constructive criticism (both in re the "history" of LWS and my Trainz modelling)!
One concrete question I'm pondering at the moment: how realistic are the many flyovers (considering LWS has only 6 tracks)?
