UK Screenshots (Hi Res Version)

[Lord-Claud-Hamilton]

Oh, you United Kingdomer's are so efficient with your resources. Good point, I must admit that's very good planning. Timetables planned months ahead? Gee, I wish that would work here. The news said just a couple of weeks ago that on average, two Queensland commuter trains are cancelled each day. Pretty bad, huh?

I have to say that, in most cases, this is more to do with necessity rather than efficiency or good planning.

Thanks to extreme short-sightedness (blindness some might say) in the past, the capacity of the Main Line routes (and many others) is at a maximum and finding the required/requested track access is almost an art.

Passenger services are given priority and, along with the timetable issues Nexusdj mentioned, results in a lack of flexibility that prevents much freight being hauled by train.

I would be very surprised if we have less than two passenger trains cancelled a day, especially at the moment, and a timetable planned months ahead means nothing if the TOC's decide not to keep to them!

I guess i'd better post some screenshots sfter that.....

Does anybody recognise the snow covered station building in the above image?

 

[angelah]

Snow building

Quote :- Does anybody recognise the snow covered station building in the above image?

Perhaps if you give us a clue as to what route it is on that might help?

It does look very British so I assume it's UK-side.

Angela

 

[Lord-Claud-Hamilton]

Perhaps if you give us a clue as to what route it is on that might help?
Angela

Whoops....I really didn't explain that very well.

The screenshot is from my updated Welney Wash Route. The station building was created by Sparky123456 but has never been uploaded to the DLS.

Because I transferred this route from my old PC as a cdp I need to find all the assets for the route.......and I cant find this one.

Sparky123456 is no longer active within the Trainz Community and I was hoping that he might have sent this item to other people as well as myself.

I dont want to begin any further work on the route until i have all the assets again....this is the last one I need to find.

 

[lewisner]

An A4 "streaks" past a local bus just south of Sledmere & Fimber station on the Malton & Driffield Railway.

 

[scottling]

Haha! A bus with a crank handle!:hehe: This route must be themed back in the 20's or 30's, right?
By the way, great improvement on screenshot quality, this is coming along nicely.

Keep it up,
Scottling.

 

[emo]

Nice shots all.

 

[oselek]

Hi Nexus.Where can i find the tracks from your screenshot?:udrool:

 

[rjl1993]

*Double post*

 

[rjl1993]

 

[ekin1972]

Here are a handful of screenshots from the area I'm currently working on, which extends from the northern portal of Shildon tunnel across to Auckland Park in the north.

As well as the familiar (and surviving!) line from Shildon to Bishop Auckland, there was also a line (the "Tunnel Branch") from the northern portal of Shildon Tunnel to West Auckland at Fieldon Bridge (see the map at http://www.haggerleases.co.uk/history_1/map3.gif). The Tunnel branch closed with Randolph Colliery near Evenwood on 31st August 1968 (itself 6 years after the Stainmore line itself closed), so in reality I never got to see it and only learnt of it later.

What's particularly interesting to me is that the Tunnel Branch was opened by the S&D to replace the Brusselton Inclines, so it has a real place in history in its own right. It's a real pity it's not better documented - I've not found a single contemporary photo of the branch.

As this is a "work in progress" post, the following screenshots are somewhat incomplete. In particular, you'll see areas of untextured landscape, a lack of trees etc. as I'm trying to give a flavour of this part of the route here (an area which I've not shown before) rather than show the finished article.

The view from Tunnel Branch (or Shildon North) Junction looking north towards Auckland Park and Coundon. The lines on the left form the Tunnel Branch to West Auckland, Butterknowle and Barnard Castle, whilst those on the right lead to Bishop Auckland itself. All that remains here today is a single line to Bishop Auckland, as an be seen in the photo at http://blackhatrailwaypics.fotopic.net/p41265262.html.

The junction where the private sidings at Auckland Park Colliery met the Shildon-Bishop Auckland branch. Although Auckland Park Colliery closed in 1946, the site remained active as a pumping station until 1961.

Looking back up towards Tunnel Branch junction from the Tunnel Branch. The line to Bishop Auckland can be seen coming in from the left.

...and back the other way.

Finally, these two shots show where the Tunnel Branch meets the West Auckland - Bishop Auckland line at Fieldon's Bridge Junction. Full landscaping here is still a little way off, but West Auckland MPD can just be seen in the background behind the large gas tank.

This is wonderful and thank you also for the history lesson. Very interesting indeed!!

 

[ekin1972]

Millton Central with 124 waiting to depart for St Euston Cross

 

[ekin1972]

The under construction St Euston Cross

 

[emo]

This is wonderful and thank you also for the history lesson. Very interesting indeed!!

i don't think there is any need to quote all those pics again when all you want to say is very interesting.

 

[durhamlass]

i don't think there is any need to quote all those pics again when all you want to say is very interesting.

I was just about to say the same thing. I'm always happy to dig a bit into history regardless.

 

[chefbyte]

@ekin

You planning on releasing this route? Reason I ask is that TC3 track, if so when you upload it only those with TC3 will be able to use it?

 

[ekin1972]

@ekin

You planning on releasing this route? Reason I ask is that TC3 track, if so when you upload it only those with TC3 will be able to use it?

No I'n not planning to release it. And its the S&C add on track and I use 2010.

 

[lewisner]

A local farmer makes his way past Rocklands farm to the grain warehouse at Sledmere station.

 

[Paulsw2]

@ekin1972: I'm interested in the curtain wall at the back of St Euston Cross terminus - it looks like AJS station kit, but where does the stip of windows on the first floor come from?

Paul

 

[ekin1972]

@ekin1972: I'm interested in the curtain wall at the back of St Euston Cross terminus - it looks like AJS station kit, but where does the stip of windows on the first floor come from?

Paul

The window's are "DS Apartment Block 03" with the AJS perimeter wall ran in front to hide the doors and windows.

 

[Paulsw2]

Thanks. And the doors you've embedded in the AJS Perimeter Wall? They look like something I've seen recently, but I can't quite remember.

Paul