Penzance to Paddington

[nigel6446]

Thank you Dave. That's great news. That's the part I shall be playng with the most and hope it looks realistic. It's one of the most scenic branch line in the UK and for those who don't know it, I hope the design will do it justice.

[saddletank]

Dave - any chance of some screenshots of some of the branches please?

[davepascoe]

Dear Martin,

All screenshots I tend to leave to my partner who will be back from vacation next week , lets see what he comes up with .

Dave

[eugene]

It looks surperb don't take to long as it will go nicely with gopher's route and all those lovely green loco's with all the brass.

eugene

[dwjoy]

To Saddletank ... I suppose I chose the 1950 era because I can remember avidly collecting GWR engine numbers during that period. Several pieces of the route are done from memory, such as Paignton Station with the iron lattice footbridge that every boy would stand on, waiting for the train to depart and be enveloped in steam as the engine passed underneath.
Derick

Thanks, I suspected your childhood may have had something to do with it. What you experience in childhood often influences much of later life, including Trainsim projects! Were you one of those boys on the bridge BTW

Yes

[dwjoy]

Martin,
Shown is the AE picture of West Cornwall. Is there any particular branch line you had in mind?

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Derick

[saddletank]

Helston? Portreath? Princetown? I was just curious to see what kind of treatment you'd given them.

[dwjoy]

Thank you Dave. That's great news. That's the part I shall be playng with the most and hope it looks realistic. It's one of the most scenic branch line in the UK and for those who don't know it, I hope the design will do it justice.

Nigel,
We will make it as realistic as possible bearing in mind the scope of the route - over 600 miles. Clearly, we cannot make every mile reflect reality. Our design guidelines are:
1. Reasonable geographic accuracy (lat and Long of the track)
2. Good topography (accurate elevation so gradients are in the right place)
3. Features which give the line its character - such as the Tamar Bridge, the Uffington Horse, the seawall at Dawlish, Paddington station, the palm tree on Lostwithiel station, etc, etc must be present.
4. Locate all stations, bridges, viaducts and tunnels.
5. Lower quadrant signaling throughout.
6. Include all branch lines that were in operation in the period 1945-1950.
Since I was born in Plymouth and Dave is a Cornishman, there are sections of the route that neither of us have travelled....so, we are going to use our imaginations and put in place scenery which we thing ought to be there. Inevitably, someone will tell us that we missed.
Nigel - if you have any photos that would help in the construction of scenery for the St Ives branch, please scan it in and email it to me.

Derick

[dwjoy]

Hope you never have to reset all your junction sig's after a TDB rebuild. There must be hundreds.

Yes.... all the junction signals do have to be reset (in some cases, deleted and rebuilt) after a track data base rebuild. The way Dave and I work is that I send him a CD containing the zipped route at some significant point in the development process for him to review and test. That CD will have all signals functional. While he is finding my errors and omissions, I continue to lay track, scenery, install his models, etc and, on a daily basis, rebuild the track - thereby destroying the junction signals. This is OK because I dont need them, but it does mean that before Dave gets the next CD, I have to go over the entire track and re-do the signals. Sounds bad but isnt really - about 8 hours of work.

Derick

[nigel6446]

Derek. I will look up some photographs for you, but in the meantime, this web site has a night picture of St Erth station. http://www.urban75.org

This site shows the terminus at St Ives. http://www.porthminster.co.uk/html/stives.html

This site has a timetable with the details of the station and an information phone number where you may get some pictures.
http://www.carfreedaysout.com/times/ttstives/ttstiv.htm

Thishttp://www.carbisbayholidays.co.uk/html/carbis_4.html site has a picture of the train at Carbis Bay.

This site has a picture of the station building http://www.st-ives.uk.com/travel/

Hope this helps - will be in touch directly.

[martinhodgson]

Martin,
Shown is the AE picture of West Cornwall. Is there any particular branch line you had in mind?

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Derick

Wow! Will the Barnstaple - Exeter - Exmouth line be included? It looks like you've done every other line of Great Western Metals!!!

[johndibben]

Exmouth's was the Southern

I don't normally look at this forum as it has many promises that are not fulfilled but this looks excellent and on a wet Sunday night in November its cheered me up no end

I'd given up on anything appearing form this part of the World which has always been of particular interest to me

Hoever, I've promised to focus on my Narrow Gauge line which will bw done a lot quicker with this route in prospect

A very distinct part of the World and the Tamar bridge looks excellent
Having said that, please release it only when you're ready and happy with it.

The best things in life are worth waiting for.

Cheers

John

[dwjoy]

Martin,
Shown are some screen shots of the branch line to Princetown.


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Regards

Derick

[martinhodgson]

*Drools*

WOW! That is Amazing!

[Timcourt1]

lovely....Dartmoor...a framerate free zone!