That looks excellent Tom! I quite like the lighting on Ed's HR Locos to be honest. Gives them a really flashy look when running at night!
Post #3686 - Thanks Ken! I am currently working out the process and it's extremely helpful! Do you think this would work with skipper's Castles and Manors as well?
Post #3687 - Aww thanks Annie!
I had a difficult time deciding whether to use the RMS Olympic or the RMS Mauretania for the harbor stopover but since Olympic's berth was Southampton it felt fitting to use Mauretania. The real credit goes to Steveflanders because 90 percent of his assets were used to turn Dearnby into the Edwardian masterpiece it is today!
Now a bit more Dearnby Railway history if you will. In 1907 the LSWR and LNWR began a joint service to Liverpool for passengers traveling on the RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania across the Atlantic. The service was aptly named
"The Coastal Cunarder". The dockyards at Dearnby were also expanded to accommodate small passenger liners that couldn't dock in Southampton due to overcrowding.
Around the same time the GWR began a new express service from Oxford to Dearnby for passengers wishing to travel on the Coastal Cunarder and other small liners out of Dearnby. Due to traffic from dozens of pre-grouping railways during the time period the locomotives had to be able to quickly accelerate and depart from Oxford for the train to be effective. To that end George Jackson Churchward designed two 4-4-2 Atlantics off of the La France prototype for heavy express trains along the GWR mainline. The two locomotives proved to be highly successful when introduced to welsh anthracite and were assigned to the express train until their withdrawal shortly before the start of WW2.
On this morning the new service is being headed by No.104
Alliance. The introduction of the GWR Atlantics was the foundation of the deep establishment of GWR roots that would remain until the late 1960s.
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The train rolls into St. Bennett as its the last stop before the final stretch to Dearnby Central. As it does it crosses paths with local Precursor Tank on an unusually heavy stopping train. The tank is filling in for a Great Albert class that failed earlier this morning. This was a common occurrence and attributed to the longevity of Precursor Tanks on the Dearnby network in the future.
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