Yorkshire Coast Railway Preview

johncarr · Post by **johncarr** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:00 pm

A few DMUs Grosmont to Goathland.

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Leaving Grosmont tunnel

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Starting the climb

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On the bank

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Arriving Goathland

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Goathland

John Carr

TOMMO79 · Post by **TOMMO79** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:58 pm

Atlantic at Seamer on a Hull - Scarborough express

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A8 69882 emerging from the mist into Goathland station.

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A pair of 37's thread their train of wagons acroos the points to gain the mainline to York.

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G5 1911 crossing Sandsend beach on one of many steel viaducts on this line.

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D206 grinding up the 1 in 49 bank out of Grosmont

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69882 again leaving Ravenscar with a train for Scarborough

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spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:26 am

This is too much! Any ideas on an estimated release date?

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:31 am

Hopefully before Christmas (yes, this one

)

John

kevpotts · Post by **kevpotts** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:37 am

Well done Fella - count me in as a customer!

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:30 pm

Great JK! Will have to make sure my Christmas shopping's done before it's out otherwise it might never get done!!!

chrisj94 · Post by **chrisj94** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:14 pm

All looking very tasty,looking forward to this route!
Thanks
All the best
Chris

jascott · Post by **jascott** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:29 pm

This looks like a must-have route. The very atmospheric screenshots are really whetting my appetite.

It is clear that a great deal of thought has gone into, not only the route, but the choice of stock to go with it.

And to have so many new locos is icing on the cake.

Well done.

John

117305 · Post by **117305** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:21 pm

count me in as well mind u its already on my list

wonder how many i can get up the bank out of grosmont

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:03 pm

There will be the great new stock items included on the CD; perhps the most important one being the most widely used steam loco in the area, the G5. However, the included activities have used the more familiar tried and tested stock so there will be plenty of scope to upload some new activities using the new items.

If we'd waited for the new items to do the activities and test them, the route could have ended up never seeing the light of day; the G5, for instance is new this month and the A5's amd A8's are also only a couple of months old.

I will thank the route testers for coming up with some really great screenshots. I sometimes think to myself, is that really the YCR?! From the route development point of view, it's easier making a reasonable looking MSTS landscape from a great real landscape than it is from a flat boring landscape.

John

JonathonAG · Post by **JonathonAG** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:14 pm

does this route need any default routes installed?

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:57 pm

The route is presently with Alan S to create the installer so it depends on how he makes that. However, as some use has been made of objects and textures from the default routes I would anticipate the need for them to be installed to allow objects to be copied across by a batch file so as to allow more space for for a larger selection of extra stock

. Certainly so for the downloadable version.

Having said that, there are quite a number of new objects and bespoke terrain textures so the YCR isn't full of things from the default routes.

John

dan43 · Post by **dan43** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:23 pm

just a quick question, does the route go as far as bridlington?

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:47 am

The track runs right up (down?) to Carnaby (no, not Carnaby Street, Central London

)

So yes, Bridlington is included. Screenshot looking north from the northbound platforms.

The trackwork for this branch is one of the most recent additions to the route so is nowhere near fully sceneried yet, but it has been signalled. The trackwork is built to the 1911ish layout which lasted up to the 1960's, like most of the YCR.

John

TOMMO79 · Post by **TOMMO79** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:31 am

To compliment the screenshots I'm putting together a short selection of video clips ( YCR The Movie

) showing various loco's in various locations. I used the FRAPS program reccomended in the forums a couple of days ago, It doesn't seem to agree with my video editing software but I might have something uploaded by sometime next week.