jon's ivanhoe route

[jains15]

hi

Ive held off from announcing this because i wanted to have a working route first. Im creating the Ivanhoe line, running south from Loughborough, through Leicester where it turns west and heads towards Burton-on-Trent.

Progress is as follows
Terrain - 100% (demmed terrain)
Tracks - 100% (X tracks)
Signals - 5% (uses indicator signals, theatre signals and ground signals)
Scenery - 5% (platforms and a power station)

Features of the route:
- Principal stations leicester, burton, loughborough, with sileby, syston and barrow on the mainline. Numerous stations in between leicester and burton.
- Lafarge aggregates (closer to looughborough than in the real world, but provides a freight terminal close to the end of the route)
- 3 line running south of syston
- Leicester depot
- Junction at syston
- Ivanhoe junction (full triangle reinstated, more on this below)
- Bardon quarries
- Industrial sidings
- Drakelow Power station
- Burton junction

The route is set present day/near future, with passenger services reinstated on the Ivanhoe branch, albeit very limited. Mostly single track between burton and leicester, and mainline north of leicester. A hilly route, requires attention to driving due to the dem terrain! it is 28 miles of Ivanhoe, with 16 miles of mainline.

I must stress that this is FICTIONAL. Admittedly, it has proto or near proto areas, but on the whole this is a route that i decided to create and i did like, 2 hours research, the rest is from memory. The stations are in their real world locations, thanks to me mapping them out using streetmap.co.uk, so the general lie of the track is right. Im calling it fictional to cover myself and so as not to disappoint people.

I must warn you that i am at uni, and work will slow down in the new year as i have a dissertation to write therefore my ETA is april.

any thoughts let me know below.

haha one last thing, this line actually runs past the back of my house, so i will actually appear on it in my usual place. That is sitting in the garden drinking beer watching class 60's roar by Also this is my very first content for msts apart from the odd activity for myself and ive only just started to learn how to use RE. So it may be a little rough round the edges

regards jon

I couldn't put this up last night as my internet connection had a hissy fit!

[LucaZone]

Sounds very promising. Finally a route that goes through Leicester thats more than just chatter.

Cant wait to see screenshots

Just out of curiousity, and i know u said its not prototypical except for stations and track layout, but not locations and directions. Is the below image roughly the line uve created?

The red area im assuming is not possible for you.

[duncharris]

I though the Ivanhoe line was the plan to reinstate passenger trains on the freight line from Leicester to Burton via Coalville, scuppered due to lack of cash. Coalville in its heydey would be good though. As would Burton brewery yards.

[chriscooper]

This is one I'm definetly looking forward to, a local route finally
Just as long as you're route doesn't end up like the real one, only as far as Leicester
As I live in Loughborugh and travel regualrly over the open part of this route, if you want any details or photos I can do my best to help.

[jains15]

yeah i had an incling the plans had been scrapped. but hey, it's my route, if its reinstated its reinstated! hehe No i have really done it to add variety. CT158's anyone?

No chris the tracks been laid all the way to burton so don't worry! And thanks for the offer of help i'll shout if i want some. most likely ill want photos of all the sidings arough lough station and the junction south of the station.