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Sillo wrote:

RolandBP wrote:I am not sure if this is the correct place to make mention of my 5-part series of shunting scenarios for this route or not.
Anyway to find all scenarios for this route can be a bit of a mission, due to the official "tick the box" for this route shows absolutely nothing. The only way you find anything is to type either "Weardale" or "Teesdale" and you get a number of those uploaded. But if you have called your scenario by some obscure name like "I did", then you may never find them. So should you be interested in a steam loco only scenario, my collection can be found by typing in "Crook" as that is part of the name that I called the 5-part scenario. "Brick Making Supplies to Crook".
I have contacted DTG about the problem with the official link to this excellent route Ages ago, but have heard nothing back.
My next 2-part scenario will be called "Wear Valley ......" Maybe it will then be seen more readily.
Roland.

Thanks for that tip. It puzzled me as to why very few scenarios had been written for this excellent route. Agreed this search bug should be addressed but in the meantime I have a new search criteria at least.
Keith

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08994 wrote:I have to say I think this route is fantastic. I don't do country routes, so I was a little hesitant about purchasing this route at first, however the Darlington to Durham section of the route, including both Crook and Spennymoor branches, is very intense with plenty of industry, sidings, stations, sheds, loops and track and has the feel of an inter urban route rather than a country one, so suits my needs very well and I would recommend the route to users who don't normally enjoy country routes. I'm quite surprised that the Darlington to Bishops Auckland section had enough traffic to justify all the track, even pre Beeching. Darlington looks great, a massive step forward compared to the Darlington modelled in the original ECML route. Durham is especially nice as well.

I thought it was strange that the wagon works at Shildon wasn't included as the track leading to it has been laid, but of course you can't have everything and should I get the route butchering/modifying bug again I'll have a go at building it myself.

I think the 'network' concept is a big improvement on traditional a to b style routes, and I hope to see more routes featuring networks. It certainly feels more playable.

marcusboon wrote:

levisham wrote:I have just been going through my collection of NER books and came across this one: Railway Memories No.2 Darlington and South West Durham by Bellcode Books ISBN 1-871233-01-1. It just about covers most of the Weardale and Teesdale Route, not in great detail but with some history and lots of b/w photos, but enough to show what the area was like in it's heyday. I'll be giving it a read again in the next few days. AbeBooks have used copies for sale starting at just GBP3.08......................

To add to the above: a revised and expanded second edition 'Railway Memories No. 17 Darlington & South West Durham' by Stephen Chapman was published by Bellcode Books (1-871233-17-8) in 2005.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darlington-Sout ... 1871233178

A very useful article appeared in 'Steam Days', November 2005: 'Bishop Auckland in the 1950s' by Colin Ryder (page 678-692). http://www.magazineexchange.co.uk/steam ... ?&cat=3345

Last but not least: A reprint of the Summer 1953 Darlington District WTT is available from http://www.wttreprint.talktalk.net/

Marcus