Manchester to Liverpool Route (Stephens Rocket time)

cousinit796 · Post by **cousinit796** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:57 pm

I would like to know if there is a Manchester to Liverpool route aroung the time of Stephens rocket and if there isn't could someone please make it
Thanks

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:57 pm

There isn't one, sorry. I have an insane hankering to do the Stockton & Darlington one day, complete with stone block sleepers and animated horses...

Needs an inclined plane animation too.

davidaward · Post by **davidaward** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:59 pm

Would be a good project to do some early steam/horse drawn line as something totally different for MSTS, any takers???

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 2:34 pm

It would take ages to run the whole route....and you'd have to stop for lunch.

Then there would be all the carts and stagecoaches to make for the carspawners

Seriously, a short,very early days route would be fun.

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:45 pm

Could do a drift mine route, well mabey.

Don't think MSTS deals too well with animal instructions though.

Like for the accelerator (nope can't remember what msts calls the thing that you use to change speed) are there different settings like

Woah, Gee up etc?

cousinit796 · Post by **cousinit796** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 4:47 pm

ok, i wanted to know because i have stephensons rocket and the settle to carlisle line isnt good for the train (it slips down the hills) so if there is someone wanting to take on this project i would be grateful

terrycunliffe · Post by **terrycunliffe** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 6:13 pm

cousinit796 wrote:I would like to know if there is a Manchester to Liverpool route aroung the time of Stephens rocket and if there isn't could someone please make it
Thanks

NWE covers the route... so the hard works been done.. just take out the appropriate signals and station / station lamps, adjust the scenery, and HEY PRESTO....!

Terry

simont · Post by **simont** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 6:22 pm

Which Liverpool - Manchester route was the first one, then? Was it the Hunts Cross - Widnes - Warrington, or the Huyton - Earlstown - Eccles?

I'm just asking out of interest, this isn't an offer to build it...

terrycunliffe · Post by **terrycunliffe** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:18 pm

simont wrote:Which Liverpool - Manchester route was the first one, then? Was it the Hunts Cross - Widnes - Warrington, or the Huyton - Earlstown - Eccles?

I'm just asking out of interest, this isn't an offer to build it...

It was the Route via Newton-le-Willows... The "Huskisson Monument" depicted (rather poorly) in NWE is the point where, on the 15th September 1830, The Right Honourable William Huskisson, MP met his death on the opening day of the railroad at the now defunct Parkside Station, and thus became the first person in the world to be killed by a Locomotive.

Here endeth the History Lesson

If anyone is interested, there is an excellent book on how the railway came into being... "The Last Journey of William Huskisson" by Simon Garfield. ISBN 0-571-21048-1

Regards,
Terry

Jontan · Post by **Jontan** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:41 pm

C'mon everbody do the Locomotion! Seariously, that'd be a nice little thing to puff around with, wheee!

/Jonatan

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:19 pm

ianmacmillan wrote:Then there would be all the carts and stagecoaches to make for the carspawners

That would be cartspawners then?

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:21 pm

cousinit796 · Post by **cousinit796** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 4:54 pm

can ne1 help me

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