Old and new at Newbury Station

timbooth · Post by **timbooth** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:01 pm

Here's a few screenshots of the progress of Newbury Station on my DN&S route, showing the detailed station buildings on the up platform. To be added to this platform is the canopy, and footbridge that spans all 4 lines.

The main building

And a recent visitor

Here's an early photo of the prototype for comparison...

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:07 pm

Looking good, any idea of a release date yet? we need somewhere for Dity of Truro to run and this is it

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gopher · Post by **gopher** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:13 pm

Very nice indeed. Footbridge looks as if it might give you some fun.

timbooth · Post by **timbooth** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:16 pm

I'm hoping to release a beta version late October - just Newbury to Didcot - which will be track, platforms, and a few buildings to give an idea of what to expect from the full release.

CaldRail · Post by **CaldRail** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:02 pm

Grrrr Tim, you're going to put me out of business!

Ah well, nothing like worthy competition. Nice one, I like it.

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:45 pm

Very nice Tim cant wait to run a few Gwr Loco goods over it mmm

pete

CaldRail · Post by **CaldRail** » Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:51 pm

Over it? CRUNCH! SMASH! Thump.. Bounce..Bounce.. Uh oh...

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:14 am

Brings a new dimension to monster truck shows, eh?

Seriously, Tim, that building is excellent. Have you hand drawn the brick textures or used photos from somewhere?

timbooth · Post by **timbooth** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:10 am

I felt its about time buildings got the same attention to detail as loco's, though only the buildings near to the track will get this detail - the fps suffers a little.

The textures are 100% hand-drawn. I could use photo's of the real thing as I only live about half a mile away, but I'm not sure the detail of photos would show up very well, so it may not be worth the effort. The other problem is that the building has been modified in places, and its difficult to know whats original - its also very weathered, and painted in NSE/Thames Trains colours. However, I may use part-photographic textures for the final version - I don't want to get bogged down in too much detail at this stage.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:16 pm

Hand drawn eh? Nice job.

Don't think the line will be terribly profitable - doesn't look like too dense a passenger catchment area in that 2nd pic.

fadedGlory · Post by **fadedGlory** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:48 pm

Brilliant, that station building! Congratulations!

I only think that the pavement looks in far too good a condition, if you know what I mean

fG

timbooth · Post by **timbooth** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 9:50 pm

Yes, rather bare landscape at the moment but this will soon change - and some interesting landmarks to come. The pavements have been lovingly looked after, as stations used to be

Incidentally, the DN&S line wasnt profitable, much of the line ran sparsely populated areas - which makes modelling a bit easier

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 6:42 am

CaldRail wrote:Over it? CRUNCH! SMASH! Thump.. Bounce..Bounce.. Uh oh...

The train now arriving ON Platform 1 is the 10:19 Didcot to Newbury Service (comes the announcement as the train drives up the platform)

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duckweed · Post by **duckweed** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 7:53 am

Great building Tim, very close to the original pic, and love that station announcement from Eddie.

Regards,

~Terry~

RichardScott · Post by **RichardScott** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:12 am

I wish you people would stop bringing out these superb routes! I just cannot avoid getting a new larger Hard Disc soon to fit them all on.

Cheers

Richard Scott