Thames - Mersey Exploration

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:48 pm

Ok everyone is playing with this today so here's an open thread for you to post some travel snaps.

Here are five to start things off.

D322 with a northbound parcels train.

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E3027 with a southbound express train

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jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:19 pm

North of Crewe...and its raining

South of Crewe EE power meets

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:59 pm

nice transparencies!
on the driver aids i mean, i had got the transparencie patch, but is this a new one?
Pete

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:41 pm

petermakosch wrote:nice transparencies!
on the driver aids i mean, i had got the transparencie patch, but is this a new one?
Pete

Hi Pete
Now your asking...I'm sure it came from http://www.thetrain.de but I think its also on http://www.train-sim.com
but its made me search...and I dont think I've got the original zip file...

Jon

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:46 pm

Deltic on the Mersey Express at Rugby.#

matpef · Post by **matpef** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:47 pm

On the 3rd picture, the speed limit is smudeged beyond 'readability' and on the 7th, the coaches are floating! WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Breedlings · Post by **Breedlings** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:13 pm

D1111 with a southbound Freightliner on a wet summers day

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1crick14a · Post by **1crick14a** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:28 pm

Feet up Fireman gotta be the best caption I've seen
we got mail bag pick up points we got everything we
ever dreamed of we got two routes one electric one steam
I'm gonna save and reload in electric and save again on
disk this is awesome...........Rick

PS that's Pete's Coronation up front with 15 on.

BrianB · Post by **BrianB** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:55 am

Just a few extra comments about Thames-Mersey.

I guess that most of you are concentrating on the new section from Crewe down to Euston, which in it's own right is a fantastic new experience - but there is a LOT more to be discovered.

When Dave brought me on board as Chief Tester after the release of V2 and before V3 started, I did fairly exhaustive testing of all the track and scenery in what was then the current V1 and V2. I sent many extensive reports to Dave, not only identifying corrections for some minor problems, but also suggesting additions and improvements. To my initial surprise, Dave took all these on board, and incorporated them into the new V3.

For example, Edge Hill, Wavertree, Speke Junction, Chester and Crewe have had substantial makeovers - all the lines north of Liverpool, had minimal goods facilities, now just about every station has goods facilities - the Aintree gridiron and the Fazakerley sidings are now added - Southport was extensively revised - all the locomotive depots in this area were added (incidentaly, all LMS steam locomotive depots in the route have been based on authentic LMS track plans dating from the 30's, 40's and 50's, within the limitations of MSTS) - the missing stations from Crewe to Chester were added - I could go on and on about the changes !!!

So if you are even remotely familiar with the areas contained in V1 and V2, take some time to come back and investigate these older areas too, there are very extensive revisions all through the V1/V2 areas. I think you will quite like what you find in here.

Regards, Brian Bere-Streeter

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:53 am

Some excellent SVR stock down the London end (pre 1960)
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Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:43 am

I really want T-M, but I doubt TS can handle it! I would have to download the entire route selection up to the latest (500MB of downloads

). What space would it take on my HDD fully unzipped?

rorz101uk · Post by **rorz101uk** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:25 am

could u put screen shots of Leicester GC?

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:07 pm

martinhodgson wrote:I really want T-M, but I doubt TS can handle it! I would have to download the entire route selection up to the latest (500MB of downloads ). What space would it take on my HDD fully unzipped?

On my system:-

From a standing start - 185Mb download
Total disk consumption - 687Mb, 9769 Files

The downloads weren't too bad as I was getting over 215kb/s over the Works T1 line on Monday

Post by **NeutronIC** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:39 pm

500MB of downloads

My word, where on earth do you get that idea?

Matt.

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:59 pm

Oops - I'm sure I recalled it from your pre-release announcement. Make that 200

Hmm, I just cleared out my HDD with MSTS - now with 3 extra gigabytes to play with

. Makes MSTS run spectacularly fast too

Fine, you convinced me

Atomic Systems

Thames - Mersey Exploration

Thames - Mersey Exploration

Exploration - there's more than you think !!!