borderreiver
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I bought the Class 14 pack since they were used by the NCB on the Ashington system in the Northumberland Coalfield and given the growing interest in Heritage Railways perhaps N3V would ask someone, Evertrainz for example, to update their pack. However, I would probably buy the new Class 47 and Class 153 DMU and if there are to be alternative liveries then that would be a welcome addition.
As for the British Railways era between 1958 and 1994 I have often said that a new HST with Mk3 stock would be my number one priority for updating. It is among the most significant trains which have operated on the UK network over the past forty-five years, which, given its genesis out of the failure of UK governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to fund electrification of the East Coast main Line, is quite an accomplishment. My personal number two on the list is the Class 101 DMU (correction 101 not 105 oops) in two-car and three car versions.
Looking at locomotives, the sheer number of Class 37s and 47s in use across the network make them locos which can't be ignored. However, as the issues of Modern Locomotives Illustrated clearly document, they each evolved in to several different versions as well as carrying a plethora of liveries, and that obviously impacts just which versions are constructed. The Class 56 was, in general terms, an evolution of the Class 47 while the Class 57 was a derivitive of the Class 47. In my personal opinion, a Class 56 in Rail Blue with updated HAA hoppers for the 1980s and a Class 57 in First Great Western livery with Mk3 Sleepers for the 2000s would each make a pack with some appeal.
At some point N3V and Trainz asset creators are going to have to bite the bullet and start turning out UK assets built since 2010 or younger people will just not become Trainzers since there is very little to buy or download which reflects the railway they know. Perhaps not a Class 801 just yet but a Class 350 EMU, a Class 185 DMU, a Class 70 loco.
As for the British Railways era between 1958 and 1994 I have often said that a new HST with Mk3 stock would be my number one priority for updating. It is among the most significant trains which have operated on the UK network over the past forty-five years, which, given its genesis out of the failure of UK governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to fund electrification of the East Coast main Line, is quite an accomplishment. My personal number two on the list is the Class 101 DMU (correction 101 not 105 oops) in two-car and three car versions.
Looking at locomotives, the sheer number of Class 37s and 47s in use across the network make them locos which can't be ignored. However, as the issues of Modern Locomotives Illustrated clearly document, they each evolved in to several different versions as well as carrying a plethora of liveries, and that obviously impacts just which versions are constructed. The Class 56 was, in general terms, an evolution of the Class 47 while the Class 57 was a derivitive of the Class 47. In my personal opinion, a Class 56 in Rail Blue with updated HAA hoppers for the 1980s and a Class 57 in First Great Western livery with Mk3 Sleepers for the 2000s would each make a pack with some appeal.
At some point N3V and Trainz asset creators are going to have to bite the bullet and start turning out UK assets built since 2010 or younger people will just not become Trainzers since there is very little to buy or download which reflects the railway they know. Perhaps not a Class 801 just yet but a Class 350 EMU, a Class 185 DMU, a Class 70 loco.
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