Vulcan Productions Churnet Valley Raliway

[michaelhendle]

Hi
I think the Churnet Valley railway it's not publicized as much as the 3 main Heritage Railways,the Bluebell,Seven Valley,& Great Central,I think at times the Nene Valley,is a bit like the Churnett Valley,it's not well publicized.
Plus the fact we haven't got a well known class of locomotive in service at present,our Std 4 has come to it's 10 year boiler check,and BB 92 Squadron is still some way off being ready for service
Mike

[JustRight]

Hi All,

Downloaded and installed the CVR package, but happened to notice that the two supplied scenarios contain an error in the XML.
There is an embedded NULL character in one of the XML statements.

IE: <Name d:type="cDeltaString">[NUL]onsall Northern Approach</Name>

Presumably this should read: <Name d:type="cDeltaString">Consall Northern Approach</Name>

I discovered this when using the NameMyRoute utility as it will highlight any invalid XML.
[d5c1c220-92f6-40e4-9be3-d441c404a618 reading ScenarioProperties.xml failed - '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 365, position 32.]

Has no-one noticed this?

Cheers,
Trevor

[almark]

I shall fix this.

Is this actually showing in game or just when you delve into the xml?

[smarty2]

I do not have hatchett hill and have no intention to purchase it as it does not interest me, what impact will it have?

[37075]

Hatchett hill isn't actually used in the current version, it will be used though when the scenery is extended up to Oakamoor

Many Thanks guys for all the kind comments, obviously this was a big project for us as we've never done anything like this before. I was a little bit concerned as to how the community would take it, but I'm pleased that its gone down so well. We'll probably be releasing an update in the next couple of weeks for bug fixes. Along with new scenery on the Oakamoor section. Its been a great little project to build and being a line thats only down the road its very close to my heart!

Regards,
Cameron

[michaelhendle]

Hi

I won't bother to get the extension either,I can't see the point of spending up to £24.99 for a route I'm never going to use just to get one asset Item,for one route,also depending on how much extra rolling stock I need to buy for the scenario pack will depend on whether I get the pack or or not.

Some of us haven't got a bottomless pocket to keep buying all the extra items that seem to be needed these days,.
I'm not running the route down or the all the effort put into it,I think it's a really good add on route,and I have enjoyed running the scenario supplied.

Even though I had problem with the SSS Preserved LMS Stannier 8F the tender in the the scenario was missing and the locomotive had both the LMS number and the BR number showing,once I switched it to the BR version both the tender and locomotive showed up ok.

Mike

[sprulish]

What a lovely route. The attention to detail is superb. Thank you very much
David

[smarty2]

Thanks for the info, will download.
@Michael: Doesn't bother me that an author wishes to use whatever they like, I may pick it up cheap in a sale anyway?

[JustRight]

I shall fix this.

Is this actually showing in game or just when you delve into the xml?

Hi Mate,

I did not try to run the scenarios with the embedded NUL character. I just happened to notice when looking at the "Name My Route" utility, after which I immediately edited the XML.

It seems that no-one else has noticed, so perhaps TS2016 is able to tolerate the errant NUL characters, although that would be a great surprise as the program seems willing to crash for just about any other reason

Cheers,
Trevor

[gptech]

so perhaps TS2016 is able to tolerate the errant NUL characters

It would appear so, there were a couple of scenarios with the WCML-London & Birmingham route that had the same, or a very similar issue.

[thetrainfan]

Hi

I won't bother to get the extension either,I can't see the point of spending up to £24.99 for a route I'm never going to use just to get one asset Item,for one route,also depending on how much extra rolling stock I need to buy for the scenario pack will depend on whether I get the pack or or not.

Some of us haven't got a bottomless pocket to keep buying all the extra items that seem to be needed these days,.
I'm not running the route down or the all the effort put into it,I think it's a really good add on route,and I have enjoyed running the scenario supplied.

Even though I had problem with the SSS Preserved LMS Stannier 8F the tender in the the scenario was missing and the locomotive had both the LMS number and the BR number showing,once I switched it to the BR version both the tender and locomotive showed up ok.

Mike

The phrase "you can't please everybody" comes to mind.

I'm quite happy with the amount of payware used. It gives the route a brilliant atmosphere.

[IronBidder]

It's not really fair to compare the CVR and SVR. The Severn Valley have existed for over 50 years, whereas the CVR is a relatively new heritage railway. They're not exactly in a mega tourist area either.

I would suggest that Staffordshire Moorlands is just as big a tourist area as the Severn valley. Alton Towers doesn't seem to have a problem with its location, which is just up the road from the CVR.

What will really power up the CVR is getting on with the link to Stoke on Trent and connecting to (a) the national network and (b) a major population centre.

Are the creators planning to model the proposed link? That would help the real project too.

[almark]

We are planning to extend our version,yes,as well as do a fictional what could be/been with links to Alton (Towers),Leek and The mainline,though that's long term and not confirmed.


As for the real CVR,unfortunately they haven't had a good recent past. They have struggled for money and ripped the track from Ipstones to Cauldon up and have also ripped Froghall to Oakamoor up. There has been no real progress beyond Endon on the Stoke line for some time and in the last month they had a long applied for application to extend into Leek declined,by the council who seemingly don't favour the railway either.

[deltic009]

.......Some of us haven't got a bottomless pocket to keep buying all the extra items that seem to be needed these days......

And lots of us don't have the skills to build a large amount of quarry assets from the ground up to an acceptable standard - also, your gripe of £24.99 is hardly valid when your post implies that Hatchett Hill is the only DLC you don't own, which costs £14.99

[michaelhendle]

I got the other routes before I became a pensioner,hence the statement about not having a bottomless pocket
And if you. read my post properly you would have seen that I thought the route was very good,and well worth downloading
Mike